Faculty, GTAs & Staff
Core Faculty
Chair / Professor
Specialties: 19th and 20th Century American Literature, Literature of American Reconstruction, African-American
Literature, The Sentimental, The Construction of Race, Popular Culture and Ideology, Film
Theory, Rhetoric/Composition
- lori.robison@UND.edu
- 701.777.4306
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Gamble Hall Room 220T
Associate Chair / Associate Professor
Specialties: Nineteenth-century British literature and Culture, The Professionalization of Authorship,
Literary Rivalry, Intertextuality, and Parody, Book History, Serialization, Victorian
Science, Victorian Religion, Victorian Art
- michael.flynn@UND.edu
- 701.777.3987
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Gamble Hall Room 220S
Professor / Director, UND Writers Conference
Specialties: 20th & 21st C. American Literatures & Cultures, Multiethnic U.S. Literatures, Digital
Humanities, Archival Studies, Film Studies, Law & Literature
- crystal.alberts@UND.edu
- 701.777.2393
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Gamble Hall Room 220D
Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor
Specialties: American Literature: 19th and Early-mid 20th C., Black Literature & Interdisciplinary
Black Studies, Comparative Religions and Literatures, Bibles as Literature, Cross-national &
Comparative Study: 19th and 20th C. American & German; American & Turkish Literature,
Narrative Journalism, Audio Documentary and Audio Drama: Theory and production, Homeric
Epic
- sharon.carson@UND.edu
- 701.777.2764
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Gamble Hall Room 220E
Professor / Academic Director of Composition / English Education Program Coordinator
Specialties: Composition/Rhetoric Studies, Literacy Studies, English Education
- kim.donehower@UND.edu
- 701.777.4162
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Gamble Hall Room 220K
Assistant Professor
Specialties: Creative Writing, British Modernism, 20th Century British, Editing/Publishing
- patrick.henry@UND.edu
- 701.777.2703
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Gamble Hall Room 220R
Professor / Director of Graduate Studies
Specialties: Early Modern Literature, Shakespeare, Conspiracy Culture in Elizabethan England, 18th
Century
- adam.kitzes@UND.edu
- 701.777.4363
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Gamble Hall Room 220I
Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor
Specialties: Medieval Literatures and Languages (esp. Northern Europe), Early Christianity and
Devotional Literature, Women's Religious Experiences, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies,
Historical & Modern Linguistics, History of Sexuality, Paleography; Manuscript, and
Archival Studies
- michelle.m.sauer@UND.edu
- 701.777.2783
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Gamble Hall Room 220C
Associate Professor
Specialties: American Literature and Culture (especially from the beginnings through the nineteenth
century), Cultural Studies, Literary Theory (including deconstruction and psychoanalysis),
Political and Democratic Theory, Law and Literature
- eric.wolfe@UND.edu
- 701.777.6988
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Gamble Hall Room 220L
Additional Faculty
Professor
Specialties: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL), International-Global Education, First
Year Learning Communities and High Impact Practices, Scientific Thinking and Integrative
Reasoning, American Literature (with an emphasis on beginnings – early 20th Century), New
Historicism, Rhetoric and Literature of Human Rights
- tami.carmichael@UND.edu
- 701.777.3015
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Gamble Hall Room 118G
Associate Dean for Student Success, College of Arts & Sciences / Associate Professor
Specialties: Early Modern Literature, Medical Humanities, Literary Theory, Gender Studies, Body
Studies
- yvette.koepke@UND.edu
- 701.777.4382
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Columbia Hall, Room 1933
Professor / Provost / Vice President of Academic Affairs
Specialties: American Literary Naturalism; Science Fiction; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American
literature; Science, Philosophy, and Literature
- eric.link@UND.edu
- 701.777.2167
- Twamley Hall Room 302
Dean of the School of Graduate Studies / Associate Professor
Specialties: 20th and 21st Century American Literature; Critical theory (especially Cultural Studies,
Postcolonial and Postmodern Theories, Critical Race Theory, and Discipline Formation,
with particular attention to issues of social justice); Rhetoric of Literary Criticism;
Native American literature and theory; Latino/a literature and theory; Asian American
literature and theory; Popular fiction, especially Horror Fiction, Detective Fiction,
and Science Fiction
- chris.nelson@UND.edu
- 701.777.2786
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Twamley Hall Rm 205
Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs
Specialties: Early and nineteenth-century American literature; western American literary and cultural
studies; feminist literary theory; public humanities
- randi.tanglen@UND.edu
- 701.777.4141
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O'Kelly Hall Room 320F
Teaching Faculty and Instructors
Part-Time Instructor
- rana.alsaadi@UND.edu
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Gamble Hall Room 220B
Teaching Assistant Professor
- perry.benson@UND.edu
- 701.777.4344
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Gamble Hall Room 220B
Teaching Associate Professor
- rhiannon.conley@UND.edu
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Gamble Hall Room 290E
Teaching Associate Professor
- kathleen.king@UND.edu
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Gamble Hall Room 220P
Teaching Assistant Professor
- amy.kielmeyer@UND.edu
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Gamble Hall Room 290E
Part-Time Instructor
- madison.g.knoll@UND.edu
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Gamble Hall Room 265E
Teaching Associate Professor
- daniela.koleva@UND.edu
- 701.777.2787
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Gamble Hall Room 220F
Teaching Assistant Professor
- elisabeth.ostrem@UND.edu
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Gamble Hall Room 220G
Teaching Assistant Professor
- shilo.previti@UND.edu
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Gamble Hall Room 220H
Teaching Professor
- steven.rand@UND.edu
- 701.777.2782
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Gamble Hall Room 220O
Teaching Professor / Administrative Director of Composition
- jessica.zerr@UND.edu
- 701.777.4461
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Gamble Hall Room 255A
Graduate Teaching Assistants
Sam Amendolar
GTA
- samuel.amendolar@UND.edu
- Gamble Hall Room 290C
Davina Bell
GTA
- davina.bell@UND.edu
- Gamble Hall Room 265J
Valkyrie Bradford
GTA
- bailey.bradford@UND.edu
- Gamble Hall Room 265I
Casey Fuller
GTA
- casey.fuller.1@UND.edu
- Gamble Hall Room 265D
Charles Henry
GTA
- charles.d.henry@UND.edu
- Gamble Hall Room 265H
Nikolas Holweger
GTA
- nikolas.holweger@UND.edu
- Gamble Hall Room 290F
Violet Ingeborg
GTA
- violet.ingeborg@UND.edu
- Gamble Hall Room 290K
Muhammad Shamsul Islam
GTA
- muhammad.islam.2@UND.edu
- Gamble Hall Room 290D
Grant McMillan
GTA
- grant.mcmillan@UND.edu
- Gamble Hall Room 290A
Janessa Millar
GTA
- janessa.millar@UND.edu
- Gamble Hall Room 290N
Kyle Moore
GTA
- kyle.robert.moore@UND.edu
- Gamble Hall Room 265G
Anthony Olson
GTA
- anthony.l.olson@UND.edu
- Gamble Hall Room 290H
Mark Patterson
GTA
- mark.l.patterson@UND.edu
- Gamble Hall Room 265F
Sharmin Rahman
GTA
- sharmin.rahman@UND.edu
- Gamble Hall Room 290G
Alexia Reed
GTA
- alexia.trott@UND.edu
- Gamble Hall Room 290J
Zane Voglewede
GTA
- zane.a.voglewede@UND.edu
- Gamble Hall Room 290B
Staff
Kristin Ellwanger
Office Manager, Department of English
- 701.777.3321
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Gamble Hall Room 265C
Retired & Emeritus Faculty
Michael Anderegg, Professor Emeritus
Department of English
Michael C. Beard, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department of English
Kathleen Dixon, Professor Emerita
Department of English
Sandra Donaldson, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor Emerita
Department of English
Elizabeth Hampsten, Professor Emerita
Department of English
Xiaozhao Huang, Associate Professor
Department of English
Susan Koprince, Professor Emerita
Department of English
David Marshall, Professor Emeritus
Department of English
James McKenzie, Professor Emeritus
Department of English
Martha Meek, Associate Professor Emerita
Department of English
Sheryl O'Donnell, Professor Emerita
Department of English
- sheryl.odonnell@UND.edu
- Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature, Literary Theory, Feminist Theory, Narrative Theory, Social Semiotics, Human/Animal Relations
David Wiener, Associate Professor
Department of English