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Faculty Listing by Alphabetical

Mary Grace Albanese
Assistant Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Literatures of the Americas
- The Haitian Revolution
- Archival Theory
- Translation Studies
- The Environmental Humanities

Joseph Church
Associate Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- 19th century American literature
- Literature; Philosophy
- and Psychology

Jaimee Wriston Colbert
Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Creative writing
- contemporary literature

Marilynn Desmond
SUNY Distinguished Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Medieval literature
- classics and medieval narrative
- Chaucer
- feminist theory / queer theory
- manuscript studies
- francophone middle ages

Lois Einhorn
Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Rhetorical theory and criticism
- organizational communication
- Compassionate nonviolent communication
- Communication
- Ethics
- Social Actions
- Voices of diversity
- Spiritual communication

Research Interests
- Creative writing
- flash fiction
- Flash Memoir

Praseeda Gopinath
Associate Professor; Graduate Director
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Twentieth Century British Literature
- Postcolonial Studies
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Northern Ireland Studies
- Literature of South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora
- Masculinity Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Neoliberalism Studies

Maria Gillan
Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- contemporary and modern poetry
- multicultural literature
- narrative poetry
- Contemporary Women Poets
- Working Class Literature
- Modern American Literature
- Poetry

Thomas Glave
Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Creative writing
- fiction
- Caribbean and African American literature
- queer/ LGBT literature

Mary Haupt
Lecturer
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Print journalism -- reporting
- editing
- feature writing
- opinion writing

John Havard
Assistant Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- 18th-Century British Literature
- Romanticism
- Transatlantic Studies
- Literature and Politics
- Critical Theory

Research Interests
- Sports studies
- 20th-century literature
- feminist and critical theory
- creative writing
- Gender Studies
- Science Studies
- Third Wave Feminism
- Globalization & the Environment

Olivia Holmes
Professor
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Research Interests
- Medieval Studies
- Early Modern Studies
- Gender and Sexualities
- Rhetorical Discourse
- Italian Literature
- Troubadours
- Authorship
- Book History

Joseph Keith
Associate Professor; Chair
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Modern U.S. and British literature
- culture of U.S. imperialism
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Literature
- Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies
- Transnational American Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
- Anglophone Caribbean Literature
- Cold War Literature

John Kuhn
Assistant Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Literature of early modern England with a special focus on the 17th century
- Renaissance and Restoration theater and performance
- Early Atlantic studies
- Material history
- George Herbert

Research Interests
- Animal Rights Scholarship
- Cultural & Media Studies
- Transhumanist Studies
- Feminist Theory

Monika Mehta
Associate Professor; Undergraduate Director
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Globalization
- Diaspora and cultural production
- postcolonial literature
- New Media & Film Studies
- Theories of Nation-State
- Contemporary Critical Theory
- Feminist and Sexuality Studies

Robert Micklus
Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Early American literature
- southern fiction
- American humor

Jean-Pierre Mileur
Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric

Alexandra Moore
Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric

Surya Parekh
Assistant Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- 18th Century Enlightenment
- Critical Race and Gender Studies
- Black Cultural Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
- Feminist Theory

Birgit Brander Rasmussen
Assistant Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- American Studies
- Comparative Ethnic Studies
- Native American and Indigenous Literacies
- Early American Literature
- Race Writing and Coloniality

Jessie Reeder
Assistant Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Victorian Studies
- Latin American Studies
- Empire
- Narrative

Liz Rosenberg
Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Creative writing

Michael Sharp
Lecturer
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Medieval literature
- American Crime Fiction
- Comics
- Popular Fiction
- Arthurian Literature

Jennifer Stoever
Associate Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- African American Literature and Culture
- 19th and 20th Century American Literature
- American Studies
- Popular Music
- Sound and Audio Culture Studies
- Race and theories of Representation

Susan Strehle
Distinguished Service Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- American literature
- women writers
- Contemporary fiction American and global
- Nation in literature
- diaspora citizenship and belonging
- Postcolonial theory and literature
- feminism

Elizabeth Tucker
Distinguished Service Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Folklore
- children
- fantasy

John Vernon
Bartle SUNY Distinguished Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Creative writing
- modern literature
- literature of the American west

Alvin Vos
Associate Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Renaissance literature and culture
- Shakespeare
- colonial/post-colonial studies
- Student-centered pedagogies
- Learning Communities

Research Interests
- Early modern Britain: court culture
- politics of cultural production
- including art and architecture
- literature
- music
- and theater

Joseph Weil
Assistant Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric

Bridget Whearty
Assistant Professor
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Research Interests
- Medieval literature specializing in 14th- and 15th-century English literature
- Book history and manuscript studies
- Digitization of medieval manuscripts
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- John Lydgate
- Digital humanities
- Late medieval death culture
- Community engagement/Servic

Gayle Whittier
Associate Professor
English, General Literature & Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Creative writing
- Shakespeare
- selected aspects of modern literature

Lisa Yun
Associate Professor; Associate Professor
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Testimony and testimonial
- Cross-racial liberatory movements
- Immigrant narratives
- Freedom; Slavery

Research Interests
- creative writing
- contemporary fiction