Amir Ahmadi Arian
Assistant Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Creative writing
- Journalism
- World literature
- Postcolonial novel
- Persian poetry
Teaching Interests
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Mary Grace Albanese
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Literatures of the Americas
- The Haitian Revolution
- Archival Theory
Teaching Interests
- American Literature to 1920
- Revolutionary Ecologies
- All American Zombies
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Tina Chang
Professor, Director of Creative Writing
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Creative Writing
- Contemporary and Modern Poetry
- Asian American Literature
- World Literature
- Traditional and Experimental Poetic Forms
- Contemporary Women Poets
- Poetry and Social Justice
Teaching Interests
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Joseph E. Church
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- 19th-century American literature
- Existential literature
- Philosophy, psychology and film
- Religious studies
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Jaimee Wriston Colbert
Distinguished Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- 18-19th century Highland Clearances
- Environmental science
- Nature writing
- Climate change
Teaching Interests
- Fiction workshops
- Contemporary Literature
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Marilynn R. Desmond
Distinguished Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Medieval literature
- classics and medieval narrative
- Chaucer
- feminist theory / queer theory
- manuscript studies
- francophone middle ages
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Lois J. Einhorn
Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Rhetorical Theory and Criticism
- Organizational Communication
- Compassionate Nonviolent Communication
- Communication
- Ethics
- Social Actions
- Voices of Diversity
- Spiritual Communication
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Praseeda Gopinath
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Masculinity and Gender Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
- Twentieth Century British Literature
- South Asia Studies
- Cultural Studies
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Maria M. Gillan
Professor Emeritus
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Ecological Justice
- Contemporary and modern poetry
- Multicultural literature
- Narrative poetry
- Contemporary Women Poets
- Working Class Literature
- Modern American Literature
- Poetry
Teaching Interests
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Thomas Glave
Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Creative Writing
- Fiction
- Caribbean and African American Literature
- Queer/ LGBT Literature
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Warren Harding
Assistant Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Caribbean literature and culture
- Black studies
- Black and Caribbean women's writing
- Diaspora and migration studies
- Literary fieldwork
- Digital humanities
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John O. Havard
Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- 18th-Century British Literature
- Romanticism
- Transatlantic Studies
- Literature and Politics
- Critical Theory
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Leslie L. Heywood
Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Creative nonfiction and poetry of place
- Science Communication/AI, Environmental Humanities/Animal Studies
- Gender and Sport Studies
- Trauma and Embodiment
Teaching Interests
- Creative Writing
- Health Humanities
- Environmental Humanities and Animal Studies
- Sustainability
- Affective Neuroscience
- Embodiment
- Trauma
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Olivia Holmes
Professor; Editor of Mediaevalia
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Italian Literature
- Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio
- Medieval Studies
- Early Modern Studies
- Pre-modern Lyric Poetry
- The Short-Story Tradition
- Authorship
- Rhetorical Discourse
- Medieval Philosophy
Teaching Interests
- Sicily in the Italian Cultural Imagination
- Rhetorical Foundations: Literary Criticism and Rhetoric from Plato to the Renaissance
- Medieval 101: Introduction to Medieval and Early Modern Studies
- Dante’s Divine Comedy
- Boccaccio’s Decameron: Love in a Time of Plague
- Why Read? Pre-modern Narrative after the Cognitive Turn (graduate class)
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Katie Kadue
Assistant Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- 16th- and 17th-century English literature
- 16th-century French literature
- Poetry
- Feminist theory
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Joseph A. Keith
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and 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
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John Kuhn
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- 16th- and 17th-century English literature and history
Teaching Interests
- Drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
- 17th-century poetry
- Literature and history of early European expansion into the Atlantic
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Joseph Leeson-Schatz
Director of Debate
Speech and Debate
Research Interests
- Animal Rights Scholarship
- Cultural & Media Studies
- Transhumanist Studies
- Feminist Theory
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Meisha Lohmann
Adjunct Lecturer
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
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Claire Luchette
Assistant Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- LGBTQ+ literature
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Monika Mehta
Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
English, General Literature and Rhetoric; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Globalization
- Diaspora and Cultural Production
- Postcolonial Literature
- New Media & Film Studies
- Theories of Nation-State
- Contemporary Critical Theory
- Feminist and Sexuality Studies
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Robert Micklus
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Early American Literature
- Southern Fiction
- American Humor
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Jean-Pierre Mileur
Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
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Alexandra Moore
Director; Professor
Human Rights Institute; English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Human Rights in Literature and Visual Culture
- Postcolonial Studies
- Critical Theory
- Feminist Theory
Teaching Interests
- Human Rights in Literature and Visual Culture
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Surya Parekh
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- 18th Century Enlightenment
- Critical Race and Gender Studies
- Black Cultural Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
- Feminist Theory
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Birgit Brander Rasmussen
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Native American literatures, media,
genres, and literacies
- Race, Writing, Coloniality
- Early American Studies
- Comparative Ethnic Studies
- Indigenous Feminisms
- Decolonization
- Archival Research
Teaching Interests
- Native American Literature and Media
- Early American Literature
- Multiethnic American Literatures
- Comparative Ethnic Studies: Race, Gender, Indigeneity, Migration
- Colonialism, Imperialism, Decolonization
- Latinx Literature
- American Captivity Narratives
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Jessie Reeder
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Romantic and Victorian literature
- Empire
- Narrative
- Form
- Latin America
- Apocalypse
Teaching Interests
- The nineteenth-century British novel
- Forms of British imperialism
- Literature of the weird, the monstrous, and the apocalyptic
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Liz Rosenberg
Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Children's Literature
- American Literature
Teaching Interests
- Creative Writing: Fiction, Poetry and Non-fiction
- The Experience of Place, Telling the Family Story, etc.
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Michael Sharp
Lecturer
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Medieval Literature
- American Crime Fiction
- Comics
- Popular Fiction
- Arthurian Literature
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Jennifer Lynn Stoever
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and 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
- Digital Humanities
- Civic Engagement
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Elizabeth Tucker
Distinguished Service Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- children's/adolescents' folklore
- folklore of the supernatural
- digital folklore
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John E. Vernon
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Creative Writing
- Modern Literature
- Literature of the American West
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Alvin P. Vos
Associate Professor Emeritus
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Renaissance Literature and Culture
- Shakespeare
- Colonial/Post-Colonial Studies
- Student-Centered Pedagogies
- Learning Communities
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Andrew R. Walkling
Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Seventeenth-Century British History
- Visual Culture
- Literary Studies
- Performance Studies
- Musicology
Teaching Interests
- Early Modern London: Architecture, Sound and Space
- Music and Text in 17th-Century England
- The Masque in 17th-Century England
- British Painting from Holbein to Hogarth
- Courses in English literature: The English Civil War; Restoration; Augustanism
- Graduate seminars on British art, architecture, and print culture; 17th-century English literature; early modern theatre history and dramatic theory
Clinical Interests
- Early music performance practice
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Bridget Whearty
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Research Interests
- Queer+trans medieval literature and material culture
- Medieval manuscripts, digital humanities, media history, and digitization
- 14th- and 15th-century English literature, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate
- Information literacy and Special Collections pedagogy
Teaching Interests
- Medieval literature and culture
- Manuscript studies and the history of the book
- LGBTQ+ literature
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Lisa T. Yun
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Immigration and Migration
- Humanities for Justice
- Digital Storytelling
- Digital Pathways to Community
- Community Engagement
- Afro Asian Connections
- Asian American Literature and Culture
- Asians of the Americas
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Alexi Zentner
Professor; Director of Graduate Studies in English, English and Creative Writing
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Creative Writing with a focus on fiction and screenwriting
- The novel
- The contemporary short story
- Writing for television
- Features
Teaching Interests
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