Faculty

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Amir Ahmadi Arian

Assistant Professor

English, General Literature and Rhetoric

Research Interests

  • Creative writing
  • Journalism
  • World literature
  • Postcolonial novel
  • Persian poetry

Teaching Interests

  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
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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

Associate 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

  • Poetry
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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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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

  • Poetry
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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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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; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Research Interests

  • Medieval Studies
  • Early Modern Studies
  • Gender and Sexualities
  • Rhetorical Discourse
  • Italian Literature
  • Troubadours
  • Authorship
  • Book History
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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

Assistant 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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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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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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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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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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Susan Strehle

Distinguished Service Professor; Director of Graduate Studies in English

English, General Literature and Rhetoric

Research Interests

  • American Literature
  • Women Writers
  • Contemporary Fiction American and Global
  • Nation in Literature
  • Diaspora Citizenship and Belonging
  • Postcolonial Theory and Literature
  • Feminism
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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

  • English Literature (Restoration)
  • Art History (British)
  • Theatre (Pre-Modern European)

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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