
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

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

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
- Poetry

Joseph E. Church
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- 19th-century American literature
- Existential literature
- Philosophy, psychology and film
- Religious studies

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 Writing: Novels and Stories.
- Contemporary Literature, International.
- ENG 641 Fiction Workshop, CW 450 Advanced Fiction Workshop, CW 350 Intermediate Fiction Workshop, CW 380, various

Jennifer DeGregorio
Lecturer and Associate Director of Creative Writing
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Creative writing
- Poetry
- Journalism
- Human rights and literary theory
- Environmental Humanities
Teaching Interests
- Poetry
- Nonfiction

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

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

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

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

Thomas Glave
Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Creative Writing
- Fiction
- Caribbean and African American Literature
- Queer/ LGBT Literature

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

Research Interests
- 18th-Century British Literature
- Romanticism
- Transatlantic Studies
- Literature and Politics
- Critical Theory

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

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)

Katie Kadue
Assistant Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- 16th- and 17th-century English literature
- 16th-century French literature
- Poetry
- Feminist theory

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

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

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

Claire Luchette
Assistant Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- LGBTQ+ literature

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

Robert Micklus
Associate Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Early American Literature
- Southern Fiction
- American Humor

Jean-Pierre Mileur
Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Susan Strehle
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
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

Elizabeth Tucker
Distinguished Service Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Children's/adolescents' folklore
- Folklore of the supernatural
- Digital folklore

John E. Vernon
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Creative Writing
- Modern Literature
- Literature of the American West

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

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

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

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

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
- Fiction
- Screenwriting