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The following brief listing of faculty interests is intended as a guide to students who are seeking mentors, directors of theses or individual reading projects, instructors for coursework, or who are merely interested in finding someone with whom to discuss a particular literary subject.

ADAMS, Michael. Ph.D., 1988, University of Michigan. History and structure of English language; history, theory, and practice of English lexicography and lexicology; late medieval and early modern literature; Scottish literature

ANDERSON, Dana. Ph.D., 2002, The Pennsylvania State University. Composition, rhetoric, and pedagogy. Professional writing. Writing in the social sciences and advanced technical writing.

ANDERSON, Judith H. Ph.D., 1965, Yale University. Renaissance literature, especially Milton, Spenser, Donne. Renaissance intellectual and cultural history.

ARDIZZONE, Anthony. M.F.A., 1975, Bowling Green State University. Creative writing (fiction). Modern and contemporary fiction.

BOSE, Purnima. Ph.D., 1993, University of Texas at Austin. British colonial literature. Indian writing in English. Post-colonial literature. Cultural studies. Feminism.

BOWMAN, Catherine. M.F.A., 1988, Columbia University. Creative writing (poetry). Commentator and co-host for ongoing poetry series on “All Things Considered,” National Public Radio, 1995-present.

BROWN, Judith C. Ph.D., 2002, Tufts University. Modernism.

CHARNES, Linda. Ph.D., 1989, University of California, Berkeley. Medieval and Renaissance. Shakespeare.

COMENTALE, Edward. Ph.D., 1999, State University of New York at Buffalo. Modern British literature and culture. The relationship between art and politics, the London avant garde, fiction.

CRAWFORD, Margo Natalie. Ph.D., 2000, Yale University. Twentieth century African American literature, African American cultural movements, race and psychoanalysis, theories of the black diaspora, race and American modernism.

CRUZ, Denise. Ph.D., 2007, University of California. Filipina/o literature, Asian/American literature, Ethnic American literature, late 19th to 20th century American literature, U.S. imperialism, gender and sexuality studies

ELMER, Jonathan. Ph.D., 1990, University of California, Berkeley. American literature before 1900. Critical theory. Popular and mass culture in America. Aesthetics and philosophy of Romanticism. 19th and 20th-century American poetry.

FARRIS, Christine R. Ph.D., 1987, University of Washington. Literacy, rhetoric, and composition studies. Writing in the disciplines. Women writers.

FAVRET, Mary A. Ph.D., 1988, Stanford University. British Romanticism. 18th-and 19th- century women's literature. Critical theory, esp.

FLEISSNER, Jennifer. Ph.D., 1998, Brown University. 19th- and 20th-century American literature, realism and naturalism, feminist and critical theory, theories of modernity, literature and science, history of psychology, cultural studies.

FULK, Robert. Ph.D., 1982, University of Iowa. Old English. Beowulf. Medieval literature and languages. Linguistics and history of the English language.

GAYK, Shannon. Ph.D., 2005, University of Notre Dame. Middle English language and literature; medieval religious writing; medieval art and iconography; Middle English paleography and codicology.

GRABAN, Tarez Samra. Ph.D., 2006, Purdue University. History of Rhetoric and Women Writers. Composition Studies and Pedagogy. Second-Language Writing. Humor Studies. Archival Theory and Practice.

GREINER, D. Rae. PhD 2007, University of California, Berkeley.
Things Victorian. The "long nineteenth century." Novel history, realism, and narrative theory. The moral sentiments, sympathy, ethics. Feeling, affect, pain, injury. Formalism, new historicism, aesthetics.

GUBAR, Susan. Ph.D., 1972, University of Iowa. 19th-and 20th-century literature written by and about women. Narrative theory.

GUTJAHR, Paul. Ph.D., 1996, University of Iowa. American literature and culture, 1640-1860. History of the book in America. Popular writing in America. Literacy studies.

HEDIN, Raymond. Ph.D., 1974, University of Virginia. Black American literature, especially slave narratives. American fiction, especially Faulkner. Early American literature. Autobiography.

HERRING, Scott. PhD., 2004, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.Twentieth-century American literature; American modernism; Willa Cather; gender studies (particularly masculinity studies); queer theory; critical regional/rural studies; cultural and subcultural studies.

HUTCHINSON, George. Ph.D., 1983, Indiana University. American literature, African American literature, the racial culture of the U.S.

INGHAM, Patricia C. Ph.D., 1995, University of California-Santa Barbara. Women’s Studies, Medieval literature.

IRMSCHER, Christoph. Ph.D., 1991, University of Bonn. Nineteenth-century American literature, American poetry, literature and the history of science, literature and art history, Canadian literature.

KATES, Joshua. Ph.D., 1991, State University of New York, Buffalo. Literary theory, Jacques Derrida, phenomenology, philosophy of language, Modernism, Shakespeare, theories of modernity, political theory.

KILGORE, DeWitt Douglas. Ph.D., 1994, Brown University. 20th-century American literature. Science fiction and popular culture. Intellectual and cultural history of science. African American writing and music. Literary and historical theory. Urban and regional culture.

KREILKAMP, Ivan. Ph.D. 1999, Brown University. Victorian literature and culture; history and theory of the novel; literary and cultural theory; media studies and popular culture.

LINTON, Joan Pong. Ph.D., 1992, Stanford University. Renaissance British poetry, prose romance, and drama. Early modern women writers. Cultural studies.

LOCHRIE, Karma. Ph.D., 1981, Princeton University. Medieval literature, especially Chaucer and Margery Kempe. Gender theory and women’s studies.

MACKAY, Ellen. Ph.D., 2002. Columbia University. Renaissance through Restoration drama, Renaissance literature, queer theory and performance studies. Women and gender.

MANNING, Maurice. MFA, University of Alabama, 2001. Creative Writing poetry), American literature.

MARSH, Joss. Ph.D., 1989, University of California, Santa Barbara. Victorian fiction and Anglo-American cinema.

MILLER, Alyce. J.D., 2003, Indiana University; M.F.A., 1995, Vermont College. Creative writing (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry). Critical theory. Contemporary literature. Film. Law and Literature. Animal Law and Studies. Race and Gender.

MILLER, Andrew H. Ph.D., 1990, Princeton University. 19th-century British literature. Literary theory and the history of criticism. The novel. History of cultural institutions.

NASH, Richard. Ph.D., 1986, University of Virginia. Restoration and 18th-century British literature, particularly Pope and Swift. Science and literature.

ROSENFELD, Alvin. Ph.D., 1967, Brown University. Jewish writers. Modern poetry. Holocaust literature. Practical criticism.

SAMANTRAI, Ranu. Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1990. Cultural Studies, postcolonial literature, contemporary Britain, Black Britain.

SANDERS, Scott R. Ph.D., 1971, University of Cambridge (England). 20th-century literature. Writing about nature. Science fiction. History of the novel. Creative writing (fiction). Expository writing.

SCHILB, John Lincoln. Ph.D., 1978, State University of New York, Binghamton. Culbertson Chair of Writing. Composition, rhetoric, and literary theory. Creative nonfiction.

SMITH, Kathy O. Ph.D., 1988, University of Missouri. Renaissance rhetoric and poetics. Renaissance literature and critical theory. Composition.

SORENSEN, Janet L. Ph.D., 1994, State University of New York, Buffalo. 18th-century British literature. Cultural Studies. Literary theory. Film theory.

STANTON, Maura. M.F.A., 1971, University of Iowa. Creative writing, both fiction and poetry. 20th-century literature.

UPADHYAY, Samrat. Ph.D., 1999, University of Hawaii. Creative Writing, Fiction.

VOGEL, Shane. Ph.D., New York University, 2004. Performance studies, critical theory, queer studies, drama and theatre studies, American studies.

WATT, Stephen. Ph.D., 1982, University of Illinois. Drama. 19th-century melodrama. Cold War culture. Irish literature. Literary criticism.

WILLIAMS, Nicholas. Ph.D., 1990, Emory University. Romantic literature, especially poetry; William Blake; literary theory.