Professorial Faculty by Area of Interest
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Ernest L. Gibson III
Associate Professor and Co-Director of Africana Studies
African American Literature and Culture; 20th–21st-Century American Literature; Feminist and Queer Theory; Male Studies; Black Popular Culture, Women's and Gender Studies -
Benjamin Fagan
Associate Professor
African American Literature and Culture; Early American 19th-Century Literature; Cultures of Print -
Julia Charles
Assistant Professor
African American Literature and Culture; Racial Passing Literature; Performance Studies
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Paula Backscheider
Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar
Restoration and Long 18th-Century British Literature; Feminist Criticism; Performance Studies; Drama; Space and Place; Criticism and Theory; Cultural Studies; Women's and Gender Studies -
Miriam Clark
Associate Professor
20th–21st-Century American Literature; The Short Story; Comparative/World/Postcolonial Literature; Genre Studies; Fiction; Poetry -
Benjamin Fagan
Associate Professor
African American Literature and Culture; Early American 19th-Century Literature; Cultures of Print -
Ernest L. Gibson III
Associate Professor and Co-Director of Africana Studies
African American Literature and Culture; 20th–21st-Century American Literature; Feminist and Queer Theory; Male Studies; Black Popular Culture, Women's and Gender Studies -
Erich Nunn
Associate Professor
20th–21st-Century American Literature; American Studies; the U.S. South; Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Space and Place; Women's and Gender Studies -
James Emmett Ryan
J.W. Liles Professor of English and Provost Liaison
American Studies; 19th-Century American Literature and Culture -
Marc Silverstein
Professor
20th–21st-Century British Literature; American Literature; Contemporary Drama; Critical Theory; Drama as Genre; Postmodernism
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Erich Nunn
Associate Professor
20th–21st-Century American Literature; American Studies; the U.S. South; Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Space and Place; Women's and Gender Studies -
James Emmett Ryan
J.W. Liles Professor of English and Provost Liaison
American Studies; 19th-Century American Literature and Culture -
Sunny Stalter-Pace
Hargis Associate Professor of American Literature
American Studies; 20th–21st-Century American Literature; Criticism and Theory; Cultural Studies; Genre Studies; Drama; Space and Place; Visual Culture; Women's and Gender Studies; American Modernism; Visual Culture; Film
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Paula Backscheider
Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar
Restoration and Long 18th-Century British Literature; Feminist Criticism; Performance Studies; Drama; Space and Place; Criticism and Theory; Cultural Studies; Women's and Gender Studies -
Anna Riehl Bertolet
Professor and Director of Core Literature
Early Modern Literature and Culture; Early Modern Queenship; Shakespeare; Elizabeth I; Visual Culture; Material Culture; Cultural Studies; Women's and Gender Studies -
Craig Bertolet
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Medieval Literature; Cultural Studies; Chaucer; Critical Theory; Cultural Studies -
Jonathan Bolton
Department Chair and Hollifield Professor of English Literature
20th-Century British Literature; Drama; Fiction; Poetry -
Alicia Carroll
Professor
19th-Century British Literature and Culture; Green Cultural Studies; Victorian Studies; Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities; Women's and Gender Studies -
Emily Friedman
Associate Professor
Long 18th-Century British Literature; Early Material Culture; Genre Studies; Fiction; Women's and Gender Studies; History of the Book; Textual Criticism -
Chris Keirstead
Professor
19th-Century British Literature and Culture; Poetry; Dickens; Genre Studies; Travel Writing; Victorian Studies -
Marc Silverstein
Professor
20th–21st-Century British Literature; American Literature; Contemporary Drama; Critical Theory; Drama as Genre; Postmodernism -
Deborah Solomon
Assistant Professor
Medieval and Early Modern British Literature; Cultural Studies; Early Material Culture; Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities; Genre Studies; Poetry; Women's and Gender Studies; Textual Studies -
Don Wehrs
Hargis Professor of English Literature
The Novel, Long 18th-Century British Literature, Critical Theory
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Craig Bertolet
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Medieval Literature; Cultural Studies; Chaucer; Critical Theory; Cultural Studies -
Jonathan Bolton
Department Chair and Hollifield Professor of English Literature
20th-Century British Literature; Drama; Fiction; Poetry -
Miriam Clark
Associate Professor
20th–21st-Century American Literature; The Short Story; Comparative/World/Postcolonial Literature; Genre Studies; Fiction; Poetry -
Jeremy Downes
Professor
Poetry; Poetics; The Epic; Women's and Gender Studies; Criticism and Theory -
Chris Keirstead
Professor
19th-Century British Literature and Culture; Poetry; Dickens; Genre Studies; Travel Writing; Victorian Studies -
Janelle Rodriques
Assistant Professor
Comparative Literature; West Indian Literature -
Marc Silverstein
Professor
20th–21st-Century British Literature; American Literature; Contemporary Drama; Critical Theory; Drama as Genre; Postmodernism -
Don Wehrs
Hargis Professor of English Literature
The Novel, Long 18th-Century British Literature, Critical Theory
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Anton DiSclafani
Associate Professor and Alumni Writer-in-Residence
Creative Writing; Fiction; Creative Nonfiction -
Maria Kuznetsova
Assistant Professor
Creative Writing
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Paula Backscheider
Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar
Restoration and Long 18th-Century British Literature; Feminist Criticism; Performance Studies; Drama; Space and Place; Criticism and Theory; Cultural Studies; Women's and Gender Studies -
Jeremy Downes
Professor
Poetry; Poetics; The Epic; Women's and Gender Studies; Criticism and Theory -
Ernest L. Gibson III
Associate Professor and Co-Director of Africana Studies
African American Literature and Culture; 20th–21st-Century American Literature; Feminist and Queer Theory; Male Studies; Black Popular Culture, Women's and Gender Studies -
Marc Silverstein
Professor
20th–21st-Century British Literature; American Literature; Contemporary Drama; Critical Theory; Drama as Genre; Postmodernism -
Sunny Stalter-Pace
Hargis Associate Professor of American Literature
American Studies; 20th–21st-Century American Literature; Criticism and Theory; Cultural Studies; Genre Studies; Drama; Space and Place; Visual Culture; Women's and Gender Studies; American Modernism; Visual Culture; Film
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Paula Backscheider
Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar
Restoration and Long 18th-Century British Literature; Feminist Criticism; Performance Studies; Drama; Space and Place; Criticism and Theory; Cultural Studies; Women's and Gender Studies -
Anna Riehl Bertolet
Professor and Director of Core Literature
Early Modern Literature and Culture; Early Modern Queenship; Shakespeare; Elizabeth I; Visual Culture; Material Culture; Cultural Studies; Women's and Gender Studies -
Craig Bertolet
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Medieval Literature; Cultural Studies; Chaucer; Critical Theory; Cultural Studies -
Jonathan Bolton
Department Chair and Hollifield Professor of English Literature
20th-Century British Literature; Drama; Fiction; Poetry -
Alicia Carroll
Professor
19th-Century British Literature and Culture; Green Cultural Studies; Victorian Studies; Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities; Women's and Gender Studies -
Ernest L. Gibson III
Associate Professor and Co-Director of Africana Studies
African American Literature and Culture; 20th–21st-Century American Literature; Feminist and Queer Theory; Male Studies; Black Popular Culture, Women's and Gender Studies -
Erich Nunn
Associate Professor
20th–21st-Century American Literature; American Studies; the U.S. South; Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Space and Place; Women's and Gender Studies -
Deborah Solomon
Assistant Professor
Medieval and Early Modern British Literature; Cultural Studies; Early Material Culture; Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities; Genre Studies; Poetry; Women's and Gender Studies; Textual Studies -
Sunny Stalter-Pace
Hargis Associate Professor of American Literature
American Studies; 20th–21st-Century American Literature; Criticism and Theory; Cultural Studies; Genre Studies; Drama; Space and Place; Visual Culture; Women's and Gender Studies; American Modernism; Visual Culture; Film
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Anna Riehl Bertolet
Professor and Director of Core Literature
Early Modern Literature and Culture; Early Modern Queenship; Shakespeare; Elizabeth I; Visual Culture; Material Culture; Cultural Studies; Women's and Gender Studies -
Craig Bertolet
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Medieval Literature; Cultural Studies; Chaucer; Critical Theory; Cultural Studies -
Emily Friedman
Associate Professor
Long 18th-Century British Literature; Early Material Culture; Genre Studies; Fiction; Women's and Gender Studies; History of the Book; Textual Criticism
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Paula Backscheider
Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar
Restoration and Long 18th-Century British Literature; Feminist Criticism; Performance Studies; Drama; Space and Place; Criticism and Theory; Cultural Studies; Women's and Gender Studies -
Anna Riehl Bertolet
Professor and Director of Core Literature
Early Modern Literature and Culture; Early Modern Queenship; Shakespeare; Elizabeth I; Visual Culture; Material Culture; Cultural Studies; Women's and Gender Studies -
Jonathan Bolton
Department Chair and Hollifield Professor of English Literature
20th-Century British Literature; Drama; Fiction; Poetry -
Miriam Clark
Associate Professor
20th–21st-Century American Literature; The Short Story; Comparative/World/Postcolonial Literature; Genre Studies; Fiction; Poetry -
Jeremy Downes
Professor
Poetry; Poetics; The Epic; Women's and Gender Studies; Criticism and Theory -
Emily Friedman
Associate Professor
Long 18th-Century British Literature; Early Material Culture; Genre Studies; Fiction; Women's and Gender Studies; History of the Book; Textual Criticism -
Chris Keirstead
Professor
19th-Century British Literature and Culture; Poetry; Dickens; Genre Studies; Travel Writing; Victorian Studies -
Charles Lesh
Assistant Professor
Spatial Rhetorics; Public and Community Writing; Research Methodologies; Rhetorical Genre Studies; Rhetoric and Composition -
Marc Silverstein
Professor
20th–21st-Century British Literature; American Literature; Contemporary Drama; Critical Theory; Drama as Genre; Postmodernism -
Deborah Solomon
Assistant Professor
Medieval and Early Modern British Literature; Cultural Studies; Early Material Culture; Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities; Genre Studies; Poetry; Women's and Gender Studies; Textual Studies -
Sunny Stalter-Pace
Hargis Associate Professor of American Literature
American Studies; 20th–21st-Century American Literature; Criticism and Theory; Cultural Studies; Genre Studies; Drama; Space and Place; Visual Culture; Women's and Gender Studies; American Modernism; Visual Culture; Film -
Don Wehrs
Hargis Professor of English Literature
The Novel, Long 18th-Century British Literature, Critical Theory
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Anna Riehl Bertolet
Professor and Director of Core Literature
Early Modern Literature and Culture; Early Modern Queenship; Shakespeare; Elizabeth I; Visual Culture; Material Culture; Cultural Studies; Women's and Gender Studies -
Craig Bertolet
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Medieval Literature; Cultural Studies; Chaucer; Critical Theory; Cultural Studies -
Deborah Solomon
Assistant Professor
Medieval and Early Modern British Literature; Cultural Studies; Early Material Culture; Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities; Genre Studies; Poetry; Women's and Gender Studies; Textual Studies
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Leigh Gruwell
Assistant Professor
Digital and Multimodal Rhetorics; Feminist Rhetorics; Research Methodologies; Composition Theory, Women's and Gender Studies -
Charles Lesh
Assistant Professor
Spatial Rhetorics; Public and Community Writing; Research Methodologies; Rhetorical Genre Studies; Rhetoric and Composition -
Margaret Marshall
Professor and Director of University Writing
Rhetoric and Composition; Writing and Literacy Pedagogy; Teacher Education; 19th-Century American Public Discourse; Writing in the Disciplines -
Michelle Sidler
Associate Professor
Rhetoric and Composition; Computer-Mediated Composition; Rhetorical Theory -
Stewart Whittemore
Associate Professor
Rhetoric and Composition; Technical and Professional Communication -
Chad Wickman
Hargis Associate Professor of Writing Studies
Rhetoric and Composition; Technical and Professional Communication; Editing; Writing and Literacy Studies; Rhetorical Theory; Rhetoric of Science and Technology
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Charles Lesh
Assistant Professor
Spatial Rhetorics; Public and Community Writing; Research Methodologies; Rhetorical Genre Studies; Rhetoric and Composition -
Michelle Sidler
Associate Professor
Rhetoric and Composition; Computer-Mediated Composition; Rhetorical Theory -
Chad Wickman
Hargis Associate Professor of Writing Studies
Rhetoric and Composition; Technical and Professional Communication; Editing; Writing and Literacy Studies; Rhetorical Theory; Rhetoric of Science and Technology
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Derek Ross
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Environmental Rhetoric; Ethics; Design -
Michelle Sidler
Associate Professor
Rhetoric and Composition; Computer-Mediated Composition; Rhetorical Theory -
Candice Welhausen
Assistant Professor
Technical and Professional Communication; Document Design; Editing; Visual Rhetorics; Health and Science Communication; Risk Communication -
Stewart Whittemore
Associate Professor
Rhetoric and Composition; Technical and Professional Communication -
Chad Wickman
Hargis Associate Professor of Writing Studies
Rhetoric and Composition; Technical and Professional Communication; Editing; Writing and Literacy Studies; Rhetorical Theory; Rhetoric of Science and Technology -
Susan A. Youngblood
Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair
Technical and Professional Communication; Editing; Risk Communication
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Paula Backscheider
Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar
Restoration and Long 18th-Century British Literature; Feminist Criticism; Performance Studies; Drama; Space and Place; Criticism and Theory; Cultural Studies; Women's and Gender Studies -
Anna Riehl Bertolet
Professor and Director of Core Literature
Early Modern Literature and Culture; Early Modern Queenship; Shakespeare; Elizabeth I; Visual Culture; Material Culture; Cultural Studies; Women's and Gender Studies -
Alicia Carroll
Professor
19th-Century British Literature and Culture; Green Cultural Studies; Victorian Studies; Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities; Women's and Gender Studies -
Jeremy Downes
Professor
Poetry; Poetics; The Epic; Women's and Gender Studies; Criticism and Theory -
Emily Friedman
Associate Professor
Long 18th-Century British Literature; Early Material Culture; Genre Studies; Fiction; Women's and Gender Studies; History of the Book; Textual Criticism -
Ernest L. Gibson III
Associate Professor and Co-Director of Africana Studies
African American Literature and Culture; 20th–21st-Century American Literature; Feminist and Queer Theory; Male Studies; Black Popular Culture, Women's and Gender Studies -
Leigh Gruwell
Assistant Professor
Digital and Multimodal Rhetorics; Feminist Rhetorics; Research Methodologies; Composition Theory, Women's and Gender Studies -
Erich Nunn
Associate Professor
20th–21st-Century American Literature; American Studies; the U.S. South; Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Space and Place; Women's and Gender Studies -
Deborah Solomon
Assistant Professor
Medieval and Early Modern British Literature; Cultural Studies; Early Material Culture; Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities; Genre Studies; Poetry; Women's and Gender Studies; Textual Studies -
Sunny Stalter-Pace
Hargis Associate Professor of American Literature
American Studies; 20th–21st-Century American Literature; Criticism and Theory; Cultural Studies; Genre Studies; Drama; Space and Place; Visual Culture; Women's and Gender Studies; American Modernism; Visual Culture; Film
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Last Updated: December 02, 2019