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  • Denise Albanese

    Denise Albanese

    Professor

    Literature: Early modern literature; literature and science; cultural studies

  • Amal Amireh

    Amal Amireh

    Associate Professor

    Literature: middle eastern literature; world literature; gender and sexuality

  • Eric Anderson

    Eric Anderson

    Associate Professor
    Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies

    Literature: American Indian literatures, U.S. and global Southern studies, American fiction from the beginnings to the 21st century, multi-ethnic American literatures

  • Jennifer Atkinson

    Jennifer Atkinson

    Associate Professor

    Creative Writing: poetry; ecopoetics, literary translation, recent and contemporary American poetry

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  • Eric Eisner

    Eric Eisner

    Associate Professor

    Literature: 18th and 19th century British literature and culture, esp. Romanticism; lyric poetry; history of reading; literary and cultural theory

  • Joshua R. Eyler

    Joshua R. Eyler

    Associate Professor
  • Douglas Eyman

    Douglas Eyman

    Assistant Professor

    Writing and Rhetoric: Classical and contemporary rhetorical theory, digital rhetoric, digital scholarship and electronic publication, web authoring and design, technical and scientific writing

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  • Dawn Fels

    Dawn Fels

    Director, Writing Center

    Composition

  • Brian James Fitzpatrick

    Brian James Fitzpatrick

    Adjunct Faculty
  • John Burt Foster

    John Burt Foster

    University Professor

    Literature: world literature, modern fiction, comparative literature

  • M Candace Fowler

    M Candace Fowler

    Adjunct Faculty

    Composition

  • Joy Fraser

    Joy Fraser

    Assistant Professor

    Folklore: folk narrative, foodways; folk custom and drama; cultural tourism

  • Cynthia Fuchs

    Cynthia Fuchs

    Associate Professor
    Director, Film and Media Studies

    Documentaries, American media, war movies, black popular cultures, sports and media, horror, action, and science fiction, gender and sexuality

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  • Donald R Gallehr

    Donald R Gallehr

    Associate Professor

    Writing and Rhetoric: brain research and the teaching of writing; portfolio assessment; writing and meditation

  • Stephen H Goodwin

    Stephen H Goodwin

    Professor

    Creative Writing: fiction; non-fiction; online writing and publishing

  • Stephen Groening

    Stephen Groening

    Assistant Professor

    television studies; screen studies; media convergence; media history

  • Barbara M Grogan-Barone

    Barbara M Grogan-Barone

    Instructor

    Composition

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  • Anna Sophia Habib

    Anna Sophia Habib

    Assistant Professor
  • Tamara Harvey

    Tamara Harvey

    Associate Professor
    Director of Graduate Programs, English

    Literature: early American literature, early modern women's writing, feminist theory

  • Devon L Hodges

    Devon L Hodges

    Professor

    Literature: Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, literary and feminist theory and criticism

  • Beth Ann Hoffmann

    Beth Ann Hoffmann

    Assistant Professor

    Literature: performance studies; contemporary British drama

  • Julia Holcomb

    Julia Holcomb

    Adjunct Faculty

    Composition

  • Dee Ann Holisky

    Dee Ann Holisky

    Associate Professor

    Linguistics: Caucasian languages (Georgian, Batsbi, Laz), English grammar for ESL teachers, lexical semantics

  • Benedict Hughes

    Benedict Hughes

    Adjunct Faculty

    Composition

  • Donald Humbertson

    Donald Humbertson

    Adjunct Faculty

    Composition: Writing through a reader's perspective, developing non-academic voice for writing in the marketplace

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  • Deborah Kaplan

    Deborah Kaplan

    Associate Professor

    Literature: Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, British drama and performance, feminist theory and criticism

  • David Kaufmann

    David Kaufmann

    Professor

    contemporary poetry; art and art history; Jewish literature and culture; eighteenth-century British literature

  • Winifred G Keaney

    Winifred G Keaney

    Associate Professor

    Literature: medieval literature; Chaucer

  • Sally Keith

    Sally Keith

    Associate Professor

    Creative Writing: poetry

  • Joseph W Killiany

    Joseph W Killiany

    Adjunct Faculty
  • Sara M King

    Sara M King

    Associate Professor

    Composition

  • Lisa Koch

    Lisa Koch

    Professor

    Composition

  • Joshua Kryah

    Joshua Kryah

    Assistant Professor

    Composition

  • David L Kuebrich

    David L Kuebrich

    Associate Professor

    Literature: American literature and its relations to political and religious contexts

  • Anne M Kuhta

    Anne M Kuhta

    Adjunct Faculty

    Adult learning styles, community college teaching, classroom assessment techniques, 20th century American literature

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  • Amy L Laptad

    Amy L Laptad

    Adjunct Faculty

    Composition

  • Roger Lathbury

    Roger Lathbury

    Professor

    Literature: nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature; publishing and book history; writing and editing

  • Debra Lattanzi Shutika

    Debra Lattanzi Shutika

    Associate Professor
    Co-Director, Folklore
    Director of Undergraduate Programs, English

    Sense of Place, transnational migration, Latin American folklore

  • Susan Lawrence

    Susan Lawrence

    Assistant Professor

    Writing and Rhetoric: public and professional discourses, focusing on rhetorics of transitional justice and reconciliation

  • Erika T Lin

    Erika T Lin

    Assistant Professor

    Literature: early modern literature and culture, Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, performance theory

  • Lisa Lister

    Lisa Lister

    Assistant Professor

    Composition

  • J Samaine Lockwood

    J Samaine Lockwood

    Assistant Professor

    Literature: nineteenth-century American literature; women's fiction; gender and sexuality

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  • Michael Malouf

    Michael Malouf

    Associate Professor

    Literature: Modernism; post-1900 Anglophone novel and poetry, spec. Irish, Caribbean, British literature; postcolonialism and cultural studies

  • Carla Marcantonio

    Carla Marcantonio

    Assistant Professor

    Film and globalization, genre studies (in particular melodrama and film noir), postmodern auteurs, film theory, gender and sexuality studies, and film history

  • Jessica Matthews

    Jessica Matthews

    Associate Professor
    Assistant Director, Composition

    Composition

  • Robert I Matz

    Robert I Matz

    Professor
    Chair, English

    Literature: early modern literature, Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, gender and sexuality

  • Corrine McCarthy

    Corrine McCarthy

    Assistant Professor

    Linguistics: Second language acquisition, morphology, dialects of American English

  • Rebecca A McGeehan

    Rebecca A McGeehan

    Assistant Professor

    Writing and Rhetoric

  • Teresa L Michals

    Teresa L Michals

    Assistant Professor

    Literature: history of children's literature; eighteenth-century British literature

  • Chloe Miller

    Chloe Miller

    Adjunct Faculty
  • William B Miller

    William B Miller

    Professor
    Director of the MFA Program, English

    Creative Writing

  • Kyoko Mori

    Kyoko Mori

    Professor

    Creative Writing: non-fiction and fiction

  • Gary M Morris

    Gary M Morris

    Adjunct Faculty

    Composition

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  • Dorothy Raffel

    Dorothy Raffel

    Instructor

    Composition

  • E Shelley Reid

    E Shelley Reid

    Associate Professor
    Director, Composition

    Writing and Rhetoric: composition and rhetoric, writing program administration, writing pedagogy education

  • Zachary A Rhein

    Zachary A Rhein

    Adjunct Faculty

    Composition

  • Paul Michael Rogers

    Paul Michael Rogers

    Director, Northern Virginia Writing Project

    Writing and Rhetoric

  • Mark Rudnicki

    Mark Rudnicki

    Assistant Professor

    Composition

  • Amelia Rutledge

    Amelia Rutledge

    Associate Professor

    Literature: medieval literature, science fiction, fantasy, literature and the arts, children's literature

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  • Mark Sample

    Mark Sample

    Associate Professor

    Contemporary and experimental literature, electronic literature, video game studies

  • Kristin Samuelian

    Kristin Samuelian

    Associate Professor

    Composition: Nineteenth-century British literature and culture, nineteenth-century novel, materialist approaches to literature

  • Catherine Saunders

    Catherine Saunders

    Associate Professor

    Composition: 19th-century American literature, with particular focus on works by women and African-Americans; the novel; the role of genre labels in literary criticism; and the antislavery movement

  • Andrew Scahill

    Andrew Scahill

    Assistant Professor

    Film and Media Studies

  • Jessica Scarlata

    Jessica Scarlata

    Associate Professor

    World cinema, political film, media and resistance movements, Indian film/media, Irish and British film/media, gender and sexuality

  • Margaret Scolaro

    Margaret Scolaro

    Instructor

    Composition

  • Laura Scott

    Laura Scott

    Professor
    Academic Coordinator, English

    Creative Writing

  • Kristen Michelle Seal

    Kristen Michelle Seal

    Adjunct Faculty

    Composition

  • Susan R Shreve

    Susan R Shreve

    Professor

    Creative Writing: fiction

  • Miruna Stanica

    Miruna Stanica

    Assistant Professor

    Literature: eighteenth-century British literature; history of the novel

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  • Steven Weinberger

    Steven Weinberger

    Associate Professor
    Director, Linguistics

    Linguistics: phonology

  • Stefan Wheelock

    Stefan Wheelock

    Assistant Professor

    Literature: late eighteenth century/early nineteenth century black antislavery writing with a particular emphasis on slave narrative autobiography, early black polemic, and their contributions to Atlantic political and intellectual currencies

  • Eve Wiederhold

    Eve Wiederhold

    Assistant Professor

    Writing and Rhetoric: feminist rhetorics, history of rhetoric, literary and cultural criticism, contemporary continental philosophies, composition theory

  • David Williams

    David Williams

    Assistant Professor

    Composition

  • Douglas J Wulf

    Douglas J Wulf

    Associate Professor

    Linguistics: Application of linguistics to TESL, formal semantics and the semantics-pragmatics interface, historical linguistics, computational linguistics

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  • Alok Yadav

    Alok Yadav

    Associate Professor
    Associate Chair, English

    Literature: Restoration and 18th-Century British literature; nationalism, imperialism, and literary culture; postcolonial and world literature, esp. South Asian

  • Margaret Yocom

    Margaret Yocom

    Associate Professor
    Co-Director, Folklore

    traditional narrative; material culture; family folklore; gender studies

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  • Terry Zawacki

    Terry Zawacki

    Associate Professor

    Writing and Rhetoric: writing across the curriculum; writing in the disciplines; writing assessment; multicultural and second language writers; feminism and composition