Full-time Faculty

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  • Denise Albanese

    Denise Albanese

    Professor

    Literature: affect and politics; problems in mass culture and popular culture; science and technology studies; critical historicism and the contemporary moment; Shakespeare in public culture; Milton and early modern literature

  • Amireh Amireh

    Amireh Amireh

    Associate Professor

    Literature: middle eastern literature; world literature; postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality

  • Eric Gary Anderson

    Eric Gary Anderson

    Director of Graduate Programs

    Associate Professor

    Literature: American Indian literatures, Southern studies, Horror studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, American fiction from the beginnings to the 21st century,

  • Ann L Ardis

    Ann L Ardis

    Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences

    Professor

    British modernism; technologies of culture; periodical press history; gender

  • Alexia Arthurs

    Alexia Arthurs

    Assistant Professor

    Creative Writing

  • Eric K. Auld

    Eric K. Auld

    Instructor

    Composition: Composition, creative writing, humor writing

  • Tawnya Azar

    Tawnya Azar

    Assistant Professor

    Composition

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  • Scott W Berg

    Scott W Berg

    Professor

    Publishing, nonfiction writing and literature, historical narrative, history, urban history

  • Jim Blevins

    Jim Blevins

    Professor

    Linguistics: morphology, syntax, quantitative linguistics, history of ideas

  • Courtney Angela Brkic

    Courtney Angela Brkic

    Professor

    Creative Writing: fiction, non-fiction and translation

  • Amanda Leigh Bryan

    Amanda Leigh Bryan

    Assistant Professor

    Composition: Postcolonial Studies, Anglophone Caribbean Studies, Sexuality Studies, Rhetorics of Belonging and Identity, Cultural and Visual Rhetoric, Spatial Theory, Women’s Studies, Masculinity Studies, Class Theory

  • Jacqueline M. Burek

    Jacqueline M. Burek

    Assistant Professor

    Literature: Medieval literature; medieval historiography; translation; rhetoric; classical reception; Welsh and Celtic Studies

  • Zofia Burr

    Zofia Burr

    Associate Professor

    Literature: African American literature; poetry

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  • Carlos Chism

    Carlos Chism

    Assistant Professor

    Composition: Composition Pedagogy, Science Fiction and Fantasy

  • Hyunyoung Cho

    Hyunyoung Cho

    Professor

    Early Modern British Literature and Culture; Mobility and Family; Ecocriticism and the Late Renaissance; Plants and Insects in Early Modern Culture; Poetry and Early Modern Science; Cross-Cultural Encounter and Communication

  • Keith Clark

    Keith Clark

    Distinguished University Professor

    Literature: 20th-Century African American Literature; African American Literary Masculinity Studies; Black LGBTQ+ Literature; African American Drama; Major Authors: James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, Ann Petry

  • David Powers Corwin

    David Powers Corwin

    Assistant Professor

    LGBTQ+ Studies; friendship studies; television studies; trauma rhetoric; Appalachian Studies; gender and sexuality in higher education

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  • Albert J Defazio

    Albert J Defazio

    Assistant Professor

    Composition: Hemingway, Composition

  • Timothy Denevi

    Timothy Denevi

    Associate Professor

    Creative Writing: Nonfiction; Essay

  • Sharon Doetsch-Kidder

    Sharon Doetsch-Kidder

    Associate Professor

    Composition: Social movements, race and ethnic studies in the U.S., theories of genders and sexualities, oral history, feminist pedagogy, mindfulness education, and the globalization of liberal arts education

  • Michael Don

    Michael Don

    Assistant Professor

    Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Literary Editing

  • Isidore K Dorpenyo

    Isidore K Dorpenyo

    Associate Professor

    Writing and Rhetoric: Writing and Rhetoric: International technical communication, professional and technical communication, social justice, public intellectualism, rhetoric of technology, technology and elections, politics, biometric technology, and localization.

  • Caitlin Dungan

    Caitlin Dungan

    Assistant Professor

    Writing and Rhetoric: Digital rhetoric, empathy and video games, intersections of queer theory and video games, performativity and embodiment in gaming, the queer history of horror

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  • Idee Edalatishams

    Idee Edalatishams

    Faculty ESL Specialist

    Instructor

    Corpus Linguistics, Multilingual Learners' Academic Communication and Identity, L2 Pronunciation.

  • 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

  • Hatim El-Hibri

    Hatim El-Hibri

    Associate Professor

    Global media and television studies, Middle East and Arab media studies, visual culture studies, urban studies, infrastructure studies, critical theory, media history and theory, cultural studies

  • Douglas Eyman

    Douglas Eyman

    Associate Professor

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

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  • Brian Fitzpatrick

    Brian Fitzpatrick

    Associate Professor

    Composition: Workplace writing, writing transfer, writing in the disciplines, online and hybrid pedagogy

  • Kevin M. Flanagan

    Kevin M. Flanagan

    Assistant Professor

    Composition: British film and television, adaptation studies, composition, British cultural studies, film and television directors, media history, arts documentary, the Cold War, videogames

  • Kerry Folan

    Kerry Folan

    Associate Professor

  • Karen Foltz

    Karen Foltz

    Assistant Professor

    Linguistics

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  • Amanda Noel Ganus

    Amanda Noel Ganus

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Benjamin Gatling

    Benjamin Gatling

    Associate Professor

    Folklore: narrative, performance, the ethnography of communication, Persianate oral traditions, Islam, Central Asia and the Middle East

  • Lisa Gilman

    Lisa Gilman

    Professor

    Folklore: Folklore, music, dance, public humanities, performance studies, African Studies, women's and gender studies, migration, war, politics and culture, ethnographic fieldwork, filmmaking, digital storytelling.

  • Leslie Goetsch

    Leslie Goetsch

    Assistant Professor

    Composition: Theories and best practices of writing instruction Composition theories

  • Ariel M Goldenthal

    Ariel M Goldenthal

    Associate Professor

    Composition: Hybrid teaching and learning

  • Matt Green

    Matt Green

    Genre systems analysis, procedural rhetoric, game design, rhetorics of crowdfunding, creative contexts.

  • McKinley Green

    McKinley Green

    Assistant Professor

    Writing and Rhetoric: Professional and Technical Writing, Rhetoric and Composition, Queer Rhetorics, HIV/AIDS, Health Communication, Risk Communication

  • Christina Grieco

    Christina Grieco

    Assistant Professor

    Composition

  • Jeffrey B. Griswold

    Jeffrey B. Griswold

    Postdoctoral R & T Fellow

    Literature

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  • Anna Sophia Habib

    Anna Sophia Habib

    Professor

    Writing and Rhetoric: multilingual writing, second language writing, translingualism, trauma studies, feminist rhetorics/rhetorical feminism

  • Tamara Harvey

    Tamara Harvey

    Chair

    Associate Professor

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

  • Paul Haspel

    Paul Haspel

    Associate Professor

    Chesapeake Bay regional literature and culture; film studies

  • Anthony Dyer Hoefer

    Anthony Dyer Hoefer

    Associate Professor

    Literature and culture of the U.S. South; race, religion, and literature; ecocriticism and environmental justice.

  • Billy Howell

    Billy Howell

    Associate Professor

    Fiction, Memoir, Political Theory, Psychoanalysis

  • Virginia A Hoy

    Virginia A Hoy

    Senior Instructor

    Composition: Composition theory and practice, adult learning theory, and medieval literature and history.

  • Jessica Hurley

    Jessica Hurley

    Assistant Professor

    Literature: Speculative fiction and sci-fi; environmental humanities; C20/21 multi-ethnic American literatures; Indigenous and postcolonial literatures; science and technology studies; gender and sexuality studies.

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  • David Kaufmann

    David Kaufmann

    Professor

    Literature: contemporary poetry; Critical Theory; Visual art and Art History;

  • Kate Keeney

    Kate Keeney

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Creative Writing: Poetry,

  • Sally Keith

    Sally Keith

    Professor

    Creative Writing: poetry

  • Matt Kelley

    Matt Kelley

    Assistant Professor

    Linguistics: phonetics, spoken word recognition, computational methods, speech perception, speech acoustics, automatic speech recognition, speech technology

  • Joe W Killiany

    Joe W Killiany

    Instructor

    Composition

  • Sara M King

    Sara M King

    Associate Professor

    Composition: multilingual writers, multi-ethnic American literature, bibliomemoirs.

  • Lisa Koch

    Lisa Koch

    Professor

    Literature: Teen/Young Adult Literature; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Multi-Ethnic American Literature; African American Literature; Women Writers; Harry Potter

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  • Michelle LaFrance

    Michelle LaFrance

    Associate Professor

    Writing and Rhetoric: Feminist research/feminist rhetoric, creative nonfiction, community writing, writing across the curriculum/in the disciplines, ethnography, writing program administration and pedagogy

  • Debra Lattanzi Shutika

    Debra Lattanzi Shutika

    Associate Professor

    Folklore: Contemporary Irish Folklore, Sense of Place, Appalachian Studies, Transnational Migration

  • Heidi Y. Lawrence

    Heidi Y. Lawrence

    Associate Professor

    Writing and Rhetoric: Medical rhetoric and medical humanities, vaccine controversy, professional and technical communication, public rhetoric, rhetoric of science and technology

  • Susan Lawrence

    Susan Lawrence

    Writing Center Director

    Professor

    Writing center theory and practice, research methods, discourse analysis

  • Steph Liberatore

    Steph Liberatore

    Associate Professor

    Creative Nonfiction, Writing Pedagogy, and Composition

  • Lisa Lister

    Lisa Lister

    Associate Director

    Professor

    Composition: First year composition, teacher development, scholarship of teaching and learning

  • Samaine Lockwood

    Samaine Lockwood

    Associate Professor

    Literature: nineteenth-century American literature; gender and sexuality studies; research methods; queer theory

  • Cynthia Lukyanenko

    Cynthia Lukyanenko

    Assistant Professor

    Linguistics: child language acquisition, morphology, morphosyntax, language variation, real-time language comprehension

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  • M. Reece Catherine Mack

    M. Reece Catherine Mack

    Associate Professor

  • Alice Magelssen-Green
  • Michael G Malouf

    Michael G Malouf

    Professor

    Literature: Modernism; Postcolonialism; Anglophone novel, drama, and poetry, spec. Irish, Caribbean, British literature; literary theory, cultural studies, petroculture & theories of energy transition; History of English, Global English literary criticism

  • Elizabeth Dean Martelli

    Elizabeth Dean Martelli

    Assistant Professor

  • Courtney Massie

    Courtney Massie

    Instructor

    Writing centers, composition

  • Jessica Matthews

    Jessica Matthews

    Professor

    Composition

  • Robert I Matz

    Robert I Matz

    Campus Dean, George Mason University, Korea

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

  • Leeya Mehta

    Leeya Mehta

    Instructor

    Creative Writing: Nationalism, intergenerational trauma, and breaking cycles of violence through individual and civic agency. Mehta's column, The Company We Keep, on the reading and writing life, appears in the Independent, exploring the life of social justice and the contemporary imagination.

  • Jennifer Ann Messier

    Jennifer Ann Messier

    Associate Professor

    Writing and Rhetoric: Writing Program Administration incl. Labor Advocacy, Professional Development, and Curriculum Development | Composition Pedagogy incl. Writing about Writing, Public Writing, Active Learning, Distance Learning, and Service Learning

  • Teresa L Michals

    Teresa L Michals

    Professor

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

  • Katherine M. Miscavige

    Katherine M. Miscavige

    Assistant Professor

    Composition

  • Carol Mitchell

    Carol Mitchell

    Assistant Professor

    Composition: linguistics; Caribbean literature; science and technology; world literature;

  • Alexander Monea

    Alexander Monea

    Associate Professor

    Film and Media Studies: Internet Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, AI / Machine Learning, Big Data, Image Recognition, Computer Vision

  • Kyoko Mori

    Kyoko Mori

    Professor

    Creative Writing: non-fiction and fiction

  • Juton Myers

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  • Richard A Nanian

    Richard A Nanian

    Professor

    Literature: Poetics, Romanticism, Postmodernism.

  • Vivek Narayanan

    Vivek Narayanan

    Assistant Professor

    Creative Writing: Poetry, World Poetry, Translation, Epic, Performance, Critical Writing on Indian and African Poetry in English, Interdisciplinary Practice & Theory

  • Helon Habila Ngalabak

    Helon Habila Ngalabak

    Professor

    Creative Writing: fiction

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  • Eric Pankey

    Eric Pankey

    Professor

    Creative Writing: Poetry Writing, Modern and Contemporary Poetry

  • Shyam V Patel

    Shyam V Patel

    Assistant Professor

    Composition: Literary and intellectual histories of nineteenth-century Britain; Queer Theory; Marxism and Post-Marxism; Metaethics and Aesthetics; Hybrid and Online Writing Instruction; Public Writing

  • Elizabeth Paul

    Elizabeth Paul

    Assistant Professor

    Composition: teaching composition in a multicultural classroom

  • Audrey S Pettibon

    Audrey S Pettibon

    Instructor

    Composition: - Visual and digital rhetoric and the rhetoric of display as they relate to discourse and identity. - Preparing student for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. - Hyperbole and its influence on/representation in social rhetoric. - Targeted writing programs to address the professional and academic needs of non-traditional students in an online and blended-delivery setting.

  • Lisa E Photos

    Lisa E Photos

    Associate Professor

    Composition

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  • Stephanie Rambo

    Stephanie Rambo

    Assistant Professor

    Literature: Diasporic Black Theory, Black Girlhood Studies, African American Literature, Black Women Writers, Women and Gender Studies

  • Nupoor Ranade

    Nupoor Ranade

    Assistant Professor

    Writing and Rhetoric: Technical writing and editing; Audience studies; User experience (UX); Data analytics & corpus analysis.

  • E Shelley Reid

    E Shelley Reid

    Associate Professor

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

  • Colleen Erin Reynolds

    Colleen Erin Reynolds

    Assistant Professor

    Writing and Rhetoric

  • Sarah E Rickless (formerly Baker)

    Sarah E Rickless (formerly Baker)

    Senior Instructor

    Writing and Rhetoric

  • Suzanne Rigdon

    Suzanne Rigdon

    Manager, Fall for the Book Festival

    Creative Writing

  • Marguerite Rippy

    Marguerite Rippy

    Associate Professor

    Classic cinema, Orson Welles and the origins of "truthiness" in performance, transindigenous adaptations of Shakespeare, and performing gendered and racialized sexualities from Shakespeare to Hollywood.

  • Mark S Rudnicki

    Mark S Rudnicki

    Associate Professor

    Composition: 19th and 20th Century Philosophy, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, 20th Century Polish Literature, particularly Witkacy

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  • Kristin Samuelian

    Kristin Samuelian

    Associate Chair

    Professor

    Literature: British literature and culture of the long nineteenth century, nineteenth-century British novel, materialist approaches to literature.

  • Catherine E. Saunders

    Catherine E. Saunders

    Professor

    Composition: 19th-century American literature, with particular focus on works by women and African-Americans and the novel; American antislavery literature; local history; digital humanities; open educational resources; writing in and about the disciplines.

  • James E Savage

    James E Savage

    Associate Professor

    Writing and Rhetoric: multilingual education, metacognition, critical language awareness, memory and media, qualitative research

  • Jessica Scarlata

    Jessica Scarlata

    Contact

    Director

    Associate Professor

    global and transnational cinema; incarceration and security; diaspora and migration; violence and human rights; colonialism; Indian, Irish, and Latin American film; race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality

  • Sylvia L.R. Schreiner

    Sylvia L.R. Schreiner

    Assistant Professor

    Linguistics: Syntax, morphology, semantics, language documentation and revitalization; Scottish Gaelic, St. Lawrence Island / Siberian Yupik; aspect, tense, mood, modality; Distributed Morphology; roots and categories; nominals and nominal functional structure.

  • Laura Ellen Scott

    Laura Ellen Scott

    Academic Coordinator

    Professor

    Creative Writing

  • Sheri Nicole Sorvillo Rain

    Sheri Nicole Sorvillo Rain

    Assistant Professor

    horror studies; rhetorics of mental health conditions and distress; and writing, literature, and feminist pedagogies

  • Peter Streckfus

    Peter Streckfus

    Associate Professor

    Creative Writing: Poetry

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  • Dean Taciuch

    Dean Taciuch

    Professor

    Composition

  • Art Taylor

    Art Taylor

    Associate Professor

    Creative Writing: short stories; crime, mystery, and suspense fiction; book reviews.

  • Kenneth Thompson

    Kenneth Thompson

    Professor

    Literature and popular culture, history of technology and business.

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  • Géraldine Walther

    Géraldine Walther

    Assistant Professor

    Linguistics: Computational Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Language and cognition, Morphology, Syntax, Language documentation

  • Stefan Wheelock

    Stefan Wheelock

    Associate 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

  • Gregg Wilhelm

    Gregg Wilhelm

    Director of the MFA Program

    Assistant Professor

    Creative Writing

  • Jennifer Linhart Wood

    Jennifer Linhart Wood

    Assistant Professor

    Literature: Renaissance drama, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, Shakespeare

  • Courtney Adams Wooten

    Courtney Adams Wooten

    Assistant Professor

    Writing and Rhetoric: Writing Program Administration, Feminist Rhetorics, 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

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

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  • Lijun Zhang

    Lijun Zhang

    Assistant Professor

    Folklore: Material Culture, Folk Art and Crafts, Folklife, Heritage, Museums, Tourism, Oral Narrative, Ethnographic Fieldwork, Chinese Folklore