Denise Albanese

Professor

Early modern literature; literature and science; cultural studies

Amal Amireh

Associate Professor

middle eastern literature; world literature; gender and sexuality

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

Associate Professor

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

Scott W Berg

Assistant Professor

Courtney Brkic

Associate Professor

Creative Writing: fiction and non-fiction

Philip Burnham

Assistant Professor

Zofia Burr

Associate Professor

Dean, Honors College

American literature; poetry; multi-media art

Yoonmee Chang

Associate Professor

Asian American literature and culture, ethnography and literature, ethnic enclaves

Alan Cheuse

University Professor

Creative Writing: fiction

Keith Clark

Associate Professor

Literature: African American men's literature, 20th-century African American literature

Jennifer Lynn Culbertson

Assistant Professor

Linguistics: grammar and syntax

Paul D'Andrea

Robinson Professor

Literature: drama

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

Associate Professor

Douglas Eyman

Assistant Professor

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

Dawn Fels

Director, Writing Center

Composition

John Burt Foster

University Professor

world literature, modern fiction, comparative literature

Joy Fraser

Assistant Professor

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

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

Donald R Gallehr

Associate Professor

brain research and the teaching of writing; portfolio assessment; writing and meditation

Stephen H Goodwin

Professor

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

Stephen Groening

Assistant Professor

television studies; screen studies; media convergence; media history

Anna Sophia Habib

Assistant Professor

Tamara Harvey

Associate Professor

Director of Graduate Programs, English

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

Devon L Hodges

Professor

Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, literary and feminist theory and criticism

Beth Ann Hoffmann

Assistant Professor

Literature: performance studies; contemporary British drama

Dee Ann Holisky

Associate Professor

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

Rosemary Jann

Professor

Literature: nineteenth-century British literature, history of science, interdisciplinary and cultural studies

Twila G Johnson

Assistant Professor

Charles F. Jones

Associate Professor

Linguistics: syntax; semantics

Deborah Kaplan

Associate Professor

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

David Kaufmann

Professor

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

Winifred G Keaney

Associate Professor

Literature: medieval literature; Chaucer

Sally Keith

Associate Professor

Creative Writing: poetry

Sara M King

Associate Professor

Lisa Koch

Professor

Joshua Kryah

Assistant Professor

Composition

David L Kuebrich

Associate Professor

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

Roger Lathbury

Professor

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

Debra Lattanzi Shutika

Associate Professor

Co-Director, Folklore

Director of Undergraduate Programs, English

Sense of Place, transnational migration, Latin American folklore

Susan Lawrence

Assistant Professor

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

Erika T Lin

Assistant Professor

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

Lisa Lister

Assistant Professor

J Samaine Lockwood

Assistant Professor

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

Michael Malouf

Associate Professor

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

Carla Marcantonio

Assistant Professor

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

Jessica Matthews

Associate Professor

Assistant Director, Composition

Robert I Matz

Professor

Chair, English

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

Corrine McCarthy

Assistant Professor

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

Rebecca A McGeehan

Assistant Professor

Teresa L Michals

Assistant Professor

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

William B Miller

Professor

Director of the MFA Program, English

Creative Writing

Kyoko Mori

Professor

Creative Writing: non-fiction and fiction

Richard A Nanian

Assistant Professor

Helon Habila Ngalabak

Associate Professor

Creative Writing: fiction

Mel M Nichols

Assistant Professor

Eric M Pankey

Professor

Creative Writing: poetry

Lisa E Photos

Assistant Professor

Dorothy Raffel

Instructor

E Shelley Reid

Associate Professor

Director, Composition

composition and rhetoric, writing program administration, writing pedagogy education

Paul Michael Rogers

Director, Northern Virginia Writing Project

Mark Rudnicki

Assistant Professor

Amelia Rutledge

Associate Professor

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

Mark Sample

Associate Professor

Contemporary and experimental literature, electronic literature, video game studies

Kristin Samuelian

Associate Professor

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

Catherine Saunders

Associate Professor

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

Assistant Professor

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

Instructor

Laura Scott

Professor

Academic Coordinator, English

Miruna Stanica

Assistant Professor

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

Dean Taciuch

Professor

E Art Taylor

Assistant Professor

Kenneth Thompson

Professor

Director, Individualized Study

Susan Tichy

Professor

poetry; multi-media art

Steven Weinberger

Associate Professor

Director, Linguistics

Linguistics: phonology

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

Assistant Professor

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

David Williams

Assistant Professor

Douglas J Wulf

Associate Professor

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

Alok Yadav

Associate Professor

Associate Chair, English

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

Margaret Yocom

Associate Professor

Co-Director, Folklore

traditional narrative; material culture; family folklore; gender studies

Terry Zawacki

Associate Professor

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