All Faculty
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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
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Amal Amireh
Associate Professor
Literature: middle eastern literature; world literature; postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality
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Eric Gary Anderson
Director of Graduate Programs
Associate Professor
Literature: American Indian literatures, Southern studies, Horror and Gothic studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, American fiction from the beginnings to the 21st century
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Ann L Ardis
Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Professor
British modernism; technologies of culture; periodical press history; gender
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Jennifer Atkinson
Professor
Creative Writing: poetry, ecopoetics, eco-justice, recent and contemporary American poetry
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Joshua Tyler Barton
Adjunct Faculty
Composition: Cultural Studies, Horror Literature, Feminist Literature, Southern Gothic Literature, Jane Austen, Shirley Jackson
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Delicia C Battle
Adjunct Faculty
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Scott W Berg
Professor
Publishing, nonfiction writing and literature, historical narrative, history, urban history
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Casey Leigh Bieda
Adjunct Faculty
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Kenneth Broyles
Adjunct Faculty
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Amanda Leigh Bryan
Assistant Professor
Composition: Postcolonial Studies, Anglophone Caribbean Studies, Sexuality Studies, Pedagogies of Generative AI; Rhetorics of Belonging and Identity, Cultural and Visual Rhetoric, Spatial Theory, Women’s Studies, Masculinity Studies, Class Theory
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Jacqueline M. Burek
Associate Professor
Literature: Medieval literature; medieval historiography; translation; rhetoric; classical reception; Welsh and Celtic Studies
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Frank J Carbo
Adjunct Faculty
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Ka Long Chan
Adjunct Faculty
GenAI-aided Teaching; World Englishes; Pronunciation Teaching; Teacher Training; TESOL
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Ann Cavazos Chen
Adjunct Faculty
Composition: Leisure activities among older Americans as social engagement and creative expression.
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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; Literature for the Public; Literacy Education in the Age of AI
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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
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David Powers Corwin
Associate Professor
LGBTQ+ Studies; friendship studies; television studies; trauma rhetoric; Appalachian Studies; gender and sexuality in higher education; qualitative research methods
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Albert J. DeFazio
Assistant Professor
Composition: Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Composition, Shakespeare
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Sharon Doetsch-Kidder
Associate Professor
Composition: Social movements, oral history, intersectionality, feminist pedagogy, and contemplative education
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Jim Dooley
Adjunct Faculty
Literature: World Religions, American Religious Awakenings and Revivals, Religious Themes in Literature. John Milton, The Rise of the Novel, 19th-century British Literature.
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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.
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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
Faculty ESL Specialist
Instructor
Corpus Linguistics, Multilingual Learners' Academic Communication and Identity, L2 Pronunciation.
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Eric Eisner
Associate Professor
Literature: 18th and 19th century British literature and culture, esp. Romanticism; lyric poetry; history of reading; literary and cultural theory
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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, platform studies, media theory and history, cultural studies
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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, game studies
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Brian Fitzpatrick
Associate Professor
Composition: Workplace writing, writing transfer, writing in the disciplines, online and hybrid pedagogy
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Kevin M. Flanagan
Associate Professor
Composition: British film and television, adaptation studies, composition, British cultural studies, film and television directors, media history, arts documentary, the Cold War, videogames
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Kerry Folan
Associate Professor
Distance teaching and learning, effective feedback in writing-intensive courses, teaching creative nonfiction as literature
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Donald R Gallehr
Emeritus Faculty
Writing and Rhetoric: brain research and the teaching of writing; portfolio assessment; writing and meditation
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Amanda Noel Ganus
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Xiaoyu Gao
Adjunct Faculty
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Benjamin Gatling
Associate Professor
Folklore: narrative, performance, the ethnography of communication, Persianate oral traditions, Islam, Central Asia and the Middle East
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Olivia Anne Ghafoerkhan
Graduate Lecturer
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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.
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Amanda K Girard
Assistant Professor
Digital Humanities, AI, Computer Science Ethics, Technical Communication, Instructional Design, Communication Across the Curriculum, Writing In the Disciplines, Multimodal Composition, Archival studies, Writing Program Administration
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Leslie Baldwin Goetsch
Associate Professor
Composition: Theories and best practices of writing instruction Composition theories
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Stephen Goodwin
Emeritus Faculty
Creative Writing: fiction; non-fiction; online writing and publishing
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Vernon Gras
Emeritus Faculty
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Kenyatta D Graves
Adjunct Faculty
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Matt Green
Writing and Rhetoric: Genre systems analysis, procedural rhetoric, game design, rhetorics of crowdfunding, creative contexts.
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McKinley Green
Assistant Professor
Writing and Rhetoric: Professional and Technical Writing, Queer Rhetorics, HIV/AIDS, Health Communication, Risk Communication
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Kristine Gussow
Adjunct Faculty
Writing and Rhetoric: Distance education, technology in education, composition, linguistic justice, multimodal pedagogy
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Miriam C Gyimah
Adjunct Faculty
African Diasporic Literature, (Caribbean, African American, African Lit...) American Literature, Feminist Theories and Criticism, Women Writers, World Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Black Feminist Criticism and Theory...
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Anna Sophia Habib
Professor
Writing and Rhetoric: multilingual writing, second language writing; translingualism; transnational writing studies; trauma studies;
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Tamara Harvey
Chair
Associate Professor
Literature: early American literature, early modern women's writing, feminist theory
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Devon Hodges
Emeritus Faculty
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Anthony Dyer Hoefer
Associate Professor
Literature and culture of the U.S. South; race, religion, and literature; ecocriticism and environmental justice.
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Virginia A Hoy
Senior Instructor
Composition: Composition theory and practice, adult learning theory, and medieval literature and history.
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Ben T Hunt
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Jessica Hurley
Associate 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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Joan Jiyoung Hwang
Assistant Professor
Writing and Rhetoric, Translingualism, Multimodality, Writing Across the Curriculum
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Jiwoong Hyun
Adjunct Faculty
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Gus Immel
Adjunct Faculty
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Lorna Irvine
Emeritus Faculty
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Jennifer Ann Janisch
Associate Professor
Writing and Rhetoric: Writing Program Administration incl. Labor Advocacy, Professional Development, and Curriculum Development
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Rosemary Jann
Emeritus Faculty
nineteenth-century British literature, history of science, interdisciplinary and cultural studies
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Joyce P. Johnston
Adjunct Faculty
Composition: Digital intellectual property, online civility, online instructional design, oral response to student writing
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Deborah Kaplan
Emeritus Faculty
Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, British drama and performance, feminist theory and criticism
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David Kaufmann
Professor
Literature: contemporary poetry; Critical Theory; Visual art and Art History;
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Matt Kelley
Assistant Professor
Linguistics: phonetics, spoken word recognition, computational methods, speech perception, speech acoustics, automatic speech recognition, speech technology
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Erika Dane Kielsgard
Adjunct Faculty
Creative Writing, Expressive Arts, Human-Animal Studies, Multimodal Composition, Native American and Indigenous Studies
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Sara M King
Associate Professor
Composition: multilingual writers, multi-ethnic American literature, bibliomemoirs.
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Peter Klappert
Emeritus Faculty
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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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Josef Matthew Kuhn
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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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
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Debra Lattanzi Shutika
Director of Folklore Program
Associate Professor
Folklore: Contemporary Irish Folklore, Sense of Place, Appalachian Studies, Transnational Migration
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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
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Susan Lawrence
Writing Center Director
Professor
Writing center theory and practice, research methods, discourse analysis
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Lisa Lister
Professor
Composition: First year composition, teacher development, scholarship of teaching and learning
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Samaine Lockwood
Associate Professor
Literature: nineteenth-century American literature; gender and sexuality studies; research methods; queer theory
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Cynthia Lukyanenko
Assistant Professor
Linguistics: child language acquisition, morphology, morphosyntax, language variation, real-time language comprehension
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Rachael Graham Lussos
Adjunct Faculty
medical rhetoric, health communication, proposal writing, activism, multimodal composition
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M. Reece Catherine Mack
Associate Professor
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Alice Magelssen-Green
Instructor
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Michael G Malouf
Professor
Literature: Modernism (Joyce and Woolf); Postcolonialism (spec. Ireland and Caribbean); Anglophone novel, drama, and poetry, spec. Irish, Caribbean, British literature; literary theory, cultural studies, petroculture & energy transition; theories of World Literature and Global English; Energy Law and Literature
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Jonathan M. Marine
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Composition: Writing Engagement, Pedagogic Theory, Graffiti Rhetorics
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Elizabeth Dean Martelli
Associate Professor
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Robert I Matz
Professor
Literature: Early modern literature, Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, gender and sexuality
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Kathryn Marie Meeks
Graduate Research Assistant
Writing and Rhetoric: Visual Rhetoric, Professional and Technical Writing, Rhetoric, Writing Studies
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Leeya Mehta
Instructor
Literature: Nationalism, intergenerational trauma, and breaking cycles of violence through individual and civic agency. Mehta's former column, The Company We Keep, on the reading and writing life, appears in the Independent, exploring reading, ethics and the contemporary imagination.
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Barbara Melosh
Emeritus Faculty
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Nancy Margaret Furey Michael
Adjunct Faculty
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Teresa L Michals
Professor
Literature: history of children's literature; eighteenth-century British literature; disability studies
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Erin Miller
Adjunct Faculty
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Lynn W Miller
Adjunct Faculty
Composition: Artificial Intelligence in the English Classroom, Educational Advocacy
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Carol Mitchell
Assistant Professor
Composition: linguistics; Caribbean literature; science and technology; world literature;
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Mohamed Mohamed
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Sociology of Religion, Political Sociology, Institutional Change Theory, Sociology of Education
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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
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Kelly M Mulhern
Adjunct Faculty
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Kara Mutuli
Adjunct Faculty
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Vivek Narayanan
Associate Professor
Creative Writing: Poetry, World Poetry, Translation, Epic, Performance, Critical Writing on Indian and African Poetry in English, Interdisciplinary Practice & Theory
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Michelle Tram Nguyen
Assistant Professor
Writing and Rhetoric: Multilingual Writing, Digital Literacy, Inclusive and Trauma-Informed Pedagogies
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Andy J Nunn
Assistant Professor
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Erin D O'Brien
Adjunct Faculty
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Parker O'Connor
Associate Professor
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Shyam V Patel
Assistant Professor
Composition: Hybrid and Online Writing Instruction; Writing Resistance and Anxiety; Public Writing; Literary and intellectual histories of nineteenth-century Britain, esp. Aestheticism
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Audrey S Pettibon
Senior 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.
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Sheri Nicole Rain
Assistant Professor
horror studies; rhetoric of health and medicine; mental health rhetoric; rhetoric of women's health; critical cultural rhetoric; disability studies; digital scholarly storytelling; and writing, literature, feminist, and multimodal pedagogies
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Stephanie Rambo
Assistant Professor
Literature: Diasporic Black Theory, Black Girlhood Studies, African American Literature, Black Women Writers, Women and Gender Studies
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E Shelley Reid
Associate Professor
Writing and Rhetoric: faculty development, composition and rhetoric, writing program administration, writing pedagogy education
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Marguerite Rippy
Associate Professor
Adaptation in performance, Orson Welles, "truthiness" in performance, transindigenous Shakespeares, and leadership in higher education.
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Eric Rogusky
Adjunct Faculty
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Mark S Rudnicki
Professor
Composition: 19th and 20th Century Philosophy, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, 20th Century Polish Literature, particularly Witkacy
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Emily E Russell
Adjunct Faculty
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Amelia Rutledge
Emeritus Faculty
medieval literature, science fiction, fantasy, literature and the arts, children's literature
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Randa Saad Awad Saad
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Ghazal Saeidfar
Adjunct Faculty
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Kristin Samuelian
Associate Chair
Professor
Literature: British literature and culture of the long nineteenth century, nineteenth-century British novel, materialist approaches to literature.
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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.
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James E Savage
Associate Professor
Writing and Rhetoric: multilingual education, memory and media, narrative ethics, critical language awareness, qualitative research
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Jessica Scarlata
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
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Marriya Schwarz
Adjunct Faculty
Composition: Intersection between language and history Book History Multimodal Composition Popular Writing
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Huma Sheikh
Graduate Professional Assistant
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Walter Walter Staggs
Adjunct Faculty
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Patrick Story
Emeritus Faculty
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Kim D Stryker
Adjunct Faculty
Folklore: Folklore, Occupational Folklife, Agriculture, Foodways, Supernatural Beliefs, Fear, Urban Legends, and Folklife Festivals.
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Dominique Nicole Swann
Adjunct Faculty
Composition: Composition, Cultural Studies, African & African American Studies, African American Literature
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Eileen Sypher
Emeritus Faculty
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Art Taylor
Professor
Creative Writing: short stories; crime, mystery, and suspense fiction; book reviews.
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Susan Tichy
Emerita Faculty
Creative Writing: poetry; war poetry; visual poetry; mixed form (prose & poetry); poetry's intersections with walking art and land art;
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Emily Tuszynska
Adjunct Faculty
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Géraldine Walther
Assistant Professor
Linguistics: Computational Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Language and cognition, Morphology, Syntax, Language documentation
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stvn h. weinberger
Emeritus Faculty
Linguistics: phonetics, phonology, second language acquisition, speech accents, alien language
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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
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Marisa Wieneke
Adjunct Faculty
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Jennifer Linhart Wood
Assistant Professor
Literature: Renaissance drama, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, Shakespeare
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Sylvia L.R. Woodrose Schwartz
Associate 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.
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Courtney Adams Wooten
Associate Chair of Writing Program Administration
Associate Professor
Writing and Rhetoric: Writing Program Administration, Feminist Rhetorics, Composition
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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
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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Margaret Yocom
Emeritus Faculty
traditional narrative; material culture; family folklore; gender studies
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Terry Zawacki
Emeritus Faculty
Writing and Rhetoric: writing across the curriculum; writing in the disciplines; writing assessment; multicultural and second language writers; feminism and composition
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Lijun Zhang
Assistant Professor
Folklore: Material Culture, Folk Art and Crafts, Folklife, Heritage, Museums, Tourism, Oral Narrative, Ethnographic Fieldwork, Chinese Folklore
