Tenure-line Faculty

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

Amal Amireh

Associate Professor

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

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

Ann L Ardis

Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor

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

Alexia Arthurs

Assistant Professor

Creative Writing

Jennifer Atkinson

Professor

Creative Writing: poetry, ecopoetics, eco-justice, recent and contemporary American poetry

Jim Blevins

Professor

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

Courtney Angela Brkic

Professor

Creative Writing: fiction, non-fiction and translation

Jacqueline M. Burek

Associate Professor

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

Zofia Burr

Associate Professor

Literature: African American literature; poetry

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

Timothy Denevi

Associate Professor

Creative Writing: Nonfiction; Essay

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.

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

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

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

Benjamin Gatling

Associate Professor

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

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.

McKinley Green

Assistant Professor

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

Tamara Harvey

Chair

Associate Professor

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

Anthony Dyer Hoefer

Associate Professor

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

Jessica Hurley

Associate Chair

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.

Tania Rachel James

Associate Professor

Fiction

David Kaufmann

Professor

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

Sally Keith

Professor

Creative Writing: poetry

Matt Kelley

Assistant Professor

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

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

Director of Folklore Program

Associate Professor

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

Heidi Y. Lawrence

Director of Writing and Rhetoric Program

Associate Professor

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

Samaine Lockwood

Associate Professor

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

Cynthia Lukyanenko

Assistant Professor

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

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

Robert I Matz

Professor

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

Teresa L Michals

Professor

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

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

Professor

Creative Writing: non-fiction and fiction

Vivek Narayanan

Associate Professor

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

Helon Habila Ngalabak

Professor

Creative Writing: fiction

Eric Pankey

Professor

Creative Writing: Poetry Writing, Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Stephanie Rambo

Assistant Professor

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

E Shelley Reid

Associate Professor

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

Marguerite Rippy

Associate Professor

Adaptation in performance, Orson Welles, "truthiness" in performance, transindigenous Shakespeares, and leadership in higher education.

Kristin Samuelian

Professor

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

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

Peter Streckfus

Associate Professor

Creative Writing: Poetry

Géraldine Walther

Assistant Professor

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

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

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.

Courtney Adams Wooten

Associate Chair of Writing Program Administration

Associate Professor

Writing and Rhetoric: Writing Program Administration, Feminist Rhetorics, Composition

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

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

Lijun Zhang

Assistant Professor

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