Tenure-line 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

B

  • 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

  • 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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  • 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

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  • Timothy Denevi

    Timothy Denevi

    Associate Professor

    Creative Writing: Nonfiction; Essay

  • 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.

E

  • 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

G

  • 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.

  • McKinley Green

    McKinley Green

    Assistant Professor

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

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  • Tamara Harvey

    Tamara Harvey

    Chair

    Associate Professor

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

  • Anthony Dyer Hoefer

    Anthony Dyer Hoefer

    Associate Professor

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

  • 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.

J

K

  • David Kaufmann

    David Kaufmann

    Professor

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

  • 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

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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

  • 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

M

  • 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

  • Robert I Matz

    Robert I Matz

    Campus Dean, George Mason University, Korea

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

  • Teresa L Michals

    Teresa L Michals

    Professor

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

  • 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

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  • 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

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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

  • 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.

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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.

  • 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.

  • Peter Streckfus

    Peter Streckfus

    Associate Professor

    Creative Writing: Poetry

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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

  • 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