Full-time 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

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

Eric Eisner

Associate Professor

Literature: 18th and 19th century British literature and culture, esp. Romanticism; lyric poetry; history of reading; literary and cultural theory

Tamara Harvey

Chair

Associate Professor

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

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.

David Kaufmann

Professor

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

Lisa Koch

Professor

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

Samaine Lockwood

Associate Professor

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

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

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.

Teresa L Michals

Professor

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

Richard A Nanian

Professor

Literature: Poetics, Romanticism, Postmodernism.

Stephanie Rambo

Assistant Professor

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

Kristin Samuelian

Professor

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

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

Jennifer Linhart Wood

Assistant Professor

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

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