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

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;

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

Teresa L Michals

Professor

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

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

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