English — Faculty

Pamela Annas, PhD, Indiana University • Working-Class Literature • Literary Modernism • Contemporary Poetry • Women Writers

Elsa Auerbach, PhD, Northwestern University • Literacy and Reading Pedagogy • ESL

Kevin Bowen (Joiner Center for the Study of the Vietnam War and Its Social Consequences), PhD, State University of New York, Buffalo • War and Poetry • Poetry and Translation

Caroline A Brown, PhD, Stanford University • Africana Studies • Comparative Literature

Neal Bruss, PhD, University of Michigan • Linguistics • Composition Theory

Robert Crossley, PhD, University of Virginia • The Epic Tradition • Utopian and Science Fiction • Literature and Pedagogy

Linda Dittmar, PhD, Stanford University • Narrative Theory • Feminist Theory • Film

Elizabeth Fay, PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook • British Romanticism • Critical Theory • Feminist Criticism • Nineteenth Century Poetry

John Fulton, MFA, University of Michigan • Creative Writing • Fiction • Contemporary Fiction

Judith Goleman, PhD, University of Pittsburgh • Theory and Practice of Composition • Critical Theory • Composition Pedagogy

Elizabeth Klimasmith, PhD, University of Washington • Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American Literature • Environmental and Urban Literature • Literary Modernism

Eleanor Kutz, PhD, Indiana University • Composition Theory • Teaching of Composition • Literacy • Narrative Theory

Scott Maisano, PhD, Indiana University • Shakespeare • Renaissance Literature

Askold Melnyzcuk, MA, Boston University • Creative Writing • Fiction • Contemporary Fiction

Cheryl Nixon, PhD, Harvard University • Eighteenth Century • Drama • Literary Theory • Teaching of Literature

Nadia Nurhussein, PhD, University of California, Berkeley • Modern and Contemporary Poetry • African-American Literature • Literary Modernism • Creative Writing • Poetry

Shaun O’Connell, PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst • Modern American Fiction • Irish Literature

Thomas O’Grady, PhD, Notre Dame University • Irish Literature

Louise Penner, PhD, Rice University • Victorian Literature • Women’s Literature • Literature and Medicine

Joyce Peseroff, MFA, University of California, Irvine • Creative Writing • Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Lois Rudnick, PhD, Brown University • American Civilization • Immigrant Literature • Twain • Teaching of Literature

Lloyd Schwartz, PhD, Harvard University • Poetry • Creative Writing

Mary Shaner, PhD, University of Illinois • Medieval Literature • Children’s Literature

Rajini Srikanth, PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo • Teaching of Literature • Multi-Ethnic Literature

Taylor Stoehr, PhD, University of California, Berkeley • Biography • American Literature

John Tobin, PhD, University of Toronto • Renaissance Literature • Shakespeare

Susan Tomlinson, PhD, Brown University • Colonial American Literature • African American Literature • Modern Fiction

Vivian Zamel, PhD, Columbia University • Composition Pedagogy • ESL