Our faculty members work in a wide range of fields in literary and cultural studies, rhetoric, creative writing, media studies, linguistics and more.  Explore us below by areas of specialization.

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Medieval

Holly Crocker
Scott Gwara

Renaissance & Early Modern

Holly Crocker
Ed Gieskes
Scott Gwara
Nina Levine
Andrew Shifflett

18^th-Century British

Michael Gavin
Leon Jackson
Anthony Jarrells
Steven Lynn

19^th-Century British

Anthony Jarrells
Ed Madden
Rebecca Stern

20^th-Century British

Ed Madden

Colonial through 19^th-Century American

Cynthia Davis
David Greven
Leon Jackson
David Shields
Scott Trafton
Gretchen Woertendyke

20^th-Century American

Alyssa Collins
Susan Courtney
Cynthia Davis
Greg Forter
Brian Glavey
Eli Jelly-Schapiro
Catherine Keyser
Seulghee Lee
Mark Minett
Tara Powell
Susan Vanderborg
Qiana Whitted
Gretchen Woertendyke

Postcolonial

Greg Forter
Anne Gulick
Eli Jelly-Schapiro
Gretchen Woertendyke

Global and Transnational

Greg Forter
Anne Gulick
Leon Jackson
Eli Jelly-Schapiro
David Shields
Gretchen Woertendyke

Contemporary

Samuel Amadon
Elise Blackwell
Alyssa Collins
Liz Countryman
Nikky Finney
Greg Forter
Brian Glavey
Anne Gulick
Eli Jelly-Schapiro
Susan Vanderborg
Tharini Viswanath
Qiana Whitted

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African American, African & Caribbean Studies

Alyssa Collins
Erik Doxtader
Nikky Finney
Greg Forter
Anne Gulick
Leon Jackson
Eli Jelly-Schapiro
Claire Jimenez
Dianne Johnson
Joy Peltier
Catherine Keyser
Seulghee Lee
Scott Trafton
Qiana Whitted
Gretchen Woertendyke

Asian American Studies

Elaine Chun
Seulghee Lee

Irish & Scottish Studies

Anthony Jarrells
Ed Madden

Jewish Studies

Federica Schoeman

Latinx Studies

Claire Jimenez

South Asian Studies

Emily Manetta

Southern Studies

Elise Blackwell
Susan Courtney
Tara Powell
David Shields
Qiana Whitted

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Children’s & Young Adult Literature

Dianne Johnson
Tharini Viswanath
Susan Vanderborg
Qiana Whitted

Comics & Graphic Novels

Mark Minett
Tharini Viswanath
Qiana Whitted

Creative Writing

Samuel Amadon
David Bajo
James Barilla
Elise Blackwell
Liz Countryman
Fred Dings
Nikky Finney
Claire Jimenez
Dianne Johnson
Ed Madden
Tara Powell

Critical Race & Ethnicity Studies

Elaine Chun
Alyssa Collins
Susan Courtney
Greg Forter
Claire Jimenez
Catherine Keyser
Eli Jelly-Schapiro
Federica Schoeman
Seulghee Lee
Scott Trafton
Tharini Viswanath
Qiana Whitted
Gretchen Woertendyke

Digital Studies

Kevin Brock
Alyssa Collins
Michael Gavin
Byron Hawk
Claire Jimenez

Film & Media Studies

Mark Cooper
Susan Courtney
Mindy Fenske
David Greven
Byron Hawk
Mark Minett
Qiana Whitted

Gender & Sexuality Studies

Elaine Chun
Alyssa Collins
Mark Cooper
Susan Courtney
Holly Crocker
Cynthia Davis
Greg Forter
Brian Glavey
David Greven
Catherine Keyser
Seulghee Lee
Ed Madden
Federica Schoeman
Rebecca Stern
Tharini Viswanath

Linguistics

Elaine Chun
Stanley Dubinsky
Emily Manetta
Joy Peltier
Qiandi Liu

Poetry & Poetics

Samuel Amadon
Liz Countryman
Fred Dings
Nikky Finney
Brian Glavey
Ed Madden
Tara Powell
Andrew Shifflett
Susan Vanderborg

Print Culture & Book History

Scott Gwara
Catherine Keyser
Leon Jackson
Susan Vanderborg

Rhetoric, Composition & Speech Communication

Kevin Brock
Erik Doxtader
Gina Ercolini
Mindy Fenske
Christy Friend
Pat Gehrke
Byron Hawk
Chris Holcomb
Steven Lynn
John Mucklebauer
Hannah Rule

Science, Medicine & Technology

Kevin Brock
Alyssa Collins
Cynthia Davis
John Mucklebauer
Rebecca Stern

Theory

Erik Doxtader
Gina Ercolini
Greg Forter
Pat Gehrke
Ed Gieskes
David Greven
John Mucklebauer
Andrew Shifflett
Tharini Viswanath