Faculty Directory
Faculty Directory
| M.A. Literature Graduate Faculty | |
|---|---|
 | Suparno Banerjee, Associate Professor, B.A., M.A., Visva-Bharati University (India); Ph.D., Louisiana State University. Areas of specialization/interest: Postcolonial Literature, Culture and Theory, Science Fiction, Utopian/Dystopian Literature and Film, World Literature. |
 | Emily Banta, Assistant Professor, B.A. Carleton College; M.A. Freie Universität (Berlin); PhD Rutgers University. Areas of specialization/interest: 19th Century American Literature, Performance Studies, Theater History, and Comedy. |
 | John Blair, University Distinguished Professor, B.A., M.A., Florida State University; Ph.D., Tulane University. Areas of specialization/interest: Poetry, American (Southern) Literature, Poetic Theory & Practice, Creative Writing. |
 | drea brown, Assistant Professor, B.A., Hollins University; M.F.A., University of Oregon; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Areas of specialization/interest: Black Women's Literary Traditions, Poetry and Poetics, Race & Haunting/Horror. |
 | Zoe M. Bursztajn-Illingworth, Assistant Professor. |
 | Gabriel L. Duckels, Assistant Professor of Children's Literature and Young Adult Literature. |
 | Denae Dyck, Assistant Professor, B.A., Ambrose University; M.A., Dalhousie University; Ph.D., University of Victoria. Areas of specialization/interest: 19th Century British Literature, Critical Theory, Feminist Criticism, Queer/Gender/Intersectional Studies, Ecocriticism |
 | Joe Falocco, Associate Professor, B.A., DePaul University; M.F.A., Roosevelt University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Areas of specialization/interest: Shakespeare in Performance. |
 | Geneva M. Gano, Associate Professor, B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles; Areas of specialization/interest: Multiethnic American Literature, Modernist Studies, U.S. Women Writers. |
 | William Jensen, Senior Lecturer, B.A., University of South Carolina; M.F.A., Texas State University. Areas of specialization/interest: Creative Writing (Fiction), American Literature, and Southwestern Studies. |
 | Roger D. Jones, Professor, B.A., M.A., Sam Houston State University; Ph.D., Oklahoma State University. Areas of specialization/interest: Creative Writing (especially poetry), Pastoral Literature, Contemporary Literature, Japanese poetry. |
 | Katie Kapurch, Associate Professor, B.A., St. Edward’s University; M.A., Texas State University; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Areas of specialization/interest: Youth and Pop Culture, Popular Music and the Beatles, Girls’ Media Studies, Melodrama in Victorian Literature and Culture, Fairy Tales, Disney. |
 | Simon Lee, Assistant Professor, B.A., Pitzer College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside. Areas of specialization/interest: 20th-21st Century British Literature, Working-Class Studies, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Youth Subculture. |
| Kathleen McClancy, Associate Professor, B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University. Areas of specialization/interest: Film, Comics, Media Studies, Post-1945 Literature, Popular Culture. |
 | Susan S. Morrison, Professor, A.B., Swarthmore College; A.M., Ph.D., Brown University. Areas of specialization/interest: Women Writers of the Middle-Ages, Chaucer, Medieval Pilgrimage Literature, the Global Middle-Ages, Critical Theory, Feminist Criticism, Environmental Humanities, Waste Studies |
 | Sara A. Ramirez, Assistant Professor, B.A., University of Notre Dame; M.A., The University of Texas at San Antonio; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkley. Areas of specialization/interest: Chicano/a Literature, Art, and Culture; Decolonial Feminist Theory, Gender/Queer Studies; Trauma Studies. |
 | James B. Reeves, Assistant Professor, B.A., Texas Tech University; M.S., University of Oxford (St. Edmund Hall); M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Areas of specialization/interest: 18th-Century British Literature, Satire, Secularization, and Postcolonialism. |
 | Leah Schwebel, Associate Professor, B.A., M.A., McGill University; Ph.D., University of Connecticut. Areas of specialization/interest: Medieval Literature, Chaucer, Classics. |
 | Nithya Sivashankar, Assistant Professor, B.Tech., PSG College of Technology; M.A., University of Central Lancashire; Ph.D., Ohio State University. Areas of specialization/interest: Children's and Young Adult Literature; Postcolonial/World Literature, 21st Century Literature. |
| Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler, Professor, A.B., Miami University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Areas of specialization/interest: Milton, 17th Century Poetry & Prose, History of Rhetoric. |
 | Victoria L. Smith, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English, B.A., Pomona College; M.A., University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz. Areas of specialization/interest: Gender/Queer Studies, the Modern Novel, Film and Television, Literary and Cultural Theory. |
 | Robert Tally, Professor, A.B., Duke University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh; J.D., Duke University. Areas of specialization/interest: American Literature (especially 19th and 20th Centuries), Literary Criticism and Theory, World Literature. |
 | Graeme Wend-Walker, Associate Professor, B.A., Flinders University; B.A., Ph.D., Macquarie University. Areas of specialization/interest: Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Critical Theory and Practice, Postsecularism, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. |
 | Julie McCormick Weng, Assistant Professor, B.A., M.A., Texas A&M University; Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Areas of specialization/interest: 20th-21st Century British Literature, Irish Studies, Modernism, Postcolonial Studies, Science and Technology, Gender and Women’s Studies. |
 | Steve Wilson, Professor, B.A., University of Oklahoma; M.A., Texas Christian University; M.F.A., Wichita State University. Areas of specialization/interest: Creative Writing (poetry), Beat Literature, The American Transcendentalists, Irish Literature, Early American Literature, American Romanticism, and American Poetry. |