Specialization Areas

Following is a list of departmental specialization areas with corresponding faculty members. For more information on individual faculty members, please see the faculty listing.

Medieval

Holly Crocker
Scott Gwara

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Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century British

Holly Crocker
Edward Gieskes
Nina Levine
David Lee Miller
Lawrence Rhu
Esther Richey
Andrew Shifflett

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Eighteenth-Century British

Thorne Compton
Paula Feldman
Tony Jarrells
Steven Lynn
William Rivers

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Nineteenth-Century British

Paula Feldman
Tony Jarrells
Patrick Scott
Rebecca Stern
William Thesing

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Twentieth-Century British

Debra Rae Cohen
Kwame Dawes
Ed Madden
Tom Rice

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Colonial through Nineteenth-Century American

Cynthia Davis
Leon Jackson
Judith James
David Shields
Laura Walls

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Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American

James Barilla
Susan Courtney
David Cowart
Fred Dings
Greg Forter
Brian Glavey
Janette Turner Hospital
Catherine Keyser
Tara Powell
Susan Vanderborg
Qiana Whitted

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Post-Colonial

Kwame Dawes
Ed Madden
Tom Rice

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African American, Caribbean, and African

David Cowart
Kwame Dawes
Patrick Scott
Qiana Whitted
Tracey Weldon

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Southern Literature and Culture

Robert Brinkmeyer
Thorne Compton
Susan Courtney
Tara Powell
David Shields
Qiana Whitted

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Critical Theory

Mark Cooper
Kwame Dawes
Erik Doxtader
Greg Forter
Brian Glavey
David Lee Miller
John Muckelbauer
Daniel Smith
Meili Steele

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History of the Book and Authorship

Paula Feldman
Leon Jackson
Judith James
David Lee Miller
William Rivers
Patrick Scott
David Shields

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Rhetoric and Composition

Erik Doxtader
Christy Friend
Chris Holcomb
Steven Lynn
John Muckelbauer
Kristan Poirot
Bill Rivers
Daniel Smith
Shevaun Watson

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Creative Writing

James Barilla
Elise Blackwell
Kwame Dawes
Fred Dings
Janette Turner Hospital
Dianne Johnson
Ben Greer
Ed Madden
Tara Powell

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Children’s Literature

Dianne Johnson

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Gender Studies

Debra Rae Cohen
Mark Cooper
Susan Courtney
Holly Crocker
Cynthia Davis
Paula Feldman
Mindy Fenske
Greg Forter
Brian Glavey
Judith James
Kristan Poirot
Ed Madden
David Lee Miller
Rebecca Stern

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Cultural and Performance Studies

Kwame Dawes
Mindy Fenske

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Film and Media Studies

Mark Cooper
Susan Courtney
Ina Hark
Dianne Johnson

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Linguistics

Elaine Chun
Dorothy Disterheft
Stan Dubinsky
Barbara Schulz
Tracey Weldon

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Speech Communication

Erik Doxtader
Pat Gehrke
Mindy Fenske
Kristan Poirot
Charles Wilbanks

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