Graduate English Faculty 2005-2006

Following is an alphabetical listing of graduate faculty by rank. For more information on individual faculty members, please see the faculty listings.

Professors

David Cowart, Ph.D., Rutgers, University, 1977, Louise Fry Scudder Professor

Kwame Senu Neville Dawes, Ph.D., University of New Brunswick, 1992, Louise Fry Scudder Professor

Erik Doxtader, Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1996

Stanley Dubinsky, Ph.D., Cornell University, 1985, Director of the Linguistics Program

Paula R. Feldman, Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1974, C. Wallace Martin Professor of English, Louise Fry Scudder Professor

William Price Fox, B.A., University of South Carolina, 1950, Writer-in-Residence

Scott Gwara, Ph.D., Center for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 1993

Ina Rae Hark, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1975

Janette Turner Hospital, M.A. Queens University, 1973, Carolina Distinguished Professor, Distinguished Writer-in-Residence

Dianne Johnson, Ph.D., Yale University, 1988

Steven W. Lynn, Ph.D., University of Texas, 1981, Chair of the Department, Louise Fry Scudder Professor

David Lee Miller, Ph. D. University California, Irvine, 1979

Lawrence Rhu, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1987, M.A.T. Advisor

Thomas J. Rice, Ph.D. Princeton University, 1971

William E. Rivers, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1976, Director of First-Year English

Patrick Grieg Scott, Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, 1976

David S. Shields, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1982, McClintock Professor of Southern Letters

H. Meili Steele, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1984

William B. Thesing, Ph.D., Indiana University, 1977

Laura Walls, Ph.D., Indiana University, John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair of Southern Letters

Mary Ann Wimsatt, Ph.D., Duke University, 1964

Associate Professors

Abner Keen Butterworth, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1970

Mark Cooper, Ph.D., Brown University, 1998

Susan Courtney, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1997

Cynthia J. Davis, Ph.D., Duke University, 1994

Fred Dings, M.F.A., University of Iowa; Ph.D., University of Utah, 1991

Dorothy Disterheft, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1977

Greg Forter, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1998 , Director of Undergraduate Studies

Christy Friend, Ph.D., University of Texas, 1997

Edward Gieskes, Ph.D., Boston University, 1999

Bernard E. Greer, M.A., Hollins College, 1973

Chris Holcomb, Ph.D., University of Texas, 1995

Leon Jackson, D.Phil., Oxford University, 1994

Judith Giblin James, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1984

Tony Jarrells, Ph.D., SUNY- Stone Brook, 2002

Nina S. Levine, Ph.D., Tulane University, 1991

Edward Madden, Ph.D., University of Texas, 1994

Esther Gilman Richey, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1990

Andrew Shifflett, Ph.D., Princeton University, 1993

Susan J. Vanderborg, Ph.D., Stanford University, 1996

Tracy Weldon, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1998

Charles Wilbanks, Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 1982

Harriet Schneider Williams, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1986

Assistant Professors

James Barilla, Ph.D., University of California at Davis

Elise Blackwell, M.F.A., University of California at Irvine

Elaine Chun, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, Linguistics, 2007

Debra Rae Cohen, Ph.D., University of Mississippi, 2000

Holly Crocker, Ph.D., Vanderbilt

Mindy Fenske, Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 2001

Patrick Gehrke, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2002

Brian Glavey, Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2007

Catherine Keyser, Ph.D., Harvard University, 2007

John Muckelbauer, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2002

Kristin Poirot, Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2004

Tara Powell, Ph.D., University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2004

Dan Smith, Ph. D., Pennysylvania State University, 2004

Rebecca F. Stern, Ph.D., Rice University, 1997

Shevaun Watson, Ph. D., 2004

Qiana Robinson Whitted, Ph.D., Yale University, 2003