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Graduate Faculty

Graduate faculty in the Department of English are listed below. Click on the faculty name or visit People for contact information.

• Katherine Adams
• Associate Professor
• PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1999
• Nineteenth-century American literature, cultural studies, African American literature and theory, gender studies

• David Bajo
• Assistant Professor
• MFA, University of California, Irvine, 1989
• Creative writing

• James Barilla
• Assistant Professor
• PhD, University of California, Davis, 2005
• Creative nonfiction, literature and the environment

• Elise Blackwell
• Associate Professor
• MFA, University of California, Irvine
• Creative writing, contemporary fiction

• Robert Brinkmeyer
• Professor
• PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1980
• Twentieth-century Southern literature and culture, regionalism and nationalism, literature of the American West

• Elaine Chun
• Assistant Professor
• PhD, University of Texas, Austin, 2007
• Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, ethnography, language and identity in Asian American and multiethnic communities

• Federica Clementi
• Assistant Professor
• PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York
• Modern Jewish literature and philosophy, Jewish womens writing, Jewish Diaspora studies

• Debra Rae Cohen
• Associate Professor
• PhD, University of Mississippi, 2000
• Twentieth-century British literature, gender studies, media studies, popular music studies

• Mark Cooper
• Associate Professor
• PhD, Brown University, 1998
• Film studies, early cinema, U.S. cultural history, feminism

• Susan Courtney
• Associate Professor
• PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1997
• Film and media theory, American cinema, race, gender studies

• David Cowart
• Louise Fry Scudder Professor
• PhD, Rutgers University, 1977
• Contemporary American fiction

• Holly Crocker
• Associate Professor
• PhD, Vanderbilt University, 1999
• Medieval and Reformation literatures & cultures, gender, visual studies

• Cynthia Davis
• Professor
• PhD, Duke University, 1994
• American literature, realism and naturalism, American women writers

• Kwame Dawes
• Louise Fry Scudder Professor
• PhD, University of New Brunswick, 1992
• Creative writing, twentieth-century British, postcolonial, African, Caribbean, and African American literature

• Fred Dings
• Associate Professor
• MFA, University of Iowa, Ph.D., University of Utah, 1991
• Creative writing, twentieth-century American literature

• Dorothy Disterheft
• Associate Professor
• PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977
• Historical linguistics, syntax and discourse

• Erik Doxtader
• Professor
• PhD, Northwestern University, 1996
• Classical and contemporary rhetorical theory, philosophy of rhetoric, human rights

• Stan Dubinsky
• Professor
• PhD, Cornell University, 1985
• Linguistic theory, syntax, semantics

• Paula Feldman
• C. Wallace Martin Professor of English, Louise Fry Scudder Professor
• PhD, Northwestern University, 1974
• British Romanticism, poetry, history of the book

• Mindy Fenske
• Associate Professor
• PhD, Louisiana State University, 2001
• Performance studies, cultural studies, speech communication

• Greg Forter
• Associate Professor
• PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1998
• Twentieth-century American literature, gender studies, psychoanalysis

• Christy Friend
• Associate Professor
• PhD, University of Texas, 1997
• Composition and rhetoric, writing program administration, service learning, rhetoric and ethics

• Pat Gehrke
• Assistant Professor
• PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 2002
• Contemporary rhetorical theory, communication ethics, rhetoric of humanism and anti-humanism

• Edward Gieskes
• Associate Professor
• PhD, Boston University, 1999
• The Renaissance

• Brian Glavey
• Assistant Professor
• PhD, University of Virginia, 2007
• Twentieth-century American literature, Modernism, gender studies and queer theory

• Anne Gulick
• Assistant Professor
• PhD, Duke University, 2008
• Caribbean and African literature, postcolonial theory, Diaspora studies, human rights studies

• Scott Gwara
• Professor
• PhD, University of Toronto, 1993
• Old and Middle English, Arthurian literature, Shakespeare, heroism

• Chris Holcomb
• Associate Professor
• PhD, University of Texas, 1995
• History of rhetoric, humor studies, stylistics, discourse studies

• Janette Turner Hospital
• Carolina Distinguished Professor, Distinguished Writer-in-Residence
• MA, Queens University, 1973
• Creative writing, contemporary and postcolonial literature, womens writing

• Leon Jackson
• Associate Professor
• DPhil, Oxford University, 1994
• Early national and antebellum literature, history of the book and authorship

• Judith James
• Associate Professor
• PhD, University of North Carolina, 1984
• American fiction, history of the book and authorship, gender studies

• Anthony Jarrells
• Associate Professor
• State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2002
• Enlightenment and Romantic studies, eighteenth-century literature, genre theory

• Dianne Johnson
• Professor
• PhD, Yale University, 1988
• Creative writing, childrens literature, film

• Catherine Keyser
• Assistant Professor
• PhD, Harvard University, 2007
• Modern American literature, gender studies, playwriting

• Nina Levine
• Associate Professor
• PhD, Tulane University, 1991
• Shakespeare, early modern literature and culture

• Steve Lynn
• Louise Fry Scudder Professor
• PhD, University of Texas, 1981
• Eighteenth-century literature, science fiction, rhetoric and composition

• Ed Madden
• Associate Professor
• PhD, University of Texas, 1994
• Twentieth-century British poetry, gender studies, gay and lesbian studies, Irish literature, creative writing

• David Lee Miller
• Carolina Distinguished Professor
• PhD, University of California, Irvine, 1979
• English Renaissance literature, digital humanities

• John Muckelbauer
• Associate Professor
• PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 2002
• Modern rhetorical theory, history of rhetoric, rhetoric of science

• Tara Powell
• Assistant Professor
• PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2004
• Twentieth-century American literature, Southern literature, poetry

• Lawrence Rhu
• Professor
• PhD, Harvard University, 1987
• Renaissance literature of England and the Continent, Shakespeare

• Thomas Rice
• Professor
• PhD, Princeton University, 1971
• Modern and postmodern fiction

• Esther Richey
• Associate Professor
• PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1990
• Renaissance literature and culture

• William Rivers
• Professor
• PhD, University of North Carolina, 1976
• Eighteenth-century British literature, composition and rhetoric, history of the book and authorship

• Sara Schwebel
• Assistant Professor
• PhD, Harvard University, 2006
• Adolescent and childrens literature, American literature, history, and culture

• Patrick Scott
• Professor
• PhD, University of Edinburgh, 1976
• Victorian literature and culture, Scottish literature, bibliography and history of the book

• David Shields
• McClintock Professor of Southern Letters
• PhD, University of Chicago, 1982
• Early American literature, Southern studies, history of the book, early modern Atlantic intellectual history

• Andrew Shifflett
• Associate Professor
• PhD, Princeton University, 1993
• Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature

• Dan Smith
• Assistant Professor
• PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 2004
• Rhetorical theory and ethics, pedagogy, Continental philosophy and theory

• Meili Steele
• Professor
• PhD, University of North Carolina, 1984
• Literary theory, political theory, philosophy and literature, modern European literature

• Rebecca Stern
• Associate Professor
• PhD, Rice University, 1997
• Victorian literature and culture, popular culture, gender, economic studies

• Scott Trafton
• Associate Professor
• PhD, Duke University, 1998
• Nineteenth-century African-American literature, Black cultural studies

• Susan Vanderborg
• Associate Professor
• PhD, Stanford University, 1996
• Twentieth-century American poetry, postmodernist narrative

• Tracey Weldon
• Associate Professor
• PhD, Ohio State University, 1998
• Morphosyntactic variation, Gullah and African American English

• Quina Whitted
• Assistant Professor
• PhD, Yale University, 2003
• African American literature and cultural studies, literature and philosophy of religion, comics and graphic novels

• Gretchen Woertendyke
• Assistant Professor
• PhD, State University of New York, 2007
• Early American literature, studies in the novel, Romanticism, postcolonial theory