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English Department Faculty Directory

Scott Black

Scott Black

Professor

Director, Tanner Humanities Center

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • History of the Novel and Prose Fiction
  • Eighteenth-Century British Literature
  • Global/Transnational Literature
  • Fantasy

Sam Boyer

Sam Boyer

Assistant Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Film
  • Screenwriting
  • Video Game Narrative
  • Creative Writing - Prose

Elizabeth Callaway

Elizabeth Callaway

Assistant Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature & Culture
  • Environmental Humanities
  • Digital Humanities and Media Studies
  • Science and Literature

Justin Carpenter

Justin Carpenter

Assistant Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Video Game Aesthetics
  • Literary Criticism and Theory
  • Indigenous Storytelling and Narrative

Vincent Cheng

Vincent Cheng

Distinguished Professor

Shirley Sutton Thomas Professor of English

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Twentieth-Century Literature
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • James Joyce
  • Irish Studies

Katharine a Coles

Katharine a Coles

Distinguished Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Creative Writing
  • Poetry and Poetics
  • Science & Literature

Stuart k Culver

Stuart k Culver

Associate Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature & Culture

Lindsey Drager

Lindsey Drager

Assistant Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Creative Writing - Prose 
  • Rhetoric of the Body
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Science Fiction
  • Eco and Climate Fiction

Craig Dworkin

Craig Dworkin

Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Avant-Gardes
  • Poetry and Poetics
  • Media Theory

Andrew Franta

Andrew Franta

Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Eighteenth-Century British Literature
  • Romantic Literature

Anne Jamison

Anne Jamison

Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Nineteenth-Century British Literature
  • Children’s & Young Adult Literature
  • Czech Literature

Chris Jones

Chris Jones

ESRR Professor of English

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Old English Literature
  • Medievalism
  • The Reception of the Middle Ages

Stacey Margolis

Stacey Margolis

Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Lepa Marinkovski

Lepa Marinkovski

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • English Teaching
  • Children’s & Young Adult Literature

Mark Matheson

Mark Matheson

Professor (Lecturer)

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Early Modern British Literature
  • Shakespeare

Michael Mejia

Michael Mejia

Associate Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Creative Writing – Prose

Jacqueline Osherow

Jacqueline Osherow

Distinguished Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Creative Writing – Poetry
  • Bible as Literature

Vincent p. Pecora

Vincent p. Pecora

Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Twentieth-Century British Literature

Matthew Potolsky

Matthew Potolsky

Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Nineteenth-Century British Literature
  • Aestheticism and Decadence
  • Literary Theory and Criticism

Richard Preiss

Richard Preiss

Associate Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Early Modern British Literature
  • History of the Book
  • Shakespeare

Paisley Rekdal

Paisley Rekdal

Distinguished Professor

Director, American West Center

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Poetry
  • Nonfiction
  • Asian American Literature
  • Global/Transnational Literature
  • Environmental Humanities

Michelle Ripplinger

Michelle Ripplinger

Post Doc

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Medieval Literature
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • History of the Book
  • Early Modern Literature

Hollis Robbins

Hollis Robbins

Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • 19th-century American literature
  • 20th-century American literature
  • African American Literature
  • History of Poetry

David Roh

David Roh

Chair/Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature & Culture
  • Digital Humanities
  • Asian American Studies

Jeremy Rosen

Jeremy Rosen

Associate Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature & Culture
  • Contemporary Literature

Crystal Rudds

Crystal Rudds

Assistant Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Race and Ethnicity
  • African American Literature
  • Black Feminism(s)
  • Cultural Studies
  • American Literature

Alf Seegert

Alf Seegert

Professor (Lecturer)

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Video Game Narrative
  • Film, New Media, and Virtuality
  • Fantasy
  • Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century British and American Literature & Culture

Rone Shavers

Rone Shavers

Associate Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Creative Writing – Prose
  • Afrofuturism
  • Postmodernism and Experimental Literature

Andrew Shephard

Andrew Shephard

Assistant Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature & Culture
  • African American Studies
  • Genre Fiction Studies
  • Digital Humanities

Maeera Shreiber

Maeera Shreiber

Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature & Culture
  • Poetics
  • Religious Studies
  • Jewish Studies

Angela marie Smith

Angela marie Smith

Associate Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Film and Media Studies
  • Disability Studies
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature & Culture

Kathryn bond Stockton

Kathryn bond Stockton

Distinguished Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Nineteenth--Century British Literature
  • Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature & Culture
  • Queer Studies
  • Theory

Jessica Straley

Jessica Straley

Associate Professor

Higson Chair

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Nineteenth--Century British Literature
  • Children’s & Young Adult Literature
  • Science and Literature

Elizabeth (lisa) Swanstrom

Elizabeth (lisa) Swanstrom

Associate Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature & Culture
  • Digital Humanities

Sam Tett

Sam Tett

Assistant Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Nineteenth-Century British Literature
  • Queer Studies
  • Cultural Studies

Nathan Wainstein

Nathan Wainstein

Assistant Professor

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Video Game Narrative
  • Theory
  • Narrative Theory and History
  • Modernism

Spencer kenneth Wall

Spencer kenneth Wall

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

English

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Medieval Literature
  • Early Modern Literature
  • Shakespeare
  • Milton

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Last Updated: 7/11/25