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Achimba, Bhion

PhD, Poetry

Writing and research interests:

Poetry and poetics

Africana receptions of classical literature in contemporary poetry

Queer and immigration literatures of the global south

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Adams, Claire

PhD, Literary & Cultural Studies

 

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Afrin, Sanjida

MA, Literary & Cultural Studies

 

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Mosimiloluwa, Temi

PhD, Prose

Writing and Research Interests:

Fiction

Globalization and Translational Studies

Modernism

Postcolonial Studies

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Arthur, Meagan

PhD, Prose

Meagan's website

Writing and research interests:

Digital storytelling

Folklore

Narrative theory

Multimodal composition

Postmodern fiction

Speculative fiction

Poetry and poetics

History of consciousness

Visual studies

Popular culture studies

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Bailey, Mia

MFA, Prose

Writing and research interests:

Narratology

Genre Fiction

Grimdark

Rocky Mountain Gothic

Historic Feminist Rhetorics

Subverse Rhetorics

 

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Bauman, Audrey

PhD, Prose

Writing and research interests:

Creative writing -- prose

Science fiction

Horror fiction

Asian American literature

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Colburn, Michelle

PhD, Literary & Cultural Studies

 

Writing and research interests:

 

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Coleman, Anna

PhD, Prose

Anna's website

Writing and research interests:

Fiction

Hybridity

Experimental Writing

Climate Writing

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Cruz, Elissa

PhD, Literary & Cultural Studies

Elissa's website

Elissa's LinkedIn

Writing and research interests:

Old English literature

Medieval literature

Medievalism

Romantic literature

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Davis, Trevor

MA, Literary & Cultural Studies

Writing and Research interests:

Experimental

Queer

Postmodern literature

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De Sully, Louis

MFA, Prose

Louis's website

Louis's LinkedIn

Writing and research interests:

History of the working class (Industrial Revolution to present)

Myths, allegories, and societal shifts

Compliance, consent, and engagement in the labor market

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Duringer, Alexander

PhD, Poetry

Writing and research interests:

Poetry and poetics

Queer theory

Creative writing pedagogy

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Farwell, Matt

PhD, Literary & Cultural Studies

Writing and Research Interests:

Spy Novels

Intelligence and English literature

Poetry’s influence within CIA

Printing and papermaking in American in the 1700s

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Hale, Kent

PhD, Prose

Writing and research interests:

Literary intersections of Latin America and the American South

Literature and film

Borderland studies

Gender and sexuality

Horror and the aesthetics of the uncanny

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He, Chengru

PhD, Poetry

Chengru's website

Writing and research interests:

Poetry and poetics

Hybrid writing

Multimodal and multimedia writing

Literary and experimental translation

Multilingualism

Chinese language and literature

World literature

Book arts

Photography

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Hecht, Izaak

PhD, Literary & Cultural Studies

Zak's most recent publication

Writing and research interests:

Lacan

Dialectical materialism

Visual art

Experimental writing

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Hinthorne, Jannah

PhD, Literary & Cultural Studies

 

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Ibe, Maryhilda

PhD, Poetry

 

Chioma's website

Writing and Research Interests:

Short stories

Novel

Creative writing pedagogy

Flash narratives

Maternal interiorities

Post-colonial literature

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Johns, Aristotle

PhD, Prose
 

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Kasimma

PhD, Prose

Kasimma's website

Writing and research interests:

Prose writing

African and African-American literature

Post-colonial studies

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Khaliq, Jasmine

PhD, Poetry

Jasmine's website

Writing and research interests:

Poetry and poetics

Postcolonial studies

Women and gender studies

Horror and monster studies

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Lester, Dani

MA, Video Games Narrative & Aesthetics

Writing and Research Interests:

Virtuality

Video game narratives

Queer and feminist theory

Narratology

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Macfarlane, Michelle

PhD, Poetry

 

Writing and Research Interests:

Gender studies

The body and materiality

The uncanny

Craft

Horror and monster studies

Fairy tales

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Moelis, Max

MA, Video Games Narrative & Aesthetics



Max's website

Writing and research interests:

Video Game Narrative

Emergent Storytelling

Creative Writing for Games

Disembodiment

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Mortland, Stephen

PhD, Prose

Writing and research interests:

Fiction

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Na, Hoyeon Nicholas

MFA, Video Games Studies Modular

Writing and research interests:

Ludonarrative studies and adaptation

SCP creative writing

Meta fiction

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Newson, Brooke

PhD, Literary & Cultural Studies

Brooke's website

Writing and research interests:

The Long Nineteenth-Century in British Literature

Victorian Literature

Gender and Feminist Theory

Victorian Asylums and Circuses

Colonialism and Post-Colonialism

Dickens and Satire

Intersections of History and Literature

Burgeoning Interest in Games and Media Studies

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Oh, Paul

MFA, Poetry/Book Arts

Paul's website

Writing and Research Interests:

Fine press printing

Experimental book forms

Creative writing across genres (poetry, fiction, CNF, and visual narratives)

Post-colonial studies

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Okpara, Damian

PhD, Poetry

Damian's website

Writing and Research Interests:

Poetry and poetics

Non-fiction

Gender and Sexuality Studies

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O'Luanaigh, Erin

PhD, Poetry

Writing and research interests:

Poetry and poetics

Film

Art history

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Ortega, Alexander

PhD, Prose 

Writing and research interests:

Chicano studies

Border studies

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Paulson, Miranda

MFA, Poetry

Writing and Research Interests:

Poetry

Prose poetry

Utah history and culture

Religious trauma

Ecocriticism

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Roman, Samuel

MA, Literary & Cultural Studies

Writing and research interests:

Digital Humanities

Multilinearity in Video Games

Children's Literature

Speculative Fiction

A burgeoning interest in Educational Studies

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Sahi, Aishwarya

PhD, Poetry

 

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Sheinberg, Zoe

PhD, Literary & Cultural Studies

Writing and Research Interests:

Experimental forms of the Novel and Narrative

Critical theory

Postmodernism

The Gothic

Post-colonial studies

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Shumway, Steven

MFA, Prose

 

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Singh, Vitasta

PhD, Poetry

Writing and research interests:

20th and 21st century poetry and poetics

Postcolonialism

Gender studies/feminist theory

Queer theory

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Stolcenberg, Kyle

PhD, Literary & Cultural Studies

Writing and research interests:

Wilderness and bears

Experimental form in the novel

20th and 21st century American fiction

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Sullivan, Nora

PhD, Poetry

Nora's website

Writing and research interests:

Poetry and poetcis

Post-Internet writing

Gender studies

Lyric Theory

Writing and research interests:

Surveillance

Critical geography

Myths and material records

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Tuckner, Matthew

PhD, Poetry

Writing and research interests:

Ecopoetics

Ekphrasis

Animal studies

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Verran, Erick

PhD, Literary & Cultural Studies

Erick's Academia page

Erick's website

Writing and research interests:

Narratology 

Videogames

Aesthetics

Poetry

Criticism

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von Mehren, Will

MFA, Prose

Writing and Research Interests:

Novel Writing

Modernist Literature

The Russion American Diaspora

Far-Right Rhetoric

 

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Wack, Margaret

PhD, Poetry

Writing and Research Interests:

Poetry & poetics

Lyric poetry

Literary theory

Speculative literature

Ancient literature

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Walker, Jordan

MA, Literary & Cultural Studies

Writing and Research Interests:

Contemporary look at the prison system and marginalized voices such as in Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The impact of racial identities with ELA classrooms

Pedagogy incorporating diverse perspectives in ELA classrooms

A modern lens surrounding the ongoing oppression of women’s rights, specifically with POC women


 

 

 

 

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Walquist, Kieron

PhD, Poetry

Kieron's website

Writing and research interests:

Poetry / poetics

Experimental forms

Queer Theory

Disability Studies

Midwestern Gothic

Book Arts

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Walls, Wesley

MA, Video Games Narrative & Aesthetics 

Writing and Research Interests:

Diegetic Storytelling

Immersion – Reality, Simulation, and Play

Video Game Storytelling

Music in Narrative

Contemporary Literature

Poetry and Poetics

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Wang, Weiji

PhD, Poetry

Writing and research interests:

Asian American poetry

Feminism

Pastorals

Persona poetry

Hybrind forms

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Webster, Lilian

MA, Literary & Cultural Studies

Writing and research interests:

Gothic and horror fiction

19th century American and British literature

Orientalism and Imperialism in literature

Critical theory

Occultism

Magic

Ancient Egypt in literature and history

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Wenger, Elizabeth

PhD, Prose

Wenger's website

Writing and research interests:

Novels

Gender & Sexuality

Regional literature

Absurdism

Jewish-American literature

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Woodward, Ali

PhD, Literary & Cultural Studies

Writing and Research Interests:

Creative non-fiction

Affect theory

Semiotics

Romance novels

Absurdism and satire

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Wyckoff, Briley

PhD, Literary & Cultural Studies

Writing and Research Interests:

Disability Studies

Sound Studies

The English Atlantic

The Long 17th Century

Hermeneutics 

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Yordy, Jacob

PhD, Poetry

 

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Yoshioka, Motomu

PhD, Literary & Cultural Studies

Writing and Research Interests:

Contemporary look at the prison system and marginalized voices such as in Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The impact of racial identities with ELA classrooms

Pedagogy incorporating diverse perspectives in ELA classrooms

A modern lens surrounding the ongoing oppression of women’s rights, specifically with POC women

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Young, Brandon

PhD, Poetry

 

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Zhou, Xueyi

PhD, Prose

Xueyi's website

Writing and research interests:

Violence

Scams

Narrative theory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: 9/23/26