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Daylanne English, Chair

Associate Professor of English

Faculty members' books

African American literature and culture; The Harlem Renaissance; American modernism; race, gender, and modernity; history of the novel; literature and medicine; literature and legal studies; race and visual culture; detective fiction.

Kristie Allen

Visiting Assistant Professor

Nineteenth-century fiction, nineteenth-century drama, Victorian material culture, Romantic and Victorian poetry.

Peter Bognanni

Visiting Instructor

Fiction writing, especially contemporary; creative Writing; screenwriting and film studies; humor writing; the contemporary novel.

Ayse Çelikkol

Assistant Professor of English

Nineteenth-century British literature; economic literary criticism; cosmopolitanism and globalization studies; history of liberalism; interdisciplinary studies in literature and economics, literature and the philosophy of aesthetics.

Michael Cohen

Visiting Assistant Professor of English

American poetry, nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature, genre studies, public culture, history of the book.

James Dawes

Associate Professor of English

American literature; countercultures; human rights; literary and language theory; violence and trauma; literature and philosophy.

Steve Healey

Visiting Instructor

Creative writing poetry, nonfiction, fiction; creative writing history, theory, pedagogy; 20th & 21st century American literature; composition.

Marlon James

Visiting Instructor

Creative Writing, fiction, post colonial literature, southern literature, Latin American fiction, criticism and blogs.

Casey Jarrin

Assistant Professor of English

Twentieth-century British and Irish literature; diasporic Irish studies; transnational modernism; post-colonial studies; comparative film studies; postwar visual and popular culture; British cultural studies; youth subcultures; working-class studies; masculinity studies; prison literature; theories of the grotesque; cultures of violence.

Theresa Krier

Professor of English

Medieval and Renaissance narrative and poetry; feminist and gender theory; mythology; story-collections around the world; poetry of the natural world; history of poetry; Shakespeare; Spenser; romance.

Bradley Liening

Visiting Instructor

Poetry, especially contemporary American; surrealist poetry and surrealist theory; creative writing, poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

David Chioni Moore

Associate Professor of International Studies and English

Literary interactions in the Black Atlantic world, notably Africa, the Caribbean, and African America; post-colonial and/as the post-Soviet; comparative literature; cultural theory; globalization.

Kristin Naca

Visiting Instructor, CFD Fellow

Poetics; 20th century, ethnic and avant-garde poetry; creative writing: poetry, fiction, non-fiction; latin American, surrealist, border poetry.

John Parker

Associate Professor of English

Medieval and Renaissance drama, particularly Marlowe, Jonson and Shakespeare; classics; the New Testament; patristic to late medieval exegesis and theology; Luther; German philosophy after Kant, particularly Marx, Nietzsche and Adorno; lyric poetry.

Sonita Sarker

Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and English

Feminist and literary theories; cultural studies of globalization as it intersects with nationalism, democracy, and imperialism; "minoritized" literatures, with a transnational comparative basis in Western Europe and Asia.

Jeff Shotts

Visiting Instructor

Publishing poetry, fiction, and critical and creative nonfiction; contemporary literature; creative writing, with an emphasis in poetry, lyric essay, and literary hybrids.

Wang Ping

Associate Professor of English

Creative writing, poetry and fiction; the Chinese-American immigrant experience; footbinding, sexuality and eroticism in Chinese culture; women in modern China; Chinese migrant workers and industrialization; environmental issues; photography.

Elizabeth Weixel

Visiting Instructor

Early modern English literature of the Renaissance through Restoration; topographical poetry; cultural geography; genre studies; nation-building and nationalism.

 

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