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Faculty

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.

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.

Neil Chudgar

Assistant Professor of English

Eighteenth-century British literature; poetry and poetics; literary theory and criticism; modernities (early and late); psychoanalysis, particularly object-relations; therapeutic reading; pedagogy.

James Dawes

Associate Professor of English

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

Marlon James

Assistant Professor of English

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

Ancient, medieval, and Renaissance poetry; history of poetry, including kinds of big poems; agrarian literature and georgic modes; genre studies; conjunctions of early modern literature and science; literature and the natural world.

Bradley Liening

Visiting Instructor

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

Jon Lurie

Visiting Instructor

Creative nonfiction; literary journalism; investigative journalism; fiction writing; Native American literature; Native American languages and skills preservation; experiential education.

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.

David Mura

Visiting Instructor

Areas of Interest: Creative Writing, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Asian American Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Playwrighting/Performance, Race, Contemporary Fiction and Poetry

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.

Andrew Opitz

Visting Instructor

Cultural studies and comparative literature; the politics of satire and irony; poetry and nature writing; marxist literary theory

Ethan Rutherford

Visiting Instructor

Contemporary fiction (short stories and novels); narrative non-fiction; the literature of early Arctic exploration; history of the American whaling industry; science fiction.

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.

Eric Vrooman

Visiting Instructor

Creative writing; fiction; screenwriting; film noir

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.

 

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