- Peter Bognanni
- Associate Professor and Department Chair, English
- Fiction writing, especially contemporary; creative writing; screenwriting and film studies; humor writing; the contemporary novel.
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- Kerry Alexander
- Visiting Instructor, English
- Songwriting, lyricism, poetry.
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- Matt Burgess
- Associate Professor, English
- Fiction, International Storytelling, Visual Narratives, Mythology and Folklore, Genre Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry.
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- James Dawes
- DeWitt Wallace Professor of English
- Narrative across the disciplines.
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- Amy E. Elkins
- Associate Professor, English
- Modernism; 20th/21st-century British literature; Irish studies; Caribbean and diasporic literature; Art theory, archives & visual culture; Eco-studies; Queer theory and gender studies.
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- Daylanne English
- Professor, English
- African American literature and culture, Afrofuturism, The Harlem Renaissance, Sound Studies, Digital Humanities, Literature and legal studies, Race and visual culture, Apocalyptic Literature
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- Penelope Geng
- Associate Professor, English
- Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, British Literature c.1500-1700, Law and Literature, Religion and Literature; Affect and Emotions, Disability Studies, History of Medicine, Race and Property Law
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- Rachel Gold
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- Fiction writing: especially young adult and middlegrade; LGBTQ+ Literature, comic book literature, game narratives
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- Marlon James
- Emeritus Status, English
- Creative Writing, fiction, post colonial literature, southern literature, Latin American fiction, criticism and blogs.
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- Andrea Kaston Tange
- Professor, English
- Nineteenth-century British literature and culture, including: travel narratives, colonialism and empire, gender and class identities, visual and print culture, domesticity, childhood, Anglo-Jewish life and migrations.
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- Cody Klippenstein
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- Fiction (short story and novel), fabulism, fantasy, myth and folklore, gothic horror.
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- Coral Lumbley
- Assistant Professor, English
- Welsh literature, the Global Middle Ages, Silk Roads art and literature, "medieval" movies, trans/gender/sexuality studies, history of race.
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- Aurora Masum-Javed
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- Contemporary Poetry & Poetics, Personal Essay, Short Fiction
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- David Chioni Moore
- Associate Professor, 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.
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- Michael Prior
- Assistant Professor, English and Mellon ACM Faculty Fellow
- Poetry, politics of poetic form, Asian American poetries, creative nonfiction, intergenerational memory, literary citizenship.
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- Sonita Sarker
- Professor Women's, Gender, and Sexuality 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.
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- Emma Törzs
- Assistant Professor (NTT), English
- Fiction, particularly contemporary speculative fiction; narrative pleasures; the complexities of genre; transformative works; real life.
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- Ben Voigt
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- Poetry; creative nonfiction, fiction, hybrid/mixed form writing; ecopoetics and ecocriticism; documentary filmmaking.
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- Steven Woodward
- Visiting Instructor, English
- Literary Publishing, Editing, Contemporary Novels, Short Stories, Creative Nonfiction
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- Jan Beebe
- Department Coordinator
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