Administrative Faculty


Dawn Coleman
Professor, Department Head
19th Century; Religion, Spirituality, Secularism; Women/Gender Studies

Amy J. Elias
Chancellor’s Professor and Distinguished Professor of English; Director, Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts
Post-1960s American literature and culture studies, humanities institutionalism, the novel, narrative theory, science fiction and speculative arts, art and science, time and history studies, environmental humanities

Bill Hardwig
Professor, Associate Head
19th Century and beyond, African American, Southern/Appalachian

Christopher Hebert
Associate Professor, Director of Creative Writing Program
Fiction, Screenwriting, Publishing

Heather Hirschfeld
Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Shakespeare, early modern drama, theater history, early modern religion and literature, early modern print culture, psychoanalytic theory.

Lisa King
Associate Professor, Director of Composition
Cultural Rhetorics, Native American, Rhetoric

Gichingiri Ndigirigi
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
African, African diaspora literatures, cultural studies, and performance; postcolonial and transnational studies.

Tanita Saenkhum
Associate Professor, Director of ESL
Second Language Writing, Composition, TESOL