Literature Faculty
Misty Anderson
Professor of English & Affiliate Professor of Theatre and Religious Studies
Restoration and 18th-Century Literature and Culture, Drama, Performance, Theatre, Gender and Sexuality, Religion and Literature
Katy Chiles
Associate Professor of English
Critical Race Theory, African American, Early American, Native American
Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Romanticism, poetry, 19th-century studies, queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, affect theory, postcolonial studies.
Dawn Coleman
Associate Professor
19th Century; Religion, Spirituality, Secularism; Women/Gender Studies
Mary Dzon
Associate Professor
Animal Studies; Medieval/Early Modern; Religion, Spirituality, Secularism; Women/Gender Studies
Amy J. Elias
Chancellor’s Professor and Distinguished Professor of English; Director, UT Humanities Center
21st Century
Stanton B. Garner, Jr.
James Douglas Bruce Professor of English and Affiliated Professor of Theatre
Drama/Theatre, Theatre/Performance Theory
Bill Hardwig
Associate Professor
19th Century, African American, Southern/Appalachian
Hilary Havens
Lindsay Young Associate Professor and Director of the Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Program
18th Century, Romantic Period, Digital Humanities, the Novel, Women/Gender Studies
Nancy Henry
Nancy Moore Goslee Professor of English
19th Century, Animal Studies, Short Story, Women/Gender Studies
Heather Hirschfeld
Kenneth Curry Professor of English
Shakespeare, early modern drama, theater history, early modern religion and literature, early modern print culture, psychoanalytic theory.
La Vinia Delois Jennings
Distinguished Professor in the Humanities & Professor of 20th Century American Literature & Culture
20th Century, African American, Women/Gender Studies
Ben Lee
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
20th Century, African American, Poetry
Roy M. Liuzza
Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Medieval/Early Modern, Old English
Gichingiri Ndigirigi
Professor
African, African diaspora literatures and performance, African studies, postcolonial and transnational studies.
Urmila Seshagiri
Professor
Modernism, Contemporary Fiction, Postcolonial Literature, Women’s Writing
Anthony Welch
Associate Professor
Renaissance/Early Modern Literature, Milton, Spenser, Shakespeare, Epic Tradition, Poetry and Poetics, Genre Theory, Orality and Literacy