Literature Faculty
Misty Anderson
Professor of English & Affiliate Professor of Theatre and Religious Studies
Restoration, 18th-Century, Drama/Theatre
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
Affect Theory, Queer Theory, Romantics, Romanticism, Women/Gender Studies, Poetry
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
Thomas F. Haddox
Professor
19th Century; 20th Century; African American; Religion, Spirituality, Secularism; Southern/Appalachian
Bill Hardwig
Associate Professor
19th Century, African American, Southern/Appalachian
Hilary Havens
Associate Professor and Director of the Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Program
18th Century, Digital Humanities, 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
Medieval/Early Modern; Psychoanalytical Theory; Religion, Spirituality, Secularism; Renaissance; Shakespeare
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
Anthony Welch
Associate Professor
17th Century, Poetry, Renaissance, Shakespeare