Administrative Faculty


Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Romanticism, poetry, 19th-century studies, queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, affect theory, postcolonial studies.

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

Martin Griffin
Professor, Associate Head
19th Century and 20th Century American literature; popular literature; literature and politics

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

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

Ben Lee
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
20th Century, African American, Poetry

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