Administrative 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


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.

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
Associate 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, Nonfiction, Screenwriting

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


Sean Morey
Professor, Director of Composition
Animal Studies, Composition, Rhetorical Theory, Writing Studies