All Faculty
Jamal-Jared Alexander
Assistant Professor
Technical and Professional Communication, Visual Communication Design, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Programmatic Implementation, Inclusive Excellence, Community Engagement, Black Feminist Theory
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
Melinda Backer
Teaching Associate Professor, Associate Director of Composition
Danielle Procope Bell
Assistant Professor
Mid- to Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century African American Literature
Marcel Brouwers
Teaching Professor, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies
Katy Chiles
Associate Professor of English
Critical Race Theory, African American, Early American, Native American
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
Margaret Lazarus Dean
Lindsay Young Professor
Fiction, Nonfiction, Screenwriting, TV Writing
Mary Dzon
Associate Professor
Animal Studies; Medieval/Early Modern; Religion, Spirituality, Secularism; Women/Gender Studies
Brandee Easter
Assistant Professor
Digital rhetoric, software studies, feminist media 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
Stanton B. Garner, Jr.
James Douglas Bruce Professor of English and Affiliated Professor of Theatre
Drama/Theatre, Theatre/Performance Theory
Martin Griffin
Professor, Associate Head
19th Century and 20th Century American literature; popular literature; literature and politics
Bill Hardwig
Associate Professor
19th Century, African American, Southern/Appalachian
Dionte Harris
Assistant Professor
20th Century, 21st Century, African American, Queer Theory, Women/Gender Studies
Sally Corran Harris
Teaching Professor and Director of Online Programming, English
Hilary Havens
Lindsay Young Associate Professor and Director of the Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Program
18th Century, Romantic Period, Digital Humanities, the Novel
Christopher Hebert
Associate Professor, Director of Creative Writing Program
Fiction, Screenwriting, Publishing
Nancy Henry
Nancy Moore Goslee Professor of English
19th Century, Animal Studies, Short Story, Women/Gender Studies
Heather Hirschfeld
Distinguished Professor of the Humanities
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
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
Sean Morey
Professor
Animal Studies, Composition, Rhetorical Theory, Writing Studies
Gichingiri Ndigirigi
Professor
African, African diaspora literatures and performance, African studies, postcolonial and transnational studies.
R.D. Perry
Associate Professor
Medieval/Early Modern; Critical Theory; Women/Gender Studies; Poetry; Religion, Spirituality, Secularism
Jeffrey M. Ringer
Associate Professor
21st Century; Composition; Cultural Rhetorics; Religion, Spirituality, Secularism; Rhetoric; Writing Studies
Iliana Rocha
Associate Professor
Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, Poetry, Queer Theory
Tanita Saenkhum
Associate Professor, Director of ESL
Second Language Writing, Composition, TESOL
Urmila Seshagiri
Distinguished Professor in Humanities
Modernism, Contemporary Fiction, Postcolonial Literature, Women’s Writing
Marie Balsley Taylor
Assistant Professor
17th Century, Early American, Native American
Anthony Welch
Associate Professor
Renaissance/Early Modern Literature, Milton, Spenser, Shakespeare, Epic Tradition, Poetry and Poetics, Genre Theory, Orality and Literacy
