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






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
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


Natalie Graham
Professor, Interim Department Head for Africana Studies and Adjunct Professor of English



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



Bill Hardwig
Professor, Associate Head
19th Century and beyond, 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, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Shakespeare, early modern drama, theater history, early modern religion and literature, early modern print culture, psychoanalytic theory.


Rochelle Hurt
Assistant Professor
Contemporary Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Hybrid Genres, Lyric Essay, Prose Poetry




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














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


Gichingiri Ndigirigi
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
African, African diaspora literatures, cultural studies, and performance; postcolonial and transnational studies.





R.D. Perry
Associate Professor
Medieval/Early Modern; Critical Theory; Women/Gender Studies; Poetry; Religion, Spirituality, Secularism

Amanda Platz
Postdoctoral Fellow, Teaching Assistant Professor
Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, medieval religion, mysticism and visionary writings, magic and the supernatural, folklore and mythology, adaptations and retellings.




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

Morgan Shaffer
Postdoctoral Fellow, Teaching Assistant Professor
20th-21st Century American literature, The Gothic/American Gothic, Liminality, particularly liminal beings, American literature written by marginalized/minority authors, specifically through an intersectional lens (women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+)







Marie Balsley Taylor
Assistant Professor
17th Century, Early American, Native American

Andrew Todd
Teaching Associate Professor, Associate Director of Composition





Anthony Welch
Associate Professor
Renaissance/Early Modern Literature, Milton, Spenser, Shakespeare, Epic Tradition, Poetry and Poetics, Genre Theory, Orality and Literacy



