Graduate Faculty
Graduate Faculty

Jamal-Jared Alexander
Assistant Professor
Technical & Professional Communication, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Inclusive Excellence, Visual Communication Design, 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

Danielle Procope Bell
Assistant Professor
Mid- to Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century African American Literature




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
Romanticism, poetry, 19th-century studies, queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, affect theory, postcolonial studies.

Dawn Coleman
Associate Professor
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



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


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

Hilary Havens
Lindsay Young Associate Professor and Director of the Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Program
18th Century, Romantic Period, Digital Humanities, the Novel, Women/Gender Studies

DeLisa Hawkes
Assistant Professor
Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century African American Literature

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

Nancy Henry
Nancy Moore Goslee Professor of English
19th Century, Animal Studies, Short Story, Women/Gender Studies

Heather Hirschfeld
Kenneth Curry Professor of English
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



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

Sean Morey
Professor, Director of Composition
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
Assistant Professor
Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, Poetry, Queer Theory

Tanita Saenkhum
Associate Professor
Second Language Writing, Composition, TESOL


Urmila Seshagiri
Professor
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
