Graduate Faculty
Graduate 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


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, 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

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
