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Isabelle Alexander

Teaching Assistant
Political rhetoric, Cultural rhetoric, Civic education & institutions, Archival research
ialexan4@vols.utk.edu
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Micaela Anderson

Teaching Associate
19th century British literature, British Romanticism, Poetics
mande128@vols.utk.edu
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Benjamin Ashley

Teaching Associate
bashley6@vols.utk.edu
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Anna Grace Barnett

Teaching Associate
18th century British Literature, History of the Novel, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Digital Humanities
svh617@vols.utk.edu
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Macynn Black

Contemporary Literature, Mythology, Medieval Literature, Gender and Sexuality
mblack30@vols.utk.edu
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Noah Blacker

British Medievalism (Middle English), British and German Romanticism, German Idealism, British and French Modernism, Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, International Postmodern and Contemporary Texts, Maximalism, Trauma / Affect Theory, Narrative Theory, Loneliness, Spirituality, Magical Realism / Surrealism, Poetics
nblacker@vols.utk.edu
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Jade Bowman

bbowman8@vols.utk.edu
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Eli Dyer

Teaching Assistant
edyer10@vols.utk.edu
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Madison Fuentes

Teaching Assistant
Psychoanalysis, Affect Theory, Cognitive Science, Systems Theory & Cybernetics, Medical Humanities, Coming-of-Age, Identity Formation, Romanticism, Contemporary Literature
mfuente4@vols.utk.edu
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Miracle Gardner

Teaching Assistant
Cultural Rhetorics, Native American/Indigenous Studies, Storytelling, Identity, Gender Studies, Ethics, Intercultural Communication, ESL Teaching
mgardn33@vols.utk.edu
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Izzy Herring

Teaching Associate
iherring@vols.utk.edu
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Nico Houser

Teaching Assistant
Medieval Literature, Masculinity, Trans/Queer Theory, Trauma Studies, Arthurian Literature, Folklore and Legends, Old French, Old English
ahouse17@vols.utk.edu
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Elijah Kibler

Teaching Associate
Film, Adaptation, Renaissance Literature, Japanese Literature, Art, and Culture, Psychoanalysis
ekibler@vols.utk.edu
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Elliott Lay

Teaching Associate
Place Theory/Geocriticism, Appalachian Literature and Culture, American Religious Culture
elay5@vols.utk.edu
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Bronwyn Luitwieler

Teaching Assistant
bluitwie@vols.utk.edu
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Talia Marshall

Teaching Assistant
Queer literature, temporality, the novel, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, disability studies
tmarsh26@vols.utk.edu
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Parker McCoig

Teaching Assistant
Modern and Contemporary Poetry; Translation Theory; Quantum Chemistry; Probability
mmccoig@vols.utk.edu
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Michael Moran

Teaching Associate
jmoran13@vols.utk.edu
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Abigail Murrill

Teaching Assistant
20th Century British Literature, Modernism, Women Writers, Gender and Sexuality
amurrill@vols.utk.edu
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McKayla Okoniewski

Teaching Assistant
Indigenous rhetorics, activist rhetorics, rhetorics of social media
mokonie1@vols.utk.edu
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Abigail Page

Teaching Assistant
Medieval literature (British and French), trans/queer theory, gender studies
apage19@vols.utk.edu
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David Peavie

Teaching Associate
dpeavie@vols.utk.edu
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Clinton Ricks

cricks@vols.utk.edu
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Madina Sanatbekova

Teaching Associate
Subfields of Linguistics (Cognitive Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; etc.), L2 teaching (English), Multilingualism
msanatbe@vols.utk.edu
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Maggie Turbyfield

Teaching Assistant
19th Century British Literature
vtt861@vols.utk.edu
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Abby Wargo

Teaching Associate
Modernism, women’s literature, gender studies, trauma studies
awargo1@vols.utk.edu
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Melanie Werner

Teaching Assistant
American Literature, Women's Literature
mwerner5@vols.utk.edu
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Jessica Wright

Teaching Associate
Medieval Literature, Renaissance literature, history of the book/print
jwrig165@vols.utk.edu
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Zhao Zhang

zzhan128@vols.utk.edu
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MFA Students

PhD Students

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Kaylee Arndt

Teaching Assistant
Victorian Literature, Medieval Literature, Romantic Poetry, Narrative Poetry, Rural Literature
karndt2@vols.utk.edu
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Michael Emmanuel

Teaching Assistant
African American Literature, Migration, Immigration, Memory, Identity, Christianity, Poetry and the Community
memmanu1@vols.utk.edu
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Veronica Fletcher

Teaching Assistant
Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, Southern Studies, Folklore, Postmodern Literature, Persona Poetry
vfletch4@vols.utk.edu
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Jasmine Flowers

Teaching Associate
African American literature, Southern literature, Mixed media poetry, Prose poetry, Surrealism, Dadaism, Modernism, The Harlem Renaissance, Black Arts Movement, African American Vernacular English, Spirituality and the occult, Folklore and mythology, Christianity, African Diaspora Religions
jflowe11@vols.utk.edu
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Max Hunt

Teaching Associate
mhunt41@vols.utk.edu
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Jacob Lietz

Teaching Associate
jlietz1@vols.utk.edu
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Iris Loehr

Teaching Associate
Place Studies, Appalachia, the Uncanny, the Gothic, Vampires, Philosophy, Women’s Literature, Romanticism
iloehr@vols.utk.edu
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Maryam Malik

Teaching Associate
Displacement and Diaspora Poetics; Mother-Daughter Narratives; Memory, Identity & Place; Writing-Center Practices; Fragmentation & Phenomenology of Absence; Solitude, Grief, & the Poetics of Silence; Digital Humanities in Contemporary Poetry; Philosophy; 20th-Century Literary Movements; Modern and Contemporary Art Movements; Critical Approaches to Literature
mmalik17@vols.utk.edu
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Alexandra Persad

Teaching Assistant
Female Identity, Emotional Detachment, Girlhood, Contemporary Literature, Romanticism
apersad1@vols.utk.edu
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Cora Schipa

Teaching Assistant
Contemporary poetry and fiction, memoir, gender and sexuality, body studies, Reproductive Justice, feminism, girlhood, generational trauma, the American South, memory, violence, nature
cschipa@vols.utk.edu
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MFA Students

PhD Students

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Arinze Akpa

Teaching Associate
African and African Diaspora Studies, Hip-Hop, Mythology, Afro-Pessimism, Postcolonial, Gender, and Black Queer Studies.
aakpa@vols.utk.edu
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Kaitlyn Alford

Teaching Associate
kalford5@vols.utk.edu
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Mary Barfield

Teaching Associate
mbarfie4@vols.utk.edu
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Jake Buller-Young

Teaching Associate
jbuller1@vols.utk.edu
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Braden Burton

Teaching Associate
bburto17@vols.utk.edu
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Titus Chalk

Teaching Associate
The Novel, Critical Theory, Film
tchalk@vols.utk.edu
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Chris Christiansen

Early American Literature/19th Century American Literature, Religion and Literature, Herman Melville
cchris30@vols.utk.edu
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Sara Creel

Renaissance; Early Modern Drama; Shakespeare; Film; Adaptation; Auteurism; Feminism and Film; Race and Gender in Film; American Cinema; World Cinema; New Media; Fandom; Fanfiction; Fanart; TTRPG Actual Plays as Performance
screel4@vols.utk.edu
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Rochelle Davis

rdavi117@vols.utk.edu
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Taylor DeMichael

Teaching Associate
Medieval/Early Modern; Theology, Spirituality, Demonology, Shakespeare, Drama, Digital Humanities
tdemicha@vols.utk.edu
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Drake Farmer

jhq215@vols.utk.edu
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Joseph Gaines

Teaching Associate
19th C. American Literature, Conversion Narratives, History of Biblical Interpretation, Secularism and Unbelief
jgaines8@vols.utk.edu
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Catherine Garbinsky

Teaching Associate
Creative writing, poetry, traditional and experimental forms, disability poetics, queer poetics, queer and feminist literature
cgarbins@vols.utk.edu
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Greta Gessert

Teaching Associate
Writing center theory, writing center pedagogy, and writing/composition pedagogy
ggessert@vols.utk.edu
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Greg Gillespie

Teaching Associate
Multimodal composition pedagogy, L2 writing, technical and professional communication, applied linguistics, writing centers
ggilles3@vols.utk.edu
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Sam Gleason

sgleaso1@vols.utk.edu
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Sandra Dolores Gomez-Amador

Teaching Associate
Latin American Literature, Contemporary Literature, Body Studies, Girlhood Studies, Violence Studies, Feminist Theory, Latino Studies.
sgomezam@vols.utk.edu
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Taylor Hubbard

Teaching Associate
Feminist theory, Monster theory, Medieval literature, Arthurian literature, Epic poetry, Medical humanities
thubbar4@vols.utk.edu
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Nurul Islam

Teaching Associate
Composition theory and pedagogy, first-year composition, writing assessment, writing center and program administration, L2 writing, multilingualism, the role of rhetoric in academic and public discourse.
nislam3@vols.utk.edu
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Chiagoziem Jideofor

Teaching Associate
cjideofo@vols.utk.edu
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Elizaveta Komkova

Teaching Associate
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), L2 Writing Pedagogy, L2 Composition and Rhetoric, Language and Linguistics, Multiculturalism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
ekomkova@vols.utk.edu
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Jamie Kramer

Teaching Associate
jkrame21@vols.utk.edu
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Kristen LeFevers

Teaching Associate
Appalachian Studies, Appalachian Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, Linguistic Justice, Counternarrative, Critical Regionalism, Critical Pedagogy, Public Scholarship, Ethnography, Cultural Rhetorics
klefever@vols.utk.edu
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Chris Mayer

Teaching Associate
Social dimensions of teacher development, Gen AI pedagogies, Technical communication, Qualitative research methodologies, Sustainability/anti-consumerism
cmayer5@vols.utk.edu
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Joshua McGarry

Teaching Associate
jmcgarry@vols.utk.edu
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Lexi Mitchell

Teaching Associate
amitch81@vols.utk.edu
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Razan Naseb

rnaseb@vols.utk.edu
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Patrick Nome

Teaching Associate
Poetry and poetics, Postcolonial and Anglophone world literature, Postcolonialism, Historical trauma and memory, Migration, assimilation and identity
cnome@vols.utk.edu
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Ucheoma Onwutuebe

Teaching Associate
Feminism, Ethnic and Migration Studies
uonwutue@vols.utk.edu
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Zuleyha Ozturk

Teaching Associate
Poetry, Translation studies, Film, Feminist theory
zozturk@vols.utk.edu
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Amanda Platz

Teaching Associate
Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, medieval religion, mysticism and visionary writings, magic and the supernatural, folklore and mythology, adaptations and retellings.
aplatz@vols.utk.edu
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Morgan Shaffer

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+)
mshaffe6@vols.utk.edu
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Abhay Shetty

Teaching Associate
ashetty@vols.utk.edu
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Kallye Smith

Teaching Associate
ksmit436@vols.utk.edu
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Hannah Trammell

Teaching Associate
htramme2@vols.utk.edu
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April Trepagnier

Teaching Associate
20th- and 21st-century American literature, Influence of canonical traditions on contemporary literature, Narrative ethics and moral philosophy, Theological aesthetics and poetics, Cultural memory and sacred narrative, Cormac McCarthy studies
atrepagn@vols.utk.edu
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Kendyl Wadley

Teaching Associate
bkq833@vols.utk.edu
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Maggie Warren

Teaching Associate
Contemporary poetry, experimental forms, feminist theory, elegy, American literature
mhess6@vols.utk.edu
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Connor White

Teaching Associate
cwhit129@vols.utk.edu
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Eliza Alexander Wilcox

Teaching Associate
swilcox7@vols.utk.edu
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William Younts

Teaching Associate
Nineteenth Century American Literature, Trans Studies, Print Culture, Literary Theory, Music, Film, Labor
wyounts@vols.utk.edu
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