Graduate faculty and research areas

Laila Amine, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Indiana University. African American and African Diaspora literature and theory.

Deborah Needleman Armintor, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Rice University. 18th-century British literature; gender/ sexuality studies.

Bruce Bond, Regents Professor; Ph.D., University of Denver. Poetry.

Gabriel Cervantes, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Princeton University. 18th-century British and American literature; law and literature; Atlantic studies.

Kevin Curran, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University College Dublin. Renaissance literature; Shakespeare; law and theology.

James Duban, Professor; Ph.D., Cornell University. Early American literature; 19th-century American literature.

B.H. Fairchild, Professor; Ph.D., University of Tulsa. Poetry writing.

Ian Finseth, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of North Carolina. 19th-century American literature; African American literature; ecocriticism.

Jacqueline Foertsch, Professor; Ph.D., Tulane University. 20th-century American literature; gender and cultural studies; literary theory; film.

Bonnie Friedman, Assistant Professor; M.F.A., University of Iowa. Creative nonfiction.

Nora Gilbert, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Southern California. 19th-century British literature; early Hollywood film; gender studies; law and culture.

Stephanie Hawkins, Associate Professor; Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo. 19th- and 20th-century American literature and culture; American modernism; science and literature.

Matthew Heard, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of California-Riverside. Composition studies; pedagogy; rhetorical theory.

David Holdeman, Professor and Department Chair; Ph.D., University of Michigan. 20th-century Irish literature and culture; modern British and American poetry and drama; scholarly editing.

Kyle Jensen, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Illinois State University. Rhetoric and composition.

Corey Marks, Professor; Ph.D., University of Houston. Poetry writing.

Ann McCutchan, Associate Professor; M.F.A., University of Houston. Creative nonfiction.

Walton Muyumba, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Indiana University. American and African American literature; poetry; jazz studies; pragmatism; literary criticism and theory.

Miroslav Penkov, Assistant Professor; M.F.A., University of Arkansas. 20th-century American literature; historical fiction; literary translation; Russian literature; Slavic literature.

John Peters, Professor; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. British modernism; Victorian literature; American modernism; Joseph Conrad.

Alexander Pettit, Professor; Ph.D., University of Washington. Restoration and 18th-century literature; textual studies; modern and contemporary drama.

Dahlia Porter, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. British literature of the Romantic Period; literature and science; poetry; book history and material text studies; women authors; children’s literature.

Masood Ashraf Raja, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Florida State University. Postcolonial literature and theory; globalization and cosmopolitanism; postmodernism; poetics and politics of the Muslim world.

Barbara Rodman, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Denver. Contemporary short fiction.

Javier Rodriguez, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Harvard University. Mexican American literature and culture; race and globalization; border studies.

Ryan Skinnell, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Arizona State University. Rhetoric and composition; history of rhetoric; history of composition.

Nicole Smith, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Rutgers University. Late medieval literature and culture; Chaucer; romance; costume history; literatures of virtue and vice.

John Tait, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Missouri. Creative writing (fiction writing); post-World War II American fiction and film.

Robert Upchurch, Associate Professor; Ph.D., City University of New York. Early medieval literature and culture; Old English sermons; Old and Middle English saints’ lives.

Jacqueline Vanhoutte, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Washington. Renaissance drama; Shakespeare; Tudor monarchs.

Kelly Wisecup, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Maryland. Literatures of colonial America and the Atlantic world; science and empire; race in the early Americas.

Priscilla Ybarra, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Rice University. Contemporary Chicana/o literature and ecocriticism.