Faculty

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Neel Ahuja (Critical Theory and Cultural Studies)

• Literature and Imperialism
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Critical Race Theory
• Biopolitics and Ecology
• Disability Studies

Daniel Anderson (Rhetoric and Composition)

• Technosocial Networks
• Instructional Technology
• Rhetoric and Composition
• Hypermedia Flowzones

William L. Andrews (American to 1900, African American, Southern)

• African American literature before 1930
• American Autobiography studies
• Southern literature

Christopher M. Armitage (Renaissance, Twentieth-Century British)

• John Donne and Sir Walter Raleigh
• The Literary and Cultural Impact of the Two World Wars
• Canadian Literature

Daphne Athas [retired] (Creative Writing)

• Fiction Writing

Laurence Avery [retired] (American to 1900, Twentieth-Century American, Southern)

• Modern drama
• American drama
• Southern literature

David Baker (Renaissance)

• Early modern English literature
• Early modern British history
• Early modern economic history

Reid Barbour (Seventeenth-Century British)

• Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England
• Intellectual History
• Classical Transmission
• History of Science
• History of Religion
• Sir Thomas Browne
• Lucy Hutchinson

Doris Betts [retired] (Creative Writing)

• Novelist
• Reviews and essays on contemporary American Literature

Inger S. B. Brodey (Comparative Literature)

Erin G. Carlston (Twentieth-Century American, Twentieth-Century British)

• Comparative European and American modernisms
• Gender and sexuality studies
• Fascism and culture
• Jewish studies

Michael Chitwood (Creative Writing)

• Poetry Writing

James Coleman (African American, American to 1900)

• African American literature

Marsha S. Collins (Comparative Literature)

Pamela Cooper (Twentieth-Century British)

• Postmodern literature and theory
• Gender and queer studies

Danielle Coriale (Nineteenth-Century British)

• Critical Theory
• Science and Literature
• Darwin/Evolutionary Theory
• Nineteenth-Century British Novel
• Environmental Literature
• Animal Studies

 

Elyse Crystall

Tyler Curtain (Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature)

• Theory
• Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Language
• Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Queer theory

Jane Danielewicz (English Language, Rhetoric and Composition)

• Literacy and teaching of writing
• Pedagogy
• Discourse analysis

María DeGuzmán (Twentieth-Century American, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies)

• Latina/o literature(s), culture(s), and theory
• "American" (US) literature
• Construction of ethnicity in literature
• Visual studies

Alan C. Dessen [retired] (Renaissance)

• Shakespeare
• English Renaissance drama

Florence Dore (Twentieth-Century American)

• Twentieth-Century American Literature
  
• Southern Literature
  
• Post-1945 American Literature
  
• Critical Theory
  
• Psychoanalytic Theory
  
• Popular Music

Eric S. Downing (Comparative Literature)

Pam Durban (Creative Writing)

• Fiction Writing

Connie C. Eble (English language, Linguistics)

• History of English language
• English in the USA
• Vernacular uses of American English

Danielle Elliott

Rebecka Rutledge Fisher (African American, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature)

• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Ralph Ellison
• African American literature and intellectual history
• Francophone Caribbean literature
• Literary Theory and Criticism
• Metaphor
• Cultural studies
• American studies
• Black nationalism

Kathleen Flanagan

Gregory Flaxman (Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, Twentieth-Century American, Comparative Literature)

Joseph M. Flora [retired] (American to 1900, Twentieth-Century American, Twentieth-Century British, Southern)

• American literature
• The American West
• The American South

Mary Floyd-Wilson (Renaissance)

• Early modern literature and culture
• History of the body
• Magic and the history of science
• Shakespeare and his contemporaries
• Gender studies
• History of emotion
• Ethnography and the construction of race

Leslie Frost

Marianne Gingher (Creative Writing)

• Creative writing
• The contemporary novel and short story

Darryl J. Gless (Renaissance)

• Renaissance literature and culture
• William Shakespeare
• Edmund Spenser

Larry Goldberg

J. Lee Greene [retired] (African American)

• African American literature

Philip Gura (American to 1900, American Studies)

• Early American literature
• American Renaissance
• History of the book in America

Minrose Gwin (Twentieth-Century American, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, Southern)

• American literature: 19th Century through Contemporary
• Women's literature
• Creative Nonfiction
• Theories of Gender and Sexuality
• Trauma Studies
• Literature of the Southwest

Laura Halperin (Twentieth-Century American, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies)

• Twentieth and twenty-first century Latina/o literatures and cultures
• Twentieth and twenty-first century American literatures and cultures
• U.S. Third World feminisms
• Gender and sexuality studies
• Medicine and ethnicity
• Latinas/os and education policy
• Censorship and coming of age narratives

William Harmon [retired] (Twentieth-Century American, Twentieth-Century British, Poetry)

Trudier Harris [retired] (Twentieth-Century American, African American, Folklore)

• African American literature
• African American folklore

Mae G. Henderson (Critical Theory and Cultural Studies , African American)

• African American literature
• Literary theory

Jennifer Ho (Twentieth-Century American, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies)

• Contemporary literature
• Asian American literature
• American Studies

Fred Hobson (American to 1900, Southern)

• Southern literature and intellectual history Autobiography

Susan Irons

Jordynn Jack (Rhetoric and Composition)

Joy S. Kasson (American to 1900, American Studies)

• Sentimentalism in American literature and art
• Buffalo Bill's Wild West and American popular culture
• Representations of women in American literature and art

Randall Kenan (Creative Writing)

• Fiction Writing

Ritchie Kendall (Renaissance)

• Early Modern English drama
• Early Modern English cultural studies

Edward Donald Kennedy (English Language, Medieval)

• Medieval chronicles
• Medieval English and French Arthurian literature
• Sir Thomas Malory 

Heidi Kim (Twentieth-Century American)

• Twentieth-Century American prose and drama
• Asian American literature 
• Walt Whitman 

Kimball King [retired] (American to 1900, Twentieth-Century American, Twentieth-Century British, Southern)

• Contemporary British and American drama
• Southern literature
• Nineteenth-Century American literature

Jan Koelb (Comparative Literature)

Clayton Koelb (Comparative Literature)

Laurie Langbauer (Nineteenth-Century British, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies)

• Literary theory
• Nineteenth-Century British novel
• Feminism

Jennifer Larson (American to 1900, African American)

Shayne Legassie (Comparative Literature)

Yuna Lee (English Language)

• Academic writing
• Freshman composition
• Oral communication for international students

Ted Leinbaugh (English Language, Medieval)

• Medieval literature
• Anglo-Saxon prose studies
• Aelfric: his life and writings

George Lensing, Jr. (Twentieth-Century American, Twentieth-Century British)

• Modern poetry
• Organizer of The Elizabeth Bishop Conference

Diane R. Leonard (Comparative Literature)

Allan Life (Nineteenth-Century British)

• Victorian literature and visual art
• South Indian visual, literary, and performing arts

Erika Lindemann (Rhetoric and Composition)

• Composition, with special focus on bibliographical studies and teaching
• Historical rhetoric

Townsend Ludington [retired] (Twentieth-Century American , Twentieth-Century British, American Studies)

• American literature of the Twentieth Century Biography
• American art

Megan Matchinske (Renaissance)

• Seventeenth-Century English literature and culture
• Women's studies
• Gender studies
• Hagiography and Religious Culture
• Philosophies of History

Michael McFee (Creative Writing)

• Poetry Writing
• Contemporary North Carolina literature

John McGowan (Nineteenth-Century British, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature)

• Literary, cultural, and social theory
• Victorian culture and literature
• History and theory of the novel

Ruth Moose (Creative Writing)

• Children's and Young Adult Literature

Jeanne Moskal (Nineteenth-Century British, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies )

• British Romantic period
• Travel literature
• Literary theory

Lawrence Naumoff (Creative Writing)

Patrick O'Neill (English Language, Irish Literature, Medieval)

• Old and Middle English
• Old and Middle Irish
• Medieval Welsh

Margaret O'Shaughnessey (American Literature)

• Environmental Literature
• Native American Literature

Katie Rose Guest Pryal (Rhetoric and Composition)

• Rhetoric, composition, and pedagogy
• Law and legal theory
• Pragmatism and critical theory

Julius R. Raper III [retired] (American to 1900, Twentieth-Century American, Southern)

• Literature of the American South, especially Twentieth-Century
• Contemporary British and American fiction
• American literature

Tom Reinert (Eighteenth-Century British)

• Eighteenth-Century English literature
• Twentieth-Century American literature

Eliza Richards (Nineteenth-Century American, Comparative Literature)

• Nineteenth-Century American literature
• American poetry before 1900
• Comparative British and American Nineteenth-Century studies
• Poetry and poetics, especially theories of lyric
• Gender studies and U.S. women's literature before 1900

Nina Riggs (Creative Writing)

• Poetry Writing

David Ross (Nineteenth-Century British, Twentieth-Century British)

• British Romanticism
• Modernism
• Yeats and Related Anglo-Irish Literature
• Science Fiction

Richard Rust [retired] (American to 1900)

• American literature, with special focus on Nineteenth-Century literature

Ruth Salvaggio (Eighteenth-Century, Feminist Theory)

• 18th Century
• Feminist Theory
• Poetry

James Seay (Creative Writing)

• Poetry Writing

Alan R. Shapiro (Creative Writing)

• Poetry Writing

Michael Silk (Comparative Literature)

• Poetry in theory and practice
• Tragedy and comedy in theory and practice
• Greek poetry and drama
• Literary theory, ancient and modern
• The classical tradition

Bland Simpson (Creative Writing)

• Fiction Writing
• Nonfiction Writing

Thomas Stumpf [retired] (Eighteenth-Century British)

• Defoe
• Mandeville
• Pope
• Classical influences on neoclassical literature

Beverly Taylor (Nineteenth-Century British)

• Victorian literature
• Arthurian literature

Matthew Taylor

• Critical Theory
• Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
• Science & Literature
• Philosophy & Literature
• Cultural Studies

Todd Taylor (Rhetoric and Composition)

• Composition, with a special focus on literacy and rhetorical theory
• Instructional technology
• Scholarly writing and publication
• Writing across the curriculum

James Thompson (Eighteenth-Century British, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies)

• Eighteenth-Century
• Literary theory and cultural studies
• Economic theories

Weldon Thornton [retired] (Twentieth-Century American, Twentieth-Century British)

• James Joyce
• Twentieth-Century Anglo-Irish literature
• D. H. Lawrence

Jane Thrailkill (American to 1900, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies )

• Nineteenth-Century American literature and culture
• American realism
• Literature and medicine
• History of the novel
• Critical and feminist theory

Henry Veggian (American Literature)

Joe Viscomi (Nineteenth-Century British)

• Romantic literature, painting, and graphic arts
• The art and poetry of William Blake
• Editing and hypertext theory

Robin Visser (Comparative Literature)

• Chinese literature
• Cinema
• Gender Studies
• Urban Studies
• Environmental Studies

Linda Wagner-Martin (American to 1900, Twentieth Century American, Twentieth Century British)

• American, Modern, and Contemporary Women's writing
• Poetry

Daniel Wallace (Creative Writing)

• Fiction Writing

Wendy Weber

Joseph Wittig (English Language, Medieval)

• Old and Middle English language and literature
• Western European literary and intellectual culture
• Computer applications in the humanities

Jessica Wolfe (Renaissance, Medieval, Comparative Literature)

• English and Comparative Renaissance Literature
• History of Science and Intellectual History of the Renaissance
• History of Scholarship

Charles Zug [retired] (American to 1900, Folklore)

• Southern material culture
• Folk art
• Folklore and literature