Faculty Interest: American Literature to 1900 to the present
Sarah Leilani Parijs
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Email: slparijs@unc.edu
American Literature from 1789 to 1900 American Literature to 1900 to the present Comparative Literature Contemporary American Literature Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature Critical Race Studies Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Ecocriticism Environmental Justice Studies Environmental Studies Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies Genre Theory Literature and Science Literature, Medicine and Culture Post-Colonial Literature and Theory Posthumanism Science Fiction Science Writing Travel Writing
Melissa Faliveno
Assistant Professor / Margaret R. Shuping Fellow
Email: faliveno@unc.edu
American Literature to 1900 to the present British Literature from 1900 to the Present Contemporary American Literature Creative Writing Digital Humanities Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies Queer Theory The Novel Women Writers
Ylce Irizarry
Associate Professor / Norman and Dorothy Eliason Scholar
Email: ylceiriz@unc.edu
Aesthetics American Literature to 1900 to the present Contemporary American Literature Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature Critical Race Studies Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Ecocriticism Environmental Studies Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies Film and Media Studies Genre Theory Latina / Latino Literature Literature of the Americas Narrative Theory Science Fiction Social Justice The Novel Visual Culture and Arts Women Writers
Graham Culbertson
Teaching Assistant Professor
Email: culbertg@ad.unc.edu
American Literature from 1789 to 1900 American Literature to 1900 to the present Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Digital Humanities Digital Rhetorics Film and Media Studies Literature and Philosophy Literature, Medicine and Culture Modernism Philosophy Of Language Posthumanism Queer Theory Science Fiction Science Writing Writing In The Disciplines
Julia Ridley Smith
Teaching Assistant Professor
Email: jsmith8@unc.edu
Aesthetics African American Literature American Literature from 1789 to 1900 American Literature to 1900 to the present British Literature from 1789 to 1900 Comparative Literature Contemporary American Literature Creative Writing Feminist Historiography Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies Irish Literature Literature and History Southern Literature The Novel Visual Culture and Arts Women Writers
Gabriel Bump
Assistant Professor
Email: gbump@unc.edu
African American Literature American Literature to 1900 to the present Contemporary American Literature Creative Writing Irish Literature Literature and History Modernism Social Justice Southern Literature The Novel
Meta DuEwa Jones
Associate Professor
Email: metadj@email.unc.edu
(540) 446-4685
Aesthetics African American Literature American Literature to 1900 to the present Contemporary American Literature Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature Creative Writing Critical Race Studies Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Depictions Of The Child Digital Humanities Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies Genre Theory Literature and Religion Pedagogy Performance Studies Poetry and Poetics Post-Colonial Literature and Theory Queer Theory Science Fiction Southern Literature Transatlantic Studies Travel Writing Visual Culture and Arts Women Writers
Kym Weed
Teaching Assistant Professor / Co-Director of HHIVE Lab / Associate Director of Graduate Programs in LMC
Email: kweed@unc.edu
(919) 962-4044
American Literature from 1789 to 1900 American Literature to 1900 to the present Disability Studies Literature and Science Literature, Medicine and Culture
Wendy Weber
Teaching Associate Professor
Email: weberw@email.unc.edu
African American Literature American Literature to 1900 to the present British Literature from 1900 to the Present Comparative Literature Contemporary American Literature Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Irish Literature Modernism Pedagogy Queer Theory Women Writers Writing In The Disciplines
Gregory Flaxman
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Email: gflax@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-4043
Aesthetics American Literature to 1900 to the present Comparative Literature Contemporary American Literature Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Film and Media Studies Literature and Philosophy Media Studies Philosophy Of Language Post-Colonial Literature and Theory Posthumanism Visual Culture and Arts