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Faculty Field of Interest
American Literature (Colonial to Present)
Nathan Brown, Ph.D. (UCLA): 20th- and 21st-century American literature; experimental poetry and poetics; contemporary philosophy and critical theory; science/technology studies; avant-garde modernisms.
Joshua Clover, MFA (University of Iowa): creative writing (poetry); poetics; postmodernism; film & media studies; critical theory.
Lucy Corin, MFA (Brown): creative writing (novel & short story); contemporary fiction.
Lynn Freed, Ph.D. (Columbia): creative writing; 20th-c. fiction; South African fiction.
Elizabeth Freeman, Ph.D. (University of Chicago): 19th-c. American literature; gender & sexuality; critical theory; cultural studies.
Danielle Heard, Ph.D. (Cornell): American literature; African-American literature; 20th-c. Women's literature; Black Diaspora; 20th-c. African-American music.
W. Jack Hicks, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina): literature of California; literature of nature & wilderness; creative writing.
Pam Houston, B.A. (Denison): creative writing (fiction, non-fiction & plays); modernism; contemporary fiction; the short story; wilderness literature.
Hsuan Hsu, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley): American literature and culture, Asian American literature, cultural geography, visual culture, cultural studies.
Mark Jerng, Ph.D. (Harvard): Asian American literature; American literature & culture; narrative theory; transnationalism; psychoanalytic theory; law & literature.David Lloyd, Ph.D. (Cambridge University):Anglophone literature and Colonialism, Victorian, modern Irish literature, U.S. minority literature; poetry and poetics, critical theory.
Desireé Martín, Ph.D. (Duke): U.S. -Mexico border studies; Chicano/a & Latino/a literature & culture; literature of the Americas; 19th & 20th-c. Mexican literature; performance art & theater; subaltern studies.
Colin Milburn, Ph.D. (Harvard): relations of literature & science; science fiction; gothic horror; history of biology; history of physics; post-humanism.
Mathew Stratton, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin): 20th-c. American literature and literary culture.
Evan Watkins, Ph.D. (University of Iowa): literary theory & composition theory; cultural studies; American literature; gender studies.
Joe Wenderoth, MFA (Warren Wilson College): creative writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essay); Wallace Stevens, Paul Celan, Toni Morrison.
Alan Williamson, Ph.D. (Harvard): 20th-c. English & American literature; creative writing; comparative literature.
Michael Ziser, Ph.D. (Harvard): American literature; literature & the environment; ecocriticism.
British Modernism & 20th-Century Literature
Greg Dobbins, Ph.D. (Duke): 20th-c. Irish & British literature; modernism; post-colonial theory & literature; cultural studies; critical theory.
Lynn Freed, Ph.D. (Columbia): creative writing; 20th-c. fiction; South African fiction.
John Marx, Ph.D. (Brown): modernism; post-colonial theory & literature; the novel.
Alan Williamson, Ph.D. (Harvard): 20th-c. English & American literature; creative writing; comparative literature.
Comparative Literature
Seeta Chaganti, Ph.D. (Yale): Old & Middle English poetry; late medieval drama; English & French Arthurian romance; medieval, religious & material culture.
Margaret W. Ferguson, Ph.D. (Yale): early modern literature (English, French, Italian, colonial American); feminist theory; literacy studies.
Lynn Freed, Ph.D. (Columbia): creative writing; 20th-c. fiction; South African fiction.
Alessa Johns, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley): 18th-c. British literature & cultural studies; women writers; utopianism; disaster.
Desireé Martín, Ph.D. (Duke): U.S. -Mexico border studies; Chicano/a & Latino/a literature & culture; literature of the Americas; 19th & 20th-c. Mexican literature; performance art & theater; subaltern studies.
Alan Williamson, Ph.D. (Harvard): 20th-c. English & American literature; creative writing; comparative literature.
Composition, Literacy Studies, & Rhetoric
Don P. Abbott, Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts): history of rhetoric; rhetorical theory; Renaissance literature; freedom of expression.
Margaret W. Ferguson Ph.D. (Yale): early modern literature (English, French, Italian, colonial American); feminist theory; literacy studies.
Evan Watkins, Ph.D. (University of Iowa): literary theory & composition theory; cultural studies; American literature; gender studies.
Creative Writing
Nathan Brown, Ph.D. (UCLA): 20th- and 21st-century American literature; experimental poetry and poetics; contemporary philosophy and critical theory; science/technology studies; avant-garde modernisms.
Joshua Clover, MFA (University of Iowa): creative writing (poetry); poetics; postmodernism; film & media studies; critical theory.
Lucy Corin, MFA (Brown): creative writing (novel & short story); contemporary fiction.
Lynn Freed, Ph.D. (Columbia): creative writing; 20th-c. fiction; South African fiction.
W. Jack Hicks, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina): literature of California; literature of nature & wilderness; creative writing.
Pam Houston, B.A. (Denison): creative writing (fiction, non-fiction & plays); modernism; contemporary fiction; the short story; wilderness literature.
Yiyun Li, MFA (U. of Iowa): Fiction and non-fiction.
David Lloyd, Ph.D. (Cambridge University): Anglophone literature and Colonialism, Victorian, modern Irish literature, U.S. minority literature, poetry and poetics, critical theory.
Joe Wenderoth, MFA (Warren Wilson College): creative writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essay); Wallace Stevens, Paul Celan, Toni Morrison.
Alan Williamson, Ph.D. (Harvard): 20th-c. English & American literature; creative writing; comparative literature.
Early Modern Literature
Don P. Abbott, Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts): history of rhetoric; rhetorical theory; Renaissance literature; freedom of expression.
Gina Bloom, Ph.D. (University of Michigan): early modern literature; especially drama; performance studies; gender and feminist theory.
Frances E. Dolan, Ph.D. (University of Chicago): early modern literature & culture; law, crime & violence; print culture; drama; gender & confessional identity; feminist theory; cultural studies.
Margaret W. Ferguson, Ph.D. (Yale): early modern literature; feminist theory; literacy studies.
Richard A. Levin, Ph.D. (Stanford): early modern literature with an emphasis on Shakespeare & drama.
Scott Shershow, Ph.D. (Harvard): critical theory; cultural studies; history & theory of drama; Renaissance.
- see also the (Early Modern Studies) website
Eighteenth Century Literature
Alessa Johns, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley): 18th-c. British literature & cultural studies; women writers; utopianism; disaster.
Christopher Loar, Ph.D. (UCLA): 18th-c. literature; critical theory.
David Simpson, Ph.D. (Cambridge): Romanticism; literary theory.
Ethnic Studies
Danielle Heard, Ph.D. (Cornell): American literature; African-American literature; 20th-c. Women's literature; Black Diaspora; 20th-c. African-American music.
Mark Jerng, Ph.D. (Harvard): Asian American literature; American literature & culture; narrative theory; trans-nationalism; psychoanalytic theory; law & literature.
David Lloyd, Ph.D. (Cambridge University): Anglophone literature Colonialism, Victorian, modern Irish, U.S. minority literature, poetry and poetics, critical theory.
Desireé Martín, Ph.D. (Duke): U.S. -Mexico border studies; Chicano/a & Latino/a literature & culture; literature of the Americas; 19th & 20th-c. Mexican literature; performance art & theater; subaltern studies.
Hsuan Hsu, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley): American literature and culture, Asian American literature, cultural geography, visual culture, cultural studies.
Feminism, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Gina Bloom, Ph.D.(University of Michigan): early modern literature; especially drama; performance studies; gender and feminist theory.
Frances E. Dolan, Ph.D. (University of Chicago): early modern literature & culture; law, crime & violence; print culture; drama; gender & confessional identity; feminist theory; cultural studies.
Margaret W. Ferguson, Ph.D. (Yale): early modern literature; feminist theory; literacy studies.
Kathleen Frederickson, Ph.D. (University of Chicago): Victorian
Studies and culture; feminist and queer studies; history of biology,
psychology and the social sciences; Marxism; and psychoanalysis.
Elizabeth Freeman, Ph.D. (University of Chicago): 19th-c. American literature; gender & sexuality; critical theory; cultural studies.
Danielle Heard, Ph.D. (Cornell): American literature; African-American literature; 20th-c. Women's literature; Black Diaspora; 20th-c. African-American music.
Alessa Johns, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley): 18th-c. British literature & cultural studies; women writers; utopianism; disaster.
Desireé Martín, Ph.D. (Duke): U.S. -Mexico border studies; Chicano/a & Latino/a literature & culture; literature of the Americas; 19th & 20th-c. Mexican literature; performance art & theater; subaltern studies.
Elizabeth Miller, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin): Victorian literature; feminism/gender and sexuality studies; film media, print culture, performance, visual studies & popular culture.
Parama Roy, Ph.D. (University of Rochester): post-colonial theory & literature; Victorian literature; cultural studies; feminist studies.
Evan Watkins, Ph.D. (University of Iowa): literary theory & composition theory; cultural studies; American literature; gender studies.
Film, Media, Print Culture, Performance, Visual Studies & Popular Culture
Gina Bloom, Ph.D. (University of Michigan): early modern literature; drama; performance theory.
Nathan Brown, Ph.D. (UCLA): 20th- and 21st-century American literature; experimental poetry and poetics; contemporary philosophy and critical theory; science/technology studies; avant-garde modernisms.
Seeta Chaganti, Ph.D.(Yale): Old & Middle English poetry; late medieval drama; English & French Arthurian romance; medieval, religious & material culture.
Joshua Clover, MFA (University of Iowa): creative writing (poetry); poetics; postmodernism; film & media studies; critical theory.
Frances E. Dolan, Ph.D. (University of Chicago): early modern literature & culture; law, crime & violence; print culture; drama; gender & confessional identity; feminist theory; cultural studies.
Danielle Heard, Ph.D. (Cornell): American literature; African-American literature; 20th-c. Women's literature; Black Diaspora; 20th-c. African-American music.
Hsuan Hsu, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley): American literature and culture,
Asian American literature, cultural geography, visual culture, cultural
studies.
Colin Milburn, Ph.D. (Harvard): relations of literature & science; science fiction; gothic horror; history of biology; history of physics; post-humanism.
Elizabeth Miller, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin): Victorian literature; feminism/gender and sexuality studies; film media, print culture, performance, visual studies & popular culture.
Scott Shershow, Ph.D. (Harvard): critical theory; cultural studies; history & theory of drama; Renaissance.
Scott Simmon, Ph.D. (UC Davis): film Studies; American culture, 20th-c. American literature.
Literature & the Environment
W. Jack Hicks, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina): literature of California; literature of nature & wilderness; creative writing.
Michael Ziser, Ph.D. (Harvard): American literature; literature & the environment; ecocriticism.
Medieval Literature
Seeta Chaganti, Ph.D. (Yale): Old & Middle English poetry; late medieval drama; English & French Arthurian romance; medieval, religious & material culture
Matthew Vernon, Ph.D. (Yale): Medieval literature, 19th-c. English literature.
Postcolonial Literature
Greg Dobbins, Ph.D. (Duke): 20th-c. Irish & British literature; modernism; post-colonial theory & literature; cultural studies; critical theory.
John Marx, Ph.D. (Brown): modernism; post-colonial theory & literature; the novel.
Parama Roy, Ph.D. (University of Rochester): post-colonial theory & literature; Victorian literature; cultural studies; feminist studies.
Romanticism & 19th-Century British Literature
David Simpson, Ph.D. (Cambridge): Romanticism; literary theory.
Matthew Vernon, Ph.D. (Yale): 19th-c. English literature
Theory
Don P. Abbott, Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts): history of rhetoric; rhetorical theory; Renaissance literature; freedom of expression.
Nathan Brown, Ph.D. (UCLA): 20th- and 21st-century American literature; experimental poetry and poetics; contemporary philosophy and critical theory; science/technology studies; avant-garde modernisms.
David Lloyd, Ph.D. (Cambridge University): Anglophone literature and Colonialism, Victorian, modern Irish literature, U.S. minority literature, poetry and poetics, critical theory.
Scott Shershow, Ph.D. (Harvard): critical theory; cultural studies; history & theory of drama; Renaissance.
David Simpson, Ph.D. (Cambridge): Romanticism; literary theory.
Evan Watkins, Ph.D. (University of Iowa): literary theory & composition theory; cultural studies; American literature; gender studies.
Victorian Literature
Kathleen Frederickson, Ph.D. (University of Chicago): Victorian Studies and culture; feminist and queer studies; history of biology, psychology and the social sciences; Marxism; and psychoanalysis.
David Lloyd, Ph.D. (Cambridge University): Anglophone literature and Colonialism, Victorian, modern Irish literature, U.S. minority literature, poetry and poetics, critical theory.
Elizabeth Miller, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin): Victorian literature; feminism/gender and sexuality studies; film media, print culture, performance, visual studies & popular culture.
Parama Roy, Ph.D. (University of Rochester): post-colonial theory & literature; Victorian literature; cultural studies; feminist studies.