Graduate Studies in English

Graduate Faculty Listed by Areas of Specialization

American Literature

Earle Bryant: African-American Literature
John Gery: 20^th- and 21^st-Century Poetry
John Hazlett: Non-Fiction Prose Studies, Autobiography, Travel Narrative
Kris Lackey: Antebellum, American Renaissance
Carl Malmgren: 20^th-Century Novel, Science Fiction, Detective Novel, Popular Culture
Niyi Osundare: Poetry, African and African Diaspora Literature, Caribbean Literature
Zhaoming Qian: Modernism, Asian and Asian-American Literature, Poetry
Gary Richards: Southern Literature, Sexuality Studies, Drama
Anne Boyd Rioux: 19^th-Century Fiction, Women’s Literature, Literary Cultures

British, Commonwealth, and Postcolonial Literature

John Cooke: 20^th-Century Novel, Postcolonial Fiction, Interartistic Studies>
Dan Doll: 18^th-Century British Literature, Diaries, the Novel
Nancy Easterlin: Romantics, 19^th- and 20^th-century Novel and Short Story
Barbara Fitzpatrick: 18^th-Century British, the Novel, Book and Periodical History, Irish Fiction
Susan Krantz: Shakespeare, Early Modern Drama and Culture, Gender Studies
Catherine Loomis: Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Early Modern Women Writers
Kevin Marti: Medieval English Literature, Dante, Gothic Architecture
Michael Mooney: Shakespeare
Peter Schock: Romantics
Robert Shenk: Medieval and Renaissance, Milton, Bible as Literature
Les White: Victorian Poetry and Nonfiction Prose

Creative Writing

Rick Barton: Fiction
Randy Bates: Nonfiction
Amanda Buege-Boyden: Writer in Residence, Fiction
Joseph Boyden: Writer in Residence, Fiction
John Gery: Poetry
Joanna Leake: Fiction and Screen Writing
Kay Murphy: Poetry
Niyi Osundare: Poetry

Literary Theory

Nancy Easterlin: History of Theory and Criticism, Evolutionary and Cognitive Theory
Carl Malmgren: 20^th-Century Theory, Narrative Theory

Professional Writing

James Hashek: Journalist in Residence
Robert Shenk: Technical Writing and Editing

Rhetoric and Composition

Kim McDonald: Composition and Rhetorical Theory
Doreen Piano: Composition Studies, Rhetorical Theory, Cultural Studies, Women's Studies
Robert Shenk: Classical Rhetoric, Rhetoric and the Renaissance