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Full-Time Faculty

Randy Bass
Vice Provost for Education
Executive Director, CNDLS
Director, Visible Knowledge Project
Professor of English
- Learning
- Pedagogy & Design
- Impact of Digital Technologies on Education

Caetlin Benson-Allott
Associate Professor
Editor, Cinema Journal
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US Film History
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Film Theory
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Video and Digital Media Cultures
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New Media Studies
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Feminist and Queer Theory
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Materialism and Object Studies
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Horror Media

Ashley Cohen
Assistant Professor
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18th-Century British and Transatlantic Literature
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British Imperial History
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Postcolonial and Transnational Studies

Michael Collins
Teaching Professor
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Shakespeare and Anglo-Welsh Poetry of the 20th-Century
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Shakespeare
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Modern British Drama
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Medieval/Renaissance Drama

Maureen Corrigan
The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism
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The work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Contemporary Literature
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The Literature of New York City
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Public Intellectuals in America
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American Detective Fiction
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Women’s Autobiography
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19th Century British Poetry and Prose

Margaret Debelius
Teaching Professor
Director of Faculty Initiatives, CNDLS
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Writing Studies
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Faculty Development
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Graduate Education
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Victorian Literature

Barbara Feinman Todd
Professor of the Practice
Director, Journalism Program
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Investigative reporting
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Global Press Freedom
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Voice
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Memoir

Jennifer Natalya Fink
Associate Professor
Director, English Honors & Awards
- Creative Writing
- Performance Studies
- Queer Theory

Carolyn Forché
University Professor
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Poetry Writing
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Poetry of Witness
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20th/21st-Century Poetry in English and in Translation
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Documentary Poetics
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Literature and Human Rights
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Short-Form Prose
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Lannan Seminar

Aminatta Forna, OBE
Lannan Foundation Endowed Chair Visiting Professor
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Creative Writing, Fiction
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Creative Writing, Non-Fiction
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Witness Literature
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Transnational Literature

Pamela Fox
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
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American and British Working-Class Literature and Culture
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Country Music
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Feminist Theory
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Literature by Women
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Transracial and Transnational Adoption
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Motherhood Memoirs and Literature

Professor
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Creative Writing
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Poetry Writing
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Modern & Contemporary Poems
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The Lyric
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“Investigative” Poems
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Composition

John Glavin
Professor
Director, Georgetown Office of Fellowships, Awards, and Research
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Writing for the Screen
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Nineteenth-Century Fiction
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Adaptation

Assistant Professor
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Victorian Literature
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Literary Theory
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Cultures of Contemporary Globalization
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The Novel
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Ecology

John C. Hirsh
Professor
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Medieval literature, especially Chaucer
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Religious and Secular Lyrics, and Medieval Spirituality, especially Mysticism and Late Medieval Devotion
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19th-Century American Literature
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Urban Literacy

Brian Hochman
Assistant Professor
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American Studies
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19th and 20th Century American Literature and Culture
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Film and Media Studies

M. Lindasy Kaplan
Associate Professor
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Shakespeare
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Early Modern English drama
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Religion
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Race
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Gender
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Bible as Literature

Sherry Lee Linkon
Professor
Director of Writing Curriculum Initiatives
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Teaching and learning in the humanities
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Working-class studies
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American literature

David Lipscomb
Director, Writing Center
Assistant Teaching Professor
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Writing Studies
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Professional Writing
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Writing Center Studies and Administration

Dana Luciano
Associate Professor
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19th century US Literature and Culture
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Queer theory
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Film
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Photography and Media Studies
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Environmental Humanities

Eddie Maloney
Executive Director, CNDLS
Professor of the Practice
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20th Century Modern and Postmodern Fiction
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Narrative Theory
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Critical Theory
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Digital Humanities
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Education Research

Mark McMorris
Professor
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Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Poetry & Poetics
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Avant-Garde and Experimental Poetry & Poetics
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Poetry Writing
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Postcolonial Literature and Theory

Sarah McNamer
Associate Professor
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Medieval Literature and Culture (English, Italian, French)
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Middle English Literature
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The History of Emotion
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Global Medieval Literatures

Lori Merish
Associate Professor
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Working Class Studies
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Feminist Theory

Angelyn Mitchell
Associate Professor
Director, Minority Mentoring Program
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African American Literary & Cultural Studies
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African American Studies
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American Literary and Cultural Studies
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Morrison Studies
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Critical Race Studies
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African American Intellectual History
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Black Popular Culture
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Southern Studies
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American Studies
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Feminist Theory
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Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies
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Black Women Writers
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Whiteness Studies
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Ethnic Studies

Patrick R. O’Malley
Associate Professor
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19th-Century British and Irish Literature and Culture
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Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Religion and Literature

Lena Cowen Orlin
Professor
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Shakespeare
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Renaissance Drama

Ricardo Ortíz
Associate Professor
Chair, English Department
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US Latin@ Literature and Culture
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Critical Theory
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American Studies
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Cultural Studies
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Gender and Sexuality Studies

Cóilín Parsons
Associate Professor
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Irish Literature
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Postcolonial Literature
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Modernism

Matthew P. Pavesich
Associate Teaching Professor
- Writing
- Rhetoric
- Composition Pedagogy

Seth Perlow
Assistant Teaching Professor
- 20th-Century and Contemporary U.S. Literature
- Poetry and Poetics
- Comparative Media Studies
- Postmodern Fiction
- Critical Theory

John C. Pfordresher
Professor
- 19th-Century British literature
- Catholic Studies: the Catholic Imagination

Amanda Phillips
Assistant Professor
- Media Studies
- Digital Humanities
- Feminist Theory
- Critical Race Theory
- Queer Theory

Samantha N. Pinto
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
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African-American, African, Caribbean, and African Diaspora Literature and Culture
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Postcolonial Studies
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Feminist Theory
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Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Ethnic Studies
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Cultural Studies
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American Studies
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Poetry
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Performance Studies

Libbie S. Rifkin
Teaching Professor
- Modern and Contemporary American Poetry including Classes in Modernism
- African American and Women’s Poetry
- Disability Studies
- Gender and Poetic Friendship
- Avant-Garde Poetic Careers

Nicole Rizzuto
Associate Professor
- Critical Theory
- Modernism
- Postcolonial/Anglophone Literature

Phil Sandick
Assistant Teaching Professor
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Composition and Creative Writing Pedagogy
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Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition
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Contemporary Fiction
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The Short Story

Henry Schwarz
Professor
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Literary Theory
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Cultural Studies
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Postcolonialism
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India, Justice and Peace Studies
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Social Change

Karen Shaup
Associate Teaching Professor
- Modernism
- Digital Humanities
- Composition Pedagogy

Daniel Shore
Associate Professor
Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor
- Early Modern Literature
- Digital Humanities
- Linguistics
- Intellectual History

Christine So
Associate Professor
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Asian American Studies
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Critical Race Studies
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Law and Literature

Noël Sugimura
Associate Professor
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Milton

Rebecca Tarsa
Assistant Teaching Professor
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Digital and Web Writing
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Multimodal Composing
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Professional Writing
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Visual and Digital Rhetoric
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New Media Literacy
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Rhetoric and Pedagogy
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Digital Communities and Participation
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Games and Learning
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Writing Program Administration (focusing on instructor training and program development)
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Writing Across the Curriculum

Kathryn Temple
Associate Professor
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18th Century Literature and Culture
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Law, Culture and the Humanities
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Writing and Professional Writing
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Graduate Education in the Humanities
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Value of the Humanities

Norma Tilden
Teaching Professor
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Writing and Writing Pedagogy
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Nonfiction Prose
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Contemporary Essay
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Nature Writing
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Ecocriticism

Kelley Wickham-Crowley
Associate Professor
- Old English and Early Middle English literature
- Intersections of Physical and Intellectual Culture
- Early Medieval Archaeology of the British Isles
- Feminist and Gender Theory and Medieval Sexualities
- Anglo-Saxon architecture
- Laamon’s Brut (12th century verse history of Britain and Arthur)
- J.R.R. Tolkien’s Writings
- Fantasy and Science Fiction

Duncan Wu
Raymond Wagner Professor in Literary Studies
- Poetry
- British Romanticism
- Postwar British Drama
Faculty Lecturers

Mary Jane Barnett
Lecturer
- Shakespeare; the Use of Twins in The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night
- Rhetorical/Spatial Figures Both as Theatrical Devices and as Epistemological Poetics
- Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Disappointments
- Writing and Culture

Rebecca Boylan
Lecturer
- 19th-20th Century British/Global Literature
- Lit, Art, and Film of WWI
- Detective Fiction and Film
- Victorian Literature and Photography
- Exploring Narrative/Prose/Verse through Epistemology (how do we know what we know? how do Perceptions of Time and Space; the Real and the Uncanny construct individual and cultural identity?), Ethics (how does care-ful reading expand beneficent choosing and collaboration?), and Aesthetics (why and to what effects is the beautiful both deeply breath-taking and terrifying?)

Kelly Cole
Lecturer
- 20th-Century American Culture
- Television History and Criticism
- Film Studies
- Representations of Race and Gender in Media
- Advertising

Stacy Day
Lecturer
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Lisbeth Fuisz
Lecturer
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Ellen Gorman
Lecturer
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Sara Schotland
Lecturer
- Disability Studies
- Law and Literature
- Literature of War
- Utopia/Dystopia Studies

Christopher Shinn
Lecturer
- Asian American and African American Literatures
- World Literature and Film
- Comparative Ethnicities and Race
- Theories of Diaspora
- Postcolonial Studies
- Critical Theory
- Science Fiction & Fantasy and pulp fiction
- Pulp Fiction

Niles Tomlinson
Lecturer
- American Gothic Fiction
- 19th Century American Literature
- Animal Studies

Elizabeth Velez
Lecturer
- Women & Gender Studies
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Joy Young
Lecturer
- Writing and Culture
- Film and Media
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Affiliated Faculty

Mark Bosco, S.J.
Vice President for Mission and Ministry
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Robert Patterson
Affiliate Associate Professor
- Race and Racism in American Culture
- Rhythm and Blues Music and the Politics of Race
- 20th Century African American Literature and Culture
- Pre-20th Century African American Literature and Culture
- Civil Rights and Black Leadership
- Slavery’s Legacies in Contemporary American Culture
- Race and Racism in American Culture
- African American Relationships and Gender Politics

Margarida Vale de Gato
Affiliate Lecturer
Fulbright Scholar
- 19th Century American Literature
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Modernist Poetry
- Literatures of the Diaspora
- Short Story Theory

Mabel Gergan
Mellon-Sawyer Post Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities
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Emeritus Faculty

- Research Specialties: British Romantic Poetry, in particular: Wordsworth and poets connected to him like Coleridge

- Research Specialties: 18th and 19th Century Feminist Performance History and Theory, Critical Race Theory, Early American Black Women Activists

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- Research Specialties: Slavery and free black people in the mid-Atlantic region

- Research Specialties: Irish Literature 1800-Present, Autobiography

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- Research Specialties: 17th Century English Literature & History: John Milton and John Selden, Biblical narrative, Literature and Religion, Literature and History

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- Research Specialties: 18th-Century British and American Literature, William Byrd
Core Faculty

Sherry Lee Linkon
Professor
Director of Writing Curriculum Initiatives
- Teaching and Learning in the Humanities
- Working-Class Studies
- American Literature

David Lipscomb
Director, Writing Center
Assistant Teaching Professor
- Writing Studies
- Professional Writing
- Writing Center Studies and Administration

Matthew P. Pavesich
Associate Director
Associate Teaching Professor
- Writing
- Rhetoric
- Composition Pedagogy

Monica Maxwell
Assistant Professor
- Academic Writing
- English as a Foreign Language
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Phil Sandick
Assistant Teaching Professor
- Composition and Creative Writing Pedagogy
- Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition
- Contemporary Fiction
- The Short Story

Karen Shaup
Associate Teaching Professor
- Modernism
- Digital Humanities
- Composition Pedagogy

Rebecca Tarsa
Assistant Teaching Professor
- Digital and Web Writing
- Multimodal Composing
- Professional Writing
- Visual and Digital Rhetoric
- New Media Literary
- Rhetoric and Pedagogy
- Digital Communities and Participation
- Games and Learning
- Writing Program Administration
- Writing Across the Curriculum
Affiliated Writing Faculty

Mary Jane Barnett
Lecturer
- Shakespeare; the Use of Twins in The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night
- Rhetorical/Spatial Figures Both as Theatrical Devices and as Epistemological Poetics
- Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Disappointments
- Writing and Culture

Rebecca Boylan
Lecturer
- 19th-20th Century British/Global Literature
- Lit, Art, and Film of WWI
- Detective Fiction and Film
- Victorian Literature and Photography
- Exploring Narrative/Prose/Verse through Epistemology (how do we know what we know? how do Perceptions of Time and Space; the Real and the Uncanny construct individual and cultural identity?), Ethics (how does care-ful reading expand beneficent choosing and collaboration?), and Aesthetics (why and to what effects is the beautiful both deeply breath-taking and terrifying?)

Gibson Cima
Lecturer
- South African Theatre and Performance
- African Theatre History
- Postcolonial Theory
- Theatre for Social Change

Stacy Day
Lecturer
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Lisbeth Fuisz
Lecturer
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Matt Fullerty
Lecturer
- British and American 19th and 20th Century Fiction
- Academic Novel/Campus Fiction
- Banned Books and Films
- Creative Writing (Crime and Historical Fiction)

Svetlana Grenier
Associate Professor
Department of Slavic Languages

Laura Hartmann-Vallalta
Lecturer
- 20th century American and British literature
- Human Rights Studies
- Visual Culture (particularly documentary photography)
- Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- War Studies

Jee Yoon Lee
Lecturer
- Asian American Literature
- Writing and Culture
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George Mihaychuk
Associate Professor
Chair, Department of Slavic Languages

Marcia Morris
Professor
Department of Slavic Languages

Seth Perlow
Assistant Teaching Professor
- 20th-Century and Contemporary U.S. Literature
- Poetry and Poetics
- Comparative Media Studies
- Postmodern Fiction
- Critical Theory

Libbie S. Rifkin
Teaching Professor
- Modern and Contemporary American Poetry including Classes in Modernism
- African American and Women’s Poetry
- Disability Studies
- Gender and Poetic Friendship
- Avant-Garde Poetic Careers

Alis Sandosharaj
Lecturer
- American Studies
- Critical Race Theory
- African-American Studies
- Ethnic Studies
- Creative Nonfiction
- Memoir
- Ethnography
- Composition/Rhetoric
- 20th Century American Literature
- Atheism

Christopher Shinn
Lecturer
- Asian American and African American Literatures
- World Literature and Film
- Comparative Ethnicities and Race
- Theories of Diaspora
- Postcolonial Studies
- Critical Theory
- Science Fiction & Fantasy and Pulp Fiction
- Pulp Fiction

Kathryn Temple
Associate Professor
- 18th Century Literature and Culture
- Law, Culture and the Humanities
- Writing and Professional Writing
- Graduate Education in the Humanities
- Value of the Humanities

Niles Tomlinson
Lecturer
- American Gothic Fiction
- 19th Century American Literature
- Animal Studies

Joy Young
Lecturer
- Writing and Culture
- Film and Media
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