Faculty By Area | Department of English

Literary and Cultural Studies

Marco Abel
Willa Cather Professor of English and Film Studies
Courtesy Professor in Department of Communication Studies

Film studies, critical and literary theory, and contemporary American literature

Caterina Bernardini
Lecturer

Nineteenth-century and early modernist American poetry, transnational and world literature, multilingualism, women's writing, reception and translation studies, and digital scholarly editing

Trevor Bleick
Lecturer

James Lowell Brunton
Assistant Professor of Practice and Coordinator of Film Studies

Film and media studies, literary and critical theory, LGBTQ studies, and creative writing (poetry)

Stephen Buhler
Aaron Douglas Professor of English

The literary culture of Early Modern England, especially the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton, as well as literature's connections with philosophy and the performing arts

James Lowell Brunton
Assistant Professor of Practice and Coordinator of Film Studies

Film and media studies, literary and critical theory, LGBTQ studies, and creative writing (poetry)

Stephen Buhler
Aaron Douglas Professor of English

The literary culture of Early Modern England, especially the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton, as well as literature's connections with philosophy and the performing arts

Peter J. Capuano
Professor of English, Director of Literary and Cultural Studies

Victorian literature and culture, Dickens studies (Dickens Project faculty), science and literature, history and theory of the novel, body studies, and digital humanities

Joy Castro
Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies
Director of Institute for Ethnic Studies

Memoir, fiction, film, U.S. ethnic literatures, women's literatures, and modernism

Matt Cohen
Professor of English, Co-Director of the Walt Whitman Archive, Co-Director of the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive, and Affiliate Faculty in Native American Studies

American studies, history of the book, Native American studies, early American literature, editorial theory and practice, and digital archives

Timothy J. Cook
Lecturer

Literary and cultural studies, modernist poetry, and epic poetry

Kwame Dawes
George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner

Post-colonial literature and theory, African American literature, Caribbean literature, African literature, reggae aesthetics, poetry, and playwriting

Andrew Del Mastro
Lecturer

Kwakiutl Dreher
Associate Professor of English and Film Studies

African American literature (autobiography and contemporary literature to present), mass-marketed popular literature, film and visual culture

Amanda Gailey
Associate Professor of English

Tom Gannon
Professor of English and Ethnic Studies

Native American literatures, British Romantic literature, critical theory, ecocriticism and "animal-rights" theory, avian and animal representation in literature

Chris Harding Thornton
Lecturer

Creative writing, literary theory and criticism, Great Plains literature, and American fiction

Arden Eli Hill
Lecturer

Creative writing (poetry) and women's and gender studies

Melissa J. Homestead
Professor of English and Director of the Cather Project

American literature and the history of the book from the Early Republic through the early 20th century (with a focus on women’s authorship), Willa Cather, Catharine Sedgwick, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, the American novel, and lesbian literature, history, and biography

Phillip Howells
Lecturer

Kathleen Lacey
Academic Advisor

African American literature, multiethnic American literature, women's literature, popular culture, race and medicine, and girlhood studies

Kevin McMullen
Research Associate Professor of English

Nineteenth-century American literature and culture, periodical literature, digital humanities, editorial theory, and textual recovery

Nick Monk
Director of the Center for Transformative Teaching
Courtesy Professor of English

Pedagogy, Open-Space Learning, the American West (especially writers Leslie Marmon Silko and Cormac McCarthy) and cultural literacy and communication

Elva Moreno Del Rio
Lecturer

Literary and cultural studies, American literature, African American literature, and Latinx literature

Ng’ang’a Wahu-Mũchiri
Associate Professor of English

African and African diaspora literature, African digital humanities, 20th-century literature, Caribbean literature

Anne Nagel
Lecturer, Administrative Technician, and Assistant to the Graduate Chair

Gabrielle Owen
Assistant Professor of English

Children's literature and culture, young adult literature, histories of childhood and adolescence, queer theory, and transgender studies

Michael Page
Assistant Professor of Practice and Coordinator of Curriculum

Science fiction, film studies, 19th-century British literature and culture, and British romanticism

Kenneth M. Price
Hillegass University Professor of American Literature, Co-Director of the Walt Whitman Archive, and Co-Director of the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive

19th- and early 20th-century American literature, Walt Whitman, American periodicals, textual scholarship, and digital humanities

Stephen Ramsay
Associate Professor of English

Digital humanities, theory of new media, and theater history

Benjamin Reed
Lecturer

Guy Reynolds
Professor of English

Willa Cather, modernism, American literary history, post-war fiction, U.S. and anglophone literary internationalism

Gregory E. Rutledge
(그레고리 유진 러틀레지)Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies

African-American literature, Afro-Korean studies (Afro-Orientalism), critical race theory, world literature, race/racism, traditional West/Central African epic performance, E3 studies (epic/exceptionalism/elite studies), storytelling and folklore, Afro-futurism, African diaspora and diaspora studies, American/cultural studies, law & literature, and American literature

Julia Schleck
Associate Professor of English and Vice Chair

Academic freedom & critical university studies, global Renaissance studies, Renaissance literature (including drama, lyric poetry and prose), travel writing and early modern colonial writings; interdisciplinary interests include Renaissance music and history of science, genre studies, and cultural materialism/Marxism

Elizabeth Spiller
Professor of English

Kelly Stage
Associate Professor of English and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program

Early modern literature (16-17th centuries, especially drama), theater history, theories of space and urban development, and theories of the public and private

Pascha Sotolongo Stevenson
Assistant Professor of Practice

Ethnic literatures, women writers, contemporary fiction, literary slipstream, creative nonfiction, and children's literature

Hanna Varilek
Lecturer

Laura White
John E. Weaver Professor of English and Chair of the Undergraduate Program and Curriculum Committee

19th- and 20th-Century British literature, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, interdisciplinary 19th-century studies, narrative theory, genre theory, history of manners, and Anglo-American modernism

Adrian S. Wisnicki
Professor of English and Digital Humanities Program Coordinator

Victorian studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, African studies, global literature, digital humanities, and technology and contemporary culture

Composition and Rhetoric

Debbie Minter
Associate Professor of English and Department Chair

Composition pedagogy and program administration, teacher research and faculty development, writing development, and digital learning environments

Rachel Azima
Associate Professor of Practice and Writing Center Director

Writing center studies, especially social justice in the writing center, writing across the curriculum/writing in the disciplines, faculty development, ecocriticism and place studies

Mavis Boatemaa Beckson
Assistant Professor of English

African Feminisms

Digital and Cultural Media

Global Black feminisms

Writing and Cultural Material Practices

Human and Non-Human Relationality

Composition, Rhetoric, and Multicultural Pedagogies

Mark Houston
Lecturer

Areas of Interest

Composition pedagogy

Ecocomposition

Material rhetorics

Theories of entanglement

Food justice

Place-based education

Hanna Varilek
Lecturer

Rachael W. Shah
Associate Professor

Composition and rhetoric, community-based pedagogies, collaborative writing, public rhetorics, participatory methodologies, and teaching of writing

Stacey Waite
Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Graduate Program and Director of Composition and Rhetoric

Composition, rhetoric, and literacy, queer theory/queer pedagogies, teaching of writing, feminist and gender studies, and creative writing/poetry

Shari Stenberg
Adele Hall Chair of English
Director of Women’s and Gender Studies

Composition and rhetoric, critical and feminist pedagogies, feminist rhetorics, and teaching and writing development

June Griffin
Professor of Practice and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education

Pedagogy, basic writing and college access, teaching with technology, learning transfer, and digital rhetoric

Amy Goodburn
Professor of English, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor, and Dean of Undergraduate Education

Composition, rhetoric, literacy studies, critical and multicultural pedagogies, ethnographic and teacher research, community/school literacy practices, and documenting and assessing teaching and learning in postsecondary education

Creative Writing

Timothy Schaffert
Adele Hall Chair of English and Director of Creative Writing

Creative writing and fiction writing

James Lowell Brunton
Assistant Professor of Practice and Coordinator of Film Studies

Film and media studies, literary and critical theory, LGBTQ studies, and creative writing (poetry)

Joy Castro
Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies
Director of Institute for Ethnic Studies

Memoir, fiction, film, U.S. ethnic literatures, women's literatures, and modernism

Avee Chaudhuri
Lecturer

Kwame Dawes
George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner

Post-colonial literature and theory, African American literature, Caribbean literature, African literature, reggae aesthetics, poetry, and playwriting

Chris Harding Thornton
Lecturer

Creative writing, literary theory and criticism, Great Plains literature, and American fiction

Arden Eli Hill
Lecturer

Creative writing (poetry) and women's and gender studies

Katie Marya
Lecturer and Associate Director, Writing Program

Poetry

Creative Nonfiction

Translation (Spanish-English)

Latin American Literatures

Women's Literatures

Shawn Rubenfeld
Lecturer

Creative writing (fiction), composition and creative writing pedagogy, Jewish-American literature, and graphic literature

Pascha Sotolongo Stevenson
Assistant Professor of Practice

Ethnic literatures, women writers, contemporary fiction, literary slipstream, creative nonfiction, and children's literature

Bianca Swift
Lecturer

Hope Wabuke
Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English

African and African diasporic literature, African American literature, women's and gender studies, literary and cultural criticism, and creative nonfiction/essay

Stacey Waite
Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Graduate Program and Director of Composition and Rhetoric

Composition, rhetoric, and literacy, queer theory/queer pedagogies, teaching of writing, feminist and gender studies, and creative writing/poetry

Ava Winter
Lecturer

Jonathan Wlodarski
Lecturer

Digital Humanities

Amanda Gailey
Associate Professor of English

Caterina Bernardini
Lecturer

Nineteenth-century and early modernist American poetry, transnational and world literature, multilingualism, women's writing, reception and translation studies, and digital scholarly editing

Peter J. Capuano
Professor of English, Director of Literary and Cultural Studies

Victorian literature and culture, Dickens studies (Dickens Project faculty), science and literature, history and theory of the novel, body studies, and digital humanities

Phillip Howells
Lecturer

Kevin McMullen
Research Associate Professor of English

Nineteenth-century American literature and culture, periodical literature, digital humanities, editorial theory, and textual recovery

Kenneth M. Price
Hillegass University Professor of American Literature, Co-Director of the Walt Whitman Archive, and Co-Director of the Charles W. Chesnutt Archive

19th- and early 20th-century American literature, Walt Whitman, American periodicals, textual scholarship, and digital humanities

Stephen Ramsay
Associate Professor of English

Digital humanities, theory of new media, and theater history

Adrian S. Wisnicki
Professor of English and Digital Humanities Program Coordinator

Victorian studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, African studies, global literature, digital humanities, and technology and contemporary culture

Film Studies