Department of English

Faculty Areas of Specialization

To see who on the faculty might be interested in particular areas of specialization, please click on the links to the right.
* indicates member of the graduate faculty

Also see Graduate Faculty Research Statements for details of faculty interests.

Creative Writing

Robin Allnutt fiction
Carl Bean screenwriting
Lissa Bloomer poetry, creative nonfiction
*Fred D’Aguiar fiction, poetry
*Ed Falco fiction, drama, new media writing
Katie Fallon creative nonfiction
*Nikki Giovanni poetry
JoAnn Harvill poetry
*Bob Hicok poetry, fiction
*Jeff Mann poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction
*Erika Meitner poetry
Aileen Murphy poetry
*Lucinda Roy fiction, poetry
Tiffany Trent fiction for young people
Matthew Vollmer fiction
Gyorgyi Voros poetry

Rhetoric and Writing

Mark Armstrong classical rhetoric, professional writing and editing
*Kelly Belanger rhetoric, competition, power, and identity in texts by and about sportswomen
*Eva Brumberger visual rhetoric, intercultural communication, pedagogy
*Sheila Carter-Tod literacy, composition, rhetorical strategies of racial identity
*James Collier meta-inquiry, rhetoric of science
*Clare Dannenberg sociolinguistics, symbolic representation of local and extra-local identity
*James M. Dubinsky university-community partnerships and the rhetoric of citizenship
*Carlos Evia workplace communication as affected by technology, globalization, and diversity
*Shelli Fowler race and the rhetoric of resistance
*Diana George small/alternative press newspapers and public advocacy, visual rhetoric
Sue Hagedorn rhetoric of science
*Bernice Hausman medical rhetoric and the sexed body: breastfeeding and HIV
*Paul Heilker the rhetoric(s) of autism
Steve Kark professional writing
*Julian Koslow history of rhetoric in the Renaissance
Jennifer Mooney professional writing, visual design
*Kelly Pender history and theory of rhetorical invention, classical rhetoric
*Katrina M. Powell rhetorical constructs of identity and displacement, genre
*David Radcliffe literary imitatio and the foundation of English studies
*Carolyn Rude rhetoric and public policy, genre
Jane Wemhoener business writing

Linguistics, History of the Language

*Clare Dannenberg sociolinguistics
*Charlene Eska history of the language,
*Joe Eska cognitive components of human language, Celtic studies
*Daniel W. Mosser history of the language

Old and Middle British Literature and Language

*Anthony Colaianne Medieval literature, Chaucer
*Charlene Eska Medieval legal texts, history of the language, Medieval literature, linguistics
*Daniel W. Mosser Chaucer, history of the language
Mike Piersol Medieval literature
*Karen Swenson Old English, Medieval literature
Jane Wemhoener Medieval literature

Early Modern British Literature

*Linda Anderson Shakespeare, Renaissance drama
*Anthony Colaianne Shakespeare
*Julian Koslow Milton, Spenser, Shakespeare, drama
*Daniel W. Mosser Chaucer, history of the language
*David H. Radcliffe Spenser, Shakespeare, Renaissance poetry
*Ernest W. Sullivan II Donne, Milton, Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature
*Karen Swenson Shakespeare

18th Century British Literature

*David Radcliffe poetry, the literary tradition
*Dennis Welch

19th Century British Literature

*Virginia Fowler 19th-century fiction
*Peter Graham Romantics, especially Byron; Austen; Darwin; literature and medicine
*Shoshana Knapp
*Nancy Metz fiction, Victorian literature
Jennifer Mooney Victorian literature
*Dennis Welch poetry, Romanticism

Modern and Contemporary British Literature

*Peter Graham
*Bob Siegle

Early American Literature

*Gena Chandler
*Fritz Oehlschlaeger
*Steven Salaita
*Paul Sorrentino

American Literature after the Civil War

*Gena Chandler
*Virginia Fowler
*Thomas Gardner
*Fritz Oehlschlaeger
*Steven Salaita
*Paul Sorrentino

Comparative Literature

*Anthony Colaianne
*Christine Kiebuzinska European literature, particularly German and Polish, Czech and Russian; Faust myth
*Shoshana Knapp

Ethnic Literature

*Gena Chandler African American literature
*Shelli Fowler African American literature
*Virginia Fowler African American literature
Kathryn Graham Ethnic children's literature
Alice Kinder Appalachian literature
*Jeff Mann Appalachian literature
Erika Meitner Jewish and Muslim women?s literature, the Jewish-American novel
Jennifer Mooney Appalachian literature
Steve Mooney Appalachian literature
*Steven Salaita Native American literature, Arab American literature
*J.D. Stahl Ethnic children's literature

Women's Literature

*Virginia Fowler
*Bernice Hausman
Erika Meitner Jewish and Muslim women?s literature, the Jewish-American novel
Jane Wemhoener

Children's Literature

Mark Armstrong
Kathryn Graham
*J.D. Stahl

Fiction

*Gena Chandler
*Virginia Fowler Black women's fiction, Henry James
*Peter Graham Jane Austen
*Bernice Hausman contemporary women's fiction
*Shoshana Knapp nineteenth-century fiction--American, British, French, and Russian
Erika Meitner the Jewish-American novel
*Nancy Metz Charles Dickens, Victorian novel
*Bob Siegle Contemporary fiction
*Paul Sorrentino Stephen Crane, American novel
*J.D. Stahl Mark Twain, American novel

Poetry

*Thomas Gardner American poetry, contemporary poetry
*Bob Hicok The New York School of Poetry
*Dennis Welch William Blake, British poetry

Drama

*Linda Anderson Shakespeare, Renaissance drama
*Ed Falso playwriting
*Christine Kiebuzinska theatre history and theory of representation, realism
*Julian Koslow Renaissance drama, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson

Creative Nonfiction

Katie Fallon nature writing
*Paul Heilker the essay
*Jeff Mann Appalachia, gay/lesbian experience
Ed Weathers magazine writing, sports writing, literary journalism

Theory and Criticism

*Gena Chandler
*Bernice Hausman feminist theory, cultural criticism
*Christine Kiebuzinska
*Kelly Pender
*Steven Salaita
*Bob Siegle

Cultural Studies

*Bernice Hausman
*Christine Kiebuzinska
*Shoshana Knapp
*Steven Salaita
*Bob Siegle

Film and Literature

Michael Bliss
*Diana George
*Christine Kiebuzinska
*Shoshana Knapp

Textual Studies

*Daniel Mosser Medieval manuscripts, Chaucer
*David Radcliffe Scottish poetry, Spenser
*Ernest Sullivan John Donne: Letters, Poetry

Literary Biography

*Virginia Fowler Nikki Giovanni
*Shoshana Knapp Ayn Rand
*Paul Sorrentino Stephen Crane

Medical Humanities: Literature, Rhetoric

*Kelly Belanger medicine and rhetoric
*Bernice Hausman literature and medicine, AIDS, breastfeeding
*Paul Heilker rhetoric(s) of autism
*Peter Graham medical humanities