The faculty in the English Department have a wide range of specialties and research interests. They publish research in Children's Literature, Composition and Rhetoric, Creative Writing, English Education and Pedagogy, Linguistics/TESOL, Literary and Cultural Studies, Publishing and Technical Writing. To learn more about an individual faculty member, click on his or her name. Note: a * denotes graduate faculty status.
Psychoanalytic Theory, Children’s Literature and Culture, Young Adult Literature.
Visual Studies and Graphic Narrative; Modernism, Modernity, and the Machine Age; American Studies, Late Nineteenth Century to Present; Early Cinema, Animation, and Developing Media Technologies; Environmental Ethics and Ecofeminism; Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School.
Adolescent Literature and Culture, Children's Literature, Picture Books and Illustrated Texts, Folk Tales and Literary Fairy Tales, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Children's Literature, Visual Culture.
Feminism and narrative theory in children's and adolescent literature.
New media reading and composing strategies, new media scholarship, sustainable new media programs/environments.
Writing Assessment (portfolio and communal assessment), Literacy and Democracy, English Education, and Qualitative Research Methods.
Theories and Practices of Revision, Feminist Rhetorics, Rhetoric and Genre Theory, Teaching Writing.
The role of professional and student mentoring in teaching, learning and curricular reform; Writing across the disciplines with an emphasis on the Visual Arts, International adaptations of U.S. Writing Research and program design, Digital research exchange.
Fantasy and religious literature (especially cultural studies of fairy tales and myths worldwide),The teaching and learning of writing, Language use and development.
Composition Theory, Rhetorical Theory, Authorship Studies, Life Writing and Autobiography, Creative Non-fiction, Academic Writing, Class Studies.
Intersections where humans and their composing tools meet.
Poetry and Poetics, Creative Nonfiction, Screenwriting, Creative Writing Pedagogy.
(Re)Defining the Black Aesthetic, Relationship of Music and Fiction, (S)Language, Avant-Pop (Popular Culture in Fiction).
The novel, memoir, literary journalism, women's literature, creative writing pedagogy, narrative theory.
Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy of Creative Writing, Teaching in Prisons.
Improvisation and Black aesthetics, Memory and Trauma Studies, WOC Feminisms, Digital Technologies and the African Diaspora, 18th and 19th century African American Literature, Oppositional/Experimental poetics
Crime Writing, Psychoanalysis, New Narrative, Euro-trash Aesthetics, Critical Poetics, Pedagogy.
Poetry and prose poetry, creative nonfiction, academic writers compared to non-academic writers, Irish Studies.
Postmodern Fiction Writing, Narrative Theory, Cultural Criticism, and Western Intellectual History.
Children's writing, Young adult literature, Literacy programs
Teaching of writing, History of English education, Writing instruction
Collaborative Writing Composition Pedagogy
LGBT Issues in Education Drama in Education for Literacy and Social Development School-University Partnerships Preparing Preservice Teachers Collaborative Preparation and Support of Urban Teachers to Reduce Attrition and Isolation.
Second Language Acquisition, First Language Acquisition.
Intercultural Pragmatics: Language Choice, Speech Act Realization, Politeness Theories; Language Shift.
The role of input and instruction in learning a second language; heritage language learning and maintenance; individual differences in learning a second language.
Morphosyntax, Grammaticization, History of English, Germanic Philology.
20th Century American Literature, Popular Culture, Cultural and Critical Theory, Gender and Sexuality.
19th and 20th century American and African-American Literature, the Reconstruction Era and its Legacies, Racial Ideologies and National Identity, The Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, Southern Literature.
Literatures of the United States, Cross-cultural issues in literatures of the Americas, Poetry & translation.
17th- & 18th-century cryptography, intelligence networks and swarms, postal systems, and the history of information.
Women’s Life, especially writing, Victorian Culture and Science and its Impacts, Letters and Diaries, Using Life-Writing as a Pedagogical Resource, Familial Self-Presentation.
20th Century American Literature, Drama, Textuality and Performativity, Print Culture and Bibliography.
New American literary history & the archival recovery of noncanonical
American texts, 18th and 19th century literary and cultural studies,
early 20th century studies, Native American studies/Native American
literatures, Ethnic studies, multiculturalism, critical race theory
and post-colonial/anti-colonial theory.
Anglo-Saxon Literature, Pictish Symbol Stones
Postcolonial Theory & Literature (Colonialism and British Literature, Indian Writing in English, Literature of the South Asian Diaspora, and Vernacular literatures of South India), Feminism, Film Studies (South Asian Cinema), Translations (English-Kannada).
Old English Language and Literature, Medieval Literature, History of the English Language.
Film Style, Midrash, Writing & Violence, The Culture Industry, Refusal of Work, Faust Studies, Coming of Age, Monotheism.
Postmodern Fiction, Thomas Pynchon, World War II films, American Musical Theater.
Sinclair Lewis, American Literature between World War I and World War II, World War II films, Adolescent Series Fiction
Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, American Reaslists/Naturalists, Midwest women writers of farm fiction
Literary and Cultural Theory; Comparative Literature; Continental Philosophy; Late19th and 20th Century Literatures of Europe and Africa, particularly of France, Greece, the Maghreb, and South Africa; Theories of nationalism and globalization; (Trans)gender and Postcolonial Studies; the Concept of the Foreign; Trauma and Modernity.
Early American Literature especially Early American Poetry and Poetics) American Literature (1830-1870) African American Literature Ancient and Medieval Comparative Literature Literary Theory and Criticism (from Plato through the Present) British Romantic Literature and Shakespeare
20th Century American Poetry and Poetics, Creative Writing, Ethics and Ecocriticism, Feminist Poetics.
Women and gender studies, feminist pedagogy, binary theory, gender constructions of language, journalistic reporting, and ethics in journalism.
Technical Communication in the Fetal Ultrasound Exam, Cultural critiques of technical visual information, Graphing and charting processes, Workplace Ethnographies of visual design.
cultural rhetorics, digital rhetorics, visual rhetorics American Indian rhetorics, histories and theories of rhetoric, alternative cyberfeminist theory, decolonial theory and methodology, global and inter-/intra-cultural professional/technical communication. cultural usability studies.
The Intersections of Technology and Pedagogy, Emergent pedagogies, Digital literacies, New media studies, Web design.
Professionalization in technical communication, Rhetoric of technical communication and Technology, Narrative discourse in workplace contexts. New Literacy and Workplace Literacy Studies, Genre Studies, Classical and Sophistic Rhetoric, Policy and Curricular aspects of Cooperative Education and Experiential Learning, social justice and diversity in technical communication.
(* denotes graduate faculty status)
