Graduate Faculty
The graduate faculty in the English Department have a wide range of specialties and research interests. They publish research in Children's Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, 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.
Children's Literature
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Mary Jeanette Moran
Feminist, Narrative, and Ethical Theory, Children's and Adolescent Literature, Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century.
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Jeremy Johnston
Creative Writing
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Gabe Gudding
Moral Philosophy as it Relates to Literary Production, Animals, Animality, Veganism, Hybrid Texts, Hybrid Writing, Sociology of Literary Production and Cultural Formation of Literary Taste, Transgeneric Writing.
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Duriel Harris
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.
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Ray Levy
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Jose Antonio Villaran
English Education and Pedagogy
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Shelby Boehm
Literacy play, humanizing pedagogies, young adult literature, secondary English teacher education
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Danielle Lillge
Professional development, secondary English teacher education, literacy, facilitation, interactional ethnography, qualitative methods
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Maggie Morris Davis
Literary and Cultural Studies
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Christopher Breu
20th Century American Literature, Popular Culture, Cultural and Critical Theory, Gender and Sexuality.
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Christopher De Santis
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.
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Katherine Ellison
17th- and 18th-Century Cryptography, Intelligence Networks and Swarms, Postal Systems, and the History of Information.
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Susan Kalter
New American Literary History and 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.
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Susan Kim
Old English Language and Literature, Medieval Literature, History of the English Language.
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Tara Lyons
Early Modern Drama, Book History, Rare Books, Sammelbande, Digital Humanities, Gender Studies, and Theater History and Performance.
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William McBride
Film Style, Drama Stage and Page, Biblical Hermeneutics, Cultural Theory, Formal Analysis, Coming of Age, Monotheism, Hitchcock.
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Brian Rejack
19th century British Literature, Romanticism, Food writing and gastronomy, New media studies,Print culture and book history, Gaming and Internet culture.
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Rebecca Saunders
Literary and Cultural Theory; Comparative Literature; Continental Philosophy; Late 19th 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.
Publishing and Textual Studies
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Katherine Ellison
17th- and 18th-Century Publishing and Reading Histories, Textual Studies, Manuscript and Archival Studies, Digital Humanities and Editing.
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Duriel Harris
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.
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Tara Lyons
Early Modern Drama, Book History, Rare Books, Sammelbande, Digital Humanities, Gender Studies, and Theater History and Performance.
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Ela Przybylo
Dr. Ela Przybylo is Associate Professor in the Department of English and core faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Illinois State University.
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Brian Rejack
19th century British Literature, Romanticism, Food writing and gastronomy, New media studies,Print culture and book history, Gaming and Internet culture.
Rhetoric and Writing Studies
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Dr. Rachel Gramer
Narrative research, feminist methodologies and pedagogies, new writing teacher education/preparation, writing pedagogies, first-year writing, multimodal composition, writing program administration.
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Elise Hurley
Professional and technical communication theory and pedagogy, visual communication and visual rhetorics, visual culture, rhetoric and composition studies, community outreach and civic engagement, digital rhetorics, feminist rhetorics, multimodal composition.
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Julie Jung
Feminisms and Rhetorics, Disability Rhetorics, Feminist Rhetorical Science Studies, Posthumanist Rhetorics, Burkean rhetorical theory.
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Eda Ozyesilpinar
Border rhetorics, rhetorical cartography and rhetorics of space/place, comparative and cultural rhetorics, non-Western rhetorics, digital rhetorics, rhetorical theory and histories of rhetorics (rhetorics of and from non-Western and underrepresented groups), feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial theories and methodologies.
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Amy E. Robillard
Composition Theory, Rhetorical Theory, Authorship Studies, Life Writing and Autobiography, Creative Non-fiction, Academic Writing, Class Studies.
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Dr. Barbi Smyser-Fauble
Disability studies, feminist theories, medical rhetorics, cultural rhetorics, digital and visual rhetorics, new media reading and composing strategies, Inter/intra cultural rhetorics and technical communication histories and theories.
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Dr. Joyce Walker
Intersections where humans and their composing tools meet.
Rhetoric and Technical Communication
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Angela Haas
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.
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Elise Hurley
Professional and technical communication theory and pedagogy, visual communication and visual rhetorics, visual culture, rhetoric and composition studies, community outreach and civic engagement, digital rhetorics, feminist rhetorics, multimodal composition.
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Dr. Barbi Smyser-Fauble
Disability studies, feminist theories, medical rhetorics, cultural rhetorics, digital and visual rhetorics, new media reading and composing strategies, Inter/intra cultural rhetorics and technical communication histories and theories.
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Derek Sparby
Digital, feminist, and cultural rhetorics and technical communication, including social media, memes, and online aggression; gender and identity in digital public discourse; ethics and participation; tactical technical communication and crisis communication.
TESOL and Applied Linguistics
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Kristina Lewis
Language Teacher Identity, Second Language Teacher Education, Mentoring/Supervision in Teacher Education, Classroom Discourse Analysis, Practitioner Inquiry, Visual Methods in Applied Linguistics, Teacher Reflection
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Lisya Seloni
Second Language Writing, Academic Socialization, Critical Pedagogy in TESOL, Discourse Analysis, Educational Ethnography, Linguistic Landscape.
Theoretical Linguistics
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K. Aaron Smith
Linguistics, Morphosyntax, Grammaticization, History of English, Germanic Philology.
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Jesus Olguin Martinez
My research straddles the subfields of usage-based linguistics, typology, morphosyntax, semantics, discourse, language documentation and description, corpus linguistics, and language contact.