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Michael Adams. Ph.D., 1988, University of Michigan. History and structure of English language; history, theory, and practice of English lexicography and lexicology; late medieval and early modern literature; Scottish literature.
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Dana Anderson. Ph.D., 2002, The Pennsylvania State University. Rhetorical theory, composition, and pedagogy. Identity, agency, and rhetorics of human personhood. Professional writing and visual rhetoric.
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Judith H. Anderson. Ph.D., 1965, Yale University. Renaissance/early modern literature and culture, esp. Spenser, Donne, Milton; theories of rhetoric, language, and poetics; fiction, biography, and history; relations between the Middle Ages and the Tudor-Stuart period.
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Penelope Anderson. Ph.D., 2007, University of California, Berkeley. Renaissance literature; feminist and queer studies; history of the book and manuscript studies; early modern women writers; Milton.
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Philip Appleman. Professor Emeritus
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Anthony V. Ardizzone. Chancellor's Professor of English. M.F.A., Bowling Green State University, 1975.
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George Barnett Professor Emeritus
Frederick L. Beaty Professor Emeritus
Don Belton. M.A., 1982, Hollins College. Creative writing (fiction and essay). World literature. International film. Jazz music. James Baldwin.
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Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch Professor Emeritus
Purnima Bose. Ph.D., 1993, University of Texas at Austin. British colonial literature. Indian writing in English. Post-colonial literature. Cultural studies. Feminism
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Catherine Bowman. Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry M.F.A., Columbia University, 1988
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Patrick Brantlinger. Professor Emeritus
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Judith C. Brown. Ph.D., 2002, Tufts University. Transatlantic modernism, aesthetics, visual culture, early 20th c. Indian writing in English, gender, sexuality and race studies.
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Mary Alice Burgan. Professor Emeritus
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William Burgan Professor Emeritus
Matei Calinescu Professor Emeritus
Richard Cecil.
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Linda Charnes. Ph.D., 1990, University of California, Berkeley. Medieval and Renaissance. Shakespeare.
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Lawrence Clopper. Professor Emeritus
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Edward Comentale. Ph.D., 1999, State University of New York at Buffalo. Modern British literature and culture. The relationship between art and politics, the London avant garde, fiction.
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Don Cook Professor Emeritus
Denise Cruz. Ph.D., 2007, University of California. Filipina/o literature, Asian/American literature, Ethnic American literature, late 19th to 20th century American literature, U.S. imperialism, gender and sexuality studies
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Alfred David Professor Emeritus
Paul John Eakin. Professor Emeritus
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Jonathan Elmer. Ph.D., 1990, University of California, Berkeley. American literature before 1900. Critical theory. Popular and mass culture in America. Aesthetics and philosophy of Romanticism. 19th and 20th-century American poetry.
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Christine R. Farris. Ph.D., 1987, University of Washington. Rhetoric, composition and cultural studies. Literature and writing pedagogy. Women writers.
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Mary A. Favret. Ph.D., 1988, Stanford University. British Romanticism. 18th-and 19th- century women's literature. Critical theory, esp.
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Jennifer Fleissner. Ph.D., 1998, Brown University. 19th- and 20th-century American literature, realism and naturalism, feminist and critical theory, theories of modernity, literature and science, history of psychology, cultural studies.
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Charles R. Forker Professor Emeritus
Robert D. Fulk. Ph.D., 1982, University of Iowa. Old English. Beowulf. Medieval literature and languages. Linguistics and history of the English language.
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Mary E. Gaither Professor Emeritus
Ross Gay. Creative writing (poetry).
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Shannon Gayk. Ph.D., 2005, University of Notre Dame. Middle English language and literature; medieval religious writing; medieval art and iconography; Middle English paleography and codicology.
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Tarez Samra Graban. Ph.D., 2006, Purdue University. History of Rhetoric and Women Writers. Humor and Discourse Studies. Composition Theory and Pedagogy. Historiography and Archives. Second-Language Writing.
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Donald J. Gray Professor Emeritus
D. Rae Greiner. Ph.D., 2007, University of California, Berkeley. Victorian literature; the long nineteenth century; the realist novel; narrative theory; sympathy, affect, and ethics; formalism and historicism.
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Susan Gubar. Ph.D., 1972, University of Iowa. 19th-and 20th-century British and American literature written by and about women. Jewish Studies.
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Paul Gutjahr. Ph.D., 1996, University of Iowa. American literature and culture, 1640-1860. History of the book in America. Popular writing in America. Literacy studies.
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Raymond Hedin. Ph.D., 1974, University of Virginia. Black American literature, especially slave narratives. American fiction, especially Faulkner. Early American literature. Autobiography.
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Scott Herring. PhD., 2004, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Twentieth-century American literature; American modernism; Willa Cather; gender studies (particularly masculinity studies); queer theory; critical regional studies; cultural and subcultural studies.
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Jeffrey Huntsman. Professor Emeritus
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George B. Hutchinson. Ph.D., 1983, Indiana University. American literature, African American literature, the racial culture of the U.S.
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Patricia Clare Ingham. Ph.D., 1995, University of California-Santa Barbara. Medieval Romance, including Arthurian, Chaucer, Gender & Postcolonial Cultural Studies, Psychoanalytic Theory.
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Christoph Irmscher. Ph.D., 1991, University of Bonn. Nineteenth-century American literature, American poetry, literature and the history of science, literature and art history, Canadian literature.
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Kenneth Johnston Professor Emeritus
James H. Justus. Professor Emeritus
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Debra Kang Dean. Creative writing (poetry).
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Joshua Kates. Ph.D., 1991, State University of New York, Buffalo. Literary theory, Jacques Derrida, phenomenology, philosophy of language, Modernism, Shakespeare, theories of modernity, political theory.
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De Witt Douglas Kilgore. Ph.D., 1994, Brown University. 20th-century American literature. Science fiction and popular culture. Intellectual and cultural history of science. African American writing and music. Literary and historical theory. Urban and regional culture.
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Eugene Kintgen. Professor Emeritus
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Ivan Kreilkamp. Ph.D. 1999, Brown University. Victorian literature and culture; history and theory of the novel; literary and cultural theory; media studies and popular culture.
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Merritt Lawlis Professor Emeritus
Peter Lindenbaum. Professor Emeritus
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Shelia Lindenbaum. Professor Emeritus
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Joan Pong Linton. Ph.D., 1992, Stanford University. Renaissance British poetry, prose romance, and drama. Early modern women writers. Cultural studies.
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Karma Lochrie. Ph.D., 1981, Princeton University. Medieval literature, especially Chaucer and Margery Kempe. Gender theory and women’s studies.
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Christoph Lohmann Professor Emeritus
Ellen Mackay. Ph.D., 2002. Columbia University. Renaissance through Restoration drama, Renaissance literature, queer theory and performance studies. Women and gender.
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Maurice Manning. M.F.A, University of Alabama, 2001. Creative Writing (poetry), American literature.
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Joss Marsh. Ph.D., 1989, University of California, Santa Barbara. Victorian fiction and Anglo-American cinema.
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Terence Martin. Professor Emeritus
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Alyce Miller. J.D., 2003, Indiana University; M.F.A., 1995, Vermont College. Creative writing (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) and contemporary literature. Critical race theory. Race and gender and the law. Animal rights law and studies.
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Andrew H. Miller. Ph.D., 1991, Princeton University. Victorian Studies; Nineteenth century British culture; literature and philosophy; Anglo-American ethics; the essay.
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Lewis Miller. Professor Emeritus
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Roger Mitchell Professor Emeritus
Jesse Molesworth. Ph.D., 2003, Stanford University. Eighteenth-century fiction and culture; history and theory of the novel; Enlightenment; the Gothic; the graphic novel.
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James Naremore. Professor Emeritus
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Richard Nash. Ph.D., 1986, University of Virginia. Restoration and 18th-century British literature, particularly Pope and Swift. Science and literature.
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David J. Nordloh. Professor Emeritus
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Melvin Plotinsky Professor Emeritus
Alvin Rosenfeld. Professor Emeritus
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Ranu Samantrai. Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1990. Cultural Studies, postcolonial literature, contemporary Britain, Black Britain.
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Scott Russell Sanders. Ph.D., 1971, University of Cambridge (England). 20th-century literature. Writing about nature. Science fiction. History of the novel. Creative writing (fiction). Expository writing.
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John Lincoln Schilb. Ph.D., 1978, State University of New York, Binghamton. Culbertson Chair of Writing. Composition, rhetoric, and literary theory. Creative nonfiction.
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Kathy O. Smith. Ph.D., 1988, University of Missouri. Renaissance rhetoric and poetics. Renaissance literature and critical theory. Composition.
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Murray Sperber. Professor Emeritus
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Maura Stanton. M.F.A., 1971, University of Iowa. Creative writing, both fiction and poetry. 20th-century literature.
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Lee Sterrenburg. Professor Emeritus
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Paul Strohm Professor Emeritus
Samrat Upadhyay. Ph.D., 1999, University of Hawaii. Creative Writing, Fiction.
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Shane Vogel. Ph.D., 2004, New York University. Performance studies, queer studies, American studies, dramatic literature and theatre studies.
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Stephen Watt. Ph.D. University of Illinois, 1982. Irish Studies; drama and theatre history, especially of the 19th and 20th centuries; Cold War culture; the contemporary university and the discipline of English
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William Wiatt Professor Emeritus
Nicholas Williams. Ph.D., 1990, Emory University. Romantic literature, especially poetry; William Blake; literary theory.
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John Woodcock. Professor Emeritus
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Paul Zietlow Professor Emeritus
Malvin Zirker Professor Emeritus
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