Faculty

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MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

Matthew Giancarlo | PhD | Yale: Chaucer and Middle English Literature, Medieval Arthurian Literature, European Medieval Literature and Culture

RENAISSANCE AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Walter C. Foreman | PhD | Washington: Shakespeare, Jonson, Renaissance Drama
Matthew Giancarlo | PhD | Yale: Renaissance Literature
Joyce MacDonald | PhD | Vanderbilt: Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, Race Theory

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Lisa Zunshine | PhD | California, Santa Barbara: Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature, Cognitive Approaches to Literature

NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH LlTERATURE AND CULTURE

Peter Kalliney | PhD | University of Michigan: Cultural Studies, History of the Novel
Ellen Rosenman | PhD | Virginia: Victorian Fiction

TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Jonathan Allison | PhD | Michigan: Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Irish Literature, Yeats
Peter Kalliney | PhD | University of Michigan: Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Postcolonial Literature, History of the Novel
Ellen Rosenman | PhD | Virginia: Modern Fiction, Woolf

COLONIAL THROUGH NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Virginia Blum | PhD | Brown: Fiction
Jeffory A. Clymer | PhD | Duke University: Transnational Contexts of Literature, Economics and Literature, Critical Race Theory
Andy Doolen | PhD | University of Arizona: Colonial to Nineteenth-Century American Writing, The American Novel
Marion Rust | PhD | Stanford: Early American Literature and Culture, American Sentimentalism

TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Virginia Blum | PhD | Brown
Susan Bordo | PhD | State University of New York, Stony Brook
Jeffory A. Clymer | PhD | Duke University: Transnational Contexts of Literature, Economics and Literature, Critical Race Theory
Andy Doolen | PhD | University of Arizona: The American Novel
Pearl James | PhD | Yale: Fitzgerald, Film, World War I
Alan Nadel | PhD | Rutgers: Post-WW II American Literature and Culture, Cold War Studies
Jené Schoenfeld | PhD | Duke University: 20th Century American Literature, African-American Literature, Gender Studies
Michael Trask | PhD | The Johns Hopkins University: Social Theory, History of Sexuality

AFRICAN, AFRICAN AMERICAN, AND CARIBBEAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Jeffory A. Clymer | PhD | Duke University: Transnational Contexts of Literature, Economics and Literature, Critical Race Theory
David LaCroix | PhD | University of Wisconsin-Madison: American literature and the color line, Autobiography, Interdisciplinary study of time
Alan Nadel | PhD | Rutgers: American Studies with an emphasis on the representation of race
Jené Schoenfeld | PhD | Duke University: 20th Century American Literature, African-American Literature, Gender Studies

FILM

Susan Bordo | PhD | State University of New York, Stony Brook
Virginia Blum | PhD | Brown

NON-FICTION WRITING

Janet Carey Eldred | PhD | Illinois: Director, Writing Program; Literacy Studies, History of US Composition & Rhetoric
Susan Bordo | PhD | State University of New York, Stony Brook: Women's Studies and non-fiction
Erik Reece: Environmental Writing
Randall Roorda | PhD | Michigan: Composition, Rhetoric

LINGUISTICS

Anna Bosch | PhD | Chicago: Director, Linguistics Program; Phonology, Celtic, Romance Languages, Minority Languages, Linguistic Theory
Rusty Barrett | PhD | University of Texas at Austin: Sociolinguistic theory, Mayan languages, Phonological theory
Thomas Clayton | PhD | Pittsburgh: English as a Second Language
Matthew Giancarlo | PhD | Yale: History of the English Language, Old English
Andrew Hippisley | PhD | University of Surrey, England: Morphology
Gregory Stump | PhD | Ohio State: Linguistics, Morphosyntactic Theory; Inflectional Morphology; Breton, Sanskrit, Pali

CREATIVE WRITING

Kim Edwards | MFA | University of Iowa: Creative Writing

WOMEN'S LITERATURE AND GENDER STUDIES

Virginia Blum | PhD | Brown
Susan Bordo | PhD | State University of New York, Stony Brook
Janet Carey Eldred | PhD | Illinois
Ellen Rosenman | PhD | Virginia
Marion Rust | PhD | Stanford
Jené Schoenfeld | PhD | Duke University

LITERARY THEORY

Virginia Blum | PhD | Brown: Critical Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory, Gender Theory, Cultural Studies
Andy Doolen | PhD | University of Arizona: Postcolonial & Race Theory, Narrative Theory
Janet Carey Eldred | PhD | Illinois: Gender and Race Theory, Cultural Studies
Matthew Giancarlo | PhD | Yale
Alan Nadel | PhD | Rutgers
Armando Jose Prats | PhD | Florida: Narrative Theory
Ellen Rosenman | PhD | Virginia: Feminist Theory
Marion Rust | PhD | Stanford: Nineteenth Century American Women Writers

RACE THEORY

Jeffory A. Clymer | PhD | Duke University: Transnational Contexts of Literature, Economics and Literature, Critical Race Theory
Andy Doolen | PhD | University of Arizona: Postcolonial & Race Theory, Narrative Theory
Joyce MacDonald | PhD | Vanderbilt: Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, Race Theory
Alan Nadel | PhD | Rutgers: American Studies with an emphasis on the representation of race
Marion Rust | PhD | Stanford: Narratives of the Disenfranchised in American Culture to 1865
Jené Schoenfeld | PhD | Duke University