Department of English
Graduate Faculty

Nadine Attewell. Assistant Professor; Ph. D., 2006, Cornell University. Twentieth- and twenty-first century British literature; postcolonial and indigenous literatures; modernism(s); science, fantasy, and speculative fiction; gender studies; critical race studies; cultural studies.

Kathleen Boardman. Professor; Ph.D., 1992, University of Nebraska. Composition and rhetoric, autobiography and memoir, Western literature.

Phillip Boardman. Professor; Ph.D., 1973, University of Washington. Arthurian tradition, Middle English literature, Chaucer, the Bible.

Shane Borrowman. Assistant Professor; Ph.D., 2001, The University of Arizona. Classical Greek and Roman Rhetoric, Medieval Arab Rhetoric, History of Composition, Narrative Theory and Historiography, Visual Rhetoric and the Mainstream Media.

Michael Branch. Professor; Ph.D., 1993, University of Virginia. American literature before the 20th century, ecocriticism and environmental literature, humor studies, film studies.

Stacy Burton. Associate Professor; Ph.D., 1990, Cornell University. 20th century comparative literature, literary and cultural theory, modernism and postmodernism, narrative, the novel, travel literature, gender studies.

Christopher Coake. Assistant Professor; M.F.A., 2004, Ohio State University. Creative Writing (Fiction), Contemporary American Literature, Film

Dennis Cronan. Associate Professor; Ph.D., 1986, University of Minnesota. Old and Middle English language and literature, Beowulf, Old Norse.

Jane Detweiler. Associate Professor; Ph.D., 1995, University of Louisville. Composition and rhetoric, narrative theory.

Cathryn Donohue.  Assistant Professor; Ph.D., 2004, Stanford University. Interests include morphosyntax (case and agreement phenomena, argument structure, lexical semantics) and tonal phenomena. Languages of specialization: Basque, Australian languages, Chinese languages.

Elizabeth Francis. Associate Professor; Ph.D., 1970, Yale University. Victorian literature, children's literature, judicial writing.

Valerie Fridland. Associate Professor; Ph.D., 1998, Michigan State University. Sociolinguistics, language and gender, phonetic variation in regional speech.

Justin Gifford.  Assistant Professor; Ph.D., 2006, University of Virginia. American literature, African American literature and culture, critical theory, American studies.

Cheryll Glotfelty. Associate Professor; Ph.D., 1990, Cornell University. Ecocriticism and theory, environmental literature, Western American literature, Nevada studies, women's literature.

Donald E. Hardy. Professor, Ph.D., 1988, Rice University. Stylistics, computational linguistics, discourse analysis.

Jen Hill. Assistant Professor; Ph.D., 2000, Cornell University. Nineteenth-century British literature, cultural studies, literatures of science and exploration, creative writing.

Ann Keniston. Assistant Professor; Ph.D., 2002, Boston University.  History and Theory of Poetry; Modern and Contemporary Poetry;  Modern American Literature; American Autobiography;  Women's Literature;  Creative Writing (Poetry).

James Mardock.  Assistant Professor; Ph.D., 2004, University of Wisconsin. Renaissance literature, drama, Jonson, Shakespeare, London in literature.

Susan Palwick. Associate Professor; Ph.D., 1996, Yale University. Creative writing, Victorian literature, women and writing.

Eric Rasmussen. Professor; Ph.D., 1990, University of Chicago. Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, medieval drama.

Scott Slovic. Professor; Ph.D., 1990, Brown University. American literature; ecocriticism and environmental literature; comparative literature.

Erin Somerville. Assistant Professor; Ph.D., 2008, University of Warwick. Ecocriticism and theory; postcolonial literature and theory; Caribbean, African and Indian literature; travel writing.

Mark Waldo. Professor; Ph.D., 1982, Michigan State University. Composition theory, history of rhetoric, writing across the curriculum.

Lynda Walsh. Assistant Professor; Ph.D., 2003, The University of Texas at Austin. Rhetoric of science, pragmatics, writing research methods, 19th century American literature, digital rhetorics.