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Faculty in Literature

Faculty

	Barbara Ching 20th-century American literature; cultural studies, particularly on the distinctions between high and low culture and rustic and urban culture;forms of comedy and the comic in literature and culture; literature, culture, and place; technology and new media in literature and popular culture
	Kathleen Hickok 19th-century British literature and culture; women writers and women's literature; multicultural American women's literature; feminist and queer studies
	Sidner Larson American Indian literatures; American literary history (with a particular emphasis on Modernism); the New Historians; colonial through post-modern oral and written representations; the Western legal system

	Donna Niday Mentoring beginning teachers; young adult literature; teacher education for composition and literature; multimodal pedagogy and assessment
	Leland Poague Film; literary theory; classical Hollywood; Susan Sontag; Shakespeare
	Constance Post Autobiography and biography; early American women writers; transatlantic studies; U.S. multicultural literature

	Linda Shenk Early modern drama; Shakespeare and performance; Elizabethan court poetry and transnational politics; Queen Elizabeth I as a learned prince; environmental literature
	Matthew Wynn Sivils Nineteenth-century American literature, environmental literature, ecocritical literary theory, textual studies, literature of the American South
	Dometa Wiegand Nineteenth-century British Literature and science
	Susan Yager Chaucer; the Gawain-poet; medieval English literature; medieval literature in performance; allegory; teaching; teaching of Chaucer; computer pedagogy

Affiliated Faculty

	Gloria Betcher Early British drama; medieval and Renaissance British literature; Arthurian legend; humanities computing and digital media
	Scott Consigny Rhetorical theory; modern literature; literary theory

	Elyse Demaray Women’s literature and feminist cultural studies, particularly feminist theories of the body and global issues; American literature, especially 20th century Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; autobiography and autopathography
	KJ Gilchrist Twentieth-century literature in English; literature of WWI and Modernism; interdisciplinary, collaborative, and international education

	Michael Mendelson History and theory of argument; children's literature; new curricular initiatives

	Steve Pett Fiction writing; environmental literature; American Indian literature; literature of the American West

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