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Faculty in Literature

Faculty

	Neal Bowers Poetry; fiction (specifically the novel); nonfiction; literary scholarship in modern and contemporary American poetry
	David Brottman fiction and film (particularly comic/carnivalesque, parabolic, and visionary modes); literature as a vehicle for metaphysical speculation (and its transmogrification), existential self-interrogation, psychological transformation; and the circulaton between veracular, mass-mediated, elite, & esoteric cultures of paranoid and/or apocalyptic schemas of designation, representation, valorization
	Susan Carlson Shakespeare; women in the British theatre; connections between early 20th-century British suffrage theatre and the production of Shakespeare's plays; literary theory
	Jane Davis Literary and artistic responses to 9/11; black literature and culture of America and Africa; place and memory in American culture; contemporary American novel; contemporary memoir
	John Hagge Representations of physical and mental illness in literary and non-literary texts; text linguistics and discourse analysis; narrative theory (narratology)
	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
	Neil Nakadate American fiction; American literature since 1914; sport literature; Jane Smiley's fiction
	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
	Diane Price-Herndl Feminist theory; disability studies; American literature and culture; rhetorical constructions of the body
	Linda Shenk Early modern drama; Shakespeare and performance; Elizabethan court poetry; Queen Elizabeth I as a learned prince; environmental literature
	Maya Socolovsky Trauma and literature; ethnic American literature; women and literature
	Laura Winkiel Performativity and the avant-gardes; modernism; gender and sexuality studies; postcolonial theory and literature
	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
	Brenda Daly Feminist theory; women's trauma narratives; photography and women's narratives; pedagogy
	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
	K J Gilchrist Twentieth-century literature in English; literature of WWI and Modernism; interdisciplinary, collaborative, and international education
	Carl Herndl Rhetorical theory; cultural studies; agricultural ecology and sustainable agriculture; rhetorical study of science; theories of rhetorical and cultural agency
	Donna Kienzler Pedagogy; ethics; professional communication; graduate student training
	Michael Mendelson History and theory of argument; children's literature; new curricular initiatives
	Julie Minkler-Tsivakou Caribbean literature; African-American literature; business communication
	Steve Pett Fiction writing; environmental literature; American Indian literature; literature of the American West

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