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English (Literature; Literature and the Teaching of Reading specializations)
Graduate faculty members serving for the M.A. in English, with emphases in Literature or Literature and the Teaching of Reading.
Note: Faculty listed with an asterik (*) by their name are listed under more than one major and may serve as either an inside or an outside POS committee member for the majors that list them.
| Name |
Research and Teaching Areas |
| Betcher, Gloria |
early British drama through the time of Shakespeare; Arthurian legend; medieval British literature and culture; multimedia design; digital humanities; and multimodal communication |
| Brothers, Dometa |
19th-century British Literature, including Romantic and Victorian prose and poetry; history of science, especially astronomy and navigation in the Romantic period; poetry and philosophy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Burke, Brianna |
environmental justice; ecocriticism; Native American literature; multi-cultural 20th-century American literature |
| Ching, Barbara |
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 |
| Demaray, Elyse |
American literature; modernism; women's literature; feminist theory; cultural studies; African American literature; autobiography |
Gilchrist, KJ
|
20th-century literature in English; literature of WWI and modernism; interdisciplinary, collaborative, and international education |
Grass, Sean
|
Victorian literature and culture, particularly Victorian fiction and autobiography; the works of Charles Dickens; sensation fiction; the Victorian book market; 19th-century commodity culture |
| Hickok, Kathleen |
women’s literature; Victorian literature; Romantic British literature; African American women writers; lesbian writers |
| Larson, Sidner |
American Indian studies; American Indian literature |
| Niday, Donna |
English education; mentoring beginning teachers; composition pedagogy; young adult literature |
| Poague, Lee |
film theory and criticism; literary theory and criticism; Renaissance drama |
| Post, Constance |
transatlantic literature; early women writers; American biography and autobiography; American literature to 1870 |
| Schaal, Michèle |
Late 20th- and 21st-century literature; women writers; gender studies; feminist theory; American third-wave feminism; contemporary French feminisms; intermediality; hypermodernity; and globalization (theory and fiction) |
| Shenk, Linda |
Elizabethan court poetry; early modern drama; Shakespeare; women’s studies; the representation of the land |
| Sivils, Matthew |
19th-century American literature; environmental literature; ecocriticism; textual studies; literature of the American South |
| Tremmel, Michelle * |
teacher education; composition studies |
| Tremmel, Robert |
teacher education; poetry writing |
| Yager, Susan |
Chaucer; medieval drama; early English language and literature; Gawain poet |
| Zimmerman, Zora |
comparative literature and folklore; English and continental Romantic movement; oral epic and narrative; myth |
