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English (Creative Writing and Literature specializations)
Graduate faculty members serving for the M.A. in English, with an emphasis in Creative Writing or Literature.
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; Arthurian legend; medieval British literature and culture; multimedia; digital humanities; and multimodal communication in the humanities classroom |
| Carlson, Susan | British drama; Shakespeare; modern and contemporary drama; Henry James; contemporary British literature; comedy; women's theatre; feminist approaches to literature |
| Davis, Jane | African American literature and culture; cultural studies |
| Gilchrist, K. James | 20th-century literature in English; literature of WWI and modernism; interdisciplinary, collaborative, and international education |
| Graham, Margaret * | feminist pedagogy and research; professional communication; political nature of discourse; American society and culture |
| Haas, Barbara * | creative writing, fiction; history and theory of the short story; plotting the novel |
| Hagge, John | representations of physical and mental illness in literary and non-literary texts; the teaching of descriptive English grammar, history of English, and world literature |
| Hickok, Kathleen | women’s literature; Victorian literature; Romantic British literature; African American women writers; lesbian writers |
| Kupfer, Fern | writing creative nonfiction; teaching creative writing; writing for popular magazines |
| Larson, Sidner | American Indian studies; American Indian literature |
| Marquart, Debra * | writing poetry, nonfiction, fiction; intermedia arts |
| Mendelson, Michael * | history of rhetoric; 19th-century British fiction; children's literature; fairy tale and fantasy; prose style; argumentation |
| Nakadate, Neil | American literature; American fiction since 1945; Jane Smiley |
| Niday, Donna | English education; mentoring beginning teachers; composition pedagogy; young adult literature |
| Pett, Stephen * | writing fiction and nonfiction; Native American literature; Western American 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 |
| Price Herndl, Diane * | American literatures; feminist theory and rhetoric; disability studies; theories of the body; cultural studies; medical rhetoric |
| 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 |
| Swander, Mary * | writing poetry, nonfiction and drama; contemporary American poetry |
| Tremmel, Michelle | teacher education; composition studies |
| Tremmel, Robert | teacher education; poetry writing |
| Wiegand, 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 |
| Yager, Susan | Chaucer; medieval drama; early English language and literature; Gawain poet |
| Zimmerman, David * | late 20th-century novel and short story; South American literature; the novella; creative writing (fiction, drama, and screen writing); travel writing; autobiographical writing |
| Zimmerman, Zora | comparative literature and folklore; English and continental Romantic movement; oral epic and narrative; myth |
