Below is a list of fields in which faculty conduct research, teaching, and professional activities. Because of the diverse nature of our work, many faculty are listed in more than one field. For interdisciplinary, theoretical, methodological, and nontraditional configurations of the department’s research interests, see Cross-Field Areas of Inquiry.
African American Literature and Culture
Tamara Butler
Yomaira Figueroa
Emery Petchauer
Jeff Wray
African and African Diaspora Studies
Yomaira Figueroa
Kenneth Harrow
Arab American and Muslim American Studies
Salah Hassan
Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies
Sheng-mei Ma
Creative Writing and Filmmaking Program
Gordon Henry
Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai
Robin Silbergleid
William Vincent
Jeff Wray
Critical Theory
Yomaira Figueroa
Ellen McCallum
Scott Michaelsen
Digital Humanities
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Digital Media Studies
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Dramatic Literature and Performance Studies
Juliet Guzzetta
Early American Studies
Stephen Carl Arch
Edward Watts
Early Modern Literature and Culture
Stephen Deng
Sandra Logan
Jyotsna Singh
Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Natalie Phillips
English Education and Critical Literacies
Tamara Butler
Emery Petchauer
Film Studies Program
Juliet Guzzetta
Gary Hoppenstand
Sheng-mei Ma
Ellen McCallum
Scott Michaelsen
Justus Nieland
Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai
Stephen Rachman
Jyotsna Singh
William Vincent
Jeff Wray
Joshua Yumibe
Kaveh Askari
Latin@ Caribbean/Afro-Latin@ Studies
Yomaira Figueroa
Medieval Studies
Tamar Boyadjian
Modernism
Sheila Contreras
William Johnsen
Ellen McCallum
Justus Nieland
Joshua Yumibe
Kristin Mahoney
Native American Literature
Gordon Henry
Scott Michaelsen
Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Stephen Arch
Scott Michaelsen
Stephen Rachman
Sheila Teahan
Edward Watts
Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Zarena Aslami
Kristin Mahoney
Judith Stoddart
Postcolonial Literature and Culture
Salah Hassan
Sheng-mei Ma
Jyotsna Singh
Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature
Sheila Contreras
Yomaira Figueroa
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Gordon Henry
Gary Hoppenstand
William Johnsen
Ann Larabee
Sheng-mei Ma
Scott Michaelsen
Justus Nieland
Patrick O’Donnell
Robin Silbergleid
David Stowe
Jeff Wray
US Latin@ Literature, Film, and Culture
Sheila Contreras
Yomaira Figueroa
Scott Michaelsen
Women’s Literature
Robin Silbergleid