Faculty

Stephen Sicari
Department Chair
Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Literary Modernism; the Epic, the Allegory, and the History of the Novel; Theory and Criticism

Robert Fanuzzi
Assistant Chair
Associate Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., 18th and 19th Century American Literature; African-American Literature

Dohra Ahmad, Assistant Professor, B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph. D., Postcolonial Literature; American and Ethnic American Literature; Utopian Fiction

Angela Belli, Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Modern Comparative Drama; Literature and Medicine

Gabriel Brownstein, Asst. Professor, B.A., M.F.A., Fiction

Lee Ann Brown, Assistant Professor, M.F.A., 20th Century Poetry and Poetics

Scott Combs, Assistant Professor, B.A., The University of Chicago, M.A, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Rhetoric and Film

Harry Denny, Associate Professor; Director of University Writing Center
B.A., University of Iowa; M.A., University of Colorado; Ph.D., Temple University
Rhetoric and Composition Studies, Cultural Studies, and Writing Program Administration

Granville Ganter, Associate Professor, B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., 18th and 19th Century U.S. Literature; Northeast Native American Studies; and African American literature

Anne Geller, Assistant Professor and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, B.A., Mount Holyoke College, M.A., New York University, Ph.D., New York University

Rachel Hollander, Assistant Professor English, Ph.D., M.A., B.A., Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century British literature

Amy M. King, Associate Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Victorian Studies

Carmen Kynard, Assistant Professor; Director, First-Year Writing Program

Brian Lockey, Asst. Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Early Modern Literature

John Lowney,  Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Modern and Postmodern American Literature, American Poetry, Twentieth-Century African American Literature

Kathleen Lubey, Associate Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph. D., Eighteenth-Century Novel

Gregory Maertz, Professor, B.A., A.M., A.M., Ph.D., Romanticism; Romanticism and its legacy in literature, art, and cultural politics; the afterlife of Nazi art and culture; art and propaganda; kitsch and camp; history of the profession; criticism and theory

Steven Mentz, Associate Professor, B.A., M.A., M.Phil. Ph.D., Shakespeare, 16th and 17th-Century English Literature

Stephen Paul Miller, Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Contemporary American literature, Cultural Studies, Poetry

Melissa Mowry, Associate Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., 18th-Century English Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Lisa Outar, Assistant Professor, B.A., Princeton University, M.A., The University of Chicago, Ph.D., The University of Chicago; Caribbean Literature; Postcolonial Theory

Derek Owens, Associate Professor; Executive Director, Institute for Writing Studies; B.A., M.A., D.A., Composition Pedagogy, Writing Program Administration, Ecocomposition and Sustainability, Experimental Writing

Nicole Rice, Assistant Professor, B.A., Yale University, MPhil, University of Cambridge, PhD, Columbia University; Medieval Religious Culture

Jennifer Travis, Associate Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., American literature to 1900, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies

Elda Tsou, Assistant Professor, B.A., University of California, Berkeley, M.A., University of Chicago, Ph.D., Columbia University, English and Comparative Literature