Literature Faculty

Alphabetical Listing

"This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum."
-D.H. Lawrence

Austin, Linda - Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, particularly the intersection of Economics, Art, Literature, and Psychology.

Cobb, Amanda - American Indian Literature, American Literature.

Decker, William - American Literature Colonial to Contemporary, African American Literature and Culture, Literature of Travel and Migration, and Nonfiction Prose.

Eldevik, Randi - Medieval Studies.

Fitz, Brewster (Emeritus)- Literary Criticism and Theory, Native American Literature, Cross-cultural Literature, Short Story, Detective Fiction. The following authors in particular: Kate Chopin, Leslie Marmon Silko, Simon Ortiz, Diane Glancy, Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, Ha Jin, Jhumpa Lahiri, Amy Tan, Tony Hillerman.

Frohock, Richard - 18th-Century British Literature and Early American Literature. In particular 18th-Century Transatlantic Culture, 18th-Century Narratives of Exploration and Piracy and Privateering.

Grubgeld, Elizabeth - Modern British and Irish Literature; Autobiography. Recent Graduate Courses have included: Post Colonial Theory and Irish Literature, Memory and Narrative in Contemporary Culture, Autobiography by Women.

Jones, Edward - 17th-Century British Literature.

Leavell, Linda - 20th-Century American Literature, Poetry, Modernism in Literature and the Visual Arts, Biography, Marianne Moore.

Mason, Carol - Theories of Gender and Sexuality, 20th Century American Literature and Culture, Race and Reproduction

Mayer, Robert - British Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century (1660-1830), Early English Novel, Early Modern British Historiography, Defoe, Scott, Film, Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen, and Authorship and Literary Authority.

Price, Merrall Llewelyn - Medieval Studies.

Rizzuto, Nicole - Modernist and Postcolonial Anglophone Literature and Critical Theory

Smith, Lindsey - Multi-Ethnic Studies, American Indian Literature, African American Literature, Modern and Contemporary American Literature

Takacs, Stacy - Contemporary American Literature and Culture; American Cultural Studies; TV Studies; and Media and Globalization.

Walker, Jeffrey - Early American Literature, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, American Studies, Film, Textual Editing, Comedy, Dickens.

Walkiewicz, Edward P. - Modern and Contemporary Literature (especially Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, John Barth), Literature and Science, and Science Fiction.

Wallen, Martin - Romanticism, Continental Philosophy, and Animals in Art.

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