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Faculty Directory

  M.A. Literature Graduate Faculty
Dr. Suparno Banerjee

Suparno Banerjee, Associate Professor, B.A., M.A., Visva-Bharati University (India); Ph.D., Louisiana State University. Areas of specialization/interest: Postcolonial Literature, Culture and Theory, Science Fiction, Utopian/Dystopian Literature and Film, World Literature. 

Picture of Dr. Emily Banta

Emily Banta, Assistant Professor, B.A. Carleton College; M.A. Freie Universität (Berlin); PhD Rutgers University. Areas of specialization/interest: 19th Century American Literature, Performance Studies, Theater History, and Comedy.

Dr. Rebecca Bell-Metereau

Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Professor, A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Indiana University. Areas of specialization/interest: Film, Drama, Rhetoric & Composition Theory, Gender Studies. 

Dr. John Blair

John Blair, University Distinguished Professor, B.A., M.A., Florida State University; Ph.D., Tulane University. Areas of specialization/interest: Poetry, American (Southern) Literature, Poetic Theory & Practice, Creative Writing. 

Dr. drea brown

drea brown, Assistant Professor, B.A., Hollins University; M.F.A., University of Oregon; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Areas of specialization/interest: Black Women's Literary Traditions, Poetry and Poetics, Race & Haunting/Horror. 

Dr. Denae Dyck

Denae Dyck, Assistant Professor, B.A., Ambrose University; M.A., Dalhousie University; Ph.D., University of Victoria. Areas of specialization/interest: 19th Century British Literature, Critical Theory, Feminist Criticism, Queer/Gender/Intersectional Studies, Ecocriticism
Dr. Joe Falocco

Joe Falocco, Associate Professor, B.A., DePaul University; M.F.A., Roosevelt University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Areas of specialization/interest: Shakespeare in Performance. 

Dr. Geneva Gano

Geneva M. Gano, Associate Professor, B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles; Areas of specialization/interest: Multiethnic American Literature, Modernist Studies, U.S. Women Writers. 

Will Jensen

William Jensen, Senior Lecturer, B.A., University of South Carolina; M.F.A., Texas State University. Areas of specialization/interest: Creative Writing (Fiction), American Literature, and Southwestern Studies. 

Dr. Roger Jones

Roger D. Jones, Professor, B.A., M.A., Sam Houston State University; Ph.D., Oklahoma State University. Areas of specialization/interest: Creative Writing (especially poetry), Pastoral Literature, Contemporary Literature, Japanese poetry.

Dr. Katie Kapurch

Katie Kapurch, Associate Professor, B.A., St. Edward’s University; M.A., Texas State University; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Areas of specialization/interest: Youth and Pop Culture, Popular Music and the Beatles, Girls’ Media Studies, Melodrama in Victorian Literature and Culture, Fairy Tales, Disney.

Dr. Simon Lee

Simon Lee, Assistant Professor, B.A., Pitzer College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside. Areas of specialization/interest: 20th-21st Century British Literature, Working-Class Studies, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Youth Subculture.

Dr. Dan Lochman

Daniel T. Lochman, Professor, B.A., M.A., Loyola University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Areas of specialization/interest: Renaissance Culture and Literature, Late Medieval Literature, Spenser, Milton, and Cognitive/Affective Studies.   

Dr. Kathleen McClancy

Kathleen McClancy, Associate Professor, B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University. Areas of specialization/interest: Film, Comics, Media Studies, Post-1945 Literature, Popular Culture.

Dr. Susan Morrison

Susan S. Morrison, Professor, A.B., Swarthmore College; A.M., Ph.D., Brown University. Areas of specialization/interest: Women Writers of the Middle-Ages, Chaucer, Medieval Pilgrimage Literature, the Global Middle-Ages, Critical Theory, Feminist Criticism, Environmental Humanities, Waste Studies

Dr. Sara Ramirez

Sara A. Ramirez, Assistant Professor, B.A., University of Notre Dame; M.A., The University of Texas at San Antonio; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkley. Areas of specialization/interest: Chicano/a Literature, Art, and Culture; Decolonial Feminist Theory, Gender/Queer Studies; Trauma Studies.

Dr. James Reeves

James B. Reeves, Assistant Professor, B.A., Texas Tech University; M.S., University of Oxford (St. Edmund Hall); M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Areas of specialization/interest: 18th-Century British Literature, Satire, Secularization, and Postcolonialism.

Dr. Leah Schwebel

Leah Schwebel, Associate Professor, B.A., M.A., McGill University; Ph.D., University of Connecticut. Areas of specialization/interest: Medieval Literature, Chaucer, Classics. 

Dr. Nithya Sivashankar Nithya Sivashankar, Assistant Professor, B.Tech., PSG College of Technology; M.A., University of Central Lancashire; Ph.D., Ohio State University. Areas of specialization/interest: Children's and Young Adult Literature; Postcolonial/World Literature, 21st Century Literature.  
Dr. Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler

Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler, Professor, A.B., Miami University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Areas of specialization/interest: Milton, 17th Century Poetry & Prose, History of Rhetoric. 

Dr. Victoria Smith

Victoria L. Smith, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English, B.A., Pomona College; M.A., University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz. Areas of specialization/interest: Gender/Queer Studies, the Modern Novel, Film and Television, Literary and Cultural Theory. 

Dr. Rob Tally

Robert Tally, Professor, A.B., Duke University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh; J.D., Duke University. Areas of specialization/interest: American Literature (especially 19th and 20th Centuries), Literary Criticism and Theory, World Literature. 

Dr. Wend-Walker

Graeme Wend-Walker, Associate Professor, B.A., Flinders University; B.A., Ph.D., Macquarie University. Areas of specialization/interest: Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Critical Theory and Practice, Postsecularism, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.

Dr. Julie McCormick-Weng

Julie McCormick Weng, Assistant Professor, B.A., M.A., Texas A&M University; Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Areas of specialization/interest: 20th-21st Century British Literature, Irish Studies, Modernism, Postcolonial Studies, Science and Technology, Gender and Women’s Studies.

Dr. Steve Wilson

Steve Wilson, Professor, B.A., University of Oklahoma; M.A., Texas Christian University; M.F.A., Wichita State University. Areas of specialization/interest: Creative Writing (poetry), Beat Literature, The American Transcendentalists, Irish Literature, Early American Literature, American Romanticism, and American Poetry.