University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Graduate Program in English

Graduate Faculty

Gary Adelman, Professor; Ph.D. 1962, Columbia University.

Specializations: Modern British Literature; the European Novel in English Translation.
Publications: Reclaiming D.H. Lawrence: Contemporary Writers Speak Out , ed. (2002); Retelling Dostoyevsky: Literary Responses and Other Observations (2001); Jude the Obscure : A Paradise of Despair (1992); Snow of Fire : Symbolic Meaning in The Rainbow and Women in Love (1991); Anna Karenina: The Bitterness of Ecstasy (1990); Heart of Darkness : Search for the Unconscious ; and Honey Out of Stone (1970; a novel). Articles on D. H. Lawrence, Beckett, Dostoyevsky, J. M. Coetzee, and Kazuo Ishiguro.
Work in Progress: A book-length reassessment of D.H. Lawrence.
Teaching: Major British Writers (Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Eliot, Beckett); the European Novel (Stendhal, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka); Major Poets from Beowulf to the Present.

Dennis Baron, Professor; Ph.D. 1971, University of Michigan.

Specializations: English Linguistics; History of the English Language; Writing Studies; Literacy and Technology; Medieval Literature.
Publications: The Guide to Home Language Repair (1994); The English-Only Question: An Official Language for Americans (1991); Declining Grammar and Other Essays on the English Vocabulary (1989): Grammar and Good Taste: Reforming the American Language (1982); and Grammar and Gender (1981). Many articles, including "The Epicene Pronoun: The Word That Failed" and "From Pencils to Pixels: Literacy 2001."
Work in Progress: The New Technologies of Literacy.
Teaching: Language, Discourse, and Literacy; Literacy and Technology; History of the English Language; Descriptive English Grammar.

Robert Barrett, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2001, University of Pennsylvania.

Specializations: Medieval English Literature (esp. Middle English Literature); Early English Drama (up to 1642); Regional and Local Cultures
Publications: Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195-1656 (forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press); "The Ground of Grace: Appropriating Monastic Space in the Chester Mystery Cycle" (forthcoming in Studies in Philology); "The Absent Triumphator in Robert Amery's 1610 Chester's Triumph in Honor of Her Prince" in Robert E. Stillman's Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Leiden: Brill, 2006)
Work in Progress: The Chester Whitsun Plays (an edition for the TEAMS Middle English Texts Series)
Teaching: ENGL 511: Chaucer; ENGL 514: Topics in Medieval Literature (e.g., Early English Drama)

Anustup Basu, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2005, University of Pittsburgh.

Specializations: Film/Visual Culture; Theory/Criticism; Postcolonial Studies.
Publications: "Mantras of the Metropole: Digital Inscription and Mythic Curvatures of Profane Time in Rudraksh" (forthcoming in 2005); "Nayak O Yug Badoler Kabyo: Bharatiyo Challochitro O Bishwayan" [Bengali -for " Nayak and the Epic of Changing Times: Indian Cinema and Globalization"] (forthcoming in 2005); "The Human and His Spectacular Autumn, or, Informatics After Philosophy" in PostModern Culture 14.3 (May 2004); "Bombs and Bytes: Sovereign Power and Global Information Flows" Mute 27 (2004): 64-71; "State of Security and Warfare of Demons" Critical Quarterly 45.1-2 (2003): 11-32.
Work in Progress: a book on contemporary Indian cinema seen in relation to globalization, "geo-televisuality," and the rise of political Hindutva, and essays on sovereignty and states of information.
Teaching: Introduction to Film; Intermediate Film; Introduction to Film Theory; Shakespeare and Film.

Dale Bauer, Professor; Ph.D. 1985, University of California at Irvine.

Specializations: 19th- and 20th-Century American Literature; Gender Studies.
Publications: Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics (1994); Feminist Dialogics (1988); Editor of the Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing (2001), with Philip Gould; The New Cultural Edition of The Yellow Wallpaper (1998); Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic (1992), with Susan Jaret McKinstry.
Work in Progress: Sex Expression and American Women, a book tracing the advent of American women's "sex expression" in literature, from Phelps and Davis in the 1860s and '70s to previously unexplored mass-market writers in the 1940s.
Teaching: 19th- and 20th-century American Literature; Feminist Theory; Critical Pedagogy

Jodi Byrd, Assistant Professor

Specializations: American Indian and Pacific Literatures, Postcolonial Theory, Indigenous Critical Theory and Politics, Pop Culture and Representations of Indigenous Peoples.
Publications: "(Post)Colonial Plainsongs: Toward Native Literary Worldings" in Unlearning the Language of Conquest edited by Don Trent Jacobs. University of Texas Press, 2006. "Living My Native Life Deadly: Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Politics of Competing Genocides" forthcoming in American Indian Quarterly.
Work in Progress: Book project entitled, Colonial Cacophonies, Decolonial Worlds: Toward an Indigenous Postcolonial Theory that examines how settler colonialisms function in landscapes that bear multiple and competing experiences of arrival, slavery, removal, and resistance. Co-editing a 2007 volume of Alternatives that looks at the intersection between Indigenous Politics and Law. An article that examines the discursive strategies used in debates to frame and resist the incorporation of Native Hawaiian governance within U.S. federal Indian law. An article examining how race, colonialism, space, and indigeneity interact within postmodern literatures of horror.
Teaching: AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES 591: Problems in Indigenous Studies, AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES 490: Advanced Topics in American Indian Studies, and ENGLISH 460: Literature of American Minorities.

Lisa Cacho, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2002, University of California at San Diego.

Specializations: Twentieth-Century Racial/Ethnic American Literature; California Literature; Critical Race Theory; Gender and Immigration.
Publications: "The People of California Are Suffering’: The Ideology of White Injury in Discourses of Immigration” (2000).
Work in Progress: Propositioning Inequality.
Teaching: Interdisciplinary Research and Methods; Theories of Race and Ethnicity; Comparative Racial/Ethnic American Literature (20th Century). U.S. Latina/o Literature; Asian American Literature.

Martin Camargo, Professor; Ph.D. 1978, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Specializations: Medieval Literature; History of Rhetoric
Publications: Medieval Rhetorics of Prose Composition: Five English "Artes Dictandi" and Their Tradition (1995), The Middle English Verse Love Epistle (1991), Ars Dictaminis, Ars Dictandi (1991). Articles and book chapters on medieval rhetoric and poetics, the rhetoric of letter writing, Geoffrey Chaucer, and medieval English literature.
Work in Progress: A critical edition and translation of Tria sunt, an anonymous art of poetry and prose used to teach Latin composition at Oxford in the late Middle Ages.
Teaching: Middle English Language and Literature, especially the works of Geoffrey Chaucer; History of Rhetoric; History of the English Language.

Jose B. Capino, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2002, Northwestern University.

Specializations: Film and Television Criticism and Historiography; Documentary Studies; Cinema and Sexuality; Cinema and Postcoloniality.
Publications: "Homologies of Space, Text and Spectatorship," Cinema Journal (2005); "Seminal Fantasies: Wakefield Poole , Independent Cinema and the Avant- garde" in American Independent Cinema: From the Margins to the Mainstream (Routledge, 2004); "Filthy Funnies: Notes on the Body in Animated Pornography," Animation Journal (2004).
Work in Progress: Book projects on American nonfiction cinema, colonialism, Philippine cinema, and postcoloniality.
Teaching: Documentary Film and Video; Introduction to Film; Cinema and the Colonial Aftermath.

Nancy Castro, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 1998, Columbia University.

Specializations: U.S. and Caribbean Literature.
Publications: "The Caribbean Novel.”
Work in Progress: Breeding Problems: De-Conceiving Narratives of the Americas
Teaching: American, African-American, Latino/a, and Caribbean Literature.

Leon Chai, Professor; Ph.D. 1984, University of Virginia.

Specializations: American Literature; British and European Romanticism; Later Nineteenth-Century British and French Literature; Critical Theory.
Publications: Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy (1998 ); Aestheticism: The Religion of Art in Post-Romantic Literature (1990); and The Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance (1987).
Work in Progress: Romantic Theory.
Teaching: Romantic Theory; The Revolutionary Moment; The American Renaissance as Cultural History; Modern Historiography; Aestheticism; Blake and Shelley.

Eleanor Courtemanche, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 1998, Cornell University.

Specializations: British Victorian Literature; French and German Literature; Economic and Scientific Rhetoric; Cultural Studies; Critical Theory.
Publications: Articles on Martineau and Dickens, Kafka, the novel and the free market. Book reviews on recent work in Victorian political economy.
Work in Progress: a book on Adam Smith's invisible hand as a moral structure in 19th-century realist fiction. Articles on Dickens and artificial intelligence; Thackeray and economic causality; Disraeli and poitical romance.
Teaching: Victorian culture, including Dickens and the Victorian City, and other courses on the British and European novel.

Ramona Curry, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1990, Northwestern University.

Specializations: Film; Feminist Theory; Popular Culture.
Publications: Too Much of a Good Thing: Mae West as Cultural Icon (1996). Essays on film censorship; international media stars; feminist media
production; historical impact of film and television.
Work in Progress: book manuscript on the social and political functions of German cinema from 1911 to 1918.
Teaching: Theories of Popular Culture; American and International Film.

Alice Deck, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1980, State University of New York at Binghamton.

Specializations: African and African-American Literature.
Publications: articles on African and Afro-American narrative, autobiography, and popular culture.
Work in Progress: a book-length study of modern African and Afro-American autobiographies.
Teaching: Toni Morrison; Afro-American Autobiography.

Jed Esty, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1996, Duke University.

Specializations: Twentieth-century British, Irish, and Postcolonial literature; Colonial and Postcolonial Studies; History and Theory of the Novel; Critical Theory.
Recent Publications: A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England (Princeton, 2004); Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (Duke, 2005),
co-edited with Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Antoinette Burton, and Matti
Bunzl; "The Colonial Bildungsroman; or, Olive Schreiner and Goethe's
Ghost," forthcoming in Victorian Studies 49.3 (Spring 2007); and
"Virginia Woolf's Colony and the Adolescence of Modernist Fiction,"
in Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature,
1900-1939, eds. Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses. (Duke, 2007).
Work in Progress: Tropics of Youth: The Bildungsroman and Colonial Modernity
Teaching: Modernism; Postwar British and Irish Literature; Postcolonial Literature and Theory; History and Theory of the Novel; The Short Story.

Stephanie Foote, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1994, State University of New York, Buffalo.

Specializations: American Literature, esp. 1865-1917; Queer Theory; Print Culture; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies.
Selected Publications: Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2001); various book chapters as well as essays in American Literature , College Literature , Signs , Arizona Quarterly , MELUS , Studies in American Fiction , The Henry James Review, Concerns.
Work in Progress: Two book-length studies, one on parvenus and class mobility in U.S. culture, the other on lesbian print culture and history.
Teaching: Women’s Studies; Critical Race Theory; Queer Theory; and American Literature.

Christopher Freeburg, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2006, University of Chicago.

Specializations: American and African American Literature; Colonialism and Slavery in the Atlantic World; Intellectual History.
Publications: "Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition (review)," American Literature - Volume 74, Number 3, September 2002.
Work in Progress: a manuscript on colonialism and slavery in the fiction of Herman Melville as well as articles that feature James Baldwin, Frantz Fanon, and C.L.R. James.
Teaching: ENGL 455 Emerson and His Age, ENGL 450 American Literature 1865-1914, and ENGL 460 The Black Atlantic.

Peter K. Garrett, Professor; Ph.D. 1966, Yale University.

Specializations: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Literature; Critical Theory.
Publications: Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (2003); The Victorian Multiplot Novel (1980); and Scene and Symbol from George Eliot to James Joyce (1969). Articles and reviews on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. Editor of Twentieth Century Interpretations of Dubliners (1968).
Work in Progress: studies of narrative form and reflexivity in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century fiction.
Teaching: Narrative Theory; Victorian Gothic; Victorian Realism; and Nineteenth-Century Crime and Sensation Fiction.

Lauren Goodlad, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1995, Columbia University.

Specializations: Victorian Literature and Culture; Gothic Genres; Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Gender Studies.
Publications: Victorian Literature and the Victorian State : Character and Governance in a Liberal Society (2003); Goth: Undead Subculture , ed. (forthcoming). Articles on Victorian studies in journals such as ELH , Victorian Studies , PMLA , and Genre ; articles on contemporary cultural studies including "Postmodern Gothic" (in Diegesis ) and"Packaged Alternatives" (in the book Communities of the Air [2003]).
Work in Progress: Liberal Internationalism: Victorian Literary Encounters with the South.
Teaching: Victorian Literature and Culture; Critical, Feminist, and Postcolonial Theory; Cultural Studies; Literature in its Relation to Contemporary Understandings of Liberalism, Globalization, and Development.

Philip Graham, Professor; M.A. 1976, City of University of New York (CUNY).

Specializations: Novel; Short Story; Memoir
Publications: How to Read an Unwritten Language (1995) ; The Vanishings (1978) ; and two collections of short stories, The Art of the Knock (1985) and Interior Design (1996). His co-authored memoir of Africa (with Alma Gottlieb), Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa (1993), was the winner of the 1993 Victor Turner Prize.
Work in Progress: City of Ghosts
Teaching: Fiction Writing, Problems in Fiction Writing

Catharine Gray, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2001, State University of New York at Buffalo.

Specializations: Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century English Literature.
Publications: "Feeding on the Seed of the Woman: Dorothy Leigh and the Figure of Maternal Dissent"; "Glorious Shadows: Katherine Philips and the Post-courtly Coterie."
Work in Progress: Forward Writers/Critical Readers: Women and Counterpublic Spheres in Seventeenth-Century England .
Teaching: Women's Writing, Milton, Feminist Theory, Shakespeare.

James A. Hansen, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2001, University of Notre Dame.

Specializations: British/Irish Modernism; Literary Theory.
Publications: "The Uncreating Conscience: Memory and Apparitions in Joyce and Benjamin"; "Theodor W. Adorno" in The Dictionary of Literary Biography .
Work in Progress: Phantoms of the Modern: Gothic Histories and Materialist Criticism in Irish Modernism.
Teaching: British/Irish Modernism, Twentieth Century Novel, the Gothic, Modern Poetry, the Frankfurt School

Janice N. Harrington, Assistant Professor; M.A., University of Iowa.

Specializations: Poetry writing; writing for children.
Publications: Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone (poetry), BOA Editions, 2007. Poems in many literary journals. Going North (children's book), Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004. The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County (children's book), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Work in Progress: Poetry; children's books.
Teaching: Mostly poetry writing; occasionally children's writing.

Matt Hart, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2004, University of Pennsylvania.

Specializations: Modern and Contemporary English and Scottish Literature; International Modernism; Poetry and Poetics; Cultural and Political Theory.
Publications: “Against the Quiet Way: Hugh MacDiarmid ‘After Britain '”; “The Measure of All That Has Been Lost: Christopher Hitchens, George Orwell, and the Price of Political Relevance”; “Solvent Abuse: Irvine Welsh and Scotland.”
Work in Progress: Three essays: "Tradition and the Postcolonial Talent: T.S. Eliot versus E.K. Brathwaite"; "All the Downtown Tories: Mourning Englishness in New York"; and "The Cartographic Uncanny: Layla Curtis and British National History." A book project: Nations of Nothing But Poetry: Late Modernism and the Sovereignty of Vernacular Culture, 1922-2002.
Teaching: 20th-Century British Culture; Modern and Postmodern British and American Poetry; Critical Theory

Debra Hawhee, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 2001, Penn State University.

Specializations: Ancient rhetoric; Kenneth Burke; Body Studies; History of Rhetorical Education.
Publications: Bodily Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece (2004). Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students , co-authored with Sharon Crowley (most recent edition is 2004). Articles on ancient notions of agonism, bodily pedagogy, Kenneth Burke, and composition history in College English , College Composition and Communication , Quarterly Journal of Speech , and Philosophy and Rhetoric .
Work in Progress: A book about Kenneth Burke's theories of the body.
Teaching: Rhetoric and Gesture; Aristotle and Rhetorical Studies; Rhetorics/Bodies; Critical Theory and Writing Studies; Kenneth Burke; Classical Rhetoric.

Gail E. Hawisher, Professor; Ph.D. 1985, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Specializations: Writing Studies; Computers and Composition; Literacy Studies.
Publications: Co-author of Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy from the United States (2004); Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education, 1979-1994: A History (1996); co-editor of Global Literacies and the World Wide Web (2000); Literacy, Technology, and Society: Confronting the Issues (1997); On Literacy and Its Teaching (1990); Evolving Perspectives on Computers and Composition Studies (1991); Passions, Pedagogies, and Twenty-First Century Technologies (1999); Re-Imagining Computers and Composition: Teaching and Research in the Virtual Age (1992); and Critical Perspectives on Computers and Composition Instruction (1989). Various essays, most recently "Reflections on Research in Computers and Composition Studies at the Century's End"; "Writing across the Curriculum Encounters Asynchronous Learning Networks"; "Researching Electronic Networks"; and "Women on the Networks: Searching for E-Spaces of Their Own." Co-Editor of the journal Computers and Composition .
Work in Progress: The Online Lives of Women, a book-length study built around the online lives of 30 women academics in writing studies.
Teaching: Introduction to Writing Studies; Writing and Technology.

LeAnne Howe, Associate Professor; M.F.A. 2000, Vermont College of Norwich University.

Specializations: Fiction; Poetry; Plays; Screenplays.
Publications: Miko Kings, an Indian Baseball Story. Aunt Lute Books, 2007. Evidence of Red (2005), Salt Publishing, UK, received the Oklahoma Book Award for poetry in 2006. Shell Shaker (2002), won American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation; Equinoxes Rouge, the French translation, was the 2004 finalist for the Prix Medici Estranger, one of France's top literary awards. Howe is also the screenwriter and on-camera narrator for the 90-minute PBS documentary Indian Country Diaries: Spiral of Fire on PBS stations in 2006.
Current Film: Playing Pastime: American Indians, Softball, and Survival a half hour film short, will screen at the Heard Museum in Phoenix Arizona later this year.
Work in Progress: Miko Kings, an Indian baseball novel set in Ada, Oklahoma in 1930 and also 1969, is forthcoming in 2005 from Aunt Lute Books. Documentary Film: Playing Pastime: American Indians, Softball, and Survival (forthcoming 2007).
Teaching: American Indian Literature; 20th-Century Literature; Creative Writing.

Gordon Hutner, Professor; Ph.D. 1982, University of Virginia.

Specializations: American Literature, particularly 19th- and 20th-Century Fiction; American Criticism; Ethnic Literature.
Publications: Secrets and Sympathy: Forms of Disclosure in Hawthorne 's Novels (1988). Editor of National Imaginaries, American Identities: The Cultural Work of American Iconography (2000), with Larry J. Reynolds; Immigrant Voices: Twenty-Four Narratives on Becoming an American (1999); American Literature, American Culture (1999); and The American Literary History Reader (1995). Founder and editor of the Oxford University Press journal American Literary History .
Work in Progress: a book on the mid-twentieth-century American novel.

Tyehimba Jess, Assistant Professor; M.F.A. 2004, New York University.

Specializations: Poetry.
Publications: Leadbelly (2005), Winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series Award. Fiction and poetry have appeared in Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence (Penguin Books, 1996); Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry (Manic D Press, 2000); Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Three Rivers Press, 2001); Beyond The Frontier: African American Poetry for the Twenty-First Century (Black Classic Press, 2002); Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art (Third World Press, 2002); and Dark Matter 2: Reading the Bones (Aspect Press, 2004). Non- fiction book, African American Pride: Celebrating our Achievements, Contributions, and Legacy (2003).
Teaching: Poetry.

David Kay, Professor, Ph.D. 1968, Princeton University.

Specializations: Renaissance Literature; Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama.
Publications: Ben Jonson: A Literary Life (1995). Articles on Erasmus's The Praise of Folly ; on Jonson's "On My First Sonne," the development of Jonson's career, his use of dramatic convention in Volpone and other plays; on Bartholomew Fair , and Epicoene. Editor of John Marston, The Malcontent (1998).
Work in Progress: a book on rivalry and revision in Ben Jonson's drama; articles on All's Well That Ends Well and on Jonson's satire of commodification.
Teaching: Renaissance Drama, especially non-Shakespearean.

Brigit Kelly, Professor; M.F.A. 1993, University of Oregon.

Specializations: Poetry.
Publications: The Orchard (2004); Song (1995); To the Place of Trumpets (1988), Yale Series of Younger Poets Award.
Teaching: Poetry Writing; Problems in Poetry Writing.

Susan Koshy, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1992, University of California at Los Angeles.

Specializations: Globalization and Culture; Ethnic Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Feminist Theory; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century English literature; American Orientalism; Transnational Cultural Studies; Racial and Sexual Formations; Legal Discourse.
Publications: Sexual Naturalization (2004). Articles including "The Campaign for Fair Trials Abroad: Long-Distance Nationalism and Post- Imperial Anxiety"; "The Postmodern Subaltern: Globalization Theory and the Subject of Ethnic, Area, and Postcolonial Studies"; "Morphing Race into Ethnicity: Asian Americans and Critical Transformations of Whiteness"; "American Nationhood as Eugenic Romance: D. W. Griffith 's Broken Blossoms."
Work in Progress: Two book-length studies, one on the changing configurations of ethnicity within globalization, and the other an edited interdisciplinary anthology on the South Asian diaspora.
Teaching: Postcolonial Literature; Asian American Literature; Empire and the English Novel; Immigrant Literature; Globalization and Culture; Diaspora Theory and Fiction; Feminist Theory.

Melissa Littlefield, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. 2005, Pennsylvania State University.

Specializations: Science and Literature, Feminist Science Studies, Science Fiction, Technology and Modernity, Body Studies.
Publications: Technologies of Truth: The Embodiment of Deception Detection (under contract University of Washington Press) • "Matter for Thought: The Psychon in Neurology, Psychology and American Culture, 1927-1943" (forthcoming in a book collection on Neurology and Modernity) • "Technology and Representation." Science, Technology and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 463-469. • Squier, Susan and Melissa Littlefield, eds. Special issue of Feminist Theory on the topic of "Feminist Theory and/of Science," 5:2 (2004). Co-author, with Susan Squier, "Introduction." 123-126.
Work in Progress: Book project on facial reconstruction in American culture, physiology and forensics. • "The Evolution of Forensic Art: Cops, Composite Artists and the Forensic Imagination" • "'An American Flag with Great Gams'": Wonder Woman's Post-9/11 Diplomacy".
Teaching: Feminist Science Studies, Science Fiction, Critical Theory, Feminist Theory.

Trish Loughran, Associate Professor, Ph.D. 2000, University of Chicago.

Specializations: American Literature and Culture, especially 1750-1865 and especially as it connects across disciplines with work in history; political economy; material culture; and art history.
Publications: articles on early American print culture and nation-building.
Work in Progress: Virtual Nation: Local and National Cultures of Print, 1776-1850.
Teaching: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Material and Visual Culture of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Technological Innovation and Industrial Expansion in the early United States.

Michael Madonick, Associate Professor; M.F.A. 1981, University of Oregon.

Specializations: Poetry Writing
Publications: Waking the Deaf Dog (1999).
Work in Progress: Two manuscripts of poems.
Teaching: Poetry Writing.

Robert Markley, Professor; Ph.D. 1980, University of Pennsylvania.

Specializations: Eighteenth-Century British Literature; Colonialism and Post-Colonialism; and New Media Studies.
Publications: Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination (2005); Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars , for DVD-ROM (2001); Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England , 1600-1740 (1993); Two-Edg'd Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve (1988); editor, Virtual Realities and their Discontents (1991); co-editor, From Renaissance to Restoration: Metamorphoses of the Drama (1984); and co-editor of Kierkegaard and Literature: Irony, Repetition, and Criticism (1984). Many articles on eighteenth-century drama, fiction, and science, eighteenth-century colonialism, and new media.
Work in Progress: Fictions of Eurocentrism: The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1800 (forthcoming).
Teaching: Eighteenth-Century Drama and Fiction; Literature, Trade, and Colonialism; Media/Theory; Symbolic Economies after Marx and Freud.

John Marsh, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2004, University of Illinois.

Specializations: Modern and Contemporary Poetry; Working-Class Literature; Modernism; Adult and Community Education; Labor and Higher Education
Publications: You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-1941 . Forthcoming from University of Michigan Press (Winter 2007). · "A Lost Art of Work: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems ." Forthcoming in American Literature (Fall 2007). · "War of the (Left) Worlds." Review of Walter Benn Michaels, The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality . Forthcoming in Pedagogy (Fall 2007). · "The Justice Poetry of Miriam Tane." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers . 23: 1 (2006): 44-59. · "Thinking about Students as Workers." Inside Higher Education . December 11, 2006.
Work in Progress: "Red Scare: The Anti-Marxist Origins of Modern American Poetry"
Teaching: Modern and Contemporary Poetry; Working-Class Literature; Modernism. Recent Courses: English 300: The Literature of Poverty, the Poverty of Literature; English 241: Beginnings of Modern Poetry; English 242: Poetry since 1940; English 213: The Literature and Culture of Modernism.

William J. Maxwell, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1993, Duke University.

Specializations: Modern American and African-American Literature; American Cultural History; Critical Theory.
Publications: New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars (1999). Editor of Claude McKay, Complete Poems (2004). Articles and reviews in African American Review , American Literary History, American Literature , Callaloo , The Journal of Popular Music Studies , and The Minnesota Review on Ralph Ellison; Afro- modernist poetry; black writing and the F.B.I.; working-class culture and the Harlem Renaissance; proletarian literature; the new modernist studies; jazz in and on modern American literature; poetry and transnationalism.
Work in Progress: a book on the secretly intimate relationship between the F.B.I. and African-American literary modernism.
Teaching: The Jazz Page: Jazz Music and Modern American Literature; Reconceiving the Harlem Renaissance; Modernisms in America; Writers and Critics as Intellectuals in 20th-Century America; The Celtic and Harlem Renaissances (with Joseph Valente).

Bruce Michelson, Professor; Ph.D. 1976, University of Washington.

Specialization: American Literature.
Publications: Mark Twain and the Information Age (forthcoming); Literary Wit (2000); Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self (1995) ; Wilbur's Poetry: Music in a Scattering Time (1991) . Articles on Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Harold Frederic, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Saul Bellow, Richard Wilbur, Emily Dickinson, Joyce Carol Oates, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and Garrison Keillor; numerous book reviews. Other publications include (with Marjorie Pryse) Teaching with the Norton Anthology of American Literature (1998), and (with Francine Lercongee) Joyce Carol Oates (1986).
Work in Progress: Revised edition of Teaching with the Norton Anthology of American Literature.
Teaching: 19th-and 20th-Century American Literature; Modern and Contemporary Poetry.

Feisal Mohamed, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2003, University of Toronto.

Specializations: Milton, current discourses on religious violence and radicalism as related to those of the seventeenth century.
Publications: In the Anteroom of Divinity: The Reformation of the Angels from Colet to Milton (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming)."Liberty Before and After Liberalism: Miltons Shifting Politics and the Current Crisis in Liberal Theory." University of Toronto Quarterly . Special issue, Miltons America/Americas Milton. Ed. Paul Stevens (forthcoming). · "Reading Samson in the New American Century." Milton Studies 46 (2007): 149-64. · "The Globe of Villages: Digital Media and the Rise of Homegrown Terrorism." Dissent Magazine , Winter 2007: 61-64. · "Confronting Religious Violence: Milton's Samson Agonistes ." PMLA 120 (2005): 327-40; recipient of Honorable Mention for the Modern Language Associations William Riley Parker Prize. · "Renaissance Thought on the Celestial Hierarchy: The Decline of a Tradition?" Journal of the History of Ideas 65 (2004): 559-82. · "Paradise Lost and the Inversion of Catholic Angelology." Milton Quarterly 36 (2002): 240-52. · "Pan-Semitism in A. M. Klein's 'The Three Judgements.'" Essays on Canadian Writing 72 (2000): 93-108.
Work in Progress: A book manuscript on Milton and current climates in criticism and politics; a collection of criticism by Canadian Miltonists, co-edited with Mary Nyquist.
Teaching: Milton, Donne, Spenser, and various seventeenth-century English writers. Courses for Fall 2007: ENGL 101, Poetry; ENGL 455, John Donne: Thought and Feeling.

Peter Mortensen, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1989, University of California, San Diego.

Specializations: Writing Studies; History of Literacy; Qualitative Study of Literacy (Methods and Ethics).
Publications: Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States (written with Janet Carey Eldred; 2002); Ethics and Representation in Qualitative Studies of Literacy (ed. with Gesa E. Kirsch; 1996). Articles on representations of illiteracy in literary, journalistic, and bureaucratic discourse; U.S. women's rhetorical and literacy training, 1780-1840 (with Janet Carey Eldred); and the conduct and reception of research in writing studies.
Work in Progress: Illiterate Sorrows: The Uses of Illiteracy in Industrial America .
Teaching: Historiography in Writing Studies; Professional Seminar in the Teaching of Rhetoric.

Justine Murison, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2006, University of Pennsylvania.

Specializations: Early American and Antebellum Literature; Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Atlantic World; Medicine and Literature; History of Psychology.
Publications: : “The Princeton Scenario of Oscar Wilde’s The Cardinal of Avignon” in The Princeton University Library Chronicle (2000).
Work in Progress: Book manuscript entitled States of Mind: The Politics of Psychology in American Literature, 1780-1860; an article on the relationship between hypochondria, race, and regionalism in antebellum America; and an article on moral citizenship and somnambulism in postrevolutionary America.
Teaching: Colonial through Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Medicine and Literature; History of the Novel; American Gothic.

Hina Nazar, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2003, Johns Hopkins University.

Specializations: Victorian Literature and Culture; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Literature; History and Theory of the Novel; Feminist Theory; Critical Theory.
Publications: : "Philosophy in the Bedroom: Middlemarch and the Scandal of Sympathy" ( Yale Journal of Criticism , 2002); "The Imagination Goes Visiting: Jane Austen, Judgment, and the Social" ( Nineteenth-Century Literature , 2004).
Work in Progress: The Social Idea: Thinking and Attachment in the Novel (book- length study on the realist novel).
Teaching: Nineteenth-Century British Fiction; The British Novel; Gender in Literature; Twentieth-Century Women's Writing; Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics.

Carol Thomas Neely, Professor; Ph.D. 1969, Yale University.

Specializations: Renaissance Literature, especially Shakespeare and Women Writers; Feminist Theory and Women’s Studies.
Publications: Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture (2004); Broken Nuptials in Shakespeare's Plays (1993; 1985); co-editor of The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare (1980). Author of articles and reviews on Shakespeare, Renaissance sonnets, and feminist theory, most recently "Women/Utopia/Fetish: Disavowal and Satisfied Desire in Margaret Cavendish's New Blazing World and Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/LaFrontera ";"Reading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare's Tragedies and Early Modern Culture"; "Circumscriptions and Unhousedness: Othello in the Borderlands."
Work in Progress: Shakespeare, madness, and gender.
Teaching: Shakespeare; Madness and Gender; the Body in the Renaissance; Renaissance Genres and Gender.

Cary Nelson, Liberal Arts and Sciences Jubilee Professor; Ph.D. 1970, University of Rochester

Specializations: Critical Theory; Modern American and British Literature, especially Poetry; the Politics and Economics of Higher Education; the Spanish Civil War.
Publications: Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left (2001); Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education (with Stephen Watt; 1999); Manifesto of a Tenured Radical (1997); Shouts from the Wall: Posters and Photographs Brought Back from the Spanish Civil War by American Volunteers (1996); Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory , 1910-1945 (1989); Our Last First Poets: Vision and History in Contemporary American Poetry (1981); The Incarnate Word: Literature as Verbal Space (1973). 70+ articles including "The Psychology of Criticism, or What Can Be Said"; "Envoys of Otherness: Difference and Continuity in Feminist Criticism"; "Honor and Trauma: Hemingway and the Lincoln Vets"; "The Fate of Gender in Modern Poetry"; and "Literature as Cultural Studies: American Poetry of the Spanish Civil War." Editor of An Anthology of Modern American Poetry (2001); Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis (1997); The Aura of the Cause: A Photo Album for North American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (1997); Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies (1996); Madrid 1937: Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade from the Spanish Civil War (1996); Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities (1994); The Collected Poems of Edwin Rolfe (1993); Cultural Studies (1992); Edwin Rolfe: A Biographical Essay and Guide to the Rolfe Archive at the University of Illinois (1990); Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (1988); Co-editor of W. S. Merwin: Essays on the Poetry (1987); Regions of Memory: Uncollected Prose by W. S. Merwin (1987); and Theory in the Classroom (1986).
Work in Progress: Reading Criticism: The Literary and Institutional Status of Critical Discourse and several books on the postcard poem.
Teaching: Modern Poetry; Critical Theory; Cultural Studies.

John Timberman Newcomb, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1987, Duke University.

Specializations: Modern American Literature; American Poetry; Film Studies; Critical Theory.
Publications: Would Poetry Disappear?: American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity (2004); Wallace Stevens and Literary Canons (1992); articles on modern cityscape poetry, the modernist little magazine, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Archibald MacLeish, and World War II poetry.
Work in Progress: a book on early 20th -century American poetry and the modern urban subject, tentatively entitled The Poetry of Modern Life: American Verse on the Urban Boulevard, 1910-1925.
Teaching: Modern American Poetry; Modernism and the Machine Age; The Urban 19th-Century; The Great Depression.

Lori Humphrey Newcomb, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1993, Duke University.

Specializations: Seventeenth-Century English Literature, especially Fiction and Drama; Early Modern Print Culture, Popular Culture, Material Culture, Women's Writing; Shakespeare in Performance; Theories of Class, Gender, Audience, and Cultural Value.
Publications: Reading Popular Romance in Early Modern England (2002). Articles on the early modern prose romance as emergent popular culture, reading for servants, and gendered writing; on women's work in pastoral literature; on print and embodiment in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale ; and on pedagogy and early modern women writers.
Work in Progress: Printed Bodies, Performing Words: The Drama of Presence in Greene and Shakespeare; essays on the materiality of romance and on the Shakespearean 'source'; Early Modern Women Out-of-Doors.
Teaching: Authors, Artifacts, and Audiences in Early Modern England; Popular Print Culture in Early Modern England; Shakespearian Plays, Printed Bodies, Performing Words; Proseminar in the Teaching of Literature.

Robert Dale Parker, Professor; Ph.D. 1980, Yale University.

Specializations: American Literature, especially fiction and poetry since 1900; Critical Theory; American Indian literature.
Publications: How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies (2008); The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (2007); The Invention of Native American Literature (2003); Absalom, Absalom!: The Questioning of Fictions (1991); The Unbeliever: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop (1988); Faulkner and the Novelistic Imagination (1985). Articles on cultural history, form, gender, and race in American literature and critical theory, including Faulkner, canon theory, Michael Harper, Ray Young Bear, D'Arcy McNickle, and Native American oral narrative.
Work in Progress: recovery, editing, and historicist reading of early, unknown American Indian poetry.
Teaching: American Indian Literature; American Fiction in the 1920s and 1930s; surveys of Recent Literary and Critical Theory.

Curtis Perry, Professor; Ph.D. 1993, Harvard University.

Specializations: early modern English literature and culture, historicist criticism, renaissance classicism, drama.
Publications: Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2006) • The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary Practice (Cambridge University Press, 1997) • Ed., Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Brepols, 2001) • Numerous articles on a variety of topics relating to early modern English literature and culture.
Work in Progress: A larger project on Shakespeare's use of the representational resources of Senecan drama, and a number of smaller projects dealing with early modern English republicanism, early modernity and constructions of national identity, and the politics of drama.
Teaching: Shakespeare, early modern English literature, Milton, renaissance drama, history of drama.

Audrey Petty, Associate Professor; M.F.A. 1998, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Specializations: Fiction Writing; African-American Literature.
Publications: " Here" (short story) in Gumbo: Stories by Black Writers ; "Darkroom" (short story) in Story Quarterly ; selected poems in New Sister Voices: Poetry by Women of African Descent ; "Turnpike Music" (poetry) in Crab Orchard Review . Featured fiction and interview in Callaloo.
Work in Progress: Here (short stories); All the Underneath (a novel); "Unremembered Crimes: Female Guilt in the Work of James Baldwin and Richard Wright"; "Who's the Teacher?".
Teaching: Contemporary African-American Literature; Fiction Writing.

Anthony Pollock, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2002, Cornell University.

Specializations: Eighteenth-Century British Literature; Aesthetics and Visual Culture.
Work in Progress: Allegories of Aesthetic Failure: Eighteenth-Century Spectatorship and the End(s) of Sociability.
Teaching: Eighteenth-Century British Literature; History of the Novel; Aesthetics and Visual Culture; Enlightenment Constructions of Gender and Cultural Difference.

Richard Powers, Swanlund Endowed Chair Professor; M.A. 1980, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Specialization: Creative Writing exploring the relationship between Narrative and Contemporary Technology.
Publications: The Time of Our Singing (2003); Gain (1998); Galatea 2.2 (1995); Operation Wandering Soul (1993); The Goldbug Variations (1991); Prisoner's Dilemma (1988); and Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1986).
Teaching: Introduction to Multimedia Authoring and Publishing; Problems and Techniques in the Novel.

Catherine Prendergast, Professor; Ph.D. 1997, University of Wisconsin.

Specialization: Writing Studies.
Publications: Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning after Brown v. Board of Education (2003). Articles such as "Race, the Absent Presence in Composition Studies"; "Catching up to Professor Nate: The Problem with Sociolinguistics in Composition Research"; and "Bringing in the Other Side of the Dialogue: Profiles of Student-Teacher Talk in Two Classrooms" (with Robert Kachur).
Work in Progress: Generic Monsters: Theorizing Difference in Writing Studies (book- length project), and articles on the rhetoric of mental disability and the teaching of writing program administration.
Teaching: Composition Theory; Socio-Cultural Literacy Research and English Education. Seminars on the Impact of Academic Labor Practices on Writing Programs and on Theorizing Race in Writing Studies Research.

Paul Prior, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1992, University of Minnesota.

Specializations: Writing Studies, especially Writing in the Disciplines; Sociohistoric Theory; Qualitative Research on Literate Activity.
Publications: Writing/Disciplinarity: A Sociohistoric Account of Literate Activity in the Academy (1998). Articles including "Research and WAC Evaluation: An In-Progress Reflection" (with Gail Hawisher, Sibylle Gruber, and Nicole MacLaughlin); "Literate Activity and Disciplinarity: The Heterogeneous (Re)production of American Studies around a Graduate Seminar"; "Redefining the Task: An Ethnographic Examination of Writing and Response in Graduate Seminars"; "Tracing Authoritative and Internally Persuasive Discourses: A Case Study of Response, Revision, and Disciplinary Enculturation"; "Response, Revision, Disciplinarity: A Microhistory of a Dissertation Prospectus in Sociology"; and "Contextualizing Writing and Response in a Graduate Seminar."
Work in Progress: research on literate activity and disciplinarity in academic and non-academic contexts.
Teaching: Professional Seminar in the Teaching of College English; Responding to Writing: Research, Theory, and Practice; Sociohistoric Research in Writing Studies; Research in Writing Assessment; Introduction to Writing Studies I & II; Language, Discourse, and Literacy.

Richard T. Rodríguez, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2000, University of California at Santa Cruz.

Specializations: U.S. Latino/a Literature and Culture; Film Studies; Twentieth-Century American Literature; Gender and Sexuality; Critical Theory.
Publications: Next of Kin: Reconfiguring the Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics (under contract with Duke University Press); "The Verse of the Godfather" in Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture & Chicana/o Sexualities, ed. Alicia Gaspar de Alba (2003); "Serial Kinship: Representing La Familia in Early Chicano Publications " in Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies (Spring 2002); "On the Subject of Gang Photography" in Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies (Spring 2000) and reprinted in Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives , eds. L. Kontos, L. Barrios, and D. Brotherton (2003); review of Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr. in Theatre Journal (March 2000).
Work in Progress: a book of essays on race, sex, and masculinity.
Teaching: U.S. Latino/a Literature; Chicano/a Cultural Studies; Gender and Sexuality in Latino/a Literature and Film; Race and Masculinity in American Culture.

Michael Rothberg, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1995, City University of New York.

Specializations: : Twentieth-Century American Literature; Holocaust Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Literary and Cultural Theory.
Publications: Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (2000); The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings , ed. with Neil Levi (2003). Recent articles such as "W.E.B. Du Bois in Warsaw : Holocaust Memory and the Color Line, 1949-1952"; " Auschwitz and the Remains of Theory: Towards an Ethics of the Borderlands," with Neil Levi; "Dead Letter Office: Conspiracy, Trauma, and Song of Solomon 's Posthumous Communication"; and "'There is No Poetry in This': Writing, Trauma, and Home."
Work in Progress: Decolonizing the Holocaust: Multidirectional Memory and the Legacies of Violence.
Teaching: Literature and Theory After Auschwitz; Politics and Form in Contemporary U.S. Literature and Culture; Contemporary American Literature; Jewish-American Literature; Literature of the Holocaust; Introduction to Modern Critical Thought.

Julia Frances Saville, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1993, Stanford University.

Specializations: Victorian Literature and Culture (in particular Poetry and Painting); Gender Theory and Criticism; Theories of the Visual.
Publications: A Queer Chivalry: The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins (2000). Articles such as " The Lady of Shalott : A Lacanian Romance"; "Of Fleshly Garments: Ascesis and Desire in the Ethic of Psychoanalysis"; "The Romance of Boys Bathing: Poetic Precedents and Respondents to the Paintings of Henry Scott Tuke"; "Eccentricity as Englishness in David Copperfield "; and various articles on Victorian literature and culture.
Work in Progress: Boys Bathing: An Aesthetics of the Male Nude in Victorian Literature and Culture (book-length study).
Teaching: Contested Manliness: Shifting Perspectives of Masculinity from 1845-1914; Words and Images: Visual and Verbal Arts in Victorian Britain; Marriage and Gender in Victorian Poetry.

Spencer Schaffner, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2005, University of Washington.

Specializations: Current Rhetorical Theory; Discourse Analysis; Web Texts; Composition pedagogy .
Publications: Short pieces in Enculturation and A Closer Look: a Writer's Reader.
Work in Progress: a book exploring the relationships between birdwatchers and field guides.
Teaching: Genre and discourse; theories of everyday life; textually mediated environmental encounters; innovative academic writing; pedagogy.

Alex Shakar, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2002, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Specializations: Fiction Writing; Contemporary Fiction.
Publications: Book-length fictions The Savage Girl (2001) and City in Love (1996).
Work in Progress: a novel about modern-day mysticism.
Teaching: Creative Writing; Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Fiction.

Michael Shapiro, Professor; Ph.D. 1967, Columbia Univeristy.

Specializations: Renaissance Drama; Modern Jewish Literature; American Ethnic Minority Literature.
Publications: Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage (1994); and Children of the Revels: The Boy Companies of Shakespeare's Time and Their Plays (1977). Articles and reviews on Shakespeare, other Renaissance dramatists, and modern Jewish literature. Editor of Divisions Between Traditionalism and Liberalism in the American Jewish Community: Cleft or Chasm?
Work in Progress: an edition of Abraham Cahan's English prose; a book on the "Boy Bride" plays of early modern England (plays in which men adopt female disguise); essays on cross-cultural appropriations of Shakespeare.
Teaching: Intertextuality and Theatricality in Shakespeare; Appropriations and Adaptations of Shakespeare.

Siobhan B. Somerville, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1994, Yale University.

Specializations: Twentieth-Century American Literature; Queer Theory; Feminist Theory.
Publications: Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (2000). Articles such as "Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body" and "The Prettiest Specimen of Boyhood: Cross-gender and Racial Disguise in Pauline E. Hopkins's Winona ."
Work in Progress: Race, Sexuality, and Citizenship in American Culture, 1940-1967.
Teaching: American Literature; Gay and Lesbian Studies; Women and Film.

Andrea Stevens, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2007, University of Virginia.

Specializations: Shakespeare; early modern English drama; theater history.
Publications: "'Assisted by a Barber:' The Court Apothecary, Special Effects, and Ben Jonson's The Gypsies Metamorphosed, " Theatre Notebook 61.1 (2007) ; "Mastering Masques of Blackness," forthcoming from English Literary Renaissance ; theater and poetry reviews for Shakespeare Bulletin , Verse.
Work in Progress: A book project on early modern special effects; articles on staging pain in Coriolanus and on the performer-audience contract in contemporary magic acts.
Teaching: Shakespeare; early modern drama, literature, and culture; late medieval drama; lyric poetry.

Zohreh Sullivan, Professor; Ph.D. 1971, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Specializations: Modern British Literature; Colonial and Postcolonial Literature.
Publications: Exiled Memories: Recovering Stories of Iranian Diaspora (2001); Narratives of Empire: The Fictions of Rudyard Kipling (1993). Editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Kipling's Kim (2002). Articles on pedagogy; on problems of identity and representation in colonial, postcolonial, and migrant writing; on modernity and gender in the Middle East ; and essays on Conrad, Forster, Murdoch, Lessing, Achebe, Salih, and others.
Work in Progress: Writing Migrancy; essays on writers from the subcontinent, the Caribbean , and Africa .
Teaching: Postcolonial Literature and Theory; Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives of Empire.

Mark Christian Thompson, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 2001, New York University.

Specializations: Modern American, African-American, German, and Austrian Literature; Modernism; Poststructuralism; Psychoanalysis
Publications: "His Rod of Power: Zora Neale Huston's Moses, Man of the Mountain."
Work in Progress: Black Fascism: Fascism in African-American Culture Between the Wars; and Savage Modernism: Blood-Sacrifice, Literary Primitivism and Culture.
Teaching: American and African Literature; Critical Theory; Comparative Literature.

Renee Trilling, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2004, University of Notre Dame.

Specializations: Old and Middle English literature; Theories of Historiography and Nationalism; Linguistics and Philology; Feminist and Psychoanalytic Theory.
Publications: "Beyond Abjection: The Problem with Grendel's Mother Again." Parergon 24.1 (2007): 1-20; "Sovereignty and Social Order: Archbishop Wulfstan and the Institutes of Polity." In The Bishop Reformed: Studies in Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages, edited by John S. Ott and Anna Trumbore Jones, 58-85. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
Work in Progress: a book-length study on aesthetics and historical consciousness in early medieval England.
Teaching: Medieval English literature; Critical Theory.

Ted Underwood, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1997, Cornell University.

Specializations: British Romantic Literature.
Publications: "Romantic Historicism and the Afterlife"; "How to Save 'Tintern Abbey' from New-Critical Pedagogy (in Three Minutes and Fifty-Six Seconds)"; "The Science in Shelley's Theory of Poetry"; and "Productivism and the Vogue for 'Energy' in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain." Forthcoming: The Labor Done by the Sun: Natural Force and the Autonomy of Work 1780-1840 ; "Historical Difference as Immortality in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Novel"; "Skepticism and Surmise in Humphry Davy"; and "How Did the Correlation of Forces Become 'The Highest Law in Physical Science which our Faculties Permit us to Perceive'?"
Work in Progress: Déjà Vu and Cultural Immortality in the Nineteenth Century.
Teaching: British Romantic Literature.

Joseph Valente, Professor; Ph.D. 1992, University of Pennsylvania.

Specializations: Modern Irish and British Literature; Postcolonial, Psychoanalytic, and Gender Theory.
Publications: Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question
of Blood (2002); Disciplinarity at the Fin De Siecle (co-edited collection, 2002); Joyce and the Law (2002); Quare Joyce (edited collection, 1998); James Joyce and the Problem of Justice: Negotiating Sexual and Colonial Difference (1995); and Joyce and Homosexuality (1994). Thirty-plus articles on literature and critical theory, including "A Child Is Being Eaten: Mourning, Transvestism and the Incorporation of the Daughter in Ulysses "; "'Thrilled by His Touch': The Aestheticization of Homosexual Panic in A Portrait of the Artist"; "The Myth of Sovereignty: Gender in the Literature of Irish Nationalism"; "Double Born: Bram Stoker and the Metrocolonial Gothic"; "The Novel and the Police (Gazette)"; "Lacan's Marxism/Marxism's Lacan"; "Neither Fish nor Flesh': James Joyce and the Conundrum of Irish Manhood"; "Hall of Mirrors: Baudrillard on Marx"; "Imagining Ireland Otherwise: James Joyce and the Cosmopolitan Sublime"; and "Performative Chic" and "Identification Trouble" (with Molly Anne Rothenberg).
Work in Progress: Contested Territory: Race and Manhood in Modern Irish Literature; Renaissance Nation: On Modernist Minority Revivals (with William J. Maxwell).
Teaching: Modern British and Irish Literature; Literary and Cultural Theory.

Julia A. Walker, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1995, Duke University.

Specializations: Modern Drama, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Theatre and Cultural History, Performance Theory.
Publications: Modernism and Expressionism in the American Theatre: Bodies, Voices, Words (2005). Articles on Eugene O'Neill's early plays; problems in the historiography of performance; and the development of modernism on the American stage.
Work in Progress: a book integrating performance theory and American cultural history.
Teaching: Performance Theory; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Theatre & Drama; Theatrical Modernism.

Gillen Wood, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 2000, Columbia University.

Specializations: Romanticism; Literature and Visual Culture; Psychoanalysis; Opera and Music Culture.
Publications: The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture (2001); Hosack's Folly: A Novel of Old New York (2005). Articles on Baudelaire, Turner and Scott, The Elgin Marbles, Mozart and the Hunt Circle; new edition of Dickens' Tale of Two Cities (forthcoming).
Work in Progress: Virtue and Virtuosity: Operatic Style in British Literature, 1780-1840 (book-length project).
Teaching: Romanticism and Visual Culture; Austen; Keats.

Charles Wright, Professor; Ph.D. 1984, Cornell University.

Specializations: Medieval Literature, especially Old English and Old Irish.
Publications: The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature (1993). Articles on Old English poetry, Old English prose, and Old Irish literature and culture.
Work in Progress: papers on Old English prose and poetry; editions of Irish and Hiberno-Latin texts.
Teaching: Old English Language and Literature; Old Irish language and Medieval Irish Literature; Bibliography and Methods in Medieval Studies; Chaucer and Langland.

David Wright, Associate Professor, M.F.A. 1996, University of Massachusetts.

Specializations: Creative Non-Fiction; African-American Literature.
Publications: Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Life Savers (2001).
Work in Progress: a memoir of expatriation, short stories, and a novel.
Teaching: Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction; African-American Literature.



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Undergraduate Programs Graduate English Programs MFA in Creative Writing Center for Writing Studies Other Programs/Affiliations	Graduate Program in English Graduate Faculty Gary Adelman, Professor; Ph.D. 1962, Columbia University. Specializations: Modern British Literature; the European Novel in English Translation. Publications: Reclaiming D.H. Lawrence: Contemporary Writers Speak Out , ed. (2002); Retelling Dostoyevsky: Literary Responses and Other Observations (2001); Jude the Obscure : A Paradise of Despair (1992); Snow of Fire : Symbolic Meaning in The Rainbow and Women in Love (1991); Anna Karenina: The Bitterness of Ecstasy (1990); Heart of Darkness : Search for the Unconscious ; and Honey Out of Stone (1970; a novel). Articles on D. H. Lawrence, Beckett, Dostoyevsky, J. M. Coetzee, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Work in Progress: A book-length reassessment of D.H. Lawrence. Teaching: Major British Writers (Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Eliot, Beckett); the European Novel (Stendhal, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka); Major Poets from Beowulf to the Present. Dennis Baron, Professor; Ph.D. 1971, University of Michigan. Specializations: English Linguistics; History of the English Language; Writing Studies; Literacy and Technology; Medieval Literature. Publications: The Guide to Home Language Repair (1994); The English-Only Question: An Official Language for Americans (1991); Declining Grammar and Other Essays on the English Vocabulary (1989): Grammar and Good Taste: Reforming the American Language (1982); and Grammar and Gender (1981). Many articles, including "The Epicene Pronoun: The Word That Failed" and "From Pencils to Pixels: Literacy 2001." Work in Progress: The New Technologies of Literacy. Teaching: Language, Discourse, and Literacy; Literacy and Technology; History of the English Language; Descriptive English Grammar. Robert Barrett, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2001, University of Pennsylvania. Specializations: Medieval English Literature (esp. Middle English Literature); Early English Drama (up to 1642); Regional and Local Cultures Publications: Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195-1656 (forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press); "The Ground of Grace: Appropriating Monastic Space in the Chester Mystery Cycle" (forthcoming in Studies in Philology); "The Absent Triumphator in Robert Amery's 1610 Chester's Triumph in Honor of Her Prince" in Robert E. Stillman's Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Leiden: Brill, 2006) Work in Progress: The Chester Whitsun Plays (an edition for the TEAMS Middle English Texts Series) Teaching: ENGL 511: Chaucer; ENGL 514: Topics in Medieval Literature (e.g., Early English Drama) Anustup Basu, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2005, University of Pittsburgh. Specializations: Film/Visual Culture; Theory/Criticism; Postcolonial Studies. Publications: "Mantras of the Metropole: Digital Inscription and Mythic Curvatures of Profane Time in Rudraksh" (forthcoming in 2005); "Nayak O Yug Badoler Kabyo: Bharatiyo Challochitro O Bishwayan" [Bengali -for " Nayak and the Epic of Changing Times: Indian Cinema and Globalization"] (forthcoming in 2005); "The Human and His Spectacular Autumn, or, Informatics After Philosophy" in PostModern Culture 14.3 (May 2004); "Bombs and Bytes: Sovereign Power and Global Information Flows" Mute 27 (2004): 64-71; "State of Security and Warfare of Demons" Critical Quarterly 45.1-2 (2003): 11-32. Work in Progress: a book on contemporary Indian cinema seen in relation to globalization, "geo-televisuality," and the rise of political Hindutva, and essays on sovereignty and states of information. Teaching: Introduction to Film; Intermediate Film; Introduction to Film Theory; Shakespeare and Film. Dale Bauer, Professor; Ph.D. 1985, University of California at Irvine. Specializations: 19th- and 20th-Century American Literature; Gender Studies. Publications: Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics (1994); Feminist Dialogics (1988); Editor of the Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing (2001), with Philip Gould; The New Cultural Edition of The Yellow Wallpaper (1998); Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic (1992), with Susan Jaret McKinstry. Work in Progress: Sex Expression and American Women, a book tracing the advent of American women's "sex expression" in literature, from Phelps and Davis in the 1860s and '70s to previously unexplored mass-market writers in the 1940s. Teaching: 19th- and 20th-century American Literature; Feminist Theory; Critical Pedagogy Jodi Byrd, Assistant Professor Specializations: American Indian and Pacific Literatures, Postcolonial Theory, Indigenous Critical Theory and Politics, Pop Culture and Representations of Indigenous Peoples. Publications: "(Post)Colonial Plainsongs: Toward Native Literary Worldings" in Unlearning the Language of Conquest edited by Don Trent Jacobs. University of Texas Press, 2006. "Living My Native Life Deadly: Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Politics of Competing Genocides" forthcoming in American Indian Quarterly. Work in Progress: Book project entitled, Colonial Cacophonies, Decolonial Worlds: Toward an Indigenous Postcolonial Theory that examines how settler colonialisms function in landscapes that bear multiple and competing experiences of arrival, slavery, removal, and resistance. Co-editing a 2007 volume of Alternatives that looks at the intersection between Indigenous Politics and Law. An article that examines the discursive strategies used in debates to frame and resist the incorporation of Native Hawaiian governance within U.S. federal Indian law. An article examining how race, colonialism, space, and indigeneity interact within postmodern literatures of horror. Teaching: AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES 591: Problems in Indigenous Studies, AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES 490: Advanced Topics in American Indian Studies, and ENGLISH 460: Literature of American Minorities. Lisa Cacho, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2002, University of California at San Diego. Specializations: Twentieth-Century Racial/Ethnic American Literature; California Literature; Critical Race Theory; Gender and Immigration. Publications: "The People of California Are Suffering’: The Ideology of White Injury in Discourses of Immigration” (2000). Work in Progress: Propositioning Inequality. Teaching: Interdisciplinary Research and Methods; Theories of Race and Ethnicity; Comparative Racial/Ethnic American Literature (20th Century). U.S. Latina/o Literature; Asian American Literature. Martin Camargo, Professor; Ph.D. 1978, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Specializations: Medieval Literature; History of Rhetoric Publications: Medieval Rhetorics of Prose Composition: Five English "Artes Dictandi" and Their Tradition (1995), The Middle English Verse Love Epistle (1991), Ars Dictaminis, Ars Dictandi (1991). Articles and book chapters on medieval rhetoric and poetics, the rhetoric of letter writing, Geoffrey Chaucer, and medieval English literature. Work in Progress: A critical edition and translation of Tria sunt, an anonymous art of poetry and prose used to teach Latin composition at Oxford in the late Middle Ages. Teaching: Middle English Language and Literature, especially the works of Geoffrey Chaucer; History of Rhetoric; History of the English Language. Jose B. Capino, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2002, Northwestern University. Specializations: Film and Television Criticism and Historiography; Documentary Studies; Cinema and Sexuality; Cinema and Postcoloniality. Publications: "Homologies of Space, Text and Spectatorship," Cinema Journal (2005); "Seminal Fantasies: Wakefield Poole , Independent Cinema and the Avant- garde" in American Independent Cinema: From the Margins to the Mainstream (Routledge, 2004); "Filthy Funnies: Notes on the Body in Animated Pornography," Animation Journal (2004). Work in Progress: Book projects on American nonfiction cinema, colonialism, Philippine cinema, and postcoloniality. Teaching: Documentary Film and Video; Introduction to Film; Cinema and the Colonial Aftermath. Nancy Castro, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 1998, Columbia University. Specializations: U.S. and Caribbean Literature. Publications: "The Caribbean Novel.” Work in Progress: Breeding Problems: De-Conceiving Narratives of the Americas Teaching: American, African-American, Latino/a, and Caribbean Literature. Leon Chai, Professor; Ph.D. 1984, University of Virginia. Specializations: American Literature; British and European Romanticism; Later Nineteenth-Century British and French Literature; Critical Theory. Publications: Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy (1998 ); Aestheticism: The Religion of Art in Post-Romantic Literature (1990); and The Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance (1987). Work in Progress: Romantic Theory. Teaching: Romantic Theory; The Revolutionary Moment; The American Renaissance as Cultural History; Modern Historiography; Aestheticism; Blake and Shelley. Eleanor Courtemanche, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 1998, Cornell University. Specializations: British Victorian Literature; French and German Literature; Economic and Scientific Rhetoric; Cultural Studies; Critical Theory. Publications: Articles on Martineau and Dickens, Kafka, the novel and the free market. Book reviews on recent work in Victorian political economy. Work in Progress: a book on Adam Smith's invisible hand as a moral structure in 19th-century realist fiction. Articles on Dickens and artificial intelligence; Thackeray and economic causality; Disraeli and poitical romance. Teaching: Victorian culture, including Dickens and the Victorian City, and other courses on the British and European novel. Ramona Curry, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1990, Northwestern University. Specializations: Film; Feminist Theory; Popular Culture. Publications: Too Much of a Good Thing: Mae West as Cultural Icon (1996). Essays on film censorship; international media stars; feminist media production; historical impact of film and television. Work in Progress: book manuscript on the social and political functions of German cinema from 1911 to 1918. Teaching: Theories of Popular Culture; American and International Film. Alice Deck, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1980, State University of New York at Binghamton. Specializations: African and African-American Literature. Publications: articles on African and Afro-American narrative, autobiography, and popular culture. Work in Progress: a book-length study of modern African and Afro-American autobiographies. Teaching: Toni Morrison; Afro-American Autobiography. Jed Esty, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1996, Duke University. Specializations: Twentieth-century British, Irish, and Postcolonial literature; Colonial and Postcolonial Studies; History and Theory of the Novel; Critical Theory. Recent Publications: A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England (Princeton, 2004); Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (Duke, 2005), co-edited with Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Antoinette Burton, and Matti Bunzl; "The Colonial Bildungsroman; or, Olive Schreiner and Goethe's Ghost," forthcoming in Victorian Studies 49.3 (Spring 2007); and "Virginia Woolf's Colony and the Adolescence of Modernist Fiction," in Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1900-1939, eds. Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses. (Duke, 2007). Work in Progress: Tropics of Youth: The Bildungsroman and Colonial Modernity Teaching: Modernism; Postwar British and Irish Literature; Postcolonial Literature and Theory; History and Theory of the Novel; The Short Story. Stephanie Foote, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1994, State University of New York, Buffalo. Specializations: American Literature, esp. 1865-1917; Queer Theory; Print Culture; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies. Selected Publications: Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2001); various book chapters as well as essays in American Literature , College Literature , Signs , Arizona Quarterly , MELUS , Studies in American Fiction , The Henry James Review, Concerns. Work in Progress: Two book-length studies, one on parvenus and class mobility in U.S. culture, the other on lesbian print culture and history. Teaching: Women’s Studies; Critical Race Theory; Queer Theory; and American Literature. Christopher Freeburg, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2006, University of Chicago. Specializations: American and African American Literature; Colonialism and Slavery in the Atlantic World; Intellectual History. Publications: "Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition (review)," American Literature - Volume 74, Number 3, September 2002. Work in Progress: a manuscript on colonialism and slavery in the fiction of Herman Melville as well as articles that feature James Baldwin, Frantz Fanon, and C.L.R. James. Teaching: ENGL 455 Emerson and His Age, ENGL 450 American Literature 1865-1914, and ENGL 460 The Black Atlantic. Peter K. Garrett, Professor; Ph.D. 1966, Yale University. Specializations: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Literature; Critical Theory. Publications: Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (2003); The Victorian Multiplot Novel (1980); and Scene and Symbol from George Eliot to James Joyce (1969). Articles and reviews on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. Editor of Twentieth Century Interpretations of Dubliners (1968). Work in Progress: studies of narrative form and reflexivity in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century fiction. Teaching: Narrative Theory; Victorian Gothic; Victorian Realism; and Nineteenth-Century Crime and Sensation Fiction. Lauren Goodlad, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1995, Columbia University. Specializations: Victorian Literature and Culture; Gothic Genres; Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Gender Studies. Publications: Victorian Literature and the Victorian State : Character and Governance in a Liberal Society (2003); Goth: Undead Subculture , ed. (forthcoming). Articles on Victorian studies in journals such as ELH , Victorian Studies , PMLA , and Genre ; articles on contemporary cultural studies including "Postmodern Gothic" (in Diegesis ) and"Packaged Alternatives" (in the book Communities of the Air [2003]). Work in Progress: Liberal Internationalism: Victorian Literary Encounters with the South. Teaching: Victorian Literature and Culture; Critical, Feminist, and Postcolonial Theory; Cultural Studies; Literature in its Relation to Contemporary Understandings of Liberalism, Globalization, and Development. Philip Graham, Professor; M.A. 1976, City of University of New York (CUNY). Specializations: Novel; Short Story; Memoir Publications: How to Read an Unwritten Language (1995) ; The Vanishings (1978) ; and two collections of short stories, The Art of the Knock (1985) and Interior Design (1996). His co-authored memoir of Africa (with Alma Gottlieb), Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa (1993), was the winner of the 1993 Victor Turner Prize. Work in Progress: City of Ghosts Teaching: Fiction Writing, Problems in Fiction Writing Catharine Gray, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2001, State University of New York at Buffalo. Specializations: Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century English Literature. Publications: "Feeding on the Seed of the Woman: Dorothy Leigh and the Figure of Maternal Dissent"; "Glorious Shadows: Katherine Philips and the Post-courtly Coterie." Work in Progress: Forward Writers/Critical Readers: Women and Counterpublic Spheres in Seventeenth-Century England . Teaching: Women's Writing, Milton, Feminist Theory, Shakespeare. James A. Hansen, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2001, University of Notre Dame. Specializations: British/Irish Modernism; Literary Theory. Publications: "The Uncreating Conscience: Memory and Apparitions in Joyce and Benjamin"; "Theodor W. Adorno" in The Dictionary of Literary Biography . Work in Progress: Phantoms of the Modern: Gothic Histories and Materialist Criticism in Irish Modernism. Teaching: British/Irish Modernism, Twentieth Century Novel, the Gothic, Modern Poetry, the Frankfurt School Janice N. Harrington, Assistant Professor; M.A., University of Iowa. Specializations: Poetry writing; writing for children. Publications: Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone (poetry), BOA Editions, 2007. Poems in many literary journals. Going North (children's book), Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004. The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County (children's book), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. Work in Progress: Poetry; children's books. Teaching: Mostly poetry writing; occasionally children's writing. Matt Hart, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2004, University of Pennsylvania. Specializations: Modern and Contemporary English and Scottish Literature; International Modernism; Poetry and Poetics; Cultural and Political Theory. Publications: “Against the Quiet Way: Hugh MacDiarmid ‘After Britain '”; “The Measure of All That Has Been Lost: Christopher Hitchens, George Orwell, and the Price of Political Relevance”; “Solvent Abuse: Irvine Welsh and Scotland.” Work in Progress: Three essays: "Tradition and the Postcolonial Talent: T.S. Eliot versus E.K. Brathwaite"; "All the Downtown Tories: Mourning Englishness in New York"; and "The Cartographic Uncanny: Layla Curtis and British National History." A book project: Nations of Nothing But Poetry: Late Modernism and the Sovereignty of Vernacular Culture, 1922-2002. Teaching: 20th-Century British Culture; Modern and Postmodern British and American Poetry; Critical Theory Debra Hawhee, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 2001, Penn State University. Specializations: Ancient rhetoric; Kenneth Burke; Body Studies; History of Rhetorical Education. Publications: Bodily Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece (2004). Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students , co-authored with Sharon Crowley (most recent edition is 2004). Articles on ancient notions of agonism, bodily pedagogy, Kenneth Burke, and composition history in College English , College Composition and Communication , Quarterly Journal of Speech , and Philosophy and Rhetoric . Work in Progress: A book about Kenneth Burke's theories of the body. Teaching: Rhetoric and Gesture; Aristotle and Rhetorical Studies; Rhetorics/Bodies; Critical Theory and Writing Studies; Kenneth Burke; Classical Rhetoric. Gail E. Hawisher, Professor; Ph.D. 1985, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Specializations: Writing Studies; Computers and Composition; Literacy Studies. Publications: Co-author of Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy from the United States (2004); Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education, 1979-1994: A History (1996); co-editor of Global Literacies and the World Wide Web (2000); Literacy, Technology, and Society: Confronting the Issues (1997); On Literacy and Its Teaching (1990); Evolving Perspectives on Computers and Composition Studies (1991); Passions, Pedagogies, and Twenty-First Century Technologies (1999); Re-Imagining Computers and Composition: Teaching and Research in the Virtual Age (1992); and Critical Perspectives on Computers and Composition Instruction (1989). Various essays, most recently "Reflections on Research in Computers and Composition Studies at the Century's End"; "Writing across the Curriculum Encounters Asynchronous Learning Networks"; "Researching Electronic Networks"; and "Women on the Networks: Searching for E-Spaces of Their Own." Co-Editor of the journal Computers and Composition . Work in Progress: The Online Lives of Women, a book-length study built around the online lives of 30 women academics in writing studies. Teaching: Introduction to Writing Studies; Writing and Technology. LeAnne Howe, Associate Professor; M.F.A. 2000, Vermont College of Norwich University. Specializations: Fiction; Poetry; Plays; Screenplays. Publications: Miko Kings, an Indian Baseball Story. Aunt Lute Books, 2007. Evidence of Red (2005), Salt Publishing, UK, received the Oklahoma Book Award for poetry in 2006. Shell Shaker (2002), won American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation; Equinoxes Rouge, the French translation, was the 2004 finalist for the Prix Medici Estranger, one of France's top literary awards. Howe is also the screenwriter and on-camera narrator for the 90-minute PBS documentary Indian Country Diaries: Spiral of Fire on PBS stations in 2006. Current Film: Playing Pastime: American Indians, Softball, and Survival a half hour film short, will screen at the Heard Museum in Phoenix Arizona later this year. Work in Progress: Miko Kings, an Indian baseball novel set in Ada, Oklahoma in 1930 and also 1969, is forthcoming in 2005 from Aunt Lute Books. Documentary Film: Playing Pastime: American Indians, Softball, and Survival (forthcoming 2007). Teaching: American Indian Literature; 20th-Century Literature; Creative Writing. Gordon Hutner, Professor; Ph.D. 1982, University of Virginia. Specializations: American Literature, particularly 19th- and 20th-Century Fiction; American Criticism; Ethnic Literature. Publications: Secrets and Sympathy: Forms of Disclosure in Hawthorne 's Novels (1988). Editor of National Imaginaries, American Identities: The Cultural Work of American Iconography (2000), with Larry J. Reynolds; Immigrant Voices: Twenty-Four Narratives on Becoming an American (1999); American Literature, American Culture (1999); and The American Literary History Reader (1995). Founder and editor of the Oxford University Press journal American Literary History . Work in Progress: a book on the mid-twentieth-century American novel. Tyehimba Jess, Assistant Professor; M.F.A. 2004, New York University. Specializations: Poetry. Publications: Leadbelly (2005), Winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series Award. Fiction and poetry have appeared in Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence (Penguin Books, 1996); Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry (Manic D Press, 2000); Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Three Rivers Press, 2001); Beyond The Frontier: African American Poetry for the Twenty-First Century (Black Classic Press, 2002); Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art (Third World Press, 2002); and Dark Matter 2: Reading the Bones (Aspect Press, 2004). Non- fiction book, African American Pride: Celebrating our Achievements, Contributions, and Legacy (2003). Teaching: Poetry. David Kay, Professor, Ph.D. 1968, Princeton University. Specializations: Renaissance Literature; Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. Publications: Ben Jonson: A Literary Life (1995). Articles on Erasmus's The Praise of Folly ; on Jonson's "On My First Sonne," the development of Jonson's career, his use of dramatic convention in Volpone and other plays; on Bartholomew Fair , and Epicoene. Editor of John Marston, The Malcontent (1998). Work in Progress: a book on rivalry and revision in Ben Jonson's drama; articles on All's Well That Ends Well and on Jonson's satire of commodification. Teaching: Renaissance Drama, especially non-Shakespearean. Brigit Kelly, Professor; M.F.A. 1993, University of Oregon. Specializations: Poetry. Publications: The Orchard (2004); Song (1995); To the Place of Trumpets (1988), Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Teaching: Poetry Writing; Problems in Poetry Writing. Susan Koshy, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1992, University of California at Los Angeles. Specializations: Globalization and Culture; Ethnic Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Feminist Theory; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century English literature; American Orientalism; Transnational Cultural Studies; Racial and Sexual Formations; Legal Discourse. Publications: Sexual Naturalization (2004). Articles including "The Campaign for Fair Trials Abroad: Long-Distance Nationalism and Post- Imperial Anxiety"; "The Postmodern Subaltern: Globalization Theory and the Subject of Ethnic, Area, and Postcolonial Studies"; "Morphing Race into Ethnicity: Asian Americans and Critical Transformations of Whiteness"; "American Nationhood as Eugenic Romance: D. W. Griffith 's Broken Blossoms." Work in Progress: Two book-length studies, one on the changing configurations of ethnicity within globalization, and the other an edited interdisciplinary anthology on the South Asian diaspora. Teaching: Postcolonial Literature; Asian American Literature; Empire and the English Novel; Immigrant Literature; Globalization and Culture; Diaspora Theory and Fiction; Feminist Theory. Melissa Littlefield, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. 2005, Pennsylvania State University. Specializations: Science and Literature, Feminist Science Studies, Science Fiction, Technology and Modernity, Body Studies. Publications: Technologies of Truth: The Embodiment of Deception Detection (under contract University of Washington Press) • "Matter for Thought: The Psychon in Neurology, Psychology and American Culture, 1927-1943" (forthcoming in a book collection on Neurology and Modernity) • "Technology and Representation." Science, Technology and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 463-469. • Squier, Susan and Melissa Littlefield, eds. Special issue of Feminist Theory on the topic of "Feminist Theory and/of Science," 5:2 (2004). Co-author, with Susan Squier, "Introduction." 123-126. Work in Progress: Book project on facial reconstruction in American culture, physiology and forensics. • "The Evolution of Forensic Art: Cops, Composite Artists and the Forensic Imagination" • "'An American Flag with Great Gams'": Wonder Woman's Post-9/11 Diplomacy". Teaching: Feminist Science Studies, Science Fiction, Critical Theory, Feminist Theory. Trish Loughran, Associate Professor, Ph.D. 2000, University of Chicago. Specializations: American Literature and Culture, especially 1750-1865 and especially as it connects across disciplines with work in history; political economy; material culture; and art history. Publications: articles on early American print culture and nation-building. Work in Progress: Virtual Nation: Local and National Cultures of Print, 1776-1850. Teaching: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Material and Visual Culture of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Technological Innovation and Industrial Expansion in the early United States. Michael Madonick, Associate Professor; M.F.A. 1981, University of Oregon. Specializations: Poetry Writing Publications: Waking the Deaf Dog (1999). Work in Progress: Two manuscripts of poems. Teaching: Poetry Writing. Robert Markley, Professor; Ph.D. 1980, University of Pennsylvania. Specializations: Eighteenth-Century British Literature; Colonialism and Post-Colonialism; and New Media Studies. Publications: Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination (2005); Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars , for DVD-ROM (2001); Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England , 1600-1740 (1993); Two-Edg'd Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve (1988); editor, Virtual Realities and their Discontents (1991); co-editor, From Renaissance to Restoration: Metamorphoses of the Drama (1984); and co-editor of Kierkegaard and Literature: Irony, Repetition, and Criticism (1984). Many articles on eighteenth-century drama, fiction, and science, eighteenth-century colonialism, and new media. Work in Progress: Fictions of Eurocentrism: The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1800 (forthcoming). Teaching: Eighteenth-Century Drama and Fiction; Literature, Trade, and Colonialism; Media/Theory; Symbolic Economies after Marx and Freud. John Marsh, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2004, University of Illinois. Specializations: Modern and Contemporary Poetry; Working-Class Literature; Modernism; Adult and Community Education; Labor and Higher Education Publications: You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-1941 . Forthcoming from University of Michigan Press (Winter 2007). · "A Lost Art of Work: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems ." Forthcoming in American Literature (Fall 2007). · "War of the (Left) Worlds." Review of Walter Benn Michaels, The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality . Forthcoming in Pedagogy (Fall 2007). · "The Justice Poetry of Miriam Tane." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers . 23: 1 (2006): 44-59. · "Thinking about Students as Workers." Inside Higher Education . December 11, 2006. Work in Progress: "Red Scare: The Anti-Marxist Origins of Modern American Poetry" Teaching: Modern and Contemporary Poetry; Working-Class Literature; Modernism. Recent Courses: English 300: The Literature of Poverty, the Poverty of Literature; English 241: Beginnings of Modern Poetry; English 242: Poetry since 1940; English 213: The Literature and Culture of Modernism. William J. Maxwell, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1993, Duke University. Specializations: Modern American and African-American Literature; American Cultural History; Critical Theory. Publications: New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars (1999). Editor of Claude McKay, Complete Poems (2004). Articles and reviews in African American Review , American Literary History, American Literature , Callaloo , The Journal of Popular Music Studies , and The Minnesota Review on Ralph Ellison; Afro- modernist poetry; black writing and the F.B.I.; working-class culture and the Harlem Renaissance; proletarian literature; the new modernist studies; jazz in and on modern American literature; poetry and transnationalism. Work in Progress: a book on the secretly intimate relationship between the F.B.I. and African-American literary modernism. Teaching: The Jazz Page: Jazz Music and Modern American Literature; Reconceiving the Harlem Renaissance; Modernisms in America; Writers and Critics as Intellectuals in 20th-Century America; The Celtic and Harlem Renaissances (with Joseph Valente). Bruce Michelson, Professor; Ph.D. 1976, University of Washington. Specialization: American Literature. Publications: Mark Twain and the Information Age (forthcoming); Literary Wit (2000); Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self (1995) ; Wilbur's Poetry: Music in a Scattering Time (1991) . Articles on Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Harold Frederic, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Saul Bellow, Richard Wilbur, Emily Dickinson, Joyce Carol Oates, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and Garrison Keillor; numerous book reviews. Other publications include (with Marjorie Pryse) Teaching with the Norton Anthology of American Literature (1998), and (with Francine Lercongee) Joyce Carol Oates (1986). Work in Progress: Revised edition of Teaching with the Norton Anthology of American Literature. Teaching: 19th-and 20th-Century American Literature; Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Feisal Mohamed, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2003, University of Toronto. Specializations: Milton, current discourses on religious violence and radicalism as related to those of the seventeenth century. Publications: In the Anteroom of Divinity: The Reformation of the Angels from Colet to Milton (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming)."Liberty Before and After Liberalism: Miltons Shifting Politics and the Current Crisis in Liberal Theory." University of Toronto Quarterly . Special issue, Miltons America/Americas Milton. Ed. Paul Stevens (forthcoming). · "Reading Samson in the New American Century." Milton Studies 46 (2007): 149-64. · "The Globe of Villages: Digital Media and the Rise of Homegrown Terrorism." Dissent Magazine , Winter 2007: 61-64. · "Confronting Religious Violence: Milton's Samson Agonistes ." PMLA 120 (2005): 327-40; recipient of Honorable Mention for the Modern Language Associations William Riley Parker Prize. · "Renaissance Thought on the Celestial Hierarchy: The Decline of a Tradition?" Journal of the History of Ideas 65 (2004): 559-82. · "Paradise Lost and the Inversion of Catholic Angelology." Milton Quarterly 36 (2002): 240-52. · "Pan-Semitism in A. M. Klein's 'The Three Judgements.'" Essays on Canadian Writing 72 (2000): 93-108. Work in Progress: A book manuscript on Milton and current climates in criticism and politics; a collection of criticism by Canadian Miltonists, co-edited with Mary Nyquist. Teaching: Milton, Donne, Spenser, and various seventeenth-century English writers. Courses for Fall 2007: ENGL 101, Poetry; ENGL 455, John Donne: Thought and Feeling. Peter Mortensen, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1989, University of California, San Diego. Specializations: Writing Studies; History of Literacy; Qualitative Study of Literacy (Methods and Ethics). Publications: Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States (written with Janet Carey Eldred; 2002); Ethics and Representation in Qualitative Studies of Literacy (ed. with Gesa E. Kirsch; 1996). Articles on representations of illiteracy in literary, journalistic, and bureaucratic discourse; U.S. women's rhetorical and literacy training, 1780-1840 (with Janet Carey Eldred); and the conduct and reception of research in writing studies. Work in Progress: Illiterate Sorrows: The Uses of Illiteracy in Industrial America . Teaching: Historiography in Writing Studies; Professional Seminar in the Teaching of Rhetoric. Justine Murison, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2006, University of Pennsylvania. Specializations: Early American and Antebellum Literature; Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Atlantic World; Medicine and Literature; History of Psychology. Publications: : “The Princeton Scenario of Oscar Wilde’s The Cardinal of Avignon” in The Princeton University Library Chronicle (2000). Work in Progress: Book manuscript entitled States of Mind: The Politics of Psychology in American Literature, 1780-1860; an article on the relationship between hypochondria, race, and regionalism in antebellum America; and an article on moral citizenship and somnambulism in postrevolutionary America. Teaching: Colonial through Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Medicine and Literature; History of the Novel; American Gothic. Hina Nazar, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2003, Johns Hopkins University. Specializations: Victorian Literature and Culture; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Literature; History and Theory of the Novel; Feminist Theory; Critical Theory. Publications: : "Philosophy in the Bedroom: Middlemarch and the Scandal of Sympathy" ( Yale Journal of Criticism , 2002); "The Imagination Goes Visiting: Jane Austen, Judgment, and the Social" ( Nineteenth-Century Literature , 2004). Work in Progress: The Social Idea: Thinking and Attachment in the Novel (book- length study on the realist novel). Teaching: Nineteenth-Century British Fiction; The British Novel; Gender in Literature; Twentieth-Century Women's Writing; Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics. Carol Thomas Neely, Professor; Ph.D. 1969, Yale University. Specializations: Renaissance Literature, especially Shakespeare and Women Writers; Feminist Theory and Women’s Studies. Publications: Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture (2004); Broken Nuptials in Shakespeare's Plays (1993; 1985); co-editor of The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare (1980). Author of articles and reviews on Shakespeare, Renaissance sonnets, and feminist theory, most recently "Women/Utopia/Fetish: Disavowal and Satisfied Desire in Margaret Cavendish's New Blazing World and Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/LaFrontera ";"Reading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare's Tragedies and Early Modern Culture"; "Circumscriptions and Unhousedness: Othello in the Borderlands." Work in Progress: Shakespeare, madness, and gender. Teaching: Shakespeare; Madness and Gender; the Body in the Renaissance; Renaissance Genres and Gender. Cary Nelson, Liberal Arts and Sciences Jubilee Professor; Ph.D. 1970, University of Rochester Specializations: Critical Theory; Modern American and British Literature, especially Poetry; the Politics and Economics of Higher Education; the Spanish Civil War. Publications: Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left (2001); Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education (with Stephen Watt; 1999); Manifesto of a Tenured Radical (1997); Shouts from the Wall: Posters and Photographs Brought Back from the Spanish Civil War by American Volunteers (1996); Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory , 1910-1945 (1989); Our Last First Poets: Vision and History in Contemporary American Poetry (1981); The Incarnate Word: Literature as Verbal Space (1973). 70+ articles including "The Psychology of Criticism, or What Can Be Said"; "Envoys of Otherness: Difference and Continuity in Feminist Criticism"; "Honor and Trauma: Hemingway and the Lincoln Vets"; "The Fate of Gender in Modern Poetry"; and "Literature as Cultural Studies: American Poetry of the Spanish Civil War." Editor of An Anthology of Modern American Poetry (2001); Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis (1997); The Aura of the Cause: A Photo Album for North American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (1997); Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies (1996); Madrid 1937: Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade from the Spanish Civil War (1996); Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities (1994); The Collected Poems of Edwin Rolfe (1993); Cultural Studies (1992); Edwin Rolfe: A Biographical Essay and Guide to the Rolfe Archive at the University of Illinois (1990); Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (1988); Co-editor of W. S. Merwin: Essays on the Poetry (1987); Regions of Memory: Uncollected Prose by W. S. Merwin (1987); and Theory in the Classroom (1986). Work in Progress: Reading Criticism: The Literary and Institutional Status of Critical Discourse and several books on the postcard poem. Teaching: Modern Poetry; Critical Theory; Cultural Studies. John Timberman Newcomb, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1987, Duke University. Specializations: Modern American Literature; American Poetry; Film Studies; Critical Theory. Publications: Would Poetry Disappear?: American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity (2004); Wallace Stevens and Literary Canons (1992); articles on modern cityscape poetry, the modernist little magazine, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Archibald MacLeish, and World War II poetry. Work in Progress: a book on early 20th -century American poetry and the modern urban subject, tentatively entitled The Poetry of Modern Life: American Verse on the Urban Boulevard, 1910-1925. Teaching: Modern American Poetry; Modernism and the Machine Age; The Urban 19th-Century; The Great Depression. Lori Humphrey Newcomb, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1993, Duke University. Specializations: Seventeenth-Century English Literature, especially Fiction and Drama; Early Modern Print Culture, Popular Culture, Material Culture, Women's Writing; Shakespeare in Performance; Theories of Class, Gender, Audience, and Cultural Value. Publications: Reading Popular Romance in Early Modern England (2002). Articles on the early modern prose romance as emergent popular culture, reading for servants, and gendered writing; on women's work in pastoral literature; on print and embodiment in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale ; and on pedagogy and early modern women writers. Work in Progress: Printed Bodies, Performing Words: The Drama of Presence in Greene and Shakespeare; essays on the materiality of romance and on the Shakespearean 'source'; Early Modern Women Out-of-Doors. Teaching: Authors, Artifacts, and Audiences in Early Modern England; Popular Print Culture in Early Modern England; Shakespearian Plays, Printed Bodies, Performing Words; Proseminar in the Teaching of Literature. Robert Dale Parker, Professor; Ph.D. 1980, Yale University. Specializations: American Literature, especially fiction and poetry since 1900; Critical Theory; American Indian literature. Publications: How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies (2008); The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (2007); The Invention of Native American Literature (2003); Absalom, Absalom!: The Questioning of Fictions (1991); The Unbeliever: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop (1988); Faulkner and the Novelistic Imagination (1985). Articles on cultural history, form, gender, and race in American literature and critical theory, including Faulkner, canon theory, Michael Harper, Ray Young Bear, D'Arcy McNickle, and Native American oral narrative. Work in Progress: recovery, editing, and historicist reading of early, unknown American Indian poetry. Teaching: American Indian Literature; American Fiction in the 1920s and 1930s; surveys of Recent Literary and Critical Theory. Curtis Perry, Professor; Ph.D. 1993, Harvard University. Specializations: early modern English literature and culture, historicist criticism, renaissance classicism, drama. Publications: Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2006) • The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary Practice (Cambridge University Press, 1997) • Ed., Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Brepols, 2001) • Numerous articles on a variety of topics relating to early modern English literature and culture. Work in Progress: A larger project on Shakespeare's use of the representational resources of Senecan drama, and a number of smaller projects dealing with early modern English republicanism, early modernity and constructions of national identity, and the politics of drama. Teaching: Shakespeare, early modern English literature, Milton, renaissance drama, history of drama. Audrey Petty, Associate Professor; M.F.A. 1998, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Specializations: Fiction Writing; African-American Literature. Publications: " Here" (short story) in Gumbo: Stories by Black Writers ; "Darkroom" (short story) in Story Quarterly ; selected poems in New Sister Voices: Poetry by Women of African Descent ; "Turnpike Music" (poetry) in Crab Orchard Review . Featured fiction and interview in Callaloo. Work in Progress: Here (short stories); All the Underneath (a novel); "Unremembered Crimes: Female Guilt in the Work of James Baldwin and Richard Wright"; "Who's the Teacher?". Teaching: Contemporary African-American Literature; Fiction Writing. Anthony Pollock, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2002, Cornell University. Specializations: Eighteenth-Century British Literature; Aesthetics and Visual Culture. Work in Progress: Allegories of Aesthetic Failure: Eighteenth-Century Spectatorship and the End(s) of Sociability. Teaching: Eighteenth-Century British Literature; History of the Novel; Aesthetics and Visual Culture; Enlightenment Constructions of Gender and Cultural Difference. Richard Powers, Swanlund Endowed Chair Professor; M.A. 1980, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Specialization: Creative Writing exploring the relationship between Narrative and Contemporary Technology. Publications: The Time of Our Singing (2003); Gain (1998); Galatea 2.2 (1995); Operation Wandering Soul (1993); The Goldbug Variations (1991); Prisoner's Dilemma (1988); and Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1986). Teaching: Introduction to Multimedia Authoring and Publishing; Problems and Techniques in the Novel. Catherine Prendergast, Professor; Ph.D. 1997, University of Wisconsin. Specialization: Writing Studies. Publications: Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning after Brown v. Board of Education (2003). Articles such as "Race, the Absent Presence in Composition Studies"; "Catching up to Professor Nate: The Problem with Sociolinguistics in Composition Research"; and "Bringing in the Other Side of the Dialogue: Profiles of Student-Teacher Talk in Two Classrooms" (with Robert Kachur). Work in Progress: Generic Monsters: Theorizing Difference in Writing Studies (book- length project), and articles on the rhetoric of mental disability and the teaching of writing program administration. Teaching: Composition Theory; Socio-Cultural Literacy Research and English Education. Seminars on the Impact of Academic Labor Practices on Writing Programs and on Theorizing Race in Writing Studies Research. Paul Prior, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1992, University of Minnesota. Specializations: Writing Studies, especially Writing in the Disciplines; Sociohistoric Theory; Qualitative Research on Literate Activity. Publications: Writing/Disciplinarity: A Sociohistoric Account of Literate Activity in the Academy (1998). Articles including "Research and WAC Evaluation: An In-Progress Reflection" (with Gail Hawisher, Sibylle Gruber, and Nicole MacLaughlin); "Literate Activity and Disciplinarity: The Heterogeneous (Re)production of American Studies around a Graduate Seminar"; "Redefining the Task: An Ethnographic Examination of Writing and Response in Graduate Seminars"; "Tracing Authoritative and Internally Persuasive Discourses: A Case Study of Response, Revision, and Disciplinary Enculturation"; "Response, Revision, Disciplinarity: A Microhistory of a Dissertation Prospectus in Sociology"; and "Contextualizing Writing and Response in a Graduate Seminar." Work in Progress: research on literate activity and disciplinarity in academic and non-academic contexts. Teaching: Professional Seminar in the Teaching of College English; Responding to Writing: Research, Theory, and Practice; Sociohistoric Research in Writing Studies; Research in Writing Assessment; Introduction to Writing Studies I & II; Language, Discourse, and Literacy. Richard T. Rodríguez, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2000, University of California at Santa Cruz. Specializations: U.S. Latino/a Literature and Culture; Film Studies; Twentieth-Century American Literature; Gender and Sexuality; Critical Theory. Publications: Next of Kin: Reconfiguring the Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics (under contract with Duke University Press); "The Verse of the Godfather" in Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture & Chicana/o Sexualities, ed. Alicia Gaspar de Alba (2003); "Serial Kinship: Representing La Familia in Early Chicano Publications " in Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies (Spring 2002); "On the Subject of Gang Photography" in Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies (Spring 2000) and reprinted in Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives , eds. L. Kontos, L. Barrios, and D. Brotherton (2003); review of Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr. in Theatre Journal (March 2000). Work in Progress: a book of essays on race, sex, and masculinity. Teaching: U.S. Latino/a Literature; Chicano/a Cultural Studies; Gender and Sexuality in Latino/a Literature and Film; Race and Masculinity in American Culture. Michael Rothberg, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1995, City University of New York. Specializations: : Twentieth-Century American Literature; Holocaust Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Literary and Cultural Theory. Publications: Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (2000); The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings , ed. with Neil Levi (2003). Recent articles such as "W.E.B. Du Bois in Warsaw : Holocaust Memory and the Color Line, 1949-1952"; " Auschwitz and the Remains of Theory: Towards an Ethics of the Borderlands," with Neil Levi; "Dead Letter Office: Conspiracy, Trauma, and Song of Solomon 's Posthumous Communication"; and "'There is No Poetry in This': Writing, Trauma, and Home." Work in Progress: Decolonizing the Holocaust: Multidirectional Memory and the Legacies of Violence. Teaching: Literature and Theory After Auschwitz; Politics and Form in Contemporary U.S. Literature and Culture; Contemporary American Literature; Jewish-American Literature; Literature of the Holocaust; Introduction to Modern Critical Thought. Julia Frances Saville, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1993, Stanford University. Specializations: Victorian Literature and Culture (in particular Poetry and Painting); Gender Theory and Criticism; Theories of the Visual. Publications: A Queer Chivalry: The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins (2000). Articles such as " The Lady of Shalott : A Lacanian Romance"; "Of Fleshly Garments: Ascesis and Desire in the Ethic of Psychoanalysis"; "The Romance of Boys Bathing: Poetic Precedents and Respondents to the Paintings of Henry Scott Tuke"; "Eccentricity as Englishness in David Copperfield "; and various articles on Victorian literature and culture. Work in Progress: Boys Bathing: An Aesthetics of the Male Nude in Victorian Literature and Culture (book-length study). Teaching: Contested Manliness: Shifting Perspectives of Masculinity from 1845-1914; Words and Images: Visual and Verbal Arts in Victorian Britain; Marriage and Gender in Victorian Poetry. Spencer Schaffner, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2005, University of Washington. Specializations: Current Rhetorical Theory; Discourse Analysis; Web Texts; Composition pedagogy . Publications: Short pieces in Enculturation and A Closer Look: a Writer's Reader. Work in Progress: a book exploring the relationships between birdwatchers and field guides. Teaching: Genre and discourse; theories of everyday life; textually mediated environmental encounters; innovative academic writing; pedagogy. Alex Shakar, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2002, University of Illinois at Chicago. Specializations: Fiction Writing; Contemporary Fiction. Publications: Book-length fictions The Savage Girl (2001) and City in Love (1996). Work in Progress: a novel about modern-day mysticism. Teaching: Creative Writing; Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Fiction. Michael Shapiro, Professor; Ph.D. 1967, Columbia Univeristy. Specializations: Renaissance Drama; Modern Jewish Literature; American Ethnic Minority Literature. Publications: Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage (1994); and Children of the Revels: The Boy Companies of Shakespeare's Time and Their Plays (1977). Articles and reviews on Shakespeare, other Renaissance dramatists, and modern Jewish literature. Editor of Divisions Between Traditionalism and Liberalism in the American Jewish Community: Cleft or Chasm? Work in Progress: an edition of Abraham Cahan's English prose; a book on the "Boy Bride" plays of early modern England (plays in which men adopt female disguise); essays on cross-cultural appropriations of Shakespeare. Teaching: Intertextuality and Theatricality in Shakespeare; Appropriations and Adaptations of Shakespeare. Siobhan B. Somerville, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1994, Yale University. Specializations: Twentieth-Century American Literature; Queer Theory; Feminist Theory. Publications: Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (2000). Articles such as "Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body" and "The Prettiest Specimen of Boyhood: Cross-gender and Racial Disguise in Pauline E. Hopkins's Winona ." Work in Progress: Race, Sexuality, and Citizenship in American Culture, 1940-1967. Teaching: American Literature; Gay and Lesbian Studies; Women and Film. Andrea Stevens, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2007, University of Virginia. Specializations: Shakespeare; early modern English drama; theater history. Publications: "'Assisted by a Barber:' The Court Apothecary, Special Effects, and Ben Jonson's The Gypsies Metamorphosed, " Theatre Notebook 61.1 (2007) ; "Mastering Masques of Blackness," forthcoming from English Literary Renaissance ; theater and poetry reviews for Shakespeare Bulletin , Verse. Work in Progress: A book project on early modern special effects; articles on staging pain in Coriolanus and on the performer-audience contract in contemporary magic acts. Teaching: Shakespeare; early modern drama, literature, and culture; late medieval drama; lyric poetry. Zohreh Sullivan, Professor; Ph.D. 1971, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Specializations: Modern British Literature; Colonial and Postcolonial Literature. Publications: Exiled Memories: Recovering Stories of Iranian Diaspora (2001); Narratives of Empire: The Fictions of Rudyard Kipling (1993). Editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Kipling's Kim (2002). Articles on pedagogy; on problems of identity and representation in colonial, postcolonial, and migrant writing; on modernity and gender in the Middle East ; and essays on Conrad, Forster, Murdoch, Lessing, Achebe, Salih, and others. Work in Progress: Writing Migrancy; essays on writers from the subcontinent, the Caribbean , and Africa . Teaching: Postcolonial Literature and Theory; Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives of Empire. Mark Christian Thompson, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 2001, New York University. Specializations: Modern American, African-American, German, and Austrian Literature; Modernism; Poststructuralism; Psychoanalysis Publications: "His Rod of Power: Zora Neale Huston's Moses, Man of the Mountain." Work in Progress: Black Fascism: Fascism in African-American Culture Between the Wars; and Savage Modernism: Blood-Sacrifice, Literary Primitivism and Culture. Teaching: American and African Literature; Critical Theory; Comparative Literature. Renee Trilling, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. 2004, University of Notre Dame. Specializations: Old and Middle English literature; Theories of Historiography and Nationalism; Linguistics and Philology; Feminist and Psychoanalytic Theory. Publications: "Beyond Abjection: The Problem with Grendel's Mother Again." Parergon 24.1 (2007): 1-20; "Sovereignty and Social Order: Archbishop Wulfstan and the Institutes of Polity." In The Bishop Reformed: Studies in Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages, edited by John S. Ott and Anna Trumbore Jones, 58-85. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Work in Progress: a book-length study on aesthetics and historical consciousness in early medieval England. Teaching: Medieval English literature; Critical Theory. Ted Underwood, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1997, Cornell University. Specializations: British Romantic Literature. Publications: "Romantic Historicism and the Afterlife"; "How to Save 'Tintern Abbey' from New-Critical Pedagogy (in Three Minutes and Fifty-Six Seconds)"; "The Science in Shelley's Theory of Poetry"; and "Productivism and the Vogue for 'Energy' in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain." Forthcoming: The Labor Done by the Sun: Natural Force and the Autonomy of Work 1780-1840 ; "Historical Difference as Immortality in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Novel"; "Skepticism and Surmise in Humphry Davy"; and "How Did the Correlation of Forces Become 'The Highest Law in Physical Science which our Faculties Permit us to Perceive'?" Work in Progress: Déjà Vu and Cultural Immortality in the Nineteenth Century. Teaching: British Romantic Literature. Joseph Valente, Professor; Ph.D. 1992, University of Pennsylvania. Specializations: Modern Irish and British Literature; Postcolonial, Psychoanalytic, and Gender Theory. Publications: Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood (2002); Disciplinarity at the Fin De Siecle (co-edited collection, 2002); Joyce and the Law (2002); Quare Joyce (edited collection, 1998); James Joyce and the Problem of Justice: Negotiating Sexual and Colonial Difference (1995); and Joyce and Homosexuality (1994). Thirty-plus articles on literature and critical theory, including "A Child Is Being Eaten: Mourning, Transvestism and the Incorporation of the Daughter in Ulysses "; "'Thrilled by His Touch': The Aestheticization of Homosexual Panic in A Portrait of the Artist"; "The Myth of Sovereignty: Gender in the Literature of Irish Nationalism"; "Double Born: Bram Stoker and the Metrocolonial Gothic"; "The Novel and the Police (Gazette)"; "Lacan's Marxism/Marxism's Lacan"; "Neither Fish nor Flesh': James Joyce and the Conundrum of Irish Manhood"; "Hall of Mirrors: Baudrillard on Marx"; "Imagining Ireland Otherwise: James Joyce and the Cosmopolitan Sublime"; and "Performative Chic" and "Identification Trouble" (with Molly Anne Rothenberg). Work in Progress: Contested Territory: Race and Manhood in Modern Irish Literature; Renaissance Nation: On Modernist Minority Revivals (with William J. Maxwell). Teaching: Modern British and Irish Literature; Literary and Cultural Theory. Julia A. Walker, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 1995, Duke University. Specializations: Modern Drama, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Theatre and Cultural History, Performance Theory. Publications: Modernism and Expressionism in the American Theatre: Bodies, Voices, Words (2005). Articles on Eugene O'Neill's early plays; problems in the historiography of performance; and the development of modernism on the American stage. Work in Progress: a book integrating performance theory and American cultural history. Teaching: Performance Theory; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Theatre & Drama; Theatrical Modernism. Gillen Wood, Associate Professor; Ph.D. 2000, Columbia University. Specializations: Romanticism; Literature and Visual Culture; Psychoanalysis; Opera and Music Culture. Publications: The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture (2001); Hosack's Folly: A Novel of Old New York (2005). Articles on Baudelaire, Turner and Scott, The Elgin Marbles, Mozart and the Hunt Circle; new edition of Dickens' Tale of Two Cities (forthcoming). Work in Progress: Virtue and Virtuosity: Operatic Style in British Literature, 1780-1840 (book-length project). Teaching: Romanticism and Visual Culture; Austen; Keats. Charles Wright, Professor; Ph.D. 1984, Cornell University. Specializations: Medieval Literature, especially Old English and Old Irish. Publications: The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature (1993). Articles on Old English poetry, Old English prose, and Old Irish literature and culture. Work in Progress: papers on Old English prose and poetry; editions of Irish and Hiberno-Latin texts. Teaching: Old English Language and Literature; Old Irish language and Medieval Irish Literature; Bibliography and Methods in Medieval Studies; Chaucer and Langland. David Wright, Associate Professor, M.F.A. 1996, University of Massachusetts. Specializations: Creative Non-Fiction; African-American Literature. Publications: Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Life Savers (2001). Work in Progress: a memoir of expatriation, short stories, and a novel. Teaching: Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction; African-American Literature.

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