Graduate Faculty
Kara Poe Alexander, Ph.D.
Professor of Professional Writing and Rhetoric & Director of the University Writing Center
Rhetoric & Composition, Literacy Studies
Katie Calloway, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Early Modern English Literature
Julia Daniel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Modern American Poetry, 20th-Century American Drama
Michael-John DePalma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Professional Writing and Rhetoric
Rhetoric & Composition, Religious Rhetoric
Phillip Donnelly, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Literature
Milton & 17th Century British Literature
Melissa Dracos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Linguistics
Luke Ferretter, Ph.D.
Professor of English
20th & 21st Century American & British Literature,
Literary Theory
Sarah Ford, Ph.D.
Professor of English
American Colonial Literature & Southern Literature
Joe Fulton, Ph.D.
Professor of English
19th & 20th Century American Literature, Mark Twain
Kevin J. Gardner, Ph.D.
Professor of English & Department Chair
Restoration & 18th Century British Literature, The Country
House Novel, 20th Century British Poetry, John Betjeman
Greg Garrett, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Creative Writing, Religion & Culture
TJ Geiger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Rhetoric
Jennifer L. Hargrave, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
British Romanticism, Global Eighteenth Century, Historicism, Women's and Gender Studies
Arna Hemenway, MFA
Associate Professor of English
Creative Writing
Chloe Honum, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Creative Writing: Poetry, Postmodern American Poetry
Maurice Hunt, Ph.D.
Research Professor of English
Shakespeare, Spenser & Renaissance Literature
Hope Johnston, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Medieval Literature
Josh King, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Romantic & Victorian Literature
Sebastian Langdell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Medieval Literature
Jeannette Marsh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English & Coordinator, Language and Linguistics Program
Historical Linguistics & Old English
Coretta Pittman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Professional Writing and Rhetoric
Rhetoric & Composition, African-American
Rhetorical Cultures, Literacy Studies
Kristen Pond, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
19th Century British Literature & The Novel
Richard Rankin Russell, Ph.D.
Professor of English & Graduate Program Director
Modern & Contemporary British & Irish Literature
Ryan Sharp, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Black American Literature, Contemporary Poetry, Creative Writing, Ethnic Studies
Lisa Shaver, Ph.D.
Professor of Professional Writing and Rhetoric & Director of Women's and Gender Studies
Rhetoric & Composition, Women's Rhetoric
Jacob Shores-Argüello, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Poetry
Amanda Sigler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
British Literature, Modernism, Periodical Studies
Dan Walden, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Early American Literature & Atlantic Studies