CHAIR
Jennie Votava
Frederick F. Seely Chair of English Literature; Associate Professor of English
Renaissance literature and culture; Shakespeare performance and adaptation; race studies; queer studies; literature and medicine
FACULTY
Sarah Buckner
Assistant Professor of English
American Literature; African American Literature; Black Studies; Queer Studies; Affect Theory
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M. Soledad Caballero
Professor of English; WGSS Co-Chair
British Romanticism; travel; writing; Interdisciplinary and Post-colonialism
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Mari Christmas
Writer in Residence
Fiction Writing; American Literature; Black Studies; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Matthew J. Ferrence
Associate Professor of English
Nonfiction Writing; Fiction Writing; Appalachian Studies; American Literature
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D. Alexis Hart
Professor of English; Director of Writing
Writing Studies; Writing Centers; Undergraduate Research; Veteran Studies
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Jennifer Hellwarth
Professor of English
Medieval and Early Modern Literature; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; History of Medicine; European and Arabic Magic and Medicine
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John MacNeill Miller
Associate Professor of English
Victorian Literature; Animal Studies; Ecocriticism; Environmental Humanities
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Benjamin Slote
Professor of English
American Literature and Culture
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Susan Slote
Assistant Professor; Director of Education Studies; Thomas M. and Sarah Stewart St. Clair Professorship
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Allison Wilkins Bakken
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Creative Writing: Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, American Literature, Animal Studies, 20th C. British and Anglophone Literature
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