English Department

  • Brigitte Bailey English/Center for the Humanities; Professor
    Research Interests: 19th century literature, 19th century US travel urban, and transatlantic writings, American literature, American studies, Interdisciplinary approaches: visual, historical, geographical,Women writers
  • Rachel Burdin English/Linguistics/Women's & Gender Studies; Assistant Professor
    Research Interests: Intonation, Jewish English, Language contact, Phonetics, Prosody, Sociolinguistics, Variation and change, Yiddish
  • Monica Chiu English; Professor
    Research Interests: Asian North American studies, Graphic narratives and comics, Race and ethnic studies, Visual culture
  • Jaed Coffin English; Associate Professor
    Research Interests: Digital memoir, Employment skills, Essay, Ethnicity, Longform, Memoir, Passing, Podcast, Risk, Storytelling
  • Robin Hackett English/Women's & Gender Studies; Associate Professor
    Research Interests: Feminist theory, LGBTQ Literature, Literary Modernism, Queer theory, Virginia Woolf
  • Tom Haines English; Associate Professor
    Research Interests: Journalism, Multimedia
  • Soo Hyon Kim English/Linguisitcs; Associate Professor
    Research Interests: Mixed methods research in applied linguistics, Second language writing, Teacher education, TESOL
  • Delia Konzett English/Women's & Gender Studies; Professor
    Research Interests: Asia-Pacific Studies; modernism, Asian/Pacific Islanders, Cinema studies, Colonialism, Film history, Film theory, Media studies, Modernism, Orientalism, US imperialism, Visual culture, War
  • Matthias Konzett English; Senior Lecturer
    Research Interests: Cinema, Film studies and theory; horror, Film studies and theory: noir, Science fiction film, TV, World cinema
  • Douglas Lanier English; Professor
    Research Interests: Early English drama, English Language/Literature, Film, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Performance studies, Performing Arts, Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, Theatre history
  • Lisa MacFarlane English; Professor
    Research Interests: American literature, American studies, Interdisciplinary studies, Photography
  • Alecia MagnificoEnglish; Associate Professor
    Research Interests: Audiences, Communicative writing, Digital literacies, Qualitative research methods, Writing and reading instruction
  • Martin McKinseyEnglish; Associate Professor
    Research Interests: Contemporary British literature, Contemporary Irish literature, Modernist cultures, Multilingual poetry, Translation theory
  • Christina Ortmeier-Hooper English; Associate Professor
  • Petar RamadanovicEnglish; Professor
    Research Interests: Collective identities, Creative writing, Ecology, Interdisciplinary inquiry, Memory/forgetting, Race, Theory, Trauma
  • Samantha SealEnglish/Women's & Gender Studies; Associate Professor
    Research Interests: Chaucer, Digital humanities, Disability studies, Feminist and queer theory, History of medicine and the body, Human Reproduction/Fertility, Jewish Studies, Medieval History, Medieval literature, Women's Studies
  • Sandhya Shetty English/Liberal Studies; Associate Professor
    Research Interests: African Languages/Literature, Asian Languages/Literature, English Language/Literature, Language and/or Literature, Fiction, Language and/or Literature, Victorian, Novels
  • Charli Valdez English; Senior Lecturer
    Research Interests: American literature, Composition, Ekphrasis, Fiction writing, Latinx studies, Women's Studies