Faculty & Staff

• Professor of English & Chair of Educational Studies | Director of the College Writing Program

• Professor of English

• James K. Batten Professor of English

Primary Areas of Expertise

• Journalism
• Television News Producing
• Print and Television Reporting
• Breaking News and Current Events
• Media Literacy

• Associate Professor of English

• Edward M. Armfield, Sr. Professor of English

• Professor of English

Primary Areas of Expertise

• Disability Studies in Drama and Art
• Modern and Contemporary Drama
• Visual and Cultural Studies
• Graphic Medicine
• American Studies

• Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and English

Primary Areas of Expertise

• 20th Century African American Women's Literature
• 20th Century Afro-Caribbean Women's Literature
• Black Feminist Theory
• U.S. Cultures of Imperialism
• Anti-Colonial Theory

• Professor of English

• Assistant Professor of English

• Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Primary Areas of Expertise

• Creative Nonfiction
• Medical Humanities
• Gender Studies
• Trauma Narratives
• Experimental Forms in Contemporary Nonfiction

• Chair & Douglas Houchens Professor of English

Primary Areas of Expertise

• Contemporary Literature
• The Arts

• Assistant Professor of the Practice in Writing

• Chair & Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies

• Associate Professor of English

• Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Primary Areas of Expertise

• Renaissance and Early Modern Literature
• Comparative Literature
• Carceral Studies
• Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
• History of Science