Faculty and areas of specialization

Ronald L. Baker, Ph.D., Indiana University, [emeritus] Professor of English. Folklore and Literary Relations, American Folklore, Narrative Folk Literature.

Laura R. Bates, Ph.D., University of Chicago, Associate Professor of English. Children's Literature, Comparative Literature and Drama, Composition.

Matthew Brennan, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies. English Romantic Period, Poetry Writing.

Keith Byerman, Ph.D., Purdue University, Professor of English and Women's Studies. African American literature and culture, American Southern Studies and race studies. vita

Peter A. Carino, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Professor of English and Director of Writing Programs. Rhetoric and Composition, Modern American Fiction.

Steven E. Connelly, Ph.D., Indiana University, Professor of English. Twentieth-Century English and American Literature, Modern Prose Fiction, Anglo-Irish Literature.

Brendan Corcoran, Ph.D. Emory University, Assistant Professor of English. Irish Literature, poetry writing.

Thomas J. Derrick, Ph.D., Harvard University, Professor of English. English Renaissance, Rhetoric.

Raymond F. Dolle, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, Associate Professor of English. Early American Literature, Technical Writing

Stanley R. Evans , M.A., Indiana State University, Associate Professor of English. Children's Literature; English Education.

Robert C. Goldbort, Ph.D., Michigan State University, Professor of English. Scientific and Technical Writing, Literature and Science.

Rosetta Haynes , Ph.D., Cornell University, Associate Professor of English. African American Literature, 19th-Century American Literature, Women's Literature.

Charles L. Hoffman, M.A., University of Iowa, Associate Professor of English. General Literature, Expository Writing.

Harriet Hudson, Ph.D., Ohio State University, Professor of English. Medieval English Literature, English Language.

John M. Jakaitis , Ph.D., University of Illinois, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of English. Multicultural American Literature, Science Fiction, Literary Theory.

Kathleen Kincade , Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Associate Professor of English, English Literature before 1800.

Susan Latta , Ph.D., Purdue University, Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric and Composition, English Lauguage.

Katharine H. Lee , Ph.D., University of Missouri, Columbia, Assistant Professor of English. Asian-American literature, feminist theory, popular culture.

Mark R. Lewandowski , M.F.A., Wichita State University, Assistant Professor of English. Creative nonfiction and fiction writing.

Douglas Martin , Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, Assistant Professor of English, 19th Century American Literature and Creative Writing.

Nan McEntire , Ph.D., Indiana University, Assistant Professor of English. Folklore and Ethnomusicology, British Folklore,American Folklore.

Aaron Michael Morales, MFA, Purdue University,Assistant Professor of English. Fiction Writing, Contemporary Literature.

Charles D. Nicol, Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, [emeritus] Professor of English. American Renaissance, Contemporary Literature, American Studies.

Robert Perrin , Ph.D., University of Illinois, Professor of English and Chairperson of the Department of English. Rhetoric and Composition, Comparative Drama, English Education.

Amanda A. Reid, Ph.D., Rice University. Assistant Professor of English. 19th Century American Literature and Culture, Women's Studies, and American Studies.

Thomas Sauer , Ph.D., Indiana University, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of English. Comparative Literature, English Renaissance.

Michael C. Shelden , Ph.D., Indiana University, Professor of English. Victorian Literature, 20th-Century English Literature, Prose Fiction.

James F. Wurtz, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Assistant Professor of English. British and Irish Literature.