English Faculty Thesis Advisors
These faculty members may direct MA theses and serve as thesis committee members. Consult the list of specializations to identify faculty who might have expertise in an area relevant to your thesis topic.
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Name |
Contact Information |
Specialty |
|---|---|---|
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Dr. Joyce Rain Anderson |
Room: 320 / Ext: 2508 |
rhetoric and composition, indigenous and ethnic studies, cultural rhetorics, personal and public writing, English language learners, vernacular literacy |
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Dr. Alba Aragon |
Room: 331 / Ext: 2759 |
Latin American and U.S. Latino literature, fashion studies, women and gender studies |
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Dr. Heidi Bean |
Room: 214 / Ext: 2031 |
modern and contemporary drama, performance studies, American studies, 20th century American literature and culture. |
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Dr. Matt Bell |
Room: 311 / Ext: 1467 |
20th and 21st century American literature, film studies, queer studies, critical theory |
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Dr. Ann Brunjes |
Room: 316 / Ext: 2564 |
early American and 19th century American literature |
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Dr. Benjamin Carson |
Room: 339 / Ext: 1456 |
Native American and African American literature, 20th-century American literature, critical theory, Asian literature in translation, multi-ethnic American literature |
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Dr. Gregory Chaplin |
Room: 306 / Ext: 2606 |
16th- and 17th-century British literature, Milton |
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Dr. James Crowley |
Room: 315 / Ext: 1472 |
Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, poetic genres, late-medieval |
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Dr. Kimberly Davis |
Room: 328 / Ext: 1474 |
20th and 21st century American literature, African American and ethnic literature, film studies, critical race studies, feminist and gender studies, postmodernism, reception studies |
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Dr. Anne Doyle |
Room: 333 / Ext: 2886 |
Rhetoric and composition, teaching writing, discourse analysis, linguistics, TESOL, writing in the disciplines, genres in writing, language and power. |
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Dr. Kathryn Evans |
Room: 302 / Ext: 2432 |
Rhetoric and composition, the teaching of writing, response to student writing, qualitative research, and genre studies |
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Dr. Allyson Ferrante |
Room: 215 / Ext: 2440 |
Postcolonial, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and 20th century British literature |
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Dr. Emily Field |
Room: 202 / Ext: 1322 |
19th century multi-ethnic American literature, African American literature |
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Dr. Kevin Kalish |
Room: 204 / Ext: 3878 |
literature of the ancient world, classical tradition in English literature, the Bible as literature, religion and literature |
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Dr. John Kucich |
Room: 314 / Ext: 2722 |
19th century American literature, the teaching of English, native American and multi-ethnic American literature, American studies, literature of the environment and sustainability, American spiritualism |
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Dr. Lisa Litterio |
Room: 309 / Ext: 2183 |
digital pedagogies, technical writing and communication, rhetorical theory, multimodal composing |
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Prof. Bruce Machart |
Room: 208 / Ext: 1422 |
fiction writing, narrative craft, history of short fiction, contemporary American literature |
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Dr. Michael McClintock |
Room: 329 / Ext: 1468 |
Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama |
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Prof. John Mulrooney |
Room: 313 / Ext: 2520 |
poetry writing, American poetry, film studies |
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Dr. Garrett Nichols |
Rhetorical Theory; Cultural Rhetorics; Queer Studies; Critical Race Studies; Native Studies; Gender & Sexuality Studies |
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Dr. Ellen Scheible |
Room: 210 / Ext: 2348 |
20th- and 21st-century Irish literature, British modernism, Gothic fiction, postcolonialism, critical theory, Joyce, gender studies |
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Dr. John Sexton |
Room: 305 / Ext: 1471 |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Early Modern British literature, History of the English language, Icelandic sagas, hagiography, Church history, Chaucer, Medieval disability studies |
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Dr. Yulia Stakhnevich |
Room: 307 / Ext: 2805 |
linguistics and sociolinguistics, language and identity, TESOL, language contact |
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Dr. Lee Torda |
Room: 310 / Ext: 2436 |
Composition Pedagogy, Reading Theory, History of Literacy instruction, Creative Nonfiction. |
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Dr. Elizabeth Veisz |
Room: 211 / 3890 |
18th century British literature, Jane Austen, young adult literature, mystery and horror genres |
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Dr. Kathleen Vejvoda |
Room: 308 / Ext: 2425 |
19th century British literature, Victorian fiction, Irish studies, film studies, childhood studies and children’s literature, ghost story and horror, religion and literature |
