Faculty Expertise

Crystal Anderson

• 20th-century American literature
• American studies
• Comparative ethnic studies (African American, Asian and Asian American, especially literature, visual culture
        and popular culture)
• Speculative studies (science fiction, detective fiction and mystery in literature and film)
• Asian film (especially Hong Kong film)
• Orientalism
• Modernism
• Afro-Asian cultural studies

Kevin Boyle

• Poetry writing
• Irish literature
• Contemporary poetry
• Latin American Literature

Russell Gill

• Renaissance through the 18th century
• Genres
• Laughter and comedy
• Interdisciplinary approaches to literature
• Edgar Allan Poe

Barbara Gordon

• Quantitative Research in Composition Studies
• First-year Composition Theory and Practice
• Writing Program Administration including Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum
• Medical Writing
• Interdisciplinary Pedagogy
• Advanced Breast Cancer
• Zen Practice
   

Eric Ashley Hairston

• American literature - colonial through 1945
• Genres (the romance, the novel, epic poetry)
• African-American literature
• Classical literature
• Asian-American literature
• Law and literature
• Southern literature
• American political writing
• Studies in global empires and imperialism
• Authors: Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Wheatley, DuBois, Douglass, Faulkner
• Authors of the Harlem Renaissance

Rosemary Haskell

• 18th-century literature and culture (British and European)
• Colonial literature and culture (former British colonies: Caribbean, Indian and some African countries)
• Topic of imperialism, generally, in literature
• Authors: Jane Austen, George Orwell, Daniel Defoe
• Novel as a genre

Megan Isaac, Department Chair

• Shakespeare
• Renaissance literature and drama
• Children's literature
• Young adult literature

Cassie Kircher

• Writing nonfiction
• Literary nonfiction
• The personal essay
• Studying nonfiction, specifically travel writing, nature writing, environmental literature and women writers
• Literature and London
• Literature of place
• The relationship between nonfiction and fiction
• Poetry and nonfiction

Prudence Layne

• African-American literature - 20th century
• Caribbean literature
• Post-colonial literature and theory
• Women’s and gender studies
• Hybridity
• Confinement literature

Kathy Lyday-Lee

• Any language topic: dialect study, linguistics, history of the language, grammar, etc.
• Appalachian literature
• Literature of the Holocaust

Jessie Moore

• Teaching English to speakers of other languages
• Second-language writing - research, theory, pedagogy
• Composition Studies - research, theory, pedagogy, writing centers, WAC
• Rhetoric - history and theory
• Intersections of any of the above
• Holocaust literature

Janet Myers

• 19th- and 20th-century British literature
• Victorian cultural studies
• Colonial and post-colonial literature
• Emigration literature
• Novel as genre
• Women's literature
• Feminist theory

Paula Patch

• Composition Pedagogy
• Grammar
   

Tim Peeples

• Rhetoric theory
• Rhetorical history
• Connections between professional writing and rhetoric
• Visual rhetoric and document design
• Ethics and writing
• Collaboration and publications management
• Teaching composition
• Critical theory deconstruction
• Critical theory postmodernism
• Critical thinking
• Cultural studies

Drew Perry

• Fiction writing
• Southern literature
• American novel
• American short stories
• Anti-hero in literature
• Postmodern fiction
• "K-Mart" realism
• Ancient Chinese and Japanese poetry (in translation)
• Landscape and place in literature
• American poetics
• Cross-genre writing
• Ideas of craft in writing
• Literary magazines and journals

Rebecca Pope-Ruark

• Rhetorical aspects of marketing
• Marketing communications
• Business communication
• Publishing and publication design/management (usually as related to marketing)
• Writing in workplaces and organizations
• Organizational ethnography
• Classical rhetoric

Scott Proudfit

• 20th-century drama/theatre/performance (American, European, British)
• 20th-century American literature
• Early Modern drama/theatre (especially Shakespeare)
• Performance theory
• Dramatic criticism
• Directing/Acting (Viewpoints/Composition, commedia)
• Post-colonial theory and literature
• Structuralist/Poststructuralist theory
• Collective writing and theories of authorship
• Postmodern theory and criticism

Kim Pyne

• Pedagogy of English Studies
• Adolescent literacy
• Social foundations of secondary education
• Critical multiculturalism (power, ideology and equity in education)
• Critical & culturally responsive pedagogies
• College access/success studies
• Qualitative research methodology
• Holocaust literature
• 19th & 20th century Irish literature
• Speculative fiction (Literature of the Fantastic)
• Wildlife conservation, behavior, husbandry
• And intersections of the above

 Tita Ramirez

• Fiction writing
• Hispanic-American writers

Paula Rosinski

• Rhetoric theory
• Connections between professional writing and rhetoric
• Digital rhetoric
• Multimedia studies
• Writing Center theory and practice
• Composition studies/theory/teaching
• Science fiction as cultural studies
• Cyberculture studies

Jean Schwind

• American literature, especially late 19th to early 20th-century fiction
• Interdisciplinary studies of American literature and culture
• Native American literature
• Canadian literature

Janet Warman

• American Literature, 19th and 20th century
• British Literature, 19th and 20th century
• Irish Literature
• Modernism
• Poetry as Genre
• Writing Poetry
• Feminist Criticism
• Formalist Criticism
• Pedagogy in English Studies