Kevin Bourque, Department Chair
- Eighteenth-century British literature
- Queer theory and the history of sexuality
- Popular and material culture
- Narrative theory
- The history of the book
- Editorial practice and theory
- Enlightenment philosophy
- Affect theory and the history of emotion
- Celebrity culture and cults of personality
Kevin Boyle
- Poetry writing
- Irish literature
- Contemporary poetry
- Latin American Literature
Jennifer Eidum
- Composition Studies & Pedagogy
- Knowledge Transfer
- Writing Program Administration
- Writing Across the Curriculum
- Second Language Writing
- Teaching English as a Second Language
- Soviet and Post-Soviet studies
- Hip-Hop Pedagogy
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
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
- 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
Li Li
- Business and Technical Communication
Heather Lindenman
- Community literacy and public writing
- Writing transfer across contexts
- Service-learning in composition
- Writing Center theory and practice
Kathy Lyday
- 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
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
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