Graduate Faculty in Literature

Adam Beach, Assistant Professor (PhD, SUNY at Buffalo): Restoration and 18th c. British literature

Graduate Courses: Restoration and 18th c. Literature, Literary Theory

Patrick Collier, Associate Professor (PhD, University of Delaware): British Modernism, Modern Poetry, 19th & 20th c. British literature

Graduate Courses: Early 20th c. British literature, Teaching English in Higher Education (Literature)

Frank Felsenstein, Reed D. Voran Honors Distinguished Professor of Humanities (PhD, University of Leeds): Honors humanities, literature and ethnicity, history of the book

Graduate Courses: English Literature; Ethnic and National Identity, 1660-1820; History of the Book

Robert D. Habich, Professor (PhD, Pennsylvania State University): American literature to 1900, especially the New England Transcendentalists; literary biography; textual editing

Graduate Courses: Early American Literature, American Renaissance, Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 19th c. American Subgenres

Linda Hanson, Professor (PhD, University of Pennsylvania): British Romanticism, Basic writing, writing assessment, teaching of writing, 19th c. theories of rhetoric and composition

Graduate Courses: Romantic Studies; Literary Theory 1; Seminar in Basic Writing Theory, Pedagogy & Reserach; 19th c. Theories of Composition

Bruce W. Hozeski, Professor (PhD, Michigan State University): Medieval British literature, dialects, Old English language & literature, Hildegard von Bingen, honors humanities

Graduate Courses: Chaucer, Drama from Beginnings to 1642, Early British Literature (non-Chaucer)

Joyce Huff, Assistant Professor (PhD, The George Washington University): Nineteenth-century British literature and culture, the Victorian period, literature and medicine, disability studies, the novel

Graduate Courses: Victorian Literature, Literary Theory 2, Disability Studies

Kecia Driver McBride, Associate Professor (PhD, University of Tennessee): American fiction after 1865; American realism, naturalism & modernism; cinema studies; feminist theory; critical theory

Graduate Courses: American Realism & Naturalism, Women in American Literature, Film Theory & Criticism, Literary Theory 2

Deborah Mix, Assistant Professor, Director of Graduate Studies (PhD, Purdue): Twentieth-century American literature; American poetry; U.S. ethnic literatures; feminist literature and literary theory; postmodern literature and literary theory

Graduate Courses: Contemporary American Literature, Feminist American Poetry, Studies in U.S. Ethnic Literature

Robert Nowatzki, Associate Professor (PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): African American literature, 19th c. American literature, ideologies of race and masculinity

Graduate Courses: Novels of the American South, Race in American Literature and Culture, African American Literature

Lauren Onkey, Associate Professor (PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): Postcolonial studies, Irish literature, Caribbean literature, contemporary British literature, cultural studies

Graduate Courses: Contemporary British Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Teaching in English Studies (Literature), Caribbean Literature, Irish Literature

Rai Peterson, Associate Professor (PhD, Ball State University): Poetics, pedagogy, modern poetry

Graduate Courses: Writing in the Profession, Rhetoric and Poetics

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