Literature Faculty

Meg Lota Brown

Meg Lota Brown

Professor

  • Early modern literature and culture
  • Social constructions of gender and power
  • Discourses of science and medicine

Stephanie J. Brown

Assistant Professor

  • Modernist and Contemporary British and Postcolonial Literature
Daniel Cooper Alarcon

Daniel F. Cooper Alarcon

Associate Professor

  • Critical approaches to travel & migration
  • Travel narratives and fictions
  • Latinx literatures
Roger Dahood

Roger Dahood

Professor

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Paul Hurh

Associate Professor

  • Early American literature
  • Intellectual history and philosophy
  • Affect theory and new materialism
Modern Languages 445G
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Jennifer Jenkins

Professor

  • Visual and literary cultures of the Southwest
  • Film history and media archaeology
  • Archival studies and history of the book

Frederick P Kiefer

Professor

  • Shakespeare
  • Renaissance drama

Manya Lempert

Associate Professor with Tenure

  • British and French modernism
  • History and theory of Tragedy
  • Philosophy and Literature
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Lauren Camille Mason

Assistant Professor

Director, Graduate Literature

Director, Graduate Literature

Modern Languages 472
Lee Medovoi

Lee Medovoi

Professor

  • 20th and 21st literature
  • Capitalism and environment
  • Race and religion
John Melillo

John J Melillo

Associate Professor with Tenure

Program Director, Literature

  • Poetics and Music
  • Modern and contemporary literature
  • Literary and cultural theory

Tenney Nathanson

Professor

  • Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
  • American poetry
  • Zen and American poetry
Scott Selisker

Scott Selisker

Associate Professor

  • U.S. literature and Culture since 1945
  • Science technology and society (STS)
  • Science fiction
Modern Languages 494

Johanna Skibsrud

Associate Professor with Tenure

  • Modern poetry and fiction
  • Creative fiction and poetry
  • Feminist and postcolonial theory

Lynda M Zwinger

Professor

  • English and American Novel
  • Late 19th/Early 20th Century U.S. Literature
  • Psychoanalysis and Literature
Modern Languages 431A