Undergraduate Information
The Undergraduate Faculty
OSU— MAIN CAMPUS
LEE K. ABBOTT, Professor. (M.F.A., University of Arkansas) Prose fiction writing. Author of Dreams of Distant Lives, Strangers in Paradise, Love is the Crooked Thing, The Heart Never Fits Its Wanting, Living After Midnight and Wet Places at Noon. Short stories and reviews, as well as articles on American Literature, have appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Book Review, and such journals as The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Epoch, The North American Review, and The Southern Review. Fiction reprinted in The Best American Short Stories, The Prize Stories: The O'Henry Awards, and The Pushcart Prizes. Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Major Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council (1991-1992), and the Greater Columbus Arts Council. 2004 Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories, was published by W. W. Norton in June of 2006.
ADÉLÉKÈ ADÉÈKÓ, Humanities Distinguished Professor. (Ph.D., University of Florida) African Literature, African American Literature, and Postcolonial Literatures. Author of Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature, (University Press of Florida, 1998) and The Slave's Rebellion: Literature, History, Orature (Indiana University Press, 2005).
FREDERICK LUIS ALDAMA, Professor of English and Comparative Studies. (Ph.D., Stanford) Chicano/a, Latino/a, and Postcolonial literature and film. Author of Dancing With Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas, Postethnic Narrative Criticism, Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia: Conversations with Artists and Writers, and Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity; he is editor of Arturo Islas: The Uncollected Works, and Critical Mappings of Arturo Islas's Narrative Fictions. His articles and interviews have appeared in such journals as Aztlán, College Literature, Poets & Writers, World Literature Today, Cross Cultural Poetics, Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory, Lucero, Comparative Literature, Callaloo, Nepantla, Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Analysis, American Literature, Latin American Research Review, Modern Fiction Studies, and Modern Drama.
CHADWICK ALLEN, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., University of Arizona) American Indian and New Zealand Maori literatures and cultures, frontier studies and western literature, postcolonial literatures and theory. Author of Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts, and articles on postcolonial theory and popular westerns.
DAVID A. BREWER, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) Eighteenth-century British literature and culture (including Early America), history of authorship and reading, the methodological challenges of literary history. Author of The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), along with several articles on eighteenth-century literature, visual art, and material culture. Recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Currently working on a new book: The Work of Attribution in the Age of Anonymous Publication.
BRENDA JO BRUEGGEMANN, Associate Professor, English; Associate Faculty, Women's Studies, Comparative Studies; Coordinator, American Sign Language Program; Coordinator Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Minor. (Ph.D., University of Louisville) Author of collaborative and individually authored articles on rhetoric, literacy, deaf studies, disability studies; several essays in literary journals; and Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness (Gallaudet UP). Co-author, Rhetorical Visions: Reading and Writing in a Visual Culture (Prentice-Hall). Editor of Literacy and Deaf People: Contextual and Cultural Perspectives (Gallaudet UP). Co-editor and contributor for: Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (MLA Press); Women and Deafness: Double Visions (Gallaudet UP); and Disability and the Teaching of Writing (Bedford/St. Martin's). Series Editor, Deaf Lives: Autobiography, Biography, and Documentary (Gallaudet UP). Co-editor, Disability Studies Quarterly.
GAYLE L. CARPENTER, Instructor. (M.A., The Ohio State University) The Bible in English, general composition and literature, business and technical writing. Teacher/consultant for various OSU colleges and for off-campus businesses and industries.
RAY CASHMAN, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., Indiana University) Folklore and folklife, performance studies, ethnography of communication, politics of culture, commemoration and collective memory. Author of articles on Irish oral traditions and popular literature, folk drama, sense of place, and material culture. Current book project, Characters and Community: Storytelling on the Irish Border.
ROGER D. CHERRY, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) History of rhetoric, rhetorical theory, composition research, writing evaluation. Co-author (with K. Halasek) of A Brief Guide to Basic Writing, co-author of Assessing Writers' Knowledge and Processes of Composing, co-editor of A Rhetoric of Doing: Essays on Written Discourse in Honor of James L. Kinneavy.
HENRI COLE, Professor. (MFA, Columbia University) Creative writing (poetry). Author of six books of poems: Blackbird and Wolf, The Visible Man, Middle Earth (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), The Look of Things, The Zoo Wheel of Knowledge, and The Marble Queen. He is the winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
MARK CONROY, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo) Comparative literature, film, the novel, critical theory, and late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. Author of Modernism and Authority: Strategies of Legitimation in Flaubert and Conrad and Muse in the Machine: American Fiction and Mass Publicity.
SCOTT LLOYD DE WITT, Associate Professor, Director of the First-Year Writing Program, and Director of The Digital Media Project. (D.A., Illinois State University) Composition and rhetoric. Articles on digital media and composition studies. OSU Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching (1999). Co-editor of Contexts, Intertexts, and Hypertexts (1999). Author of Writing Inventions (2001), winner of the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award (2002). Awarded Battelle Endowment for Technology in Human Affairs Grant (2003). Director of BETHA Institute for New Media and Writing Studies (2004). Co-director (with Cynthia Selfe) of the Digital Media and Composition Institute.
FRANK DONOGHUE, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions. (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) Eighteenth-century British literature, social criticism. Author of The Fame Machine: Book Reviewing and Eighteenth-Century Literary Careers (1996), and The Last Professors: The Fate of the Humanities in the Corporate University (forthcoming, 2008).
RICHARD DUTTON, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and Vice-Chair. (Ph.D., Nottingham) Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, and post-1945 literature. Author of Ben Jonson: to the First Folio, An Introduction to Literary Criticism, Modern Tragicomedy and the British Tradition, Mastering the Revels, Ben Jonson: Authority: Criticism and Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England. General editor of the Macmillan Literary Lives series, which contains his own William Shakespeare: A Literary Life. He has recently edited four volumes Companions to Shakespeare's Works (with Jean Howard) for Blackwell, and Theatre and Religion: Lancastrian Shakespeare and Region, Religion and Patronage: Lancastrian Shakespeare (with Alison Findlay and Richard Wilson)for Manchester UP. Editor of Volpone for the new Cambridge Edition of Ben Jonson, and a general editor of the Revels Plays series, for whom he has edited Epicene and is revising The Alchemist. His main current projects are a history of the Shakespearean stage (Blackwell) and a companion to early modern theatre (Oxford UP).
JON ERICKSON, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Modern and postmodern drama and performance, literature and the other arts, philosophy and literature, critical and cultural theory. Author of The Fate of the Object: From Modern Object to Postmodern Sign (1995) and articles on drama, performance, theatre and performance theory, poetry and art.
ANGIE ESTES, Auxiliary Professor. (Ph.D., University of Oregon) Creative Writing (poetry) and American Literature. Her most recent book, Chez Nous, was published by Oberlin College Press (2005). Her second book, Voice-Over (2002), won the 2001 FIELD Poetry Prize and the 2001 Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her first book, The Uses of Passion (1995), was the winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize. Recent poems have appeared in TriQuarterly, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, FIELD, Boston Review, and other journals, and in the anthologies The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women (2001), The Geography of Home: California and the Poetry of Place (1999), and Queer Dog (1997). She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the California Arts Council, the Ohio Arts Council, and the MacDowell Colony.
KATHY FAGAN, Professor. (Ph.D., University of Utah) Creative writing (poetry). Author of The Raft, winner of the 1984 National Poetry Series; MOVING & ST RAGE, winner of the 1998 Vassar Miller Prize for Poetry; and The Charm (2002). Work appears in Poet's Choice, Under 35, Extraordinary Tide, The Breath of Parted Lips, and American Diaspora, and in The New Republic, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Field, and TriQuarterly. Winner: Pushcart Prize, NEA, Ingram Merrill, and OAC grants. Co-editor of The Journal.
ALAN B. FARMER, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., Columbia University) Shakespeare and early modern drama, the history of the book, England in the 1630s, seventeenth-century news and religious politics. Author of articles on Shakespeare, Jonson, the early modern news trade, and the publication of Renaissance drama.
STEVEN FINK, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., University of Washington) American literature, Jewish American literature, American studies. Author of Prophet in the Marketplace: Thoreau's Development as a Professional Writer and various articles on nineteenth-century American literature; co-editor (with S. Williams) of Reciprocal Influences: Literary Production, Distribution, and Consumption in America; co-editor (with S. Williams and J. Gardner) of the journal American Periodicals.
JIM FREDAL, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) Rhetorical history and theory; ancient Greek rhetoric and literacy; performance and space studies; rhetoric and religion. Author of Rhetorical Action in Ancient Athens: Persuasive Artistry from Solon to Demosthenes and articles and papers on rhetorical history, theory, and criticism.
RYAN FRIEDMAN, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., Northwestern University) American film and film theory, African American literature, nineteenth- and twentieth-century American narrative, critical theory. Author of essays on race in classical Hollywood cinema and on early twentieth-century African American literature and political philosophy.
JILL GALVAN, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Victorian literature and culture, twentieth-century British literature. Author of articles and papers on Victorian technologies and women's involvement in the rise of communications media.
AMANPAL GARCHA, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., Columbia University) Victorian literature and culture, history and theory of the novel, literary theory. Author of essays and papers on Victorian literature and on theoretical and professional issues.
JARED GARDNER, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) American literature of the early national and antebellum periods, silent and classical Hollywood cinema, popular culture and media studies. Author of Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature: 1787-1845 and articles on American literature, film, and popular culture. Currently writing about the intersection between comics and film in the 20th century and about early American magazine culture.
SARA GARNES, Associate Professor Emeritus. (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) Linguistics, composition. Co-author of 'Report of the Writing Workshop: Basic Writing at The Ohio State University,' author of Quantity in Icelandic, co-editor of Writing Lives. Member of Usage Panel, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed., and American Heritage Book of English Usage.
VANDANA S. GAVASKAR, Senior Lecturer. (Ph.D., University of Cincinnati) Basic writing, Renaissance, cultural studies. Author of articles on basic writing and Renaissance studies.
HARVEY J. GRAFF, Professor, English and History; Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy studies. (Ph.D., University of Toronto) Comparative social and cultural history, especially North America and Western Europe; the history and uses of literacy and the relevance of that history to contemporary issues; the history and representation of children, adolescents, youths, and families; urban culture and society past and present; theory and method in humanities and social sciences. Current research focuses on the history of interdisciplinarity since the late nineteenth century. Books on these and related subjects include: The Literacy Myth: Literacy and Social Structure in the Nineteenth-Century City; The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society; The Labyrinths of Literacy: Reflections on Literacy Past and Present; Growing Up in America: Historical Experiences; Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America; Literacy in Historical Development; Dallas, City at the Crossroads.
RICHARD FIRTH GREEN, Professor and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. (Ph.D., University of Toronto) Late medieval English court poetry, patronage and reception, literature and the law, medieval popular culture. Poets and Princepleasers: Literature and the English Court in the Late Middle Ages (1980), A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England (1998); articles in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Speculum, Mediaeval Studies, and other journals. Winner, Killam postdoctoral fellowship, Guggenheim fellowship.
KAY HALASEK, Associate Professor, Vice Chair for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies, and Director of the Writing Center. (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) Rhetorical theory, composition history and theory, Bakhtin studies. Author of articles on composition, writing, and rhetoric; author of A Pedagogy of Possibility; co-editor (with N. Highberg) of Landmark Essays on Basic Writing. Director, OhioWINS Summer Institute.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., Yale) Renaissance literature and culture, Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, the Bible. Author of Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature and articles and reviews on Renaissance literature; editor, first correspondence of Robert Lowell and Ezra Pound. Book Review Editor and Associate Editor, Reformation. Recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the National Humanities Center, and the Huntington Library. Current projects include a monograph, Shakespeare and Biblical Culture, a textbook on the Bible as Literature, and an edition of the Sidney Psalter for Oxford World's Classics.
MAURA HEAPHY, Senior Lecturer. (B.A., Marymount Manhattan College; M.A., Lancaster University) First Year Writing and Fiction Writing. Author of various short stories, and "Douglas and the Flour Baby," a short film produced and directed by Aimee Jackson of Light Industry Pictures.
DAVID HERMAN, Professor. (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) Twentieth-century studies, modern and postmodern narrative, interdisciplinary narrative theory, linguistic and cognitive approaches to literature, critical theory, conversational storytelling, discourse analysis. Author of Narration in Natural Language (in Czech), Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative, and Universal Grammar and Narrative Form; editor of The Cambridge Companion to Narrative, Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences, and Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis; co-editor of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Also editor of the Frontiers of Narrative book series for the University of Nebraska Press. Current projects include a number of book-length studies of aspects of narrative and narrative theory.
MICHELLE HERMAN, Professor. (M.F.A., University of Iowa) Fiction and narrative nonfiction. Author of Missing (1990), A New and Glorious Life (1998), The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood (2005), and Dog (2005). Recipient of grants and fellowships from the NEA, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Copernicus Society of America. Winner of OSU's two highest honors for teaching: the University Distinguished Teaching Award and the College of Humanities' Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring. Co-editor, The Journal; Coordinator, Colleges of the Arts and Sciences Freshman Common Book Program; Director, Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Fine Arts.
WENDY HESFORD, Associate Professor (Ph.D., New York University) Feminist rhetoric, composition and literacy studies; autobiography; documentary film studies; human rights literature and film. Author of Framing Identities (1999), W. Ross Winterowd Book Award Winner; co-editor (with W. Kozol) of Haunting Violations (2001); co-editor (with W. Kozol) of Just Advocacy (2005); co-author (with B. Brueggemann) of Rhetorical Visions (2007). Current book project, Spectacular Rhetorics (on contemporary human rights discourse and documentary film).
ELIZABETH HEWITT, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) Early American and 19th century American and African American literature and poetry. Author of Correspondence and American Literature, 1770-1865 (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Currently working on the intersection of economics and literature, particularly focused on the relationship between authorship and corporate capitalism, especially in the work of Charles Chesnutt.
JENNIFER HIGGINBOTHAM, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) Renaissance literature and drama including Shakespeare, early modern women's writing, feminist theory and gender studies, history of childhood, and material culture. Currently working on a book that examines the significance of girlhood in early modern literature and culture and co-editing a collection on Renaissance girls with Diane Purkiss.
CHRISTOPHER HIGHLEY, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., Stanford University) Renaissance literature. Author of articles on Renaissance literature and culture, and books, Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland (1997) and John Foxe and his World, co-edited with J. King (2002). Currently working on English recusant culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Teaching interests include: Shakespeare and Early Modern drama; Queen Elizabeth I; Early Modern London; Catholicism and anti-Catholicism.
ANDREW HUDGINS, Professor. (M.F.A., University of Iowa) Modern and contemporary poetry; nineteenth-century American poetry. Author of Ecstatic in the Poison, Babylon in a Jar, The Glass Anvil, Saints and Strangers, After The Lost War, The Never-Ending, The Glass Hammer. Articles on Whitman, Hawthorne, Rich, and others. Poems, short stories, and personal essays in The New Yorker, The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, and others. Recipient of the Writer Bynner Award, the Poets' Prize, the Haines Prize, the Taft Distinguished Faculty Award, the Ohioana Award, two NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
PRANAV JANI, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., Brown University) Twentieth-century postcolonial/world literature, history, and politics, especially South Asia, Africa, Ireland, and the Arab world. Postcolonial theory: Marxism and postmodernism, imperialism and nationalism, class/gender/ethnic relations in the postcolonial world. Author of articles and papers on South Asian literature and history, postcolonial theory, the US media, and academic freedom.
NAN JOHNSON, Professor. (Ph.D., University of Southern California) History and theory of rhetoric, feminist rhetoric, rhetorical analysis, and composition theory. Author of Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric in North America, Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life: 1866-1910, and numerous book chapters, reviews, and articles on rhetoric and composition studies.
CHRISTOPHER A. JONES, Professor. (Ph.D., University of Toronto) Old and Middle English, history of the English language, medieval Latin, manuscript studies, liturgy and ecclesiastical history. Author of Aelfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham, A Lost Work by Amalarius of Metz, and essays on various topics in early medieval culture.
MERRILL KAPLAN, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture, folklore and traditional narrative, and the Scandinavian encounter with both these subjects during National Romanticism. Author of articles and papers on Icelandic saga, Ibsen and dramatic realism, Icelandic theater history, and runestones and legend tradition.
JOHN N. KING, Distinguished University Professor, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and of Religious Studies, University Distinguished Scholar. (Ph.D., University of Chicago) Renaissance and Reformation literature and culture, the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, early modern women's writing. Author, English Reformation Literature; Tudor Royal Iconography; Spenser's Poetry and the Reformation Tradition; Milton and Religious Controversy; Foxe's Book of Martyrs and Early Modern Print Culture. Editor, Reformation; Co-editor, Literature and History; editor, The Vocation of John Bale, Anne Askew's Examinations, and Voices of the English Reformation; co-editor (with C. Highley), John Foxe and His World; general editor, John Foxe's Book of Martyrs (forthcoming). Fellowships from ACLS, Folger Shakespeare Library, Huntington Library, NEH, Lilly, Mellon, Rockefeller foundations, and others.
LISA J. KISER, Professor. (Ph.D., University of Virginia) Old and Middle English literature and culture, History of English language. Author of two books on Chaucer (Telling Classical Tales and Truth and Textuality in Chaucer's Poetry) and essays and reviews about Chaucer, medieval literature, medieval environmental theory, nature in the Middle Ages, and animal/human boundaries in medieval texts. Winner of the Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, Graduate Professor of the Year Award, and the Exemplary Faculty Award.
ETHAN KNAPP, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., Duke University) Medieval literature and cultural theory. Author of The Bureaucratic Muse: Thomas Hoccleve and the Literature of Late Medieval England and of articles and papers on Heidegger, Lukács, and diverse medieval topics. Currently working on a study of the history of Chaucer criticism.
SUSAN KNEEDLER, Auxiliary Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., University of Southern California) Nineteenth-century British fiction and poetry, gender studies, children's literature, mysteries, 1930-40s film. Author of articles and papers on Austen's novels, nineteenth-century novels, and Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.
SEBASTIAN D. G. KNOWLES, Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Humanities. (Ph.D., Princeton University) Twentieth-century literature. Author, A Purgatorial Flame (1990) and The Dublin Helix (2001), awarded the Michael J. Durkan Prize in 2001. Co-author, An Annotated Bibliography of a Decade of T.S. Eliot Criticism, 1977-1986 (1992); editor, Bronze by Gold: The Music of Joyce (1999); co-editor, Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings. College of Humanities Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Teaching and Mentoring, 2003. ASC Outstanding Teaching Award, 2000. Graduate Teacher of the Year, 2000. Series Editor, Florida James Joyce Series. Board of Trustees, International James Joyce Foundation. Undergraduate Teacher of the Year, 2007.
VALERIE LEE, Professor and Chair. (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) Twentieth-century American literature, African-American literature, feminist theory, folklore. Author of Invisible Man's Literary Heritage: Benito Cereno and Moby Dick, Granny Midwives and Black Women Writers: Double-Dutched Readings, The Prentice-Hall Anthology of African American Women's Literature. Articles, book chapters/reviews on feminist/womanist theory, black women's literary studies, critical race feminism, American literature, and multi-cultural pedagogy. Former Chair, Department of Women's Studies. Recipient, University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching and Distinguished University Service Award.
LESLIE LOCKETT, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame) Old English and medieval Latin literature, manuscript studies, and intellectual history. Author of essays on vernacular and Latin poetry; currently completing a book-length project on early medieval concepts of mind and soul.
MARLENE LONGENECKER, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo) Romantic literature (English and American), critical theory, women's studies. Twice winner of the University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.
ERIN McGRAW, Professor. (M.F.A., Indiana University) Creative writing, fiction; American literature. Author of The Good Life (2004), The Baby Tree (2002), Bodies at Sea (1989), Lies of the Saints (1996). Author of short stories, novels, personal essays, and essay-reviews on contemporary fiction. Stories in The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, and other magazines. Fiction reviewer for the Raleigh News & Observer and The Southern Review. Work in progress: a novel, scheduled for release in May, 2008, and Bad Eyes (a collection of personal essays and memoirs). 2004 Nancy Dasher Award for The Good Life.
BRIAN McHALE, Professor. (D.Phil., Oxford University) Postmodernism, cultural studies, American literature. Postmodernist poetry, especially the postmodernist long poem; modernist and postmodernist fiction, including Joyce, Dos Passos, Pynchon, and others; narratology; and science fiction. Author of Postmodernist Fiction (1987), Constructing Postmodernism (1992), and The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems (2004). Co-editor (with Randall Stevenson) of The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English (2006).
SANDRA MACPHERSON, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University) Eighteenth-century literature and culture; intersections between literary history, law (in particular laws of civil and criminal liability), political theory (in particular theories of community and obligation), and philosophy (in particular philosophies of action and accountability). Publications: Harm's Way: Tragic Responsibility and the Novel Form (forthcoming from Johns Hopkins); Essays in ELH, Representations, Modern Philology. Book Projects in Progress: Pornotopianism, a book-length history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century pornography that explores the pornographic origins of the feminist critique of pornography; Indifference.
ROBIN BELL MARKELS, Auxiliary Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) Rhetoric, technical and business writing, English linguistics, and sports literature. Author of articles and papers on cohesion and women's sports history, and A New Perspective of Cohesion in Expository Paragraphs.
LEE MARTIN, Professor and Director of Creative Writing Program. (Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln; M.F.A., University of Arkansas) Creative nonfiction and fiction. Author of The Bright Forever, Turning Bones, From Our House, Quakertown, and The Least You Need To Know. Co-editor of Passing The Word: Writers On Their Mentors. Essays and short stories in Harper's, Creative Nonfiction, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Story, The Kenyon Review, DoubleTake, and Glimmer Train. Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, the Nancy Dasher Award, and fellowships from the NEA and the Ohio Arts Council. Recipient of the 2006 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. Finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel, The Bright Forever. His new novel, River of Heaven, will be published in April, 2008.
MANUEL LUIS MARTINEZ, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies. (Ph.D., Stanford University) Chicano/a literature, postwar American literature, creative writing. Author of Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Keroauc to Tomas Rivera (2004), Drift, a novel (2003), and Crossing, a novel (1998).
JEREDITH MERRIN, Professor. (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) Poetry, poetic theory, creative writing (poetry), modernism. Author of articles on Moore, Bishop, Herbert, Mew, Amichai, Jarrell, Collins, and others as well as numerous poetry reviews; poetry published in The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, The Yale Review and other journals. Author of An Enabling Humility: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and the Uses of Tradition, and two books of lyric poetry from the Phoenix Poets Series, University of Chicago Press, Shift (1996), and Bat Ode (2001).
KORITHA MITCHELL, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park) Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American literature, black drama, performance studies, and racial violence in American literature and culture. She has held fellowships from the David Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora and the Ford Foundation and is author of papers on lynching, theater, and pedagogy.
GABRIELLA MODAN, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., Georgetown University) Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, ethnography, place and space theory, ethnicity, Jewish studies.
DEBRA A. MODDELMOG, Professor. (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University) Twentieth-century American literature, feminist and sexuality studies. Most recent book, Reading Desire: In Pursuit of Ernest Hemingway. Articles on various twentieth-century authors, multiculturalism, and coming-out pedagogy. Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Sexuality Studies program (undergraduate minor and graduate specialization) at Ohio State. Associated faculty member in the Department of Women's Studies and the Department of Comparative Studies.
BEVERLY J. MOSS, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing. (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago) Composition and rhetoric. Editor of Literacy Across Communities (1994), Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom (with M. Nicolas and N. Highberg, 2004); author of A Community Text Arises (2003) and several essays.
DOROTHY NOYES, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Folklore Studies. (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) Folklore, performance, cultural politics, Mediterranean cultures. Author of Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003) and articles on folklore theory, festival, Spanish and Catalan cultural politics, international regimes for the protection of local traditions, and the social organization of creativity.
TERENCE ODLIN, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., University of Texas) Linguistics, rhetoric and composition. Author of Language Transfer and articles on second language learning and on the English language in Ireland and Scotland. Editor of Perspectives on Pedagogical Grammar.
SEAN O'SULLIVAN, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., Yale University) Film, especially British film; the British novel; narrative and the visual arts; serial fiction across media. Author of Mike Leigh, forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press series on Contemporary Film Directors. Articles on British television drama, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Deadwood, and Charles Dickens.
JAMES PHELAN, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English. (Ph.D., University of Chicago) Narrative and narrative theory, British and American fiction, critical theory, twentieth-century literature. Author of Experiencing Fiction, Living to Tell about It, Narrative as Rhetoric, Reading People, Reading Plots, Beyond the Tenure Track, and Worlds from Words; co-author of The Nature of Narrative; editor of Narrative; co-editor of the OSU Press series on the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative. Editor of Reading Narrative; co-editor of the Blackwell Companion to Narrative Theory, Understanding Narrative, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy, and The Tempest: A Case Study in Critical Controversy. Current projects include a book on Reading the Twentieth-Century American Novel. 2004 OSU Distinguished Scholar Award. 2007 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.
MARTIN JOSEPH PONCE, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., Rutgers University) Anglophone Filipino, Asian American, and African American literatures and cultures; postcolonial and diaspora studies; queer literature and theory. Author of articles and papers on Asian American and African American literatures.
JESSICA PRINZ, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., University of Southern California) Twentieth-century literature, interdisciplinary art, and postmodernism. Author of Art Discourse/Discourse in Art, and essays on modern and contemporary literature.
ELIZABETH RENKER, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University) American literature, the nineteenth century, poetry, literary criticism, the history of higher education. Author of articles on American literature, the introduction to the Signet Classic edition of Moby-Dick, Strike Through The Mask: Herman Melville and the Scene Of Writing (1996), and The Origins of American Literature Studies: An Institutional History (2007).
DAVID RIEDE, Professor. (Ph.D., University of Virginia) Victorian and Romantic poetry and poetics. Author of Swinburne: A Study of Romantic Mythmaking, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Limits of Victorian Vision, Matthew Arnold and the Betrayals of Language, Oracles and Hierophants: Constructions of Romantic Authority, Dante Gabriel Rossetti Revisited, Allegories of One's Own Mind: Melancholy in Victorian Poetry, and articles and reviews on Victorian literature. Editor of D.G. Rossetti: Critical Essays.
ROSEANNE RINI, Auxiliary Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American women writers, women's oral history, nineteenth-and twentieth-century American and British literature, Woolf studies, folklore studies, critical writing, Italian American studies.
JOHN W. ROBERTS, Professor and Dean of the College of Humanities. (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) African-American literature and folklore, American fiction and folklore, folklore theory. Author of From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom; From Hucklebuck to Hip: Social Dance in the African American Community in Philadelphia; African American Folklore in a Discourse of Folkness (in progress); many articles, book reviews, and papers on African-American literature and American folklore.
JACQUELINE JONES ROYSTER, Professor and Executive Dean of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences and Senior Vice Provost. (D.A., University of Michigan) Rhetoric and composition, women's studies, African-American and African studies. Author of articles and reviews in composition studies, African-American women's rhetoric. Co-editor of Double-Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters. Consulting author of Writer's Choice. Editor of Southern Horrors and Other Writings. Consulting editor of Glencoe Literature: The Reader's Choice. Editor of Critical Inquiries: Readings on Culture and Community. Author of Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women and Profiles of Ohio Women, 1803-2003. Co-editor of Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture.
CYNTHIA L. SELFE, Humanities Distinguished Professor (Ph.D., The University of Texas) Digital literacy practices; how literacy practices and values in digital environments shape—and have been shaped by—historic, economic, social, cultural, material, educational, and personal factors; computer use in educational settings.
AMY E. SHUMAN, Professor. (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) Folklore, critical theory, ethnographic methodology, ethnography of communication, feminist theory, narrative and law, and personal/life history narrative. Author of Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents, Other People's Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy, and articles on conversational narrative, literacy, ethnic studies, feminism, folklore, and critical theory. She is the co-author of a forthcoming book, Rejecting Refugees: Political Asylum in the 21st Century.
ANTONY SHUTTLEWORTH, Auxiliary Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., University of Warwick) Modern and contemporary British and American writing, especially poetry, writing of the 1930s, and literary theory. Author of articles and papers on Auden, Isherwood, MacNeice, Woolf, modern and contemporary poetry. Editor of And in Our Time: Vision, Revision and British Writing of the 1930s (2003).
CLARE A. SIMMONS, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. (Ph.D., University of Southern California) Nineteenth-century British literature, Romanticism. Author of Reversing the Conquest: History and Myth in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Eyes Across the Channel: French Revolutions, Party History, and British Writing 1830-1882, and papers and articles on nineteenth-century British literature and medievalism. Editor of The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte Mary Yonge, and an essay collection, Medievalism and the Quest for the 'Real' Middle Ages. Co-Editor of Prose Studies.
ANN MARIE MANN SIMPKINS, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., Purdue University) History of rhetoric, theory of rhetoric, feminism and rhetoric, and the teaching of writing. Current book project highlights the abolitionist rhetorical education and writing practices of Black women. Author of "Rhetorical Tradition(s) and the Reform Writing of Mary Ann Shadd Cary" in Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture eds. Royster and Simpkins.
MARTHA SIMS, Senior Lecturer. (M.A., The Ohio State University) Basic writing, folklore, folklore and composition. Author of papers on ethnography and composition, folk art and folk artists, and service learning. Developed and taught a service-learning composition course focusing on collecting oral history in Columbus' Mt. Vernon Avenue neighborhood. Co-author of Living Folklore: An Introduction to the Study of People and their Traditions, from Utah State University Press.
PHOEBE S. SPINRAD, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., Texas Christian University) English Renaissance literature. Author of The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage; poetry; articles and a book on database programming; and articles on Shakespeare, medieval and Renaissance drama, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry, and Vietnam War literature and history.
LESLIE TANNENBAUM, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) Romantic literature, literature and art. Author of Biblical Tradition in William Blake's Early Prophecies: The Great Code of Art, and articles on Blake, Byron, and Mary Shelley.
NATALIE C. TYLER, Senior Lecturer. (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) Nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, poetry, Shakespeare. Author of a book on Jane Austen.
H. LEWIS ULMAN, Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for Research and Instructional Technology. (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University) Rhetorical history and criticism, American nature writing, ecocriticism, and electronic textual editing. Editor of The Minutes of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society, 1758-1773 and author of Things, Thoughts, Words, and Actions as well as articles on American literature, eighteenth-century British philosophy and rhetoric, American nature writing, and hypertext.
ROXANN WHEELER, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., Syracuse University) Eighteenth-century British literature, postcolonial and feminist theory. Author of The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture, and essays on Defoe, travel narratives, intermarriage novels, slave narratives, natural history, physiognomy, and the novel.
ANDREA N. WILLIAMS, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) African American Literature and Culture; American Literature to 1900. Publications and presentations address 19th-century U.S. women's writing, slave narratives, and black periodical fiction. Her current research examines social class and intraracial stratification in postbellum African American literature.
SUSAN S. WILLIAMS, Professor. (Ph.D., Yale University) American literature before 1900, women writers, history of the book. Author, Confounding Images: Photography and Portraiture in Antebellum American Fiction (1997) and Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women in America, 1850-1900 (2006); articles on Maria Cummins, Hawthorne, James, and Susan Warner. Co-editor of Reciprocal Influences: Literary Production, Distribution, and Consumption in America and of the journal American Periodicals. Editor of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (2006). Contributor of chapter on authorship to the Cambridge History of the Book in America, Volume 3. Recipient of the 2005 0SU Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award and the 2007 Distinguished University Service Award.
LUKE WILSON, Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley), Renaissance literature, with particular interest in early modern law and legal culture. Author of Theaters of Intention: Drama and the Law in Early Modern England (Stanford University Press, 2000), and of articles and chapters, mainly on topics related to law and literature, in Representations, Renaissance Drama, ELH, Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, and in several edited collections. Work in progress includes a book, The Uses of Use: Instrumentalism and English Renaissance Literature; an article on poetic justice from the Leges Henrici Primi to Thomas Rymer; an article on risk and genre in late Shakespeare; and an article on transitive and intransitive motion in seventeenth-century poetry and maritime actions in rem.
KAREN A. WINSTEAD, Professor. (Ph.D., Indiana University) Late medieval literature and culture. Author of articles on medieval literature, of Virgin Martyrs: Legends of Sainthood in Late Medieval England, and of John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century. Editor of John Capgrave's Life of Saint Katherine, and editor/translator of Chaste Passions: Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends.
AMIE WOLF, Senior Lecturer. (PhD., Bowling Green State University) Basic writing, computers and composition, writing program administration, technical communication, British literature. Author of articles and papers on computers in basic writing, computers and composition, teaching English online, teacher training, and Anne Bronte.
CHRISTIAN K. ZACHER, Professor, Director, Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, and Secretary, University Senate. (Ph.D., University of California, Riverside) Medieval English literature. Author of Curiosity and Pilgrimage: The Literature of Discovery in Fourteenth-Century England, section on "Travel and Geographical Writings" in A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, and essays and reviews on medieval literature; co-editor, Critical Studies of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; co-editor, The Idea of Medieval Literature; co-general editor, Basic Readings in Chaucer and His Time; and co-general editor of The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia. In 2005 he received an OSU Distinguished University Service Award.
OSU— LIMA CAMPUS
DAVID ADAMS, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., City University of New York) 20th-century studies; critical theory. Author of Colonial Odysseys: Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel and a variety of scholarly essays; translator of essays by Hans Blumenberg.
DEBORAH BURKS, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., Rutgers University) Early Modern literature and culture. Author of Horrid Spectacle: Sexuality and Violation in the Theater of Seventeenth-Century England (Duquesne University Press, 2004), plus articles on Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling, Shirley's The Cardinal, Foxe's Acts and Monuments, and Cavendish's "Assaulted and Pursued Chastity."
JOHN HELLMANN, Professor. (Ph.D., Kent State University) Twentieth-century American literature, film, and cultural studies. Author of The Kennedy Obsession: The American Myth of JFK (1997), American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam (1986), and Fables of Fact: The New Journalism as New Fiction (1981).
KAREN LEICK, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., Northwestern University) American modernism, twentieth-century literature and culture, poetry, critical theory, and gender studies. Co-editor of Modernism on File: Modern Writers, Artists, and the FBI: 1920-1950 (Palgrave Macmillan 2007) and the author of articles on Ezra Pound, H. L. Mencken, and "little magazines." Book in progress: Popular Modernism: Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity.
WILLIAM J. SULLIVAN, Associate Professor Emeritus. (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) Author of articles on nineteenth-century fiction and psychoanalytic interpretation.
BETH SUTTON-RAMSPECK, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., Indiana University) Nineteenth-century British literature and culture; women writers; editing. Editor of Marcella by Mary Ward (Broadview), and Raising the Dust: The Literary Housekeeping of Mary Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Ohio University Press), as well as articles and reviews on Victorian topics.
OSU— MANSFIELD CAMPUS
J.F. BUCKLEY, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) Nineteenth-century American literature and culture, literary theory, and representations of sexuality in American culture. Author of Desire, The Self, The Social Critic, and articles on Rebecca Harding Davis, Melville, Hemingway, and the pedagogy of teaching LGBTQ literature in secondary schools.
CYNTHIA CALLAHAN, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., University of Delaware) Late nineteenth and twentieth century literature, African American and multi-ethnic American literatures. Reasearch on kinship, race, and identity in American literature.
SUSAN H. DELAGRANGE, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) Rhetoric and Composition, Digital Media and Visual Rhetoric, Writing Technologies, Feminist Rhetoric, Composition Studies, Teaching with Technology, and Business and Professional Communication. Associate editor of Rhetorical Visions (forthcoming).
NORMAN W. JONES, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Sexuality studies, twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature, religious studies. Author of Gay and Lesbian Historical Fiction: Sexual Mystery and Post-Secular Narrative, and papers and articles on sexuality studies and American literature.
BARBARA McGOVERN, Associate Professor and English Department Coordinator for Mansfield. (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) Eighteenth-century literature and women's studies. Author of Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography and articles on British women writers. Co-editor, with Charles Hinnant, of The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems: A Critical Edition. Recipient of an Excellence in Scholarship Award and the Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching in the College of Humanities.
CAROLYN SKINNER, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., University of Louisville) History of rhetoric; rhetorical theory; nineteenth-century women's rhetoric; professional rhetoric of the nineteenth century. Author of articles and a book chapter on nineteenth-century women's rhetoric, historical scientific rhetoric, and composition theory and practice.
OSU— MARION CAMPUS
LAURA BARTLETT, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., University of Louisville) Feminist, materialist perspectives on Rhetoric and Composition, critical technological studies and film studies. Author of articles and papers on labor conditions of composition instructors and students and contemporary American film.
CATHERINE C. BRAUN, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) Digital media studies, digital literacy, Rhetoric and composition, basic writing, film. Author of papers on technology-enhanced writing pedagogy, digital media in English studies, and film.
SARA CROSBY, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame) Early and nineteenth-century American literature, print culture, popular culture, and feminist theory. Current book project on the female poisoner in antebellum American literature.
STUART LISHAN, Associate Professor. (M.F.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Utah) Creative writing, fantasy literature, critical writing, and poetry courses. Author of poems and reviews published in various journals and magazines, a winner of the Orphic Prize for Poetry in 2005, author of Body Tapestries.
BEN McCORKLE, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) Rhetorical history and theory, digital media studies, and visual culture. Associate editor of visual culture textbook, and author of articles on history of rhetoric, digital media studies.
NATHANIEL WALLACE, Assistant Professor. (MFA and Ph.D., University of Notre Dame) Victorian Studies. Dissertation: "Anglo-Irish Reconciliation in Edmund Burke, Matthew Arnold, and Edward Dowden". Publications: "Shakespeare Biography and the Theory of Reconciliation in Edward Dowden and James Joyce" ELH (2005); chapter in edited collection on Edmund Burke's Irish Identities.
OSU— NEWARK CAMPUS
DEREK ALWES, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts) English Renaissance literature, especially Elizabethan non-dramatic literature. Author of Sons and Authors in Elizabethan England (University of Delaware Press) and several articles on English Renaissance literature.
STEPHANIE BROWN, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., Columbia University) Twentieth-century American and African-American literature, film. Author of articles and papers on African-American literature, film, feminist theory, and French literature and translation theory.
VIRGINIA COPE, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., University of Virginia) Eighteenth-century British literature and Women's studies.
ROBERT HUGHES, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., Emory University) Nineteenth-century American literature, Lacanian psychoanalysis, continental aesthetics and ethics, comparative literature (French and German). Editor of After Lacan (SUNY Press, 2002), author of articles and papers on Washington Irving, Brockden Brown, Emerson, Lacan, Heidegger, Levinas, and Merleau-Ponty.
DANIEL KELLER, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., University of Louisville) Literacy studies, composition theory and practice, popular culture, and digital media. Author of articles and papers on literacy, digital media, and writing centers.
JAMES F. LOUCKS, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) Victorian and modern British literature. Co-author (with R. Altick) of Browning's Roman Murder Story: A Reading of 'The Ring and the Book'; editor of Robert Browning's Poetry (Norton Critical); author of articles on Victorian and Twentieth-century British Literature.
ELIZABETH WEISER, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., Texas Christian University) Rhetoric and composition, cultural history, Kenneth Burke studies, argument, style, creative writing, the short story. Author of articles and papers on Burke's dramatism, the history of style, and epideictic literature, as well as short fiction.
