The Department of English faculty members are heterogeneous, representing specialties in the study of literary periods or genres, criticism and critical theory, language and linguistics, pedagogy and pedagogical theory, and creative and professional writing.

Emeriti who have agreed to posting details of their scholarly activities here are thereby indicating their willingness to be consulted by colleagues or students about matters falling within their areas of interest.

(G) = Graduate Faculty

Richard Utz, Chairperson; Professor; Ph.D., University of Regensburg, Germany.Medieval English Literature and Language, Medievalism, Philology, History of English Studies(G).
E-mail address: richard.utz@wmich.edu


Jana K. Schulman Director of Graduate Studies and Graduate Advisor; Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Minnesota. Areas of expertise: Old English and Old Icelandic Languages, Law and Literature; Medieval Women; Comparative Epic. (G).
E-mail address: jana.schulman@wmich.edu

Margaret Dupuis, Faculty Specialist II; Coordinator of Undergraduate Programs and Chief Undergraduate Advisor. Ph.D., University of Oregon. Areas of expertise: Early Modern Poetry and Drama (G).
E-mail address: margaret.dupuis@wmich.edu

Faculty

Jon Adams, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside. Areas of expertise: American Literature; War Literature; Gender and Sexuality studies (G).
E-mail address: jon.adams@wmich.edu

Elizabeth Amidon, Master Faculty Sprecialist; MA, Eastern Michigan University, AMLS, University of Michigan. Areas of expertise: English Education, Children's Literature. E-mail address: amidon@wmich.edu

Thomas C. Bailey, Professor; Ph.D., Washington University. Areas of expertise: Nineteenth-century British Fiction, American Autobiography (G). Currently serving as University Ombuds.

Patricia Bills, Faculty Specialist II-Lecturer; M.S. Education, University of Michigan. Areas of Expertise: English Education and Writing Instruction.
E-mail address: patricia.bills@wmich.edu

Beth Bradburn, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Boston College. Areas of expertise: Seventeenth-Century British Literature, Milton, Cognitive Theory (G).
E-mail address: elizabeth.bradburn@wmich.edu

Ellen Brinkley, Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State University. Areas of expertise: English Education, Composition (G).
E-mail address: ellen.brinkley@wmich.edu

Jonathan Bush, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Purdue University. Areas of expertise: English Education, Rhetoric and Composition (G).
E-mail address: jbush@wmich.edu

J.D. Dolan, Associate Professor; M.F.A., Syracuse University. Areas of expertise: Fiction and Creative Nonfiction (G).

Stuart Dybek, Adjunct Professor; M.F.A., University of Iowa. Areas of expertise: Fiction, Poetry (G).

Philip J. Egan, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Kansas. Areas of expertise: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American literature (G).
E-mail address: philip.egan@wmich.edu

Nancy Eimers, Professor; Ph.D., University of Houston. Areas of expertise: Poetry, American Literature (G).

Anthony Ellis, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Loyola University (Chicago). Area of specialization: Renaissance Drama, including Shakespeare.
E-mail address: anthony.ellis@wmich.edu. (G)

Eileen Evans, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Purdue University. Areas of expertise: American Literature. (G).
E-mail address: eileen.evans@wmich.edu. Currently serving as the Vice Provost for Institutional Effectiveness.

Steve Feffer, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison. Areas of expertise: Playwrighting, Modern and Contemporary Drama (G).

Scott Friesner, M.A., University of Michigan, A.B.D., McGill University. Areas of expertise: American Literature, Russian Literature, World Literature, the Novel. E-mail address: scott.friesner@wmich.edu

Jaimy Gordon, Professor; D.A., M.A., Brown University. Areas of expertise: Fiction, Poetry, Drama (G).
E-mail address: jaimy.gordon@wmich.edu.

Arnold Johnston, Professor; Ph.D., University of Delaware. Areas of expertise: Drama, Fiction, Modern Literature (G).Sabbatical 2007/2008
E-mail address: arnie.johnston@wmich.edu

Paul A. Johnston, Jr., Professor; Ph.D., University of Edinburgh. Areas of expertise: Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, and Historical Linguistics (G).
E-mail address: paul.johnston@wmich.edu

Katherine Joslin, Professor; Ph.D., Northwestern University. Areas of expertise: American Literature, Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Fiction, and American Studies (G).Sabbatical Leave 2007/08
E-mail address: joslin@wmich.edu

Richard Katrovas, Professor; MFA, Universtiy of Iowa. Areas of expertise: Poetry, Fiction, Memoir. Director of The Prague Summer Program. (G)
E-mail address: richard.katrovas@wmich.edu

Thomas Kent, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Professor; Ph.D., Purdue University. Areas of expertise: Criticism and Theory (G).
E-mail address: thomas.kent@wmich.edu

Cynthia Klekar, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., West Virginia University. Areas of expertise: Eighteenth Century British Literature. (G).
E-mail address: cynthia.klekar@wmich.edu

Todd Kuchta, assistant professor; Ph.D., Indiana University. Areas of expertise: Modern British Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies (G).
E-mail address: todd.kuchta@wmich.edu

Jil C. Larson, associate professor; Ph.D., Indiana University. Areas of expertise: Victorian studies, South African literature (G).
E-mail address: jil.larson@wmich.edu

Casey McKittrick, Faculty Specialist II-Lecturer; Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin. Areas of specialization: American Literature and Film.
E-mail address: casey.mckittrick@wmich.edu. (G)

Lisa Minnick, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. University of Georgia. Areas of expertise: Language Variation and Sociolinguistics, Multiethnic American Literature, Ethnicity and Representation.
E-mail address: lisa.minnick@wmich.edu. (G).

Christopher Nagle, Associate Professor; Ph.D., SUNY-Stony Brook. Areas of expertise: Literary and Critical Theory, Romanticism, 18th-Century British and Irish Literature, Women Writers including Jane Austen (G). On sabbatical for the 2007/2008 academic year
E-mail address: christopher.nagle@wmich.edu.

Ilana Nash, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Bowling Green State University. Areas of expertise: Youth Literature, Gender, Popular Culture, Multicultural Literature, and American Literature (G).
E-mail address: ilana_nash@yahoo.com.

William Olsen, Professor; Ph.D., University of Houston. Areas of expertise: Poetry, American Literature (G).

Gwen Raaberg, Professor, Director of the Women's Studies Program. Ph.D., University of California, Irvine. Areas of expertise: Women's Studies, Modernism (G). Sabbatical 2007/08
E-mail address: raaberg@wmich.edu

Judith Rypma, Master Faculty Speacialist; M.F.A., Western Michigan University. Areas of expertise: Children's Literature, Creative Writing. Sabbatical Spring 2008.
E-mail address: judith.rypma@wmich.edu

John Saillant, Professor; Ph.D., Brown University. Areas of expertise: Early American Literature, Colonialism, Slavery (G).

Eve Salisbury, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Rochester. Areas of expertise: Old and Middle English Literature including Chaucer, Medieval Women Writers, Medieval Literary Theory (G).
E-mail: eve.salisbury@wmich.edu

Scott Slawinski, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. University of South Carolina. Area of specialization: Early American Literature, History of the Book.
E-mail address: scott.slawinski@wmich.edu. (G)

Gwen Athene Tarbox, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Purdue University. Areas of expertise: American Literature, Children's and Adolescent Literature, Feminist Theory (G).
E-mail address: gatarbox@yahoo.com

Charlotte Thralls, professor; Ph.D., Purdue University. Areas of expertise: Rhetorical Theory, Professional Communication, Composition (G).

Grace Tiffany, Professor; Ph.D., Notre Dame University. Areas of expertise: Shakespeare, English Renaissance Drama (G).
E-mail address: grace.tiffany@wmich.edu.

Karen Vocke, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Toledo. Areas of expertise: English Education and Critical Literacy. (G).
E-mail address: karen.vocke@wmich.edu.

Joyce Walker, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Areas of expertise: Composition Studies, Expository Writing, Academic Writing, Technical Writing, Buisness and Professional Writing, Technical Communications. Currently serving as Director of First-Year Writing(G).
E-mail address: joyce.walker@wmich.edu

Daneen Wardrop, Professor; Ph.D., University of Virginia. Areas of expertise: American Literature, Poetry, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman (G).

Allen Webb, Professor; Ph.D., University of Oregon. Areas of expertise: English Education, Postcolonial and Minority Literature,Internet Learning (G).
E-mail address: allen.webb@wmich.edu.

Lance Weldy, Visiting Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Texas A&M University, Commerce. Areas of expertise: Children's Literature.
E-mail address: lanceweldy@yahoo.com

Nicolas Witschi, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University of Oregon. Areas of expertise: 19th and early 20th-Century American Literature; Cultural Studies; Film (G).
E-mail address: nicolas.witschi@wmich.edu

Emeriti

Miriam Bat-Ami, Professor Emerita; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Area of expertise: Children's Literature (G).

Norman E. Carlson, Associate Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Rutgers University. Area of expertise: Seventeenth-Century British Literature (G).
E-mail address: carlsonn@wmich.edu

John R. Cooley, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Areas of expertise: Modern and American Literature (G).
E-mail address: john.cooley@wmich.edu

Seamus Cooney, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Areas of expertise: Modern Poetry, Modern Literature, Film (G).
E-mail address: seamus.cooney@wmich.edu

Clifford O. Davidson, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Wayne State. Areas of expertise: Medieval and Renaissance Literature (G).
E-mail address: clifford.davidson@wmich.edu

Rollin Douma, Associate Professor Emeritus; Ph.D. University of Michigan. Area of specialization: English Education.

Edward L. Galligan, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania. Areas of special interest: Comedy and Humor, American Literature and Criticism, Language, Popular Culture, Journalism (G).
E-mail address: galligan@wmich.edu

Stephanie A. Gauper, Professor Emerita; Ph.D., University of Minnesota. Areas of expertise: Women in Literature, Spenser, Milton (G).
E-mail address: gauper@wmich.edu

Constantine J. Gianakaris, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison. Areas of expertise: English Literature, English Drama (Shakespeare through modern) (G).
E-mail address: gianakaris@wmich.edu

Robert Hinkel, Associate Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Northwestern University. Areas of expertise: Modern American and British Literature, Film (G).
E-mail address: hinkel@wmich.edu

Arnold G. Nelson, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D. University of Minnesota. Areas of interest: American Studies, Linguistics, Composition, Alaskan and Yukon history, Scandinavian Film and Culture (G).
E-mail address: anelson@carrinter.net

Thomas Seiler, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. Areas of expertise: Medieval Literature, Dante (G).
E-mail address: seiler@wmich.edu

Thomas E. Small, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D.,University of California, Berkeley. Areas of expertise: Eighteenth-Century Literature, Romantic Literature, Dramatic Literature (G).

John Stroupe, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D. University of Rochester. Areas of expertise: Drama; Professional Writing (G).

Larry Syndergaard, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D. University of Wisconsin. Areas of expertise: Medieval Literature (G).
E-mail address: larry.syndergaard@wmich.edu

Paul E. Szarmach, Professor, Director of the Medieval Institute; Ph.D., Harvard University. Areas of expertise: Old English with special reference to Latin Backgounds, and Arthurian Literature; Chaucer (G). E-mail address: paul.szarmach@wmich.edu

Larry ten Harmsel, Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Ohio University. Areas of expertise: Professional Writing,Twentieth-Century European Literature (G).
E-mail address: larry.tenharmsel@wmich.edu.

Constance S. Weaver, Professor Emerita; Ph.D., Michigan State University. Areas of expertise: English Education, Linguistics (G).
E-mail address: weaverc@wmich.edu