Graduate FacultyThe graduate faculty in the English Department have a wide range of specialties and research interests. They publish research in Children's Literature, Composition and Rhetoric, Creative Writing, English Education and Pedagogy, Linguistics/TESOL, Literary and Cultural Studies, Publishing and Technical Writing. To learn more about an individual faculty member, click on his or her name. |
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Children's LiteraturePsychoanalytic Theory, Children’s Literature and Culture, Young Adult Literature. Visual Studies and Graphic Narrative; Modernism, Modernity, and the Machine Age; American Studies, Late Nineteenth Century to Present; Early Cinema, Animation, and Developing Media Technologies; Environmental Ethics and Ecofeminism; Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School. Children's Literature, Picture Books and Illustrated Texts, Folk Tales and Literary Fairy Tales, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Children's Literature, Visual Culture. Children’s Literature and Kuunstleroman, Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Virginia Woolf. Feminism and Narrative Theory in Children’s and Adolescent Literature.
Composition/RhetoricWriting Assessment (portfolio and communal assessment), Literacy and Democracy, English Education, and Qualitative Research Methods. New media reading and composing strategies, new media scholarship, sustainable new media programs/environments. Theories and Practices of Revision, Feminist Rhetorics, Rhetoric and Genre Theory, Teaching Writing. Poetry, Prose Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Academic writers compared to non-academic writers, Irish Studies. Teaching Research, Rhetoric/Composition Research, Manuscript/Literature Research, Writing and Program Assessment. Literary and Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Rhetoric. Composition Theory, Rhetorical Theory, Authorship Studies, Life Writing and Autobiography, Creative Non-fiction, Academic Writing, Class Studies. Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, Critical Race Theory, Trauma Studies, Theories of Nationalism and Globalization, Literary Theory.
Creative WritingPoetry and Poetics, Creative Nonfiction, Screenwriting, Creative Writing Pedagogy. (Re)Defining the Black Aesthetic, Relationship of Music and Fiction, (S)Language, Avant-Pop (Popular Culture in Fiction). The novel, memoir, literary journalism, women's literature, creative writing pedagogy, narrative theory. Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy of Creative Writing, Teaching in Prisons. Crime Writing, Psychoanalysis, New Narrative, Euro-trash Aesthetics, Critical Poetics, Pedagogy. Poetry and prose poetry, creative nonfiction, academic writers compared to non-academic writers, Irish Studies. Postmodern Fiction Writing, Narrative Theory, Cultural Criticism, and Western Intellectual History.
English Education and PedagogyLGBT Issues in Education, Drama in Education for Literacy and Social Development, University/School Partnerships, Teaching Preservice Teachers.
English Language InstituteSecond Language Acquisition, First Language Acquisition.
Linguistics/TESOLIntercultural Pragmatics: Language Choice, Speech Act Realization, Politeness Theories; Language Shift. The role of input and instruction in learning a second language; heritage language learning and maintenance; individual differences in learning a second language. Morphosyntax, Grammaticization, History of English, Germanic Philology.
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Literary and Cultural Studies20th Century American Literature, Popular Culture, Cultural and Critical Theory, Gender and Sexuality. 19th and 20th century American and African-American Literature, the Reconstruction Era and its Legacies, Racial Ideologies and National Identity, The Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, Southern Literature. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century U.S. Culture; Cross-cultural Issues in Literatures of the Americas. Information & Media Theory, Global & Cultural Studies, 17th- & 18th-Century Cryptography & Intelligence, Virtual Reality & Swarm Intelligence, Psychoanalysis & Trauma, The History of the Postal System. Women’s Life, especially writing, Victorian Culture and Science and its Impacts, Letters and Diaries, Using Life-Writing as a Pedagogical Resource, Familial Self-Presentation. The Beat Writers, Modern and Modernist Poetry, Textual Rhetoric, Creative Writing. The Author Dysfunction, Abstract Essentialism and Epistemological Conceptualizations of Genius, Shakespeare in Performance Context, Bloodlines: Furies and Fates in Western Lit (The Oresteia and Harry Potter). Pre-1900 U.S. Literature, Native American Literature and Native American Studies, Orality and its Relationship to Literacy and Writing, Language and Language Philosophies, Recognition of and Transformations of Intellectual Spheres of Influence, Bahktin Studies, Multiculturism, Collectivist Political Projects and Individualism, Imperialism, Colonization and De-colonization. Old English Language and Literature, Medieval Literature, History of the English Language. Film Style, Midrash, Writing & Violence, The Culture Industry, Refusal of Work, Faust Studies, Coming of Age, Monotheism. Postmodern Fiction, Thomas Pynchon, World War II films, American Musical Theater. Sinclair Lewis, American Literature between World War I and World War II, World War II films, Adolescent Series Fiction Literary and Cultural Theory; Comparative Literature; Continental Philosophy; Late19th and 20th Century Literatures of Europe and Africa, particularly of France, Greece, the Maghreb, and South Africa; Theories of nationalism and globalization; (Trans)gender and Postcolonial Studies; the Concept of the Foreign; Trauma and Modernity. 20th Century American Poetry and Poetics, Creative Writing, Ethics and Ecocriticism, Feminist Poetics.
PublishingNonprofit Literary Publishing, Scholarly Publishing, Grant Writing and Fundraising in Publishing. Small press/nonprofit Publishing, Desktop Publishing, Book Arts, Creative Writing.
Technical WritingCultural Critiques of Technical Visual Information, Graphing and Charting Processes, Workplace Ethnographies of Visual Design. Digital Rhetorics and Literacies, Technology and Writing Pedagogy, New Media Studies, Web Design. Emergent Pedagogies, Professionalization in Technical Communication; Rhetoric of Technical Communication and Technology; Narrative Discourse in Workplace Contexts; New Literacy and Workplace Literacy Studies, Genre Studies, Classical and Sophistic Rhetoric, Policy and Curricular Aspects of Cooperative Education and Experiential Learning.
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