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Faculty
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Areas of Study:
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Mark
E. Allen, Ph.D.
Professor
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Medieval literature and
culture, Chaucer, Arthurian literature,
fantasy
literature, technological applications in
the humanities
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Bernadette
Andrea, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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Renaissance/early modern studies, women's
studies, literary and cultural theory;
interactions between Islam and the West in
the early modern period, early modern
discourses of empire, postcolonial
approaches to the early modern; contemporary
Arab and/or Muslim women’s writing
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Wendy
Barker, Ph.D.
Poet in Residence
Professor
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Poetry and creative
writing, nineteenth and twentieth-century
literature, women's studies
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Lapetra R. Bowman, M.A.
Internship Coordinator |
Comparative feminist literatures, queer theory, the
practice of Diaspora, feminist anthropology,
borderland literatures. |
Ken Burchenal, Ph.D.
Lecturer I |
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Norma
E. Cantú, Ph.D.
Professor/Ph.D. Graduate Advisor
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Latina/o literature,
Chicano literature, border studies,
folklore, women's studies, creative writing
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Alan
E. Craven, Ph.D.
Professor (Emeritus)
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Bibliography,
Renaissance literature (both dramatic and
non-dramatic), Shakespeare
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Bridget
Drinka, Ph.D.
Associate Professor/
Interim Department Chair
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History of English,
principles of linguistics, historical and
sociolinguistics, linguistic methods of
analyzing literature
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Marisa Huerta, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Early-modern and
eighteenth-century British literature and
culture; British romanticism; early history
of the Americas; race and social theory;
cultural criticism; gender and postcolonial
studies |
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Sue
Hum, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Composition and rhetorical theory and
pedagogy, e-composition and new media
theory, race and gender, contrastive
rhetoric
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Catherine
Kasper, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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Creative writing,
fiction, poetry and poetics,
twentieth-century literature and arts
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Steven
G. Kellman, Ph.D.
Professor
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Comparative literature,
modern literature, the European novel, film
and film theory, literary theory, biography
translingualism, postcolonialism
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Sonja
L. Lanehart, Ph.D.
Brackenridge
Endowed Chair in Literature and the
Humanities |
Sociolinguistics, language and literacy in
the African American community, language and
identity, English language variation and
standardization |
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Debbie
L. Lopez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor/
M.A. Graduate Advisor
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British and American
Romanticism, nineteenth-century British
poetry, nineteenth-century and early
twentieth century novels, U.S. ethnic
literatures
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Bonnie
K. Lyons, Ph.D.
Professor
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Nineteenth-and
twentieth-century American literature,
twentieth-century British and continental
literature, modern drama, the English novel
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Joycelyn K. Moody, Ph.D.
Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in
American Literature
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African
American literatures and cultures, black
autobiography, and women, culture, and
gender studies
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Ben
V. Olguin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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U.S. Latina/o
literatures and popular culture, mulit-ethnic
literatures of the United States, Latin
American literature, literary and cultural
theory
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Jeanne
C. Reesman, Ph.D.
Ashbel Smith Professor
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Nineteenth- and
twentieth-century American literature, the
novel, naturalism, feminism, cultural
studies
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Sonia
Saldivar-Hull, Ph.D.
Professor
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Chicana/o literature,
Latina/o literature, feminist theory and
literature, American novel, borderland
studies
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John
A. Stoler, Ph.D.
Professor (Modified Service)
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Eighteenth-century
literature, Gothic fiction, science fiction,
the novel, Fielding, Dickens
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David
R. Vance, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor |
Creative writing, modern American poetry and
poetics, modern American fiction,
nineteenth-century British and American
literature, science and literature |
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Linda
T. Woodson, Ph.D.
Professor
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Rhetorical theory, composition theory and
pedagogy, literature of Texas and the
Southwest
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