Graduate Faculty Fields of Specialization

Graduate Faculty Fields of Specialization Graduate Courses Primary Areas of Possible Areas to Possible Areas to Instructor Email Phone Graduate Exams Given Taught Research Direct Master’s Theses Direct Dissertations

ENGL 6520/7520 Essentials of Discourse analysis Linguistics Discourse studies Discourse studies ENGL 6500/7500 Language and Language and education Literature: Stylistics Stylistics Stylistics Stylistics, particularly Albakry, Mohammed [email protected] 494-8658 ENGL 5510 Modern English World Englishes World Englishes bilingual fiction Grammar & Usage Language and education Language and education ENGL 5530 History of the World Englishes English Language

ENGL 6/7270 Studies in Victorian Literature

ENGL 6/7270 Studies in Victorian Literature: Victorian Gothic

ENGL 6/7290 Modern British Literature

ENGL 6/7390 Reading Postmodern Literature (Barth, Postmodernism Calvino) Victorian studies Victorian studies ENGL 6/7480 Studies in Popular Literature, Film, and Contemporary Literature Ph.D. Comprehensives: Television Gothic studies Gothic studies (Horror/Fantasy/Science Fiction) ENGL 6/7490 Studies in the Nineteenth-Century (Victorian) Film studies Film studies Badley, Linda [email protected] 898-2597 Novel: The Novel of the Feminist/Gender Studies Modern British Popular culture Popular culture Fantastic approaches to popular Popular Culture culture/film Women’s literature Women’s literature ENGL 6/7570 Practicum in Teaching Methodology Film Studies (international, Film Film American independent, ENGL 6/7650 Special Topics in women’s) Popular Culture: The Gothic

ENGL 6/7760 Special Topics in Film Studies: Science Fiction Film

ENGL 6/7760 Special Topics in Film Studies: Contemporary International Cinema

ENGL 6/7760 Special Topics in Film Studies: Horror Film

ENGL 6330 Directed Creative Modern and Contemporary Writing Ph.D. Comprehensives: Drama (World) Barnett, Claudia [email protected] 898-2887 ENGL 6/7460 Studies in American Literature, 1910- Contemporary Drama Contemporary Drama Modern and Contemporary Contemporary Drama Present Novel (US)

Syntactic Theory Linguistics ENGL 6/7520 Essentials of Blackwell, Aleka [email protected] 898-5960 Linguistics Acquisition of the Lexicon Applied Linguistics

ENGL 6/7330 Major American Writers (Robert Penn Warren Ph.D. Comprehensives: Southern Literature Southern Literature Southern Literature and William Faulkner) Bradley, Patricia L. [email protected] 904-8128 American Nineteenth Century Southern Renaissance Southern Renaissance Southern Renaissance ENGL 6/7420 American Literature Survey 18680-1910

Modern American Literature ENGL 6/7360 Studies in Modern American Literature Modern American Literature Southern Literature Southern Literature and Cultural Southern Literature and Cultural Southern Literature and Cultural Brantley, Will [email protected] Critique 898-2593 ENGL 6/7430 Studies in Critique Critique American Literature, 1910-1950 Film History, Criticism, and Film History, Criticism, and Film History, Criticism, and Aesthetics ENGL 6/7750 Film Studies Aesthetics Aesthetics Graduate Faculty Fields of Specialization

Creative Creative

Poetry Poetry

Creative Writing Film Film Brewer, Gaylord [email protected] 898-2712 ENGL 6/7000 Poetry Workshop Film Drama Drama

Contemporary Drama Hemingway Hemingway

Carver Carver

Bukowski Bukowski

Bram Stoker Rudyard Kipling Terrence Malick Charles Dickens Cain, Jimmie [email protected] ENGL 5510 Modern English 898-2074 Modern British Literature Grammar & Usage Charles Bukowski Tim O'Brien Vietnam War literature and film. Contemporary fandom

Women writers in general (emphasis on prose writers) Victorian biography and autobiography Jane Austen Late 18th century women writers Jane Austen Reader Ph.D.: Victorian novelists Mothers/motherhood in literature Generally the same as the MA Victorian Period 19th century domestic fiction Space/spatial constructs in Charlotte Bronte ENGL 6/7230 Major British 18th Century fiction Casal, Elvira [email protected] Narrative structure Maria Edgeworth 898-2576 Authors Reader MA: Late 18th century women writers Comedy in the novel George Meredith 19th Century Victorian novelists (the Brontes, The novel of manners Anthony Trollope. 18th Century George Eliot, Meredith, Trollope etc.) Certain 20th century detective novelists (Dorothy Sayers, Josephine Tey) Tradition and intertextuality especially as it relates to the development of the novel as a genre

Composition and Rhetoric Composition and Rhetoric ENGL 5510 Modern English Composition and Rehtoric Theory/Research/Pedagogy Grammar & Usage Theory/Research/Pedagogy Clayton, Maria A. [email protected] 898-2585 Integration of Technology in Integration of Technology in ENGL 6/7580 Computers and Integration of Technology in Teaching Teaching Writing Teaching

History of Rhetoric History of Rhetoric ENGL 6/7505 History of History of Rhetoric Rhetoric: Classical to Ph.D. Preliminaries: History of Poetics, Aesthetics, & History of Poetics, Aesthetics, & Renaissance Criticism Criticism Comas, James [email protected] 898-2606 Composition, Language & History of Criticism ENGL 6/7510 Modern Rhetoric Rhetoric History of English Studies History of English Studies and Prose Style History of English Studies Composition Theory Composition Theory

ENGL 6/7330 History of Children's Literature Ph.D. Comprehensives: th th th 19 century American Literature 19 century American Literature ENGL 6/7420 American 19 century American Literature Donovan, Ellen [email protected] th 898-2649 Literature Survey 1860-1910 19 century American Literature Children’s Literature Children’s Literature Children’s Literature Special Topics course on Mark Children’s Literature Twain Graduate Faculty Fields of Specialization

ENGL 6/7050 Studies in Early English Drama, Excluding Shakespeare: 900-1642 Early Modern or Renaissance ENGL 6/7130 Studies in 17th Master’s Comprehensives & Early Modern or Renaissance Early Modern or Renaissance century English Prose & Poetry Ph.D. Qualifying Seventeenth Century Donovan, Kevin [email protected] 898-5898 Seventeenth Century Seventeenth Century ENGL 6/7150 Studies in Ph.D. Preliminary: Bibliography Shakespeare Bibliography Bibliography Renaissance Irish literature (possibly) ENGL 6/7660 Introduction to Graduate Study: Bibliography and Research

African American Literature African American Fiction and ENGL 6/7340 Major African Civil Rights Movement Nonfiction Dubek, Laura [email protected] 904-8156 American Writers th Creative Nonfiction 20 Century Women Writers

ENGL 6/7310 Studies in Gender and Hollywood Cinema Popular Culture Gender and Hollywood Cinema Hollywood Cinema 20th Century American Gender and Television Studies ENGL 6/7450 Contemporary Television Studies Television Studies [email protected] Literature Helford, Elyce 898-5961 Women’s Literature Contemporary Women Writers Contemporary Women Writers Contemporary Women Writers Popular Culture ENGL 6/7500 Selected Topics Gender and Science Fiction Science Fiction Studies Science Fiction Studies in Literature and Language: Studies Feminist Theory

ENGL 6/7380 Modern Critical Theory Modernism/Postmodernism

ENGL 6/7390 Reading Contemporary theory Postmodernism M.A. and Ph.D. comprehensives: Transnational literature (particularly literary relations [email protected] ENGL 6/7420 Studies in Topics involving aspects of 20th Topics involving aspects of 20th Hibbard, Allen 494-8809 between the U.S. and the Arab American Literature, 1860-1910 Criticism & Theory century literature and/or theory century literature and/or theory World) 20th century American literature. ENGL 6/7430 Studies in Particular authors (Paul and Jane American Literature, 1910-1950 Bowles, Alfred Chester, William Burroughs, Adonis, etc.) ENGL 6/7480 Studies in Contemporary Literature

ENGL 6/7305 Special Topics in Children's literature Children's literature Children's Literature: Folk and Children's literature Fairy Tales MA and PhD Comprehensives: Folktales and literature Folktales Folktales [email protected] Hixon, Martha 898-2599 ENGL 6/7305 Special Topics in Children's and Young Adult (traditional folktales and Fantasy literature Fantasy literature Children’s Literature: 20th Literature (Area 11) contemporary retellings) Selected topics in 19th-century Selected topics in 19th-century Century British Children's Fantasy literature Classics literature (mainly Victorian) literature (mainly Victorian)

Medieval European Romance Medieval European Romance ENGL 4/5510 Modern English Women’s Literature Women’s Literature Grammar and usage Folklore Hopkirk, Susan [email protected] 904-8122 Feminism and Popular Culture Feminism and Popular Culture ENGL 6/7310 Studies in Popular Culture (romance, fantasy) (romance, fantasy) Popular Culture The Great Books Tradition The Great Books Tradition Graduate Faculty Fields of Specialization

American folksong American popular song of the 20th century American literature MA and PhD Comprehensives: American Literature to 1830 American popular song ENGL 6/7700 Studies in American folklore of 19th and American song Jackson, Mark Allan [email protected] 494-7891 Folklore 20th century Folklore section of Popular American literature Culture, Film, and Folklore American literature American prison literature American literature of the 19th southern literature and 20th century

ENGL 6/7320 Postcolonial Postcolonial Literature and Postcolonial Literature and Literature and Theory Anglophone Postcolonial Critical Theory Critical Theory ENGL 6/7480 Studies in Literature Contemporary British literature Contemporary British literature Contemporary Literature PhD Comprehensives: Diaspora Studies, particularly with a focus on Black Britain with a focus on Black Britain literatures of the African Johnson, Newtona (Tina) [email protected] 898-2705 ENGL 6/7450 Contemporary Anglophone Literature The African Diaspora The African Diaspora Women’s Literature Diaspora Critical theory Contemporary diasporas in the Contemporary diasporas in the ENGL 5510 Modern English Black Women Writers US US Grammar Women’s Literature, particularly Women’s Literature, particularly Black women’s writings Black women’s writings

Ph.D. comprehensives: Pre-Raphaelites ENGL6/7270 Studies in Victorian literature Victorian literature [email protected] th King, Rebecca B. 898-5771 Victorian Literature: The Pre- 19 century literature William Godwin 19th century British women 19th century British women Raphaelites and Their Associates Literary theory and criticism 19th century British literature writers writers

British and American Modernist Writers Virginia Woolf Jeanette Winterson

[email protected] Twentieth Century Women Kostkowska, Justyna 898-2778 Writers, British and American Twentieth Century Poetry, British and American Contemporary European Poets Poetry Translation

ENGL 6/7500 Introduction to Film Studies ENGL 6/7600 Special Topics in 20th century American literature Television Television Television Film Film Film Film Film [email protected] Lavery, David ENGL 6/7650 Special Topics in Popular Culture Popular Culture Popular Culture Popular Culture Popular Culture Critical Theory Poetry Poetry Poetry The Grotesque, Wallace Stevens, etc.

Mid-to-late 18th century poetry Mid-to-late 18th century poetry Interrelations between 18th Interrelations between 18th century literature and art Mid-to-late 18th century poetry century literature and art Transformations and continuities Interrelations between 18th Transformations and continuities in the history of aesthetics and century literature and art in the history of aesthetics and Ph.D and M.A. criticism from 1740-1820 ENGL 6/7200 Studies in criticism from 1740-1820 Restoration and 18th century comprehensives: Transformations and continuities Historicist approaches to Literature in the history of aesthetics and Historicist approaches to [email protected] Criticism and theory literature from 1740-1820 Levine, William 494-8846 criticism from 1740-1820 literature from 1740-1820 ENGL 6/7660 Introduction to Restoration and 18th century Cultural history of jazz and Historicist approaches to Cultural history of jazz and Graduate Study: Bibliography literature representations of jazz and Research literature from 1740-1820 representations of jazz Cultural constructions of other Cultural history of jazz and Cultural constructions of other musical genres representations of jazz musical genres Interrelationships between Interrelationships between literature and other arts in any literature and other arts in any era era

ENGL 6/7200 Studies in 18th century British literature Restoration and 18th Century Literature British Romanticism [email protected] Lutz, Alfred 898-2655 18th century British literature 18th century British literature 18th century British literature A course on the Transatlantic Critical Theory 18th Century has been approved by the graduate committee. Early American Literature Graduate Faculty Fields of Specialization

Kristeva and children’s Kristeva and children’s Literature Literature Feminist Children’s Literature Feminist Children’s Literature Studies Studies Marchant, Jennifer [email protected] 898-2721 Ph.D. Exams Ecofeminist Children’s Ecofeminist Children’s Literature Literature Picture Book Analysis Picture Book Analysis

Shakespeare and Renaissance Shakespeare and Renaissance Shakespeare and Renaissance literature M.A. Comprehensives: literature literature [email protected] ENGL 6/7440 Popular Literature McCluskey, Pete 898-2678 th Popular culture (especially of the 20 Century Renaissance literature Crime fiction Crime fiction Robert A. Heinlein and crime fiction) Popular culture Popular culture

ENGL 6/7030 Chaucer Seminar M.A. and Ph.D. ENGL 6/7040 Medieval English Comprehensives Old and Early Middle English Medieval topics Medieval topics [email protected] Literature McDaniel, Rhonda L. 898-5285 Ph.D. preliminary: ENGL 6/7660 Introduction to Early Medieval literatures Bibliographical topics. Bibliographical topics. Graduate Studies: Research and Old and Middle English. Bibliography

ENGL 6/7210 Studies in English Romanticism: Wordsworth and Coleridge British Romanticism: Both ENGL 6/7220 Studies in English Textual scholarship Any aspect of British Any aspect of British periods (older/1st generation; [email protected] Romanticism: Shelley, Byron, Romanticism, both generations Romanticism, both generations Neth, Michael J. 898-5836 younger/2nd generation) The poetry of Shelley Keats ENGL 6/7230 Major British Writers: The Verbal and Visual Art of William Blake

ENGL 6/7400 American American literature or print Antebellum U.S. print culture Literature to 1800 American literature to 1830 American literature or print culture from any time before the [email protected] Ostrowski, Carl 904-8278 American literature of the mid- culture from any time before the Civil War (I am most ENGL 6/7410 Studies in American literature, 1830-1910 19th century Civil War comfortable in the 1790s-1850s American Literature, 1800-1860 range)

Late antique, medieval, and early modern literature

Ph.D.Comprehensives: Boethius Topics in late Antique, Medieval, Topics in late Antique, Medieval, and Renaissance studies and Renaissance studies [email protected] ENGL 6/7140 Studies in Milton Renaissance literature Milton Phillips, Philip Edward 898-2699 Milton Milton Medieval literature Poe Classical influences in literature Epic poetry

th th th American Literature, 1830-1910 19 Century American Literature 19 Century American Literature 19 Century American Literature ENGL 6/7420 American 20th Century American Literature 20th Century American Literature 20th Century American Literature Literature 1856-1910 Renfroe, Mischa [email protected] 904-8407 M.A. Comprehensive/Ph.D. Law and Literature Law and Literature Law and Literature Qualifying Exam Critical Theory Critical Theory Critical Theory Graduate Faculty Fields of Specialization ENGL 5530 History of the English Language ENGL 6/7010 Old English Language &Literature ENGL 6/7020 Beowulf The Inklings (JRR Tolkien, CS th Inklings Inklings ENGL 6/7120 Studies in 16 MA & Ph.D. Comprehensives: Lewis, Charles Williams) century English Prose & Poetry Beowulf and Old English Beowulf and Old English Harry Potter [email protected] Old and Middle English literature literature Sherman, Ted 898-2653 ENGL 6/7130 Studies in 17th Fantasy literature Century English Prose & Poetry: Renaissance Harry Potter Harry Potter John Donne Beowulf Mythopoeic literature Mythopoeic literature\ ENGL 6/7660 Introduction to Graduate Studies: Bibliography and Research Independent Study courses in JRR Tolkien; Inklings; Old English; Beowulf

ENGL 5510 Modern English Grammar & Usage ENGL 5530 History of the English Language Comp theory/research/pedagogy ENGL 5540 Approaches to Composition theory and Comp theory/research/pedagogy Teaching ESL Grammar & pedagogy Writing center Writing Writing center MA & Ph.D. Preliminary: Using pop culture in the writing Writing fellows [email protected] ENGL 6/7535 Special Topics in class Writing fellows Smith, Allison D. 904-8266 Composition, language, and Using lit/grammar/film/pop Literature and Language: Comp rhetoric Computers and writing Using lit/grammar/film/pop culture in the writing class and Rhetoric (Writing culture in the writing class ;Assessment; Liberatory Applied linguistics: grammar, Pop culture (Buffy, television) (I Pedagogy) TESL, history of English Pop culture (Buffy, television) would only agree to be 2nd or 3rd reader in this area) ENGL 6/7560 Seminar in Teaching Composition ENGL 6/7570 Practicum in Composition Methodology