Writing Faculty Teaching Interests

Madeleine Beckman

poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction

Victoria Blythe

English literature; law and literature; critical theory; genre studies

Susan Brownmiller

travel writing; feminist theory and history; literary criticism; essays; books

Emily Fragos

poetry; fiction writing; rhetoric

Barry Goldsmith

history of comedy; comedic writing; comedy and the media

Scott Hightower

aesthetics and the arts; prosody; comparative literary studies; poetry; writing

Melanie Hulse

essay, memoir, and fiction writing; writing theory and practice (all genres)

Janine Jaquet

journalism, including print and documentary production; media studies; non-fiction writing

Nettie Jones

20-century fact, fiction, and fictionalized writing; creative cross-cultural cruising

Paul Jurmo

adult literacy education; workforce development; leadership for democratic social change

Steven Rinehart

fiction, nonfiction, and memoir writing; Web development

Leo Rubinfien

photography; filmmaking; the literary essay; globalization and the decline of traditional cultures; culture and history of Japan, China, and Southeast Asia; Manhattan lives

Robert Seidman

fiction writing and screenwriting; literary criticism with particular interest in Joyce, Beckett and Mark Twain

Steven Smith

playwriting; television and magazine writing

Chris Spain

creative writing; film

Stephen Wetta

19th- and 20th-century American literature; southern American literature; 19th-century Russian literature; Bakhtinian criticism

Carol Zoref

fiction and essay writing; 19th- and 20th-century literature; photography and other visual narratives