Writing Faculty Teaching Interests
Cris Beam
literary nonfiction; memoir; urban journalism; gender research; prison writing
Victoria Blythe
English literature; law and literature; critical theory; genre studies; the journal
Susan Brownmiller
Travel writing; feminist theory and history; literary criticism
Maura Donnelly
adult literacy and English for speakers of other languages; writing
June Foley
19th- and 20th-century literature; the novel; fiction writing, memoir writing and writing for young readers
Emily Fragos
poetry; fiction writing; rhetoric
Lisa Goldfarb
19th- and 20th-century European and American poetry and fiction; music and literature; questions of belief in literature; expository writing
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 creative non-fiction; writing theory and practice
Nettie Jones
20-century fact, fiction, and fictionalized writing; creative cross-cultural cruising
Julie Malnig
performance studies, dance and theatre history, theory, and criticism; social dance; early 20th-century American culture and the arts; feminist performance and criticism; performance art; critical writing
Meera Nair
fiction writing and non-fiction writing; Asian-American and post-colonial literature
Ed Park
Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, criticism; film; blogging; graphic novels; Korean history
Steven Rinehart
fiction, nonfiction, and memoir writing; Web development
Steven Smith
playwriting; television and magazine writing
Carol Zoref
fiction and essay writing; 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century literature; photography and other visual narratives