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