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
Emily Fragos
poetry; fiction writing; rhetoric
D.B. Gilles
history of comedy on television; great screen comedies; art of parody; the humorous essay
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
20th and 21st-century fact, fiction, and fictionalized writing; creative cross-cultural cruising
Dave King
fiction and poetry; writing, rhetoric and translation; art and art history; film and film history; folklore; politics
Meera Nair
fiction and non-fiction writing; Asian-American and post-colonial literature; South Asian history and politics
Ed Park
fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, criticism; film; blogging; graphic novels; Korean history
Stacy Pies
poetry; American and European literature, 17th–20th centuries; narrative; psychoanalysis
Steven Rinehart
fiction, nonfiction, and memoir writing; Web development
Ed Sikov
film studies; sex and gender issues; gay and lesbian culture; biography
Chris Spain
creative writing; film
Lara Vapnyar
fiction writing; memoir writing; contemporary immigrant novel; Russian literature
Stephen Wetta
19th- and 20th-century American literature; southern American literature; 19th-century Russian literature; Bakhtinian criticism
Carol Zoref
fiction and essay writing; 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century literature; photography and other visual narratives