First Year Faculty Teaching Interests

Ellen Blaney

19th- and 20th-century literature; the novel; feminist theory and gender studies; creative and expository writing

Julie Bleha

drama; women and drama; dramatic literature; theatre history; great books courses; American and British literature; composition

Gregory Erickson

20th-century American and European literature; 20th-century music; postmodernism; music and literature; Bible as literature; theology and atheism; cultural studies; television studies

Cori L. Gabbard

20th-century British literature; medieval literature, especially Celtic; feminism; women and war

Judith Greenberg

20th-century French and British literature; trauma studies, psychoanalysis; women’s studies; Holocaust studies

Scott Korb

essay writing; memoir; creative non-fiction; religious writing; belief and popular culture; faith and politics; ethics; Civil War; reform movements; slavery and slave narratives

Jennifer Lemberg

late 19th- and 20th-century American literature; gender; trauma; Holocaust studies; American Indian literature; ethnic literature

Patricia Lennox

Shakespeare; Elizabethan/Jacobean literature and culture; early modern women; theatre; film history; creative and critical writing

Irwin Leopando

Composition, rhetoric; critical pedagogy; Paulo Freire studies; post-colonial literature; postmodernism; liberation theology

Andrew Libby

18th- and 19th-century Romantic poetry; critical and literary theory; social and political theory

Stacy Pies

poetry; American and European literature, 17th–20th centuries; narrative; psychoanalysis

Catherine Siemann

19th- and 20th-century British and American literature and culture; law and literature; the fantastic; feminist and gender studies

Annette Snape

19th and 20th century literature; biography; gender studies; archival research; expository writing

Christopher Trogan

aesthetics; 20th-century German and American literature/culture; history of philosophy; philosophy of music; philosophy of law; writing philosophy

Penny Vlagopoulos

20th-century American literature and film; African American studies; cultural studies; race and gender theory; radical cultures and politics

Stephen Wetta

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

Rebecca Wisor

modernism; women’s autobiography; war and trauma; narrative theory; feminism; photography