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
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
Sharon Friedman
modern drama; literary interpretation; feminist criticism; critical writing; writing across the disciplines
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
20th and 21st-century fact, fiction, and fictionalized writing; creative cross-cultural cruising
Meera Nair
fiction and non-fiction writing; Asian-American and post-colonial literature; South Asian history and politics
Steven Rinehart
fiction, nonfiction, and memoir writing; Web development
Chris Spain
creative writing; film
Carol Zoref
fiction and essay writing; 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century literature; photography and other visual narratives