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