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
Christopher Bram
fiction; nonfiction; writing about movies
Susan Brownmiller
Travel writing; feminist theory and history; literary criticism
Emily Fragos
poetry; fiction writing; rhetoric
Sharon Friedman
modern drama; literary interpretation; feminist criticism; critical writing; writing across the disciplines
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
Nettie Jones
20th and 21st-century fact, fiction, and fictionalized writing; creative cross-century 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
Chris Spain
creative writing; film
Lara Vapnyar
fiction writing; memoir writing; contemporary immigrant novel; Russian literature
Carol Zoref
fiction and essay writing; 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century literature; photography and other visual narratives