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