First Year Faculty Teaching Interests

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

Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz

comparative Romanticism; literature and philosophy; critical theory; film and media 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

Kimberly Lewis

20th century European literature; literary theory; World War II and 20th century politics; the novel, theory of the novel; postwar European and American film

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

Beata Potocki

20th century literature; literature and politics; literary theory; the novel; political philosophy

Joseph Rezek

18th- and 19th-century British and American literature; black Atlantic literature; history of slavery; the novel; material culture; history of the book; gay and lesbian studies

Catherine Siemann

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

Yevgeniya Traps

19th and 20th literature; literary and cultural theory; aesthetic theories; literature and psychology

Christopher Trogan

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

Jenelle Troxell

modernism; visual and literary avant-gardes; visual art and media theory; psychoanalysis; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies

Eugene Vidrin

20th-century poetry and poetics; modernism and the avant-garde; 20th-century art history, criticism, and theory; art historiography; film history and theory

Lauren Walsh

20th-century literature; media and cultural studies; memory studies; visual culture; contemporary fiction

Stephen Wetta

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