Writing Faculty Teaching Interests
Nancy Agabian
essay; memoir; poetry; performance art; oral history; Middle Eastern cultures; post-Soviet cultures; urban cultures; immigrant and transnational issues; feminist and queer issues
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
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
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-cultural cruising
Dave King
fiction and poetry; writing, rhetoric and translation; art and art history; film and film history; folklore; politics
Julie Malnig
performance studies; dance and theatre history, theory, and criticism; social dance; early 20th-century American culture and the arts; feminist performance and criticism; performance art; critical writing
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
Scott Snyder
fiction, poetry and screenplay writing; comic book and graphic novel writing; contemporary American literature (1950 - present)
Chris Spain
creative writing; film
Carol Zoref
fiction and essay writing; 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century literature; photography and other visual narratives