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