Faculty | English | SIU

Professor Amos's scholarship and publications focus on the relationship between late medieval cultures and their literatures. He has written on medieval reading practices and early book production, representations of class relations, and the viability of applying modern theoretical approaches to medieval texts. ...read full profile >>

David Anthony is Professor of Early American Literature, and Director of the School of Literature, Writing, and Digital Humanities. His book Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature is due out with Oxford University Press in 2023. Anthony is also the author of Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, ...read full profile >>

Pinckney Benedict studied creative writing at Princeton University (BA 1986) and at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (MFA 1988). He established and directs the Digital Xpressions Lab of the College of Liberal Arts. Pinckney Benedict grew up on his family’s dairy farm in Greenbrier County, West ...read full profile >>

George Boulukos, Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty in Africana Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is the author of The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture (Cambridge UP, 2008) and the editor of the never-before-published memoir by an ...read full profile >>

Dr. Anne Chandler has taught in the English Department (now the School of Literature, Writing, and Digital Humanities) since 1995. Her advanced degrees are from Duke University. She specializes in eighteenth-century British literature. Her main publications are on late-century fiction writers with ties to British ...read full profile >>

Dr. Dougherty is a scholar of Irish women’s literature of the eighteenth-, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. She teaches courses on Irish literature and culture, cultural studies, and composition.  Scholarly interests relating to Irish literature: Gender and ...read full profile >>

Robert Elliot Fox received his BA from Cornell University, did graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley in its countercultural heyday, and earned his PhD at the State University of New York at Buffalo, after a hiatus that included some troubadouring and working for the alternative press in San ...read full profile >>

Rafael Frumkin is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Medill School of Journalism. He is the author of three books: The Comedown (2018), Confidence (2023), and Bugsy (2024). His fiction, creative nonfiction, journalism, and criticism have appeared in Granta, Guernica, Hazlitt, The Washington ...read full profile >>

Judy Jordan’s first book of poetry, Carolina Ghost Woods, won the 1999 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as the Utah Book of the Year Award, the OAY Award from the Poetry Council of North Carolina, and the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award. ...read full profile >>

Allison Joseph currently lives, teaches, and writes in Carbondale, Illinois, where she is part of the creative writing faculty at Southern Illinois University. Her most recent collections of poems are Lexicon (Red Hen Press, 2021), Professional Happiness (Backbone Press, 2021), and Confessions of a Barefaced Woman ...read full profile >>

Professor McEathron specializes in British Romanticism. His interests include the canonical Romantic poets and essayists, especially Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Lamb, and Hazlitt, as well as several non-canonical figures associated with the laboring-class poetic tradition, especially John Clare. His work in ...read full profile >>

Professor McGrath's research interests include early modern literature and, in particular, the influence of the Reformation on devotional poetry and prose. His first book, Early Modern Asceticism: Literature, Religion, and Austerity in the English Renaissance (University of Toronto, 2019), recovers a cultural ...read full profile >>

Professor Netzley’s research interests include Renaissance literature, particularly seventeenth-century lyric and Milton, literature of the English Reformation, especially martyrologies and apocalypse commentaries, poetics, and critical and poststructuralist theory. He is the author of Lyric Apocalypse: ...read full profile >>

Enrique Paz serves as director of the writing center and specializes in the field of rhetoric and composition. His graduate and undergraduate courses explore theory and practice of professional and technical writing, writing centers, rhetoric, composition pedagogy, research methodology, and student learning. His ...read full profile >>

Joe Shapiro received his Ph.D. from Stanford University (2011). He specializes in nineteenth-century U.S. literature. Dr. Shapiro’s research focuses primarily on the representation of class in the U.S. novel. His book, The Illiberal Imagination: Class and the Rise of the U.S. Novel (University of ...read full profile >>

Anna Sicari is an Assistant Professor in Writing Studies in the Writing, Literature, and Digital Humanities department at SIU. Her research interests are in feminist research methodologies and theories, writing program and center administration/work, and community engaged work. These interests can be seen in articles ...read full profile >>

Professor Williams’s research interests include Representations of Viet Nam in Literature and Cinema, Film and Literature, Classical Hollywood Cinema, The Writings of Jack London and James Jones, Hong Kong Cinema, Film Genres, and Naturalism and Cinema. Educated at Manchester and Warwick Universities, ...read full profile >>