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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 a Professor of American Literature and the Director of the School of Literature, Writing, and Digital Humanities at SIU. He is the author of Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America (Ohio State UP, 2009), as well as various articles on antebellum ...read full profile >>

Pinckney Benedict grew up on his family’s dairy farm in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. He studied English and creative writing at Princeton University as an undergraduate and received his MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has published a novel (Dogs of God) and three ...read full profile >>

Professor Bogumil teaches modern British and American literature, with a particular interest in British, Irish, Scottish, Australian and American drama, and often works with student playwrights in the Theater Department. She is author of Understanding August Wilson (1999) and a revised edition, ...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 >>

Professor Chandler studies the literature, educational theory, aesthetics, and political philosophy of Restoration and eighteenth-century Britain.  Several of her scholarly articles have dealt with the various ways politically progressive writers of the 1790s (Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, and ...read full profile >>

Jane Elizabeth Dougherty is an Associate Professor specializing in Irish literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Her scholarship focuses on the social and political master narratives of Irish history and the ways in which these narratives enable and disable the production, form, style, ...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. His fiction, nonfiction, journalism, and criticism have been featured in Granta, The Paris Review, Guernica, The Washington Post, The Baffler, McSweeney’s, Outside, Pacific Standard, Poetry Magazine, ...read full profile >>

Professor 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 ...read full profile >>

Professor Joseph is the author of What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand, 1992), Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon, 1997), In Every Seam (Pittsburgh, 1997), Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon, 2003) and Worldly Pleasures (Word Press, 2004). Her honors include the John C. ...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 labouring-class poetic tradition. His edition English ...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 Molino is a specialist in Modern British literature, with interests in Irish literature, contemporary British literature, Anglophone postcolonial literature, and political fiction of the Third World. The author of Questioning Tradition, Language, and Myth: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney, Professor Molino has ...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, and critical and poststructuralist theory. His most recent book is Lyric Apocalypse: Milton, ...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). His research focuses on how class shaped the development of the U.S. novel, and how the U.S. novel weighed in on matters of class, over the course of the long nineteenth century. His book, The Illiberal Imagination: Class and the Rise of the U.S. Novel ...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, he is ...read full profile >>