Faculty Listings
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Faith Adiele
Assistant Professor | 2 MFAs University of Iowa Interests: Creative nonfiction writing, especially travel writing, documentary writing and film, cultural memoir, socially-engaged essay, Africana/ diaspora studies. |
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Mark L. Anderson |
Susan Z. Andrade Interests: African and Caribbean literature and culture in English and French, feminist and colonial/postcolonial theory, European travel narratives |
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Jonathan Arac Interests: US literature and culture since 1820; British literature and culture 1740-1940; literary criticism and theory; the novel. arac119@comcast.net | Publications > Index |
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David Bartholomae Interests: Composition theory and pedagogy |
Brenda Berrian Interests: Contemporary African American and Caribbean women writers |
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Don Bialostosky Interests: British Romantic literature, rhetorical theory, Bakhtin, composition studies |
Ellen Bishop |
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Troy Boone Interests: Children’s literature, popular culture, culture of imperialism, 18th- and 19th-century British literature |
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Paul A. Bové Interests: Globalization, intellectuals, “emergence,” modern American literature, Henry Adams bove@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications
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Curtis Breight Interests: Renaissance culture, Shakespeare, film breight@pitt.edu | Publications
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H. David Brumble Interests: Late Medieval and Renaissance literature, the Bible as literature > Index |
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Jean Ferguson Carr Interests: Composition, women’s studies, 19th-century American constructions of literacy and letters jcarr@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications
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Stephen L. Carr Interests: William Blake, printmaking, interrelations of the arts
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Fiona Cheong Interests: U.S. ethnic literatures, Asian American fiction, creative writing pedagogies, women’s studies cheong@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications
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Eric O. Clarke Interests: 19th-century British literature, queer theory, social theory, human rights eclarke@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publication
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Nicholas Coles Interests: Working class literature, the politics of literacy, 19th-century British culture |
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Ronald T. Curran Interests: American literature, mythology, Jungian analytical psychology rtcurran@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications > Index |
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Cathy Day Interests: Fiction and Contemporary Literature. |
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Toi Derricotte Interests: Poetry |
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Bruce Dobler Interests: Creative nonfiction, fiction bdobler@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications > Index |
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Lynn Emanuel Interests: Poetry |
Jessica Enoch jee34@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications > Index |
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Jane Feuer Interests: Film, popular culture, television, cultural studies |
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Lucy Fischer Interests: Hollywood film, feminist film theory |
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Kathryn Flannery Interests: Literacy studies, early modern British cultural studies, women’s studies flannery@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publication > Index |
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Nancy Glazener Interests: 19th- and 20th-century U. S. literature |
Margaret Goscilio |
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Jean Grace jgrace@pitt.edu | [faculty biography] |
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Marah Gubar |
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Lee Gutkind Interests: Creative nonfiction lgu@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications
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Michael Helfand Interests: Anglophone literature written after 1800, reader response and reception theory |
Hannah Johnson |
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Ronald Judy Interests: Literary and cultural theory, globalization, Immanuel Kant, Ibn Khaldun, post-structuralist theory, postcolonial theory, Islam buchnfar@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications > Index |
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Paul Kameen Interests: Pedagogy and composition theory, Greek rhetoric, contemporary poetics |
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Mark Kemp |
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Professor | Director of the Writing Program | MA University of West Virginia Interests: Fiction |
Geeta Kothari Writing Center Director, Lecturer |
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James F. Knapp Interests: Literary and cultural history, Anglo-Irish literature, modernism in literature and the visual arts, the Arts and Crafts Movements in the United States and Ireland |
Carl Kurlander Lecturer | > Index |
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Marcia Landy Interests: Film genres, national cinema, film and politics, Italian cinema, Gramsci |
Jeanne Marie Laskas Interests: Creative nonfiction |
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Assistant Professor | PhD Rutgers University. Interests: Late 17th- and early 18th-century literature. |
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Lecturer | Associate Director of Composition (Composition, Writing) Interests: Creative Nonfiction, especially hybrid and experimental forms; writing pedagogy. |
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Ben Lerner |
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Associate Professor | PhD University of Chicago Interests: Horror films, relays between genre films and art films, national cinemas, spectatorship, surrealism, new media, trauma studies alowen@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications > Index |
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Distinguished University Professor | PhD Cambridge University Interests: 17th-century literature, 20th-century literature and media, history of English since 1500, psychoanalysis, Joyce, linguistics |
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Assistant Professor | PhD Indiana University Interests: Indian cinema; sound in cinema; tourism, ethnography, and cinema; stardom and the history of fame; third cinema and postcolonial issues in film studies |
Dawn Lundy Martin |
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Elizabeth Matway Lecturer | Director, Writing Across the Curriculum |
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Daniel Morgan > Index |
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Beth Newborg |
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Professor | PhD Yale University Interests: Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, women’s studies, feminist literary criticism, literary representations of adoption |
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Jeff Oaks |
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Linda Orbach |
Tony Petrosky |
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Lecturer / English Advisor (Composition, Literature) |
Shalini Puri Interests: Colonial and postcolonial literatures and cultures, Caribbean literature > Index |
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Christopher Rawson |
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Kellie Robertson Interests: Language and literacy in medieval and early modern Europe, Marxist theory |
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Ann Ronchetti
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Mariolina Salvatori Interests: Hermeneutics, composition, literacy, pedagogy, transactions of knowledge, the relations between teachers, students, and texts that different theories of reading make possible |
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William Scott Interests: 20th-century American and African-American literature, critical theory, corporeality and performance |
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James Seitz Interests: Composition, literature, literacy, and education |
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Cindy Skrzycki |
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Philip E. Smith Interests: 19th- and 20th-century literary and culture studies involving Oscar Wilde, literature and science, science fiction, drama, the institution of English teaching |
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Susan Harris Smith Interests: Dramatic literature and American studies |
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John Twyning Interests: literary connections to architecture, landscape, and art; development of English literature within an Anglo-European context; history of English theatre; and the culture of early modern London. > Index |
Jennifer Waldron Interests: ritual and performance theory, religious polemic, word/image
problems, and histories of gender and the body. |
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Courtney Weikle-Mills Specializing in early American children’s literature and culture. She teaches courses on children’s literature and culture from a variety of periods, as well as eighteenth and nineteenth-century American literature. |
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Michael West Interests: the Classical tradition, Renaissance culture, Christian heroism, mock-heroic, satire, and comic forms, stylistics, rhetoric, and linguistically oriented criticism, pedagogy, the short story, the American Renaissance, Irish literature, with expertise on Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Thoreau, and Joyce |
Stefan Wheelock Interests: 18th-century political philosophy, 18th-century black writing on slavery, Anglophone long 18th-century literature and culture, Marxist critical theory, hermeneutics, existential phenomenology, Africana philosophy. |
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Lois Williams lmwst35@pitt.edu | [faculty biography] |
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Phil Wion Interests: Psychoanalytic criticism, especially of Shakespeare > Index |