Faculty
Tenured/Tenure-Track | Non-Tenure-Track Faculty | Instructors | Administrators and Office Personnel
Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty
CHARLES H. ADAMS, Professor, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences (Ph.D. University of Virginia), Director, South Africa Summer Program
Teaching Interests: American Literature, World Fiction, Travel Narratives
M. KEITH BOOKER, James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professor, Director of Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies (Ph.D. University of Florida)
Teaching Interests: Science Fiction, Postcolonial Literature, Literature of the Left, Modern American Literature, Modern British Literature, Film Studies, Literary Theory
GEOFFREY BROCK, Professor (M.F.A. University of Florida, (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania)
Teaching interests: Poetry Writing, Prosody, Literary Translation, Modern Italian Poetry, Verse novels
SIDNEY BURRIS, Professor and Director of Fulbright College Honors Program (Ph.D. University of Virginia)
Teaching Interests: Modern British, Irish, and American Literature; Contemporary Literature; History, Theory, and Practice of the Essay
JOSEPH CANDIDO, Professor (Ph.D. Indiana University), Director, Theatre in London Summer Program
Teaching Interests: Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare, Drama
ROBERT COCHRAN, Professor, Chair of American Studies, Director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies (Ph.D. University of Toronto)
Teaching Interests: Folklore, American Studies, Contemporary Literature, World Drama
VIVIAN DAVIS, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles)
Teaching Interests: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Romantic Literature, Drama, Performance Studies, Gender Studies, Genre Studies, Popular Culture.
ELÍAS DOMÍNGUEZ BARAJAS, Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago) and Director of the Program in Rhetoric and Composition
Teaching Interests: Composition Theory and Practice, Ethnography of Literacy, Ethnolinguistics, Latino/a Literature
JOHN DUVAL, Professor of English, Creative Writing, and Literary Translation,; Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge University, 2010-2011. (Ph.D., Master of Fine Arts in Translation, MA French, University of Arkansas; MA English, University of Pennsylvania)
Teaching Interests: Translation Theory and Practice, Creative Writing, Comparative Literature, World Sonnet, Dante, Medieval Literature, Epic Poetry
BENJAMIN FAGAN, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Virginia)
Teaching Interests: African American Literature, American Studies, Cultures of Print, 19th Century American Literature, Literature and the Media
ELLEN GILCHRIST, Professor (B.A. Millsaps College)
Teaching Interests: Fiction Writing, Contemporary Fiction
MICHAEL HEFFERNAN, Professor (Ph.D. University of Massachusetts)
Teaching Interests: Poetry Writing, Modern American Poetry, Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
LISA HINRICHSEN, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Boston University) Teaching Interests: Southern Literature and Culture, 20th Century American Literature, African-American Literature, Psychoanalytical Theory, Cultural Studies
DAVID A. JOLLIFFE, Professor and Brown Chair in English Literacy (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin)
Teaching Interests: Literacy theory and practice, history and theory of rhetoric, teaching of English
MOHJA KAHF, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Rutgers University)
Teaching Interests: Comparative Literature, Arabic Literature, Post Colonialism, Poetry, Autobiography, Love & Eros, the Quran, Critical Theory, Gender
SUSAN M. MARREN, Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Michigan)
Teaching Interests: Modern American Fiction, American Literature, African American Literature, Gender Studies
DAVIS MCCOMBS, Associate Professor, Director of Programs in Creative Writing (M.F.A University of Virginia)
Teaching Interests: Poetry Writing, Romantic Poetry, Keats, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Les Murray
LYNA LEE MONTGOMERY, Professor, Associate Chair (Ph.D. University of Arkansas)
Teaching Interests: Victorian Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, The Bible as Literature, English Grammar
YAJAIRA PADILLA, Associate Professor
WILLIAM A. QUINN, Professor, Director of Medieval & Renaissance Studies (Ph.D. Ohio State University)
Teaching Interests: Medieval Literature, Chaucer, Science Fiction
ROBIN ROBERTS, Professor,
PATRICK J. SLATTERY, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies (Ph.D. Indiana University)
Teaching Interests: Composition Theory and Practice, Research Designs in Composition, Writing Across the Curriculum
JOSHUA BYRON SMITH, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Northwestern University)
Teaching Interests: Old and Middle English, Welsh and Irish Literature, Historical Linguistics, Latin literature
DOROTHY STEPHENS, Professor and Chair (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley)
Teaching Interests: Renaissance Literature, Spenser, Gender Studies, Heian Japan
LISSETTE SZWYDKY, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Penn State University)
Teaching Interests: Romantic and Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Theater, Popular Culture, Gender Studies, Postcolonial and Critical Race Studies, History of British Abolition and Colonialism, Adaptation Studies, Film Studies, The Gothic Tradition, Digital Humanities, Professional Issues in the Humanities including Alternative-Academic Careers
SEAN TEUTON, Associate Professor (Ph.D, Cornell University 2002)
Research Interests:American Indian Literature, the Native novel, Nineteenth-Century American Indian nonfiction, Twentieth-Century American Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Cultural Studies.
KAY YANDELL, Assistant Professor
Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
RILLA ASKEW,Visiting Associate Professor, BFA in Theatre Performance, 1980, University of Tulsa (Tulsa, OK); MFA in Creative Writing, 1989, Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, NY)
SEAN DEMPSEY, Visiting Assistant Professor (Ph.D Boston University)
Teaching Interests: Romanticism, Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, Modernism and Modernity, Critical Theory, Religion & Literature, Psychoanalysis, Political Theology, Cosmopolitanism, Ecocriticism, Visuality, Film Studies.
GWYNNE GERTZ, Adjunct Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago)
Teaching Interests: Modern British Drama, Jewish-American Literature, Post-Colonial Literature, African-American Literature, Discourse Analysis, Medical Humanities.
CASEY KAYSER, Visiting Assistant Professor
Teaching Interests: 20th Century American Literature, Southern Literature and Culture, Modern American Drama, Gender Studies, Folklore, Medical Humanities, Rhetoric and Composition, Popular Culture.
TIMOTHY O'GRADY, Visiting Associate Professor
ADAM POPE, Visiting Assistant Professor ( Ph.D. Purdue University, 2013 in Rhetoric and Composition)
Teaching interest : Content Management System Design, Mobile-First Responsive Web Design, Document Design, Technical Writing Methodologies, Technical Writing Pedagogy, and History of Rhetoric.
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PADMA VISWANATHAN, Visiting Assistant Professor.
Instructors
Mary Angelino, Instructor
JAMES GAMBLE, Senior Instructor, Coordinator of World Literature Assessment Program, Mentor in English TA Mentoring Program, Co-Coordinator of World Literature Program (Ph.D. University of Arkansas)
Teaching Interests: Comparative Literature, Religion, and Mythology; Jungian Studies; Ancient Wisdom Literature; Canadian, British, & American Literatures, Composition and Creative Writing
LAURA GRAY,Senior Instructor, Faculty Leader for Partnerships in Belize, Literacy Project (M.F.A. University of Arkansas)
Teaching Interests: World Literature, Composition, Creative Writing, Twentieth Century American Literature, Global Community Development
Allison Hammond, Senior Instructor
BRETT HARRINGTON, Instructor, (M.F.A. University of Arkansas)
Teaching Interests: Composition, World Literature, Creative Writing, Poetry
SUSIE SCIFRES KUILAN, Instructor, (PhD, Louisiana State University)
Teaching Interests: Early American Literature, Young Adult Literature, Southern Literature
RAINA SMITH LYONS, Instructor, Associate Director of the Program in Rhetoric and Composition, Coordinator of the English TA Mentor Program (M.F.A. University of Arkansas)
Teaching Interests: Composition, Creative Writing, Technical Writing, World Literature
KAREN LENTZ MADISON, Senior Instructor (Ph.D. University of Arkansas)
Teaching Interests: British Novel, Trans-Atlantic Literature and Culture to World War I, Post-Colonial Literature, Composition Theory, Textual Editing
R. D. MADISON, Instructor (Ph.D. Northwestern University)
Teaching Interests: American Literature to 1900, Nineteenth-Century Poetry, the Traditional Ballad, Literature of the Sea, Textual Editing
BEN NICKOL, Instructor, (M.F.A. University of Arkansas)
Teaching Interests: Composition, Essay Writing, Creative Writing, World Literature
ELIZABETH QUINN, Instructor, (M.F.A. Virginia Commonwealth University)
Teaching Interests: Composition, Creative Writing, Technical Writing, Literature
SANDY RANKIN, Instructor (Ph.D, MFA University of Arkansas)
Teaching Interests: World Literature, First-Year Writing, Creative Writing, Critical Theory, Film Studies, British Literature, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Surrealism (in short: Monsters, Magic, & Marxism)
LEIGH PRYOR SPARKS, Instructor (Ph.D. University of Arkansas)
Teaching Interests: Rhetoric and Composition, Modern American Literature, Literature Written by Women Prisoners, American War Literature, American Film Studie
Administrators and Office Personnel
Front Office Receptionist: Elizabeth Stainton Walker 479.575.4301, engl@uark.edu
Office Manager: Sara Beth Spencer Bynum
Graduate Secretary: Brandon K. Weston
Department Chair: Dorothy Stephens
Associate Chair: Lyna Lee Montgomery
Director of the Program in Rhetoric and Composition: Elías Domínguez Barajas
Teaching Specialist and Writing Program Assistant: Lewellyn F. Hallett
Curriculum Design Specialist : Grant Bain
Director of Creative Writing: Davis McCombs
Assistant Director of Creative Writing: Allison Hammond
Director of Graduate Studies: Patrick J. Slattery
Assistant Director of Graduate Studies: Leigh Pryor Sparks
Director of Comparative Literature and Translation: M. Keith Booker
Honors Advisors: Lyna Lee Montgomery, Carole Lane, Karen Madison
Information Technology Specialist: Amir Hassibi
Writing Center Director: Bob Haslam