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
EMILY BERNHARD JACKSON, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Brandeis University)
Teaching Interests: English Romantic Literature, Victorian Literature, Lord Byron, historical and cultural backgrounds of English literature, film adaptations of literary works and lives
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, Associate 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 and Chair (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
JOHN DUVAL, Professor (Ph.D., M.F.A., University of Arkansas)
Teaching Interests: Translation Theory and Practice, Creative Writing, Comparative Literature
ELLEN GILCHRIST, Associate Professor (B.A. Millsaps College)
Teaching Interests: Fiction Writing, Contemporary Fiction
MOLLY GILES, Professor (M.A., San Francisco State University)
Teaching Interests: Fiction Writing, Contemporary Fiction
DONALD S. HAYS, Associate Professor, Director of Programs in Creative Writing (M.F.A. University of Arkansas)
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 (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
WILLIAM A. QUINN, Professor, Director of Medieval & Renaissance Studies (Ph.D. Ohio State University)
Teaching Interests: Medieval Literature, Chaucer, Science Fiction
PATRICK J. SLATTERY, Associate Professor, Director of Composition (Ph.D. Indiana University)
Teaching Interests: Composition Theory and Practice, Research Designs in Composition, Writing Across the Curriculum
DOROTHY STEPHENS, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley)
Teaching Interests: Renaissance Literature, Spenser, Gender Studies, Heian Japan
TERRENCE T. TUCKER, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Kentucky)
Teaching Interests: Contemporary African-American literature and African-American literature, American Drama, Twentieth Century American literature, Popular Culture
Instructors
JAMES GAMBLE, 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
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
LAURA GRAY, Instructor, Faculty Leader for Partnerships in Belize, Literacy Project (M.F.A. University of Arkansas)
Teaching Interests: World Literature, Composition, Creative Writing, Twentieth Centure American Literature, Global Community Development
RAINA SMITH LYONS, Instructor, Assistant 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, 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
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 Studies