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

RICHARD ADAMS, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Iowa) 
Teaching Interests: The Guilded Age, Nineteenth Century American Literature, Twain, James

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, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies (Ph.D. University of Florida)
Teaching Interests: Science Fiction, Postcolonial Literature, Literature of the Left, Modern American Literature, Modern BritishLiterature, Film Studies, Literary Theory

GEOFFREY BROCK, Assistant 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

SHELIA COLLINS

JOHN DUVAL, Professor, Director of Program in Literary Translation (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

JOHN C. GUILDS, Distinguished Professor of Humanities (Ph.D. Duke University)
Teaching Interests: American Literature, Southern Literature

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

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, Postcolonialism, 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, Assistant 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 (Ph.D. Indiana University)
Teaching Interests: Composition Theory and Practice, Writing Across the Curriculum

DOROTHY STEPHENS, Associate Professor, (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

EUGENIA A. ZUROSKI, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Brown University)
Teaching Interests: British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, Orientalism, Asian Diasporic Literatures in English