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Margaret Bauer  (PhD, University of Tennessee) Lead Faculty; Southern and American Literature.

Karen Baldwin (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) Folklore-Folklife.

Thomas Douglas (PhD, University of North Carolina) Contemporary American Literature.

Marie Farr (PhD, University of Washington) Women's Literature.

Helena Feder (PhD, University of California at Davis) Literature & Environment; Ecocriticism.

Gregg Hecimovich (Ph.D. Vanderbilt University) Victorian Literature.

Thomas Herron (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) Early Modern English & Irish Literature

Ronald Hoag (PhD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) American Literature.

James C. Holte (PhD, University of Cincinnati) Film; American Literature.

James Kirkland (PhD, University of Tennessee) Folklore; American Literature.

Roberta Martin (PhD, University of Colorado) Seventeenth-Century Literature.

Douglas McMillan (PhD, University of Maryland) Medieval Literature.

Marianne Montgomery (PhD, University of Virginia) Shakespeare.

Donald Palumbo (PhD, University of Michigan) Fiction; Popular Culture; Film.

Ken Parille (PhD, University of Virginia) Children's Literature; American Literature.


E. Thomson Shields (PhD, University of Tennessee) Early American, Hispanic, and Native American Literatures and Cultures.

Nicole Sidhu (Ph.D. Rutgers University) Medieval Literature.

C.W. Sullivan III (Ph.D, University of Oregon) Folklore; Mythology.

Richard Taylor (PhD, Pennsylvania State University) Eighteenth-Century Literature.

Laureen Tedesco (PhD, Texas A&M University) Children's Literature.

David Wilson-Okamura (PhD, University of Chicago) Renaissance Literature.

Supporting Faculty

Numerous supporting faculty are available from the areas of creative writing, technical and professional communication, linguistics, multicultural literaure, TESL, and rhetoric and composition.