Current Faculty
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Associate Professor
Director of English Honors Program
Associate Dean for Diversity and Community Outreach, College of Arts and Sciences
Current Faculty
Room 312 C
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-3050
drande02 at louisville.edu
Research Interests
- Current Research & Teaching Interests:
- African American Literature, especially poetry and the Harlem Renaissance; American Poetry
S. Matthew Biberman
Assistant Professor
Current Faculty
Room 335 C
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-2187
smbibe01 at louisville.edu
Professor
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs
Current Faculty
Room 236
Strickler East, Belknap Campus
502-852-5209
dale.billingsley at louisville.edu
www.louisville.edu/~dbbill01
Research Interests
- My home page carries links to all of my University of Louisville work, including teaching (with online course archive), research and service. A brief bio sketch outlines my main interests and activities.
Professor
Vice Chair of English
Chair of the Faculty Senate
Current Faculty
Room 316
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-6590
baboeh01 at louisville.edu
Research Interests
- Scholarly interests include narrative theory, rhetorical theory, intersections between composition studies and literary studies; postmodern and Victorian narratives.
Professor
Director, Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society at the University of Louisville
Current Faculty
Room 319 B
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-6770
tom.byers at louisville.edu
Research Interests
- U. S. literature, especially contemporary; film studies; theories of interpretation; the postmodern. Work in progress: trying to finish a manuscript on fathers in Hollywood movies 1978-present. Future projects of which I dream: a book on how postmodernity and postmodernism are manifested in popular film; a book on death in selected American writers from Bradstreet to DeLillo
Karen Chandler
Associate Professor
Current Faculty
Room 305
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-5568
kmchan01 at louisville.edu
Research Interests
- African-American literature; American and African-American film; genre studies; African-American vernacular culture; children's literature; literacy; creative nonfiction
Professor
Current Faculty
Room 333 A
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-6060
gcross at louisville.edu
www.louisville.edu/~gacros01
Research Interests
- Group Writing (incl. Collective Mind, Publications Management, Social Cognition, Ethics,
- Architectural Influences, Channel Choice, Conflict and Negotiation, Dialogism), Visual Design, Ethnographic Research Methods, Media Interaction, Business and Technical Communication, Writing Across the Curriculum/in the Disciplines, Stylistics, Advanced & Intermediate Composition, Computer-Assisted Composition Pedagogy
Julia Dietrich
Professor
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
Current Faculty
Room 201
Gardiner Hall, Belknap Campus
502-852-2245
j.dietrich at louisville.edu
www.louisville.edu/~jcdiet01/
Research Interests
- My research and teaching are in the areas of late medieval culture and composition, especially argumentation. My current research project brings these two interests together in a study of the changing nature of argument in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in western Europe. I regularly teach Composition, Shakespeare, Medieval Culture, and Survey of British Literature.
Professor
Current Faculty
Room 312 B
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-5918
acgold01 at louisville.edu
Research Interests
- Current book projects:
- (1)"Isn't the avant-garde always pedagogical": Experimental Poetics and/as Pedagogy;
- (2) Writing the New Into History (selected essays on the history and reception of experimental American poetics). Teaching interests include American poetry, modern and contemporary American literature, history and theory of the avant-garde, poetry and politics.
Susan M. Griffin
Professor
Department Chair
Justus Bier Professor of Humanities
Current Faculty
Room 315 B
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-6801
sgriffin at louisville.edu
www.louisville.edu/~smgrif01/homepage.html
Research Interests
- 19th-Century Literature and Culture (American & British, Novel, Women's Studies, Critical Theory
Paul Griner
Associate Professor
Director of Creative Writing
Current Faculty
Room 319 C
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-3053
pfgrin01 at louisville.edu
Research Interests
- Creative Writing: Fiction (Novel and short story), creative non-fiction, poetry.
- The development of the short story in Europe and America
- Latin-American poetry and prose
- The literature of Nature
Karen C. Hadley
Associate Professor
Current Faculty
Room 317 C
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-3047
hadley at louisville.edu
Research Interests
- William Wordsworth; Anna Laetitia Barbauld; history and time in Romantic studies; critical and literary theory; language philosophy; gender theory and criticism
Professor
Current Faculty
Room 312 A
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-1720
dennis.hall at louisville.edu
www.louisville.edu/~drhall01
Research Interests
- General Popular Culture Studies Survivals of 18C Thought and Practice in the Late 20C
Professor
Thruston B. Morton, Sr. Chair of Literary Studies
Current Faculty
Room 304
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-6971
suzette.henke at louisville.edu
www.louisville.edu/~sahenk01
Research Interests
- Modern British and American Literature
- Irish Literature; Women's Studies; Auto/Biography Studies; Critical Theory; Postcolonial Literature
Bruce Horner
Professor
Endowed Chair Rhetoric and Composition
Current Faculty
Room 335 A
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-2185
b.horner at louisville.edu
Research Interests
- Relationships between the globalizing English, the globalizing economy, the U.S. “English Only” movement, and composition studies; labor, class, and composition; histories, theories, and pedagogies of basic writing; critical forms of literacy ethnography; the politics of literacy instruction; the cultural study of musics.
Aaron Jaffe
Associate Professor
Current Faculty
Room 317 B
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-3046
aaron.jaffe at louisville.edu
Professor
Director, Watson Conference
Current Faculty
Room 318 A
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-3056
debra.journet at louisville.edu
Research Interests
- Rhetoric of science. Narrative theory. Technical and scientific communication. Science and literature. Narrative and gaming. Multimodal Composition. Research methodologies in rhetoric and composition. First-year composition. Modern British literature.
Karen Kopelson
Assistant Professor
Current Faculty
Room 335 D
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-2188
karen.kopelson at louisville.edu
Research Interests
- Rhetoric and writing studies, the teaching of writing, critical theory and cultural studies--especially feminisms and queer theory
Brian Leung
Assistant Professor
Current Faculty
Room 336 A
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-1687
brian.leung at louisville.edu
Research Interests
- Creative Writing, Creative Writing Pedagogy, Minority Literatures including Gay and Asian American writing, and Contemporary Literature.
Min-Zahn Lu
Professor
Current Faculty
Room 335 B
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-2186
m.lu at louisville.edu
Estella Majozo
Professor
Current Faculty
Room 319 D
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-3052
ecmajo01 at louisville.edu
louisville.edu/~ecmajo01/
Professor
Current Faculty
Room 318 D
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-3055
carol.mattingly at louisville.edu
Research Interests
- 19th-century rhetoric, especially that of 19th-century US Women. Writing Center Studies.
Associate Professor
Current Faculty
Room 319 A
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-7158
karen.mullen at louisville.edu
louisville.edu/~kamull01/
Research Interests
- Old English
- - Medieval Romance
- - History of the Language
- - Structure of the Language
- - Second Language Acquisition
- - Methods in Teaching English as a Second Language
Sena Naslund
Writer in Residence
Current Faculty
Room 312 D
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-3051
sena.naslund at louisville.edu
Annette Powell
Assistant Professor
Current Faculty
Room 317 D
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-3048
annette.powell at louisville.edu
Research Interests
- Literacy/Rhetoric and identity, cultural rhetorics, rhetorics of access, critical race theory.
- Caribbean Fiction and feminist discourse.
Andrew Rabin
Assistant Professor
Current Faculty
Room 336 B
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-1722
andrew.rabin at louisville.edu
Research Interests
- Old English Language and Literature, Anglo-Saxon Law, History of the English Language, Middle English Literature, Medieval Theories of Language and Rhetoric
Glynis Ridley
Associate Professor
Current Faculty
Room 318 B
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-5920
glynis.ridley at louisville.edu
Mary I. Rosner
Associate Professor
Director of University Writing Center
Current Faculty
Room 204 B
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-4647
mirosn01 at louisville.edu
Research Interests
- More Specific Interests in Rhetoric of Science, Victorian Travel, Feminism and Science, Victorian Insanities (aka "Those Crazy Victorians"), Visual Rhetoric, and Classical Rhetoric
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Current Faculty
Room 315 D
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-6801
sryan at louisville.edu
Research Interests
- Research interests: U.S. reform movements and the shaping of racial and national identities; the history of authorship; and American periodicals.
- I've recently begun a new project titled "The Moral Economies of American Authorship, 1830-1870."
Jeffrey Skinner
Professor
Current Faculty
Room 318 C
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-3057
jtskin01 at louisville.edu
Research Interests
- contemporary poetry, drama
Ann Elizabeth Willey
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Current Faculty
Room 315 A
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-6801
aewilley at louisville.edu
Research Interests
- I am a postcolonialist by training who specializes in African literature. My recent work has investigated both film and fiction in sub-saharan Africa, particularly concerning questions of gender, the nation and the state, and modernity. I regularly teach the Literary Theory survey (491), an upper level seminar in Ethnic and Postcolonial literature and the second half of the American literature survey.
Associate Professor
Director of Composition
Current Faculty
Room 321
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-6896
bronwyn.williams at louisville.edu
louisville.edu/~btwill02/
Research Interests
- Literacy, Popular Culture, and Pedagogy; Literacy and Identity; Creative Nonfiction and the "Personal" in writing; Cross-Cultural Literacy Practices
Elaine O. Wise
Assistant Professor
Chair of the Division of Humanities
Current Faculty
Room 303 A
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-7149
elaine.wise at louisville.edu
Associate Professor
Current Faculty
Room 317 A
Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
502-852-0510
joanna.wolfe at louisville.edu
www.louisville.edu/~jlwolf02
Research Interests
- Writing in the Disciplines; Human-Computer Interaction; Gender studies; Technical writing; Collaborative writing; Sociolinguistics; Computer-supported collaborative learning; Digital libraries