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Location: Bingham Humanities

Website: http://louisville.edu/english/

David Anderson David Anderson
Associate Professor Current Faculty Room 312 C Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: MW 12:30-1:30 TTh 12:30-1:30 and by appointment 502-852-3050

Research Interests

  • Current Research & Teaching Interests:
  • African American Literature, especially poetry and the Harlem Renaissance; American Poetry

S. Matthew Biberman
Professor Current Faculty Room 319D Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: TTh 1:00-2:30 and by appointment 502-852-3052

Research Interests

  • Big Sid’s Vincati, New York, NY: Hudson St. Press, 2009. (memoir). Reviewed in the New York Times (Stanley Fish) and featured in the Louisville Courier Journal, The Kansas City Star, The Sacramento Bee, Motorcyclist, WKU-PBS's Mainstreet, Jay Leno’s Garage and Discovery Channel's Cafe Racer.
  • Masculinity, Anti-Semitism and Early Modern English Literature: From the Satanic to the Effeminate Jew. Ashgate Press, 2004. Reviewed in Medieval and Renaissance Drama (by Peter Berek), The Modern Language Review (by Tom Rutter), The Review of English Studies (by B. J. Sokol), Renaissance Quarterly (by Thomas Moisan) and in Year’s Work in English Studies.
  • “Shakespeare After 9/11,” Shakespeare Yearbook XVIII. Volume editors: Matthew Biberman and Julia Reinhard Lupton. Consulting editor: Graham Holderness. Assistant Editor: Ashley Brinkman. Contributors include Jane Bellamy, Harry Berger, Richard Burt, Linda Charnes, Walter A. Davis, Hugh Grady, Julia Lupton, Chris Pyle, Patricia Parker and Slavoj Zizek.

Dale B. Billingsley Dale B. Billingsley
Professor Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs Current Faculty Room 236 Strickler East, Belknap Campus Office Hours: By appointment only 502-852-5209 dbbillingsley.web.officelive.com

Research Interests

  • My home page carries links to all of my University of Louisville work, including teaching, service and research. A brief bio sketch outlines my main interests and activities.

Beth A. Boehm Beth A. Boehm
Professor Assoc. University Provost Current Faculty Houchens Building & Grawmeyer Hall, Belknap Campus Office Hours: Not currently teaching

Research Interests

  • Scholarly interests include narrative theory, rhetorical theory, intersections between composition studies and literary studies; postmodern and Victorian narratives.

Thomas B. Byers Thomas B. Byers
Professor Director, Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society at the University of Louisville Current Faculty Room 319 B Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: T 2:00-3:30 and by appointment 502-852-6770

Research Interests

  • U. S. literature, especially contemporary; film studies; theories of interpretation; the postmodern. Essays in progress on the Bourne trilogy and Brokeback Mountain. Thinking about zombies.

Karen Chandler
Associate Professor Current Faculty Room 305 Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: T and Th by appointment 502-852-5568

Research Interests

  • African-American literature; American and African-American film; genre studies; African-American vernacular culture; children's literature; literacy; creative nonfiction

Amy Clukey
Assistant Professor, Transnational Scholar Current Faculty Room 335 C Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: M 3:00-6:00, T Th 10:45-11:15 502-852-2187

Research Interests

  • Plantation Modernism: Irish, Caribbean, and U.S. Fiction, 1890-1950 (in progress)

Geoffrey A. Cross Geoffrey A. Cross
Professor Current Faculty Room 333 A Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: M 4:00-6:00, T Th 10:45-11:15, and by appointment 502-852-6060

Research Interests

  • Verbal-visual Composing.
  • Group Writing (incl. Publications Management, Social Cognition).
  • 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 Office Hours: TTH 2:30-3:30 PM and by appointment 502-852-2245 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.

Alan Golding Alan Golding
Professor Current Faculty Room 312 B Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: MW 2-4 502-852-5918

Research Interests

  • Current book projects:
  • (1)"Isn't the avant-garde always pedagogical": Experimental Poetics and/as Pedagogy;
  • (2) Writing Into the Future: From THE DIAL to the Digital (selected essays on the history and reception of experimental American poetics).

Susan M. Griffin
Professor Department Chair Justus Bier Professor of Humanities Current Faculty Room 315 B Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: W 1-4 (and most days 10-3) 502-852-6801 louisville.edu/faculty/smgrif01/

Research Interests

  • 19th-Century Literature and Culture (American & British, Novel, Women's Studies, Critical Theory

Paul Griner
Professor Current Faculty Room 319 C Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: T Th 2:30-3:30 and by appointment 502-852-3053

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 Office Hours: By appointment 502-852-3047

Research Interests

  • William Wordsworth; Anna Laetitia Barbauld; history and time in Romantic studies; critical and literary theory; language philosophy; gender theory and criticism

Dennis Hall Dennis Hall
Professor Current Faculty Room 312 A Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: T Th 11:00-12:00 also T Th 3:00-4:00 502-852-1720 www.louisville.edu/~drhall01

Research Interests

  • General Popular Culture Studies Survivals of 18C Thought and Practice in the Late 20C

Suzette Henke Suzette Henke
Professor Thruston B. Morton, Sr. Chair of Literary Studies Current Faculty Room 304 Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: Sabbatical leave - Fall 2011 & Spring 2012 502-852-6971 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 Bruce Horner
Professor Endowed Chair Rhetoric and Composition Current Faculty Room 317 D Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: MW 3:15-4:00 502-852-2185 www.louisville.edu/faculty/bmhorn01

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
Professor Current Faculty Room 317 B Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: By appointment 502-852-3046

Debra Journet Debra Journet
Professor Current Faculty Room 318 A Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: TTH 2:30-3:30 PM, & by appt 502-852-3056

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
Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies Current Faculty Room 315 D Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: Weds 2:30-4pm; Thurs 3:30-5pm; and by appt. 502-852-0505

Research Interests

  • Rhetoric and writing studies; critical theory and cultural studies (especially feminisms and queer theory); questions of disciplinarity; medical rhetoric.

Brian Leung Brian Leung
Associate Professor Director of Creative Writing Current Faculty Room 336 A Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: M 5:30-6:45, W 1:00-3:00 and by appointment 502-852-1687

Research Interests

  • Creative Writing, Creative Writing Pedagogy, Minority Literatures including Gay and Asian American writing, and Contemporary Literature.

Min-Zhan Lu
Professor Director, Watson Conference Current Faculty Room 316 Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: By Appointment Only 502-852-6590

Estella Majozo
Professor Current Faculty Room 319 D Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: On leave. 502-852-3052 louisville.edu/~ecmajo01/

J. Carol Mattingly J. Carol Mattingly
Professor Current Faculty Room 318 D Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: M W 1:00-2:00 502-852-3055

Research Interests

  • 19th-century rhetoric, especially that of 19th-century US Women. Writing Center Studies.

Sena Naslund
Writer in Residence Current Faculty Room 312 D Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus 502-852-3051

Gabriela Nuñez Gabriela Nuñez
Assistant Professor (on leave for 2011-2012) Current Faculty 335 A Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus (502) 852-3048

Courteney Petrosino
Current Faculty Third Floor, Room 335B Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: M W 11:00-12:00 (ENGL 373, WGST only) 1:00-2:00 (ENGL 504 only) and by appointment 502-852-2186

Andrew Rabin
Associate Professor Current Faculty Room 336 B Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: MW 2-4 PM 502-852-1722

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 Glynis Ridley
Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies Current Faculty Room 315A Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: M 2:00-3:00 and by appointment 502-852-6801

Research Interests

  • Eighteenth-Century Studies, incl. the political iconography of the 18thC English landscape garden
  • History of Rhetoric
  • Animal Studies

Mary I. Rosner
Associate Professor Current Faculty Room 319A Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: MWF 10:00-10:50 and by appointment 502-852-4647

Research Interests

  • More Specific Interests in Transfer Work between Writing Center Sessions, Rhetoric of Science, Victorian Travel, Feminism and Science, Victorian Insanities (aka "Those Crazy Victorians"), Visual Rhetoric, and Classical Rhetoric

Susan M. Ryan
Associate Professor Vice Chair, Dept of English Current Faculty Room 318B, Third Floor Bingham Humanities Bldg Office Hours: T Th 2:30-3:30 and by appointment 502-852-5920

Research Interests

  • Nineteenth-century reform movements; history of authorship; American periodicals.
  • Current project: "The Moral Economies of American Authorship"

Stephen Schneider
Assistant Professor Current Faculty Third Floor, Room 335D Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: T Th 12:00-2:00 502-852-2188

Jeffrey Skinner
Professor Current Faculty Room 318 C Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: T Th 9:15-10:45 502-852-3057

Research Interests

  • contemporary poetry, drama

Hristomir Stanev Hristomir Stanev
Assistant Professor Current Faculty Third Floor, Room 335A Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: M W 11:00-1:00 and by appointment 502-852-3048

Research Interests

  • Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century British Drama; Shakespeare – Canon and Apocrypha; Dramatic Production – Cultural and Material History; Early Modern Urban Culture; Gender Studies in the English Renaissance; History of the Senses and Sensation in Literature

Ann Elizabeth Willey Ann Elizabeth Willey
Associate Professor Director of Internships Current Faculty Room 317 A Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: By appointment 502-852-0510

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.

Bronwyn T. Williams Bronwyn T. Williams
Professor of English Director, University Writing Center Current Faculty University Writing Center or Humanities 204C University Writing Center or Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: By appointment 502-852-2173 https://louisville.edu/faculty/btwill02

Research Interests

  • Literacy, Popular Culture, and Pedagogy; Literacy and Identity; New Media and Literacy; 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 Office Hours: Tues 3:00-4:00 Th 11:00-12:00 and by appointment 502-852-7149

Joanna Wolfe Joanna Wolfe
Professor Director of Composition Current Faculty Room 320 Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: M W 3:15-4:30 and by appointment 502-852-6896 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
 
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