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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: TR 11:00-12:30 502-852-3050

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: 8:15-9PM TTh or by appointment, 852-5712 502-852-5209 https://sites.google.com/site/dalebbillingsley/

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: TTH 11:00-12:15 and by appointment 502-852-5568

Research Interests

  • I am researching and writing about children’s and young adult literature, American and African American literature and vernacular cultures. Julius Lester is the focus of one current project; literature about and illustrations of jazz performance are the focus of another.

Amy Clukey
Assistant Professor, Transnational Scholar Current Faculty Room 335 C Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: Monday 12pm-12:50pm; 2pm-3:15; and by appointment 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 medieval culture and argumentation. My current research project brings these two interests together in a study of patristic argumentation, specifically the relationship of knowledge and virtue. I regularly teach Composition, Chaucer, 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 10-2 502-852-6801

Research Interests

  • Henry James, 19th-C Literature& Culture

Paul Griner
Professor Current Faculty Room 319 C Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: Tue 2 - 4 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: T/Th 12:30-1:30 & by appt 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: TTH 10:00–11:00, TTH 1:00-2:00 other times by appointment 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: W 4:30-6:00 p.m. and by appointment 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 4:30-5:30 and by appointment 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: Tuesday and Thursday 2:30 to 3:30 or by appointment 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: Mon 2pm-3pm; Weds 2pm-4pm; 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: TH 12:30 - 2pm, M 5:30-6:45pm, 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

J. Carol Mattingly J. Carol Mattingly
Professor Current Faculty Room 318 D Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: TTH 9:00-9:30 and 10:45-11:00 502-852-3055

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

Kiki Petrosino
Current Faculty Third Floor, Room 335B Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office TTH from 2-4 PM and by appointment 502-852-2186

Research Interests

  • Creative Writing, Contemporary American Poetry, Women in Literature, Minority Traditions in English

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, TH 3:00-4:00 PM 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: On sabbatical Fall 2012. 502-852-5920

Research Interests

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

Stephen Schneider Stephen Schneider
Assistant Professor Current Faculty Third Floor, Room 335D Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: MWF 1pm-3pm; or by appointment 502-852-2188

Research Interests

  • Social movement rhetorics
  • Education and social change
  • African American rhetoric
  • Rhetorical and critical theory

Mary P. Sheridan
Professor Current Faculty 336 C Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: T 12:15 - 1:45PM, TH 9:30 - 10:45AM, and by appointment (502) 852-1750

Research Interests

  • Digital Media
  • Writing Studies and Community Literacy
  • Gender Studies (Feminist Methods; Girls' Studies)

Jeffrey Skinner
Professor Current Faculty Room 318 C Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: TTh, 2pm - 3:30pm 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, 9:30 - 11:00 AM; 12:30 – 1:00 PM 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 University Writing Center or Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus On Leave, Spring 2013 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 D Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus Office Hours: Tues 3:00-4:00 Th 11:00-12:00 and by appointment 502-852-7149

 
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