Full-Time Faculty
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V. Joshua AdamsAssistant Professor Poetry and poetics | Literature and philosophy | Modernism vjoshua.adams@louisville.edu |
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David AndersonAssociate Professor African American literature | American literature | Poetry david.anderson2@louisville.edu |
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S. Matthew BibermanProfessor & Director of the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900 Literary theory | Creative writing | Early modern English literature steven.biberman@louisville.edu
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Beth BoehmProfessor & Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Affairs Postmodern narrative | Narrative theory | Rhetorical analysis beth.boehm@louisville.edu |
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Karen ChandlerAssociate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies (on leave spring 2023) African American literature | Children's literature and media | American (U.S.) literature | Independent film karen.chandler@louisville.edu |
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Amy ClukeyAssociate Professor Global modernism | Southern studies | Irish studies | Environmental Literature amy.clukey@louisville.edu |
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Joan D'AntoniTerm Instructor Composition joan.dantoni@louisville.edu |
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Alan GoldingProfessor American poetry | The avant-garde | Poetry and politics alan.golding@louisville.edu |
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Paul GrinerProfessor Creative writing | Fiction (novel and short story) | Creative non-fiction paul.griner@louisville.edu |
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Dale HachtenTerm Instructor Composition dale.hachten@louisville.edu |
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Karen HadleyAssociate Professor Romantic literature | British women writers | Critical and literary theory karen.hadley@louisville.edu |
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Bruce HornerProfessor Language difference | Literacy | Labor b.horner@louisville.edu |
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Timothy JohnsonAssociate Professor & Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies (Spring 2023) Organizational rhetoric | Rhetoric of economics | Archives timothy.johnson.2@louisville.edu |
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Frank KeldermanAssociate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies Native American studies | 19th-century American literature and culture | American studies frank.kelderman@louisville.edu |
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Karen KopelsonAssociate Professor & University Distinguished Teaching Professor Rhetoric of health and medicine | Writing studies and pedagogy | Queer theory and cultural studies karen.kopelson@louisville.edu |
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Deborah LutzProfessor & Morton Endowed Chair Victorian Literature | Material culture | The Brontës deborah.lutz@louisville.edu |
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Mark Alan MattesAssistant Professor Early American Studies | Book and Media History | African American and Native American Literature mark.mattes@louisville.edu |
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Kristi MaxwellAssociate Professor Creative writing | Poetry kristi.maxwell@louisville.edu |
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Robin Lee MozerAssociate Professor (Term), Internship Director & Undergraduate Major Advisor Creative writing | Lyric essay | Short nonfiction robin.mozer@louisville.edu |
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Andrea OlingerAssociate Professor & Director of Composition & Director of the Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition Disciplinary writing | Composition and literacy | Qualitative research and discourse analysis andrea.olinger@louisville.edu |
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Ranen Omer-ShermanProfessor Graphic novels | Ethnic American literature | Middle Eastern literature r0omer01@louisville.edu |
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Megan PooleAssistant Professor Rhetorics of science | Technical and professional writing | Rhetorical theory megan.poole@louisville.edu |
Andrew RabinProfessor & Department Vice Chair Old English | Anglo-Saxon | Literature and law andrew.rabin@louisville.edu |
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Glynis RidleyProfessor & Department Chair 18th-century studies | Animal studies | Garden history glynis.ridley@louisville.edu |
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Susan RyanProfessor & Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Arts & Sciences Nineteenth-century American literature and culture | Print culture studies susan.ryan@louisville.edu |
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Stephen SchneiderAssociate Professor Social movement rhetorics | Education and social change | African American rhetoric stephen.schneider@louisville.edu |
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Mary P. SheridanProfessor & Director of the Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society Digital media | Writing studies and community literacy | Gender studies maryp.sheridan@louisville.edu |
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Steve SmithTerm Instructor Learner autonomy | Peer review | Writing-about-writing spsmit02@louisville.edu |
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Hristomir StanevAssociate Professor 16th- and 17th-century British drama | Shakespeare | Dramatic production hristomir.stanev@louisville.edu |
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Ian StanselAssociate Professor & Director of Creative Writing Creative writing (short fiction, novella, creative nonfiction) | The American novel irstan01@louisville.edu |
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Sarah Anne StrickleyAssistant Professor (Term) & Faculty Editor of Miracle Monocle Creative writing | Short Fiction | The novel sarah.strickley@louisville.edu
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Denise TannerTerm Instructor Business writing | Composition denise.tanner@louisville.edu |
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Joseph TurnerAssociate Professor & English Honors Advisor Rhetorical History | Medieval Studies | Comics joseph.turner@louisville.edu |
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Ann Elizabeth WilleyProfessor & Vice Provost, Undergraduate Education Sub-saharan African literature in French and English | Indigenous-language literatures | Postcolonial theory ann.willey@louisville.edu |
Bronwyn T. WilliamsProfessor, Endowed Chair in Rhetoric and Composition & Director of the University Writing Center he/him Literacy and identity | Digital media | Community literacy and writing | Popular culture bronwyn.williams@louisville.edu |
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Benjamin J. WilsonAssistant Professor (Term) Global modernism | Southern studies | British literature benjamin.wilson.7@louisville.edu |