Professors:

• W. Wayne Dickson, Professor of Humanities and English, holder of the Kirchman chair in Humanities
• Thomas J. Farrell, Chair of the English Department and Holder of the Nell Carleton Chair in English
• Mary Pollock, Chair of the Women's Council
• John H. Pearson, Director of the General Studies Program
• Terri Witek, Holder of the Art & Melissa Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing
• Joseph Witek, Director of Graduate Studies
• Karen Kaivola, Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and Holder of the J. Ollie Edmunds Chair

Associate Professors:

• Lori Snook
• Megan O'Neill, Director of First-Year English
• Jamil Khader
• Michael C. Barnes, Director of the Writing Center
• Joel Davis

Assistant Professors:

• Shawnrece D. Campbell, Director of the Africana Studies Program
• Mark Powell

Lecturers:

• Gail Radley
• Nancy Barber
• Andy Dehnart, joint position with Communication Studies

Nancy Barber

• M.A., Stetson University; M.F.A., University of Florida
• In rank since 2002
• Twentieth-century novel, poetry, creative nonfiction

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Michael C. Barnes

• Ph.D., University of South Carolina
• In rank since 2007.
• Rhetoric and Composition

Noteworthy: Articles on architecture in Tokyo Today.

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Joel B. Davis

• Ph.D. University of Oregon
• In rank since 2008
• Shakespeare, Philip Sidney, Literature of the English Renaissance; Poetics, Gender Theory, Rhetoric, Literary History

Noteworthy: Articles in Studies in Philology, Papers on Language & Literature, The Sidney Journal.

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Andy Dehnart

• M.F.A., Bennington College
• In rank since 2003
• Creative Nonfiction; Journalism; Popular Culture and Television

Noteworthy: Journalism and essays in Salon, MSNBC, The Boston Globe, and elsewhere.

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Thomas J. Farrell

• Ph.D. University of Michigan.
• In rank since 1996.
• Chaucer, Medieval literature; Detective Fiction, History of the Language; Humanities.

Noteworthy: Editor, Bakhtin and Medieval Voices (UP of Florida, 1996); Contributing editor, Sources & Analogues of the Canterbury Tales (Boydell & Brewer, 2002); articles in ELH, Studies in Philology, Chaucer Review, and other collections and journals.

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Karen Kaivola

• Ph.D. University of Washington.
• In rank since 2003.
• Modernism/Modernity; Virginia Woolf; Gender/Sexuality Studies; Lit./Cultural Theory; 20th-century British literatures.

Noteworthy: Hand Award for Scholarly Activity, 2001; All Contraries Confounded: The Lyrical Fiction of Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Marguerite Duras (U Iowa P, 1991); articles in Contemporary Literature, Mosaic, Woolf Studies Annual, and Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, and other collections and journals.

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Jamil Khader

• Ph.D. Penn State University.
• In rank since 2005.
• Literature in English Other than British and American; Postcolonial Studies; Transnational Feminism; Pop Fiction (Science Fiction, Fairy Tales, and the Supernatural).

Noteworthy: Articles in Ariel, MELUS, Feminist Studies, College Literature and other journals and collections.

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Shawnrece D. Campbell

• Ph.D. Kent State University
• In rank since 2002
• American Literature 1865-present, African American Literature, Native American Literature, Hispanic American Literature, Asian American Literature,Women and Gender Studies

Noteworthy: Article in Modern Haiku.

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Megan O'Neill

• Ph.D. University of New Mexico.
• In rank since 2004.
• Rhetoric and Composition, S. T. Coleridge, British Romanticism, American pop culture, and Star Trek.

Noteworthy: Perspectives: A Popuar Culture Reader (2003).

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John H. Pearson

• Ph.D. Boston University
• In rank since 2000.
• Henry James, 19th-Century American Literature and Aesthetics, Autobiography, Literary Theory, Humanities.

Noteworthy: McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2004; Hand Award for Scholarship, 2000; The Prefaces of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader (Penn State UP, 1997); Contributor to Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth-Century: Essays (Wayne State, 2001) and Marketing the Author: Author Personae, Narrative Selves, and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930 (Palgrave, 2005); articles in Biography, Henry James Review, Mosaic and other collections and journals.

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Mary Pollock

• Ph.D. University of Texas.
• In rank since 1999.
• Nineteenth-century British literature; gender studies; animal studies

Noteworthy: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning: A Creative Partnership (Ashgate, 2003); co-editor, Figuring Animals: Essays on Animal Images in Literature, Art, Philosophy, and Popular Culture (Palgrave, 2004); articles in Studies in the Literary Imagination, Journal of the Short Story in English, and Critical Studies.

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Mark Powell

• M.F.A. University of South Carolina.
• In rank since 2008.
• Creative Writing; Fiction

Noteworthy: Prodigals (The University of Tennessee Press, 2002); Blood Kin (The University of Tennessee Press, 2006).

Gail Radley

• M.A.
• In rank since 1998.
• Rhetoric & Composition, Creative Writing, Young Adult and Children's Literature.

Noteworthy: The Vanishing from ... series (Carolrhoda, 2001); The Golden Days (Macmillan, 1991 and Puffin, 1992) and other novels; the Central Figures series (Baha'i Publishing Trust, 2001); articles in ALAN Review and The Writer.

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Lori Snook

• Ph.D. University of Arizona.
• In rank since 2000.
• Drama, especially Restoration and 18th-century drama; playwriting / screenwriting; film; Aphra Behn.

Noteworthy: articles in Restoration, Works in Progress. Contributing editor to Eighteenth Century Drama.

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Joseph Witek

• Ph.D. Vanderbilt University.
• In rank since 2002.
• Comics and popular culture; narrative fiction; literary theory; Humanities.

Noteworthy: Hand Award for Scholarly Activity, 1997; Comic Books as History (UP of Mississippi, 1989); articles in International Journal of Comic Art, The Comics Journal, Journal of Popular Culture, and other journals and collections.

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Terri Witek

• Ph.D. Vanderbilt University.
• In rank since 2001.
• Poetry and Poetics; Poetry Writing

Noteworthy: McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2000; Florida Individual Artists Fellow, 1997; Hand Award for Creative/Scholarly Activity, 1994; Fools and Crows (2003), Courting Couples (winner of the Center for Book Arts Prize 2000); Robert Lowell and Life Studies: Revising the Self (U Missouri P, 1993); poems in The New Republic, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, Shenandoah, and The Ohio Review; articles in American Literature, and Shenandoah.

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