Faculty Course Listings
These are some of the classes that our faculty members teach. Many of them are linked to descriptions provided by the professors. Contact individual faculty members if you have further questions about the courses they teach.
Christina Bucher, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., English, The University of Tennessee
ENG 101 First-year Seminar in Rhetoric and Writing
ENG 102 First-year Seminar in Critical Inquiry and Writing
HUM 200 E Pluribus Unum: Moments in
American Democracy
ENG 220 American Literature I
ENG 221 American Literature II
ENG 333 American Romanticism and Transcendentalism
ENG 334 American Realism and Naturalism
ENG 339 African American Literature
FLM 210 Introduction to Film
FLM 498 Women Directors
Michael E. Cooley, Professor
Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville
ENG 101 First-year Seminar in Rhetoric
and Writing
ENG 102 First-year Seminar in Critical
Inquiry and Writing
ENG301W Creative Writing
ENG303W Advanced Expository Writing
ENG401WI Shakespeare
Christopher G. Diller, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., English, American Studies, University of Utah-Salt Lake City
ENG 101 First-year Seminar in Rhetoric and Writing
ENG 102 First-year Seminar in Critical Inquiry and Writing
ENG 333I American Romanticism and Transcendentalism
HUM 200 E Pluribus Unum: Moments in American Democracy
ENG 220 American Literature I (Survey
to 1865)
HON 201 Perennial Questions (Utopias and Dystopias)
HON 250 Honors Seminar (Business in Literature)
Ellen Johnson, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Georgia
ENG 101 First-year Seminar in Rhetoric and Writing
ENG 102 First-year Seminar in Critical Inquiry and Writing
ENG 204 Introduction to Linguistics
ENG 434 Studies in Linguistics: Politics
of Language
ENG/ANT 419 Sociolinguistics
HON 250 Honors Seminar (Southern English)
EDU 629 Linguistics
Sandra Meek, Associate Professor
Ph.D., English, Creative Writing, University of Denver
ENG 101 First-year Seminar in Rhetoric and Writing
ENG 102 First-year Seminar in Critical Inquiry and Writing
ENG 201 Introduction to Literature
ENG 214 World Literature
ENG 331 Contemporary Literature
ENG 332 Postcolonial Literature
ENG 426 Studies in Genre: Twentieth-Century American Poetry
ANT/GOV/HIS 440 Developing Nations (Team Taught)
ENG 470 Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry
ENG 490 Writer’s Workshop (Tutorial)
Michael Mejia, Assistant Professor
M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of Alabama
ENG 101 Rhetoric and Writing I
ENG 102 Rhetoric and Writing II
ENG 201 Introduction to Literature
ENG 302 Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction
ENG 305 Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
ENG 471 Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction
ENG 490 Writer's Workshop (Tutorial)
Katherine Powell, Lecturer
M.A., English, Middlebury College
ENG 101 First-year Seminar in Rhetoric and Writing
ENG 102 First-year Seminar in Critical Inquiry and Writing
Mark Taylor, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., English, Medieval Literature, University of Texas
ENG 101 First-year Seminar in Rhetoric and Writing
ENG 102 First-year Seminar in Critical Inquiry and Writing
ENG 210 British Literature I
ENG 316 Medieval Literature
ENG 318 Renaissance Literature
ENG 422 Chaucer
ENG 424 Arthurian Literature
Special Topics: History of the Book
Zeynep Tenger, Professor
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, New York University
ENG 337 Western Literary Traditions
Paul E. Trolander, Professor
Ph.D., English, New York University
ENG 325 Romantic Literature
ENG 327 Victorian Literature
ENG 323W Restoration and Eighteenth
Century Literature
ENG 420 Studies in Criticism and Theory
ENG 418 Studies in Film
Martha Van Cise, Lecturer
M.Ed., Education, Reading, Mercer University
RHW 095 Introduction to College Writing
ENG 101 First-year Seminar in Rhetoric and Writing
James H. Watkins, Associate Professor
Ph.D., English, University of Florida
HUM 200 E Pluribus Unum: Moments in American Democracy
ENG 102 First-year Seminar in Critical
Inquiry and Writing
ENG 221 American Literature II
ENG 335WI Twentieth-Century American
Literature
ENG 418WI The American West in Literature
and Film
ENG 432WI Studies in Southern Literature
ENG 426WI Studies in Genre: Autobiography
Lara Baker Whelan, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., English, University of Delaware
ENG 101 First-year Seminar in Rhetoric and Writing
ENG 102 First-year Seminar in Critical
Inquiry and Writing
ENG 211 British Literature II
ENG 300 Technical Writing
ENG 303 Advanced Rhetoric and Writing
ENG 327 Victorian Literature
HON 250H Honors Seminar in Literature