English, Rhetoric, and Writing
Faculty Research Interests
Christina Bucher, Associate Professor
Ph.D., English, The University of Tennessee
Interests: Early American literature, Nineteenth - century American
literature, African – American literature, Feminist Literary
Theory and Criticism, gender and sexuality in literature, film studies
Michael E. Cooley, Professor
Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville
Interests: rhetoric and writing, first year rhetoric courses,
advanced rhetoric and writing, creative writing (poetry and non-fiction);
Shakespearian drama, Jacobean city drama, Milton, the metaphysical
poets
Christopher G. Diller, Associate Professor
Ph.D., English, American Studies, University of Utah-Salt Lake City
Interests: Theory and history of rhetoric, elocution, aesthetics,
composition, American Literature, American Studies, and visual culture.
Ellen Johnson, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Georgia
Interests: Sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, history
of American English, dialects of American English, demographic and
cultural change.
Sandra Meek, Associate Professor
Ph.D., English, Creative Writing, University of Denver
Interests: creative writing, poetry, Twentieth century literature,
postmodern and postcolonial literatures, African literature.
Michael Mejia, Assistant Professor
M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of Alabama
Interests: Creative Writing (fiction/nonfiction/indeterminate), experimental narratives, international fiction, cybernetics, history of science and technology, history of the city, monsters, screenwriting, film, experimental music.
Katherine Powell, Lecturer and Freshman Center Director
M.A., English, Middlebury College
Mark N. Taylor, Associate Professor
Ph.D., English, Medieval Literature, University of Texas
Interests: Medieval English, French, and Occitan literature,
older English languages, textual criticism, Chaucer, Sixteenth century
poetry, Arthurian literature, History of the book, chess in literature
and history.
Zeynep Tenger, Professor
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, New York University
Interests: history of literary criticism, Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century
literature, development of a novel as a genre.
Paul E. Trolander, Professor
Ph.D., English, New York University
Martha Van Cise, Lecturer and Director, Academic Support
Center
M.Ed., Education, Reading, Mercer University
James H. Watkins, Associate Professor
Ph.D., English, University of Florida
Interests: Literature of the American South, autobiography studies,
literature of the American West, American literature, race and gender
in literature.
Lara Baker Whelan, Associate Professor
Ph.D., English, University of Delaware
Interests: Victorian literature and culture, composition and
technology, narrative theory and technology, women writers.