Faculty
 
Representing the English department are 15 full-time professors, each of whom has a doctorate. Affiliate faculty teach regularly in the core level classes. Recent faculty book-length publications are listed along with each faculty member's areas of interest and expertise.

Note: All faculty members teach one or more of the following courses: EN 130, Understanding Literature; EN 201, Major Writers: English; EN 203, Major Writers: American; and EN 205, Major Writers: Shakespeare.

Chair
Gayla McGlamery, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Emory University
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Areas of interest: Victorian literature and culture, the novel.
Courses taught: EN 360, Nineteenth-Century Novels; EN 361, Topics in Victorian Literature; EN 362, Victorian Poetry; EN 363, Seminar in Victorian Literature (recent topics:  Crime, Mystery, and Detection: Victoria and After; Nineteenth-Century Novels into Film)

Faculty
Carol Nevin Abromaitis, Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland
Areas of interest: restoration and 18th-century English literature, fantasy literature.
Courses taught: EN 329, Poetry and Drama, 1660-1784; EN 332, Literature and the Catholic Imagination; EN 334, Novels of the Eighteenth Century; EN 337, Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Literature; EN 365, Seminar in Literature and Catholicism (figures studied include Bernanos and Mauriac in translation, Hopkins, Greene, Waugh, O'Connor, and Percy)

Jean Lee Cole, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
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Areas of interest: American literature, women's studies, ethnic American literature, history of the book
Author: The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity (2002); co-editor, Madame Butterfly by John Luther Long and A Japanese Nightingale by Winnifred Eaton: Two Orientalist Texts (2002)
Courses taught: EN 366, American Literature Before WWI; EN 379, American Women Writers; EN 397, Seminar in American Literature (recent topics: Literature of the American West)

Bryan Crockett, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Areas of interest: English renaissance literature and culture, modern drama
Author: The Play of Paradox: Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England (1995)
Courses taught: EN 300, English Literary History before 1800; EN 310 and EN 311, Shakespeare I and II; EN 374, Modern Drama; HN 260, Renaissance to Modern (Honors)

David C. Dougherty, Professor
Ph.D., Miami University (Ohio)
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Areas of interest: 20th-century British and American fiction and poetry, Shakespeare's English history plays
Author: Stanley Elkin (1991); James Wright (1987); A Casebook on Stanely Elkin's The Dick Gibson Show (editor, 2003);  A Casebook on Stanley Elkin's The Magic Kingdom (editor, 2006).
Courses taught: EN 371, Post-Modern British and American Fiction; EN 372, Modern British and American Poetry; EN 397, Seminar in Post-Modern Twentieth-Century Literature; EN 388, Seminar in Minority American Literature.

Juniper Ellis, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
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Areas of interest: post-colonial literature, Pacific Rim literature
Courses taught: EN 376, Foundations of Post-colonial Literature; EN 385, Travel Literature; EN 385, Islands Literature

Kathleen Forni, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Areas of interest: medieval literature, apocryphal writing
Author: The Chaucerian Apocrypha: A Counterfeit Canon (2001)
Courses taught: EN 300, English Literature Before 1800; EN 301, Chaucer; EN 302, Medieval Love; EN 306, Reinventing the Middle Ages; EN 304, Arthur and Other Heroes; EN 306, Popular Medieval Literature (EN 306); seminars on various topics.  

Erin M. Goss, Assistant Professor
PhD, Emory University.
Areas of Interest:  Romanticism; eighteenth and nineteenth-century British Literature; literature and philosophy; literature and religion.
Courses taught:  EN 350, The Romantic movement;  EN 354, Topics in Romanticism; EN 347, Seminar in Romantic Literature. 

Sondra Guttman, Affiliate Faculty
Ph.D. Rutgers University
Areas of Interest: Depression-era U.S. literature, with special attention to issues of race and sexual violence.

Louis Hinkel, Affiliate Faculty
M.A., Emory University
Areas of interest: Caribbean literature, minority literature, recent American literature
Courses taught: EN 130, Understanding Literature; EN 203, Major Writers: American; EN 205, Major Writers: Shakespeare

Paul Lukacs, Associate Professor
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
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Areas of interest: American literature, literary criticism
Author: American Vintage: The Rise of American Wine (2000)
Courses taught: EN 366, American Literature to the First World War; EN 345, Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice.

Phillip McCaffrey, Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Areas of interest: medieval literature, 17th-century English poetry, literature and psychology
Author: Freud and Dora: The Artful Dream (1985); Cold Frames; Teaching the Door to Close; Kinger's Row
Courses taught: EN 300, English Literary History before 1800; EN 301, Chaucer; EN 302, Medieval Love; EN 320, Milton; EN 327, 17th-Century Poetry and Prose

Nicholas Miller, Associate Professor;  Director, The Honors Program.
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Areas of interest: Irish literature, fiction and film
Author: Modernism, Ireland, and the Erotics of Memory (2002)
Courses taught: EN 130, Acts of Reading (Alpha); EN 370, Modern British and American Fiction; EN 377, History and Memory in 20th-Century British Literature; EN 380, The History of Narrative Cinema; EN 381, Fiction and Film; EN 386, Topics in Film (recent topics: Irish Cinema; Screwball Comedy); EN 409, James Joyce; HN280: The Modern World (Honors)

Robert S. Miola, Gerard Manley Hopkins Professor; Lecturer in Classics
Ph.D., University of Rochester
Areas of interest: Shakespeare, Renaissance drama and poetry, classical backgrounds
of English literature, Catholic Renaissance writers
Author: Shakespeare and Classical Comedy: The Influence of Plautus and Terence (1997); Editor, Ben Jonson, Every Man In His Humour (2000); A Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays (1997)
Courses taught: EN 300, English Literary History before 1800; EN 310 and EN 311, Shakespeare I and II; courses in Latin and Greek (Classics)

Brian Norman, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Rutgers University
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Areas of interest: African American literature, American literature, critical race and feminist studies.
Author: The American Protest Essay and National Belonging: Addressing Division (2007)

Mark Osteen, Professor;  Director, Film Studies Program
Ph.D., Emory University
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Areas of interest: 20th-century British and American literature, film studies
Author: American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture (2000);The Economy of Ulysses: Making Both Ends Meet (1995); Editor, The Question of the Gift: Essays Across Disciplines (2002); The New Economic Criticism: Studies at the Intersection of Literature and Economics (1999); White Noise, Text and Criticism (1998).
Courses taught: EN 370, Modern British and American Fiction; EN 381, Fiction and Film; EN 382, Topics in Literature and Film (recent topics: England Swings: the Literature, Film and Culture of England in the 1960s; Shades of Black: Film Noir and Postwar America); EN 386, Seminar in Literature and Film Studies (recent topics: Rear Windows and Wrong Men: The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock; From Berlin to Hollywood: German Directors and Classical Hollywood Cinema)

Thomas Scheye, Loyola Distinguished Service Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Areas of interest: Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, Milton
Courses taught: EN 300, English Literary History; EN 320, Milton