English Department Faculty Directory
Scott Black
Professor / Director, Tanner Humanities Center
110D CTIHB
scott.black@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- History of the Novel and Prose Fiction
- Eighteenth-Century British Literature
- Global/Transnational Literature
- Fantasy
Elizabeth Callaway
Assistant Professor
3419 LNCO
elizabeth.callaway@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature & Culture
- Environmental Humanities
- Digital Humanities and Media Studies
- Science and Literature
Justin Carpenter
Assistant Professor
3420 LNCO
justin.carpenter@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Video Game Aesthetics
- Literary Criticism and Theory
- Indigenous Storytelling and Narrative
Vincent Cheng
Shirley Sutton Thomas Professor of English / Distinguished Professor
3525 LNCO
vincent.cheng@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Twentieth-Century Literature
- Postcolonial Studies
- James Joyce
- Irish Studies
Katharine Coles
Distinguished Professor
3417 LNCO
katharine.coles@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Creative Writing
- Poetry and Poetics
- Science & Literature
Stuart Culver
Associate Professor
2100a LNCO
stuart.culver@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature & Culture
Lindsey Drager
Assistant Professor
3623 LNCO
lindsey.drager@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Creative Writing - Prose
- Rhetoric of the Body
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Science Fiction
- Eco and Climate Fiction
Craig Dworkin
Professor / Higson Chair
3613 LNCO
craig.dworkin@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Avant-Gardes
- Poetry and Poetics
- Media Theory
Andrew Franta
Professor
3621 LNCO
a.franta@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Eighteenth-Century British Literature
- Romantic Literature
Disa Gambera
Associate Professor (Lecturer)
3524 LNCO
d.gambera@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Medieval Literature
Anne Jamison
Professor
3411 LNCO
anne.jamison@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- Children’s & Young Adult Literature
- Czech Literature
Chris Jones
ESRR Professor of English
3421 LNCO
chris.s.jones@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Old English Literature
- Medievalism
- The Reception of the Middle Ages
Stacey Margolis
Professor
3523 LNCO
s.margolis@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Lepa Marinkovski
Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
3426 LNCO
lepa.espinoza@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- English Teaching
- Children’s & Young Adult Literature
Mark Matheson
Professor (Lecturer)
3513 LNCO
mark.matheson@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Early Modern British Literature
- Shakespeare
Michael Mejia
Associate Professor
3611 LNCO
michael.mejia@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Creative Writing – Prose
Jacqueline Osherow
Distinguished Professor
3401 LNCO
j.osherow@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Creative Writing – Poetry
- Bible as Literature
Vincent Pecora
Professor
3415 LNCO
v.pecora@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Twentieth-Century British Literature
Matthew Potolsky
Professor
3617 LNCO
m.potolsky@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- Aestheticism and Decadence
- Literary Theory and Criticism
Richard Preiss
Associate Professor
3521 LNCO
richard.preiss@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Early Modern British Literature
- History of the Book
- Shakespeare
Paisley Rekdal
Distinguished Professor / Director, America West Center
3403 LNCO
paisley.rekdal@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Poetry
- Nonfiction
- Asian American Literature
- Global/Transnational Literature
- Environmental Humanities
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- 19th-century American literature
- 20th-century American literature
- African American Literature
- History of Poetry
David Roh
Professor / Chair
3519 LNCO
david.roh@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature & Culture
- Digital Humanities
- Asian American Studies
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature & Culture
- Contemporary Literature
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Race and Ethnicity
- African American Literature
- Black Feminism(s)
- Cultural Studies
- American Literature
Alf Seegert
Professor, Lecturer
3412 LNCO
alf.seegert@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
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Video Game Narrative
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Film, New Media, and Virtuality
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Fantasy
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Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century British and American Literature & Culture
Rone Shavers
Associate Professor
3619 LNCO
rone.shavers@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Creative Writing – Prose
- Afrofuturism
- Postmodernism and Experimental Literature
Andrew Shephard
Assistant Professor
3424 LNCO
Andrew.Shephard@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature & Culture
- African American Studies
- Genre Fiction Studies
- Digital Humanities
Maeera Shreiber
Professor
3423 LNCO
m.shreiber@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature & Culture
- Poetics
- Religious Studies
- Jewish Studies
Angela Smith
Associate Professor
3625 LNCO
ang.smith@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Film and Media Studies
- Disability Studies
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature & Culture
Kathryn Stockton
Distinguished Professor
3515 LNCO
kathryn.stockton@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Nineteenth--Century British Literature
- Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature & Culture
- Queer Studies
- Theory
Jessica Straley
Associate Professor
3425 LNCO
Jessica.straley@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Nineteenth--Century British Literature
- Children’s & Young Adult Literature
- Science and Literature
Elizabeth (Lisa) Swanstrom
Associate Professor
LNCO 3409
Lisa.Swanstrom@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature & Culture
- Digital Humanities
Sam TettRESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- Queer Studies
- Cultural Studies
Nathan Wainstein
Assistant Professor
3526 LNCO
nathan.wainstein@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Video Game Narrative
- Theory
- Narrative Theory and History
- Modernism
Spencer Wall
Assistant Professor, Lecturer
3428 LNCO
spencer.wall@utah.edu
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
- Medieval Literature
- Early Modern Literature
- Shakespeare
- Milton
