Faculty
Bensel-Meyers, Linda
associate professor
PhD, University of Oregon
Renaissance literature, especially drama and rhetoric; history of rhetoric and composition
Davis, Clark
professor
PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo
American literature; ethical philosophy
Dobyns, Ann
professor
PhD, University of Oregon
Medieval literature; rhetoric and composition
Gorak, Jan
professor
PhD, University of Southern California
Late 18th- and 20th-century British and American literature; history of literary theory and criticism
Gould, Eric
professor
PhD, University of London (King’s College)
20th century literature in English and in translation; cultural studies
Hesse, Douglas
professor
PhD, University of Iowa
Rhetoric and composition; writing program administration; creative nonfiction
Howard, W. Scott
associate professor
PhD, University of Washington
Renaissance/early modern English literature and culture; poetics and poetry; historiography; small press literatures; history of literary theory and criticism
Hunt, Laird
assistant professor
MFA, The Naropa Institute
Fiction writing; postmodern literature
Kim, Benjamin
assistant professor
PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook
19th century British, especially Romantic poetry
Kiteley, Brian
professor
MA, City College of New York
Fiction writing; travel writing; postcolonial fiction; historical fiction
McNees, Eleanor
professor
PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder
Victorian; early modern British to 1940; rise of the novel; Woolf Studies
Munns, Jessica
professor
PhD, University of Warwick, UK
Restoration and 18th century literature, especially drama; cultural studies; women’s studies
Nwosu, Maik
assistant professor
PhD, Syracuse University
Africa and postcolonial literatures; oral literature; world literature; cultural studies
Olsen, Alexandra
professor
PhD, University of California at Berkeley
Old English and Middle English literature; grammar; history and structure of English
Ramke, Bin
professor
PhD, Ohio University
Creative writing, poetry; 20th century literature; contemporary poetry; visual arts and literature; issues of science and mathematics in contemporary thought and writing
Rovner, Adam
assistant professor
PhD, Indiana University
Jewish literature (American/Israeli); narrative theory; translation
Saterstrom, Selah
assistant professor
MFA, Goddard College
Creative writing, fiction; philosophy and literature
Sikelianos, Eleni
associate professor
MFA, Naropa University
Creative writing, poetry, translation, creative nonfiction; 20th century and contemporary poetry; modernist women
Teuton, Christopher
assistant professor
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
American Indian literature; American ethnic literature; American literature
Wilcots, Barbara
associate professor
PhD, University of Denver
20th century American literature, especially African-American, Caribbean and postcolonial literatures
Zaranka, William
associate professor
PhD, University of Denver
Creative writing, poetry; 20th century literature; contemporary poetry