English Department Faculty

Name Contact Specialties
Mais T. Al-Khateeb
Assistant Professor
WMS 229
malkhateeb@fsu.edu
Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, Composition Theory and Pedagogy, Transnational Feminisms, New Materialisms, Posthumanism, Disability Studies, Health and Medicine
Rebecca McWilliams Ojala Ballard Rebecca McWilliams Ojala Ballard
Assistant Professor
WMS 447
rebecca.ballard@fsu.edu
20th and 21st century American literature and culture, environmental humanities and ecocriticism, speculative fiction and science fiction film, American studies
Terri Bourus
Professor of English
WMS 316
terri.bourus@fsu.edu
Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Irish drama, book history, women's studies
Ronisha Browdy
Assistant Professor
WMS 221
rb22y@fsu.edu
Black Women’s Rhetorics, Black Feminist Rhetorics, Global Black Rhetorics
Robert Olen Butler
Krafft Professor
WMS 411
rbutler@fsu.edu
Creative writing, fiction, screenwriting
Photograph of Celia Caputi by Cindy Miller Celia R. Caputi
Professor
WMS 422
celia.caputi@fsu.edu
Shakespeare/Early Modern Studies, Feminist Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Virginia Woolf, Italian Studies
Elias Dominguez Barajas
Associate Professor, Director of the College Composition Program
WMS 222E
edominguezbarajas@fsu.edu
Paremiology; Discursive Practices; Oral Traditions / Verbal Art; Literacy Practices; Intercultural and Intracultural Communication
Lindsey Eckert
Associate Professor
leckert@fsu.edu Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, Romanticism, history of the book, history of text technologies, digital humanities
Leigh H. Edwards
Professor
WMS 439
ledwards@fsu.edu
20th- and 21st-century U.S. literature and popular culture; media studies including popular music, television, film, and new media; 19th-century U.S. literature and culture, digital humanities
Andrew Epstein Andrew Epstein
Chair, Professor
WMS 405G
aepstein@fsu.edu
20th- and 21st-century U.S. literature and culture, modern and postmodern poetry and poetics, 19th century American literature
Barry Faulk
Professor
WMS 219
bfaulk@fsu.edu
Music and Literature, Literary Theory, Victorian literature and culture, popular culture studies
Jaclyn Fiscus Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday
Assistant Professor
WMS 222D
jfiscus@fsu.edu
Composition, Feminist Theories and Pedagogies, Inclusive Pedagogies, Sociolinguistics
Kristie S. Fleckenstein
Professor
WMS 223B
kfleckenstein@fsu.edu
Visual and material rhetorics, modern rhetorical theory, feminist theory, composition pedagogy
Russ Franklin WMS 437C
rfranklin@fsu.edu
Jamie C. Fumo
Professor
WMS 413
jfumo@fsu.edu
Medieval English literature, especially Chaucer; intertextuality and reception; classical transmission; history of the senses; culinary history
Alisha Gaines
Timothy Gannon Associate Professor
WMS 228
amgaines@fsu.edu
African American literature and studies, Black feminisms, popular culture, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, New Southern studies, race and empathy, empathy and historical reenactment
S. E. Gontarski
Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor
WMS 430
sgontarski@fsu.edu
20th-century Irish studies, Modernism, performance theory, History of Text Technologies (HoTT) and Modern(ist) book history
Robin Truth Goodman
Professor
WMS 216
rgoodman@fsu.edu
Critical and Cultural Theory, feminism, cultural studies
Tarez Samra Graban
Associate Professor
WMS 224
tgraban@fsu.edu
Histories and theories of rhetoric and composition; Global, comparative, and transnational rhetorics; Feminist rhetorical theory; Archival studies; Digital humanities; L2/multilingual intersections
Barbara Hamby
Senior Lecturer, Distinguished University Scholar
WMS 419
bhamby@fsu.edu
Creative writing, poetry
Molly Hand Molly Hand
Associate Lecturer, Entrepreneur in Residence
WMS 426
mhand@fsu.edu
Early modern English literature, gender studies, ecocriticism, and animal studies; Editing, writing, and media
Skip Horack
Associate Professor
WMS 438
shorack@fsu.edu
Creative writing, fiction and creative non-fiction
Ravi Howard
Assistant Professor
WMS 437A
ryhoward@fsu.edu
Creative writing, fiction, creative non-fiction, African-American narratives
J. Perry Howell
Senior Lecturer
WMS 113
phowell@fsu.edu
Rhetoric of science and technology, media and anxiety, negotiation processes, surveillance.
Aaron Jaffe
Frances Cushing Ervin Professor
WMS 429
ajaffe@fsu.edu
Modernism; Modern and contemporary literature, culture, media
David F. Johnson
Professor
WMS 453
djohnson@fsu.edu
Medieval literature and culture, Old and Middle English language and literature, textual studies
Meegan Kennedy
Associate Professor, Associate Chair Undergraduate Studies
WMS 431
meegan.kennedy@fsu.edu
Victorian literature and culture, the British novel, Victorian science and medicine, periodical studies, gender studies, literature and medicine
John Mac Kilgore
Associate Professor
WMS 324
jmkilgore@fsu.edu
Early American literature, 18th- and 19th-century US literature, American studies, critical theory and philosophy, literature and politics
James Kimbrell
Professor, Director, Creative Writing
WMS 427
jkimbrell@fsu.edu
Creative writing, poetry, and translation
David Kirby
Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor
WMS 420
dkirby@fsu.edu
Creative writing, poetry, 19th- and 20th-century U.S. literature, non-fiction
Rhea Estelle Lathan
Associate Professor, Associate Chair of Curriculum
WMS 222F
rlathan@fsu.edu
Rhetoric and composition, African American literacies pedagogy, Afrifeminist theory, composition research methodology
Trinyan Paulsen Mariano
Assistant Professor
WMS 323
tmariano@fsu.edu
19th- and early 20th- century American literature and popular culture; legal literature and rhetoric; Southern studies; critical race theory; segregation narratives; literary romance; theories of pain; trauma theory; literary cartographies
Pablo Maurette
Associate Professor
WMS 109
pmaurette@fsu.edu
Classical and Renaissance Comparative Literature, History of the Senses, Early Modern History of Medicine, Late Medieval and Renaissance Art History, Transatlantic Studies
Maxine Lavon Montgomery
Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor and Distinguished Research Professor
WMS 433
mmontgomery@fsu.edu
African American fiction, contemporary black women's novels, cultural and gender studies
Michael Neal
Associate Professor, Director, Rhetoric & Composition
WMS 223B
michael.neal@fsu.edu
Rhetoric and composition, composition theory and practice, writing assessment, multi-media composition
Christopher Okonkwo
Professor
WMS 416
cokonkwo@fsu.edu
African Literature, African American Literature, Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies, Diaspora, Comparative Literature, Literature and Music, Chinua Achebe and Toni Morrison Studies
Christina Parker-Flynn
Associate Professor
WMS 441
cparker@fsu.edu
Film theory and criticism; comparative literature; 19th-century literature and culture, with specialization in French; modernity studies; feminist/gender/sexuality studies; Hitchcock studies; adaptation theory
Judith Pascoe
George Mills Harper Professor
WMS 421
jpascoe@fsu.edu
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, collecting history and theory, theatre and performance studies, digital humanities, voice recording history and theory
John Ribó
Assistant Professor
WMS 437B
jribo@fsu.edu
U.S. Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean literatures, comparative literature, cultural studies, popular culture
Diane Roberts
Professor, University Alumni Distinguished Writer
WMS 434
dkroberts@fsu.edu
Creative non-fiction, Southern culture, gender studies, 19th- and 20th-century culture
Alison Sperling
Assistant Professor
WMS 432
asperling@fsu.edu
20th and 21st century U.S. literature and culture, ecocriticism, feminist and queer theory, science fiction, the weird
Robert Stilling
Associate Professor, Director, Literature, Media, and Culture
WMS 309
rstilling@fsu.edu
Modern British and Irish literature and culture, decadence, modernism, postcolonial studies, Fin-de-siècle literature, poetry and poetics, queer literature
Elizabeth Stuckey-French
Professor
WMS 226
estuckey-french@fsu.edu
Creative writing, fiction
Virgil Suarez
Professor
WMS 452
vsuarez@fsu.edu
Creative writing, fiction and poetry, Latino/a literature
Gary Taylor
Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor
WMS 112A
gtaylor@fsu.edu
Shakespeare, early modern drama, history of text technologies, history of the book, digital humanities, editorial theory and practice
Frances H. Tran Frances H. Tran
Assistant Professor
WMS 325
ftran@fsu.edu
Asian American and multiethnic cultural studies, 20th and 21st century literatures of the Americas; science and speculative fictions, feminist and queer of color critique, American studies, ethnic studies, critical university studies and pedagogy
Candace Ward
Professor
WMS 220
candace.ward@fsu.edu
18th-century British and Anglo-Caribbean literature and culture, early women's fiction
Disability Pride Flag Cy. Weise
Associate Professor
WMS 111
jweise@fsu.edu
Creative Writing, Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Literature by Disabled People
L. Lamar Wilson
Assistant Professor
WMS 435
llwilson@fsu.edu
Creative Writing, African-American Literature, Multi-ethnic American Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theories of Sound, Performance, Film Studies, Contemporary Poetics
Mark Winegardner Mark Winegardner
Janet Burroway Professor, Associate Chair, Graduate Studies
WMS 418
mwinegardner@fsu.edu
Creative writing, fiction, non-fiction