Literature, Media, and Culture Faculty
Areas of interest include:
| Name | Contact | Specialties |
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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 |
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Terri Bourus Professor of English |
WMS 316 terri.bourus@fsu.edu |
Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Irish drama, book history, women's studies |
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Celia R. Caputi Professor |
WMS 422 celia.caputi@fsu.edu |
Shakespeare/Early Modern Studies, Feminist Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Virginia Woolf, Italian Studies |
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Lindsey Eckert Timothy Gannon Associate Professor |
leckert@fsu.edu | Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, Romanticism, history of the book, history of text technologies, digital humanities |
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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. |
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Andrew Epstein Caldwell Professor of English |
WMS 405G aepstein@fsu.edu |
20th- and 21st-century U.S. literature and culture, modern and postmodern poetry and poetics, 19th century American literature |
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Barry Faulk Chair; Professor |
WMS 219 bfaulk@fsu.edu |
Music and Literature, Literary Theory, Victorian literature and culture, popular culture studies |
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S. E. Gontarski Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor |
WMS 430 sgontarski@fsu.edu |
Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English Florida State University Scholar of modernism, textual scholarship, and performance theory. Internationally recognized authority on Samuel Beckett. |
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Robin Truth Goodman Distinguished Research Professor |
WMS 216 rgoodman@fsu.edu |
Critical and Cultural Theory, feminism, cultural studies |
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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 |
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Aaron Jaffe Frances Cushing Ervin Professor |
WMS 429 ajaffe@fsu.edu |
Modernism; Modern and contemporary literature, culture, media |
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Meegan Kennedy Professor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies |
WMS 431 meegan.kennedy@fsu.edu |
Victorian literature and culture, nineteenth-century science and medicine, the history of visual technologies, history of the senses, popular science, periodical studies, print culture, affect studies, health humanities, literature and medicine |
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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 |
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Trinyan Paulsen Mariano Associate Lecturer |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Christina Parker-Flynn Associate Professor; Director, Literature, Media, and Culture |
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 |
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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 |
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Diane Roberts Professor, University Alumni Distinguished Writer |
WMS 434 dkroberts@fsu.edu |
Creative non-fiction, Southern culture, gender studies, 19th- and 20th-century culture |
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Alison Sperling Assistant Professor |
WMS 427 asperling@fsu.edu |
20th and 21st century U.S. literature and culture, ecocriticism, feminist and queer theory, science fiction, the weird |
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Abigail Sprenkle Assistant Professor |
WMS 325 ars25f@fsu.edu |
Old English literature, Middle English literature, Old Norse literature, medieval Latin, law and literature, medieval legal studies, history of Englishes, linguistics, postcolonial studies, gender studies, the Global Middle Ages |
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Robert Stilling Associate Professor |
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 |
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Gary Taylor Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor, Krafft Professor, and Distinguished Research Professor |
WMS 112A gtaylor@fsu.edu |
Shakespeare, early modern drama, history of text technologies, history of the book, digital humanities, editorial theory and practice |
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Candace Ward Professor |
WMS 220 candace.ward@fsu.edu |
18th-century British and Anglo-Caribbean literature and culture, early women's fiction |