The English Department

Literature, Media, and Culture Faculty

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	Name	Contact	Specialties
	Bruce Boehrer Bertram H. Davis Professor	WMS 112A bboehrer@fsu.edu	Milton, Shakespeare, Jonson, early modern English drama, neo-Latin verse
	Terri Bourus Professor of English	WMS 316 terri.bourus@fsu.edu	Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Irish drama, book history, women's studies
	Celia R. Caputi Professor	WMS 422 celia.caputi@fsu.edu
	A. E. B. Coldiron Krafft Professor	WMS 447 acoldiron@fsu.edu	Renaissance and late-medieval literature, history of text technologies, comparative literature, translation studies, poetry
	Carla Della Gatta Assistant Professor	WMS 436 cdellagatta@fsu.edu	Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, Latinx drama, LGBTQ drama, Spanish Golden Age drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
	Lindsey Eckert Assistant 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 Professor	WMS 409 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
	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, Postcolonial literature and theory, feminism, cultural studies
	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
	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 Assistant 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
	Jerrilyn McGregory Professor	WMS 458 jmcgregory@fsu.edu	Folklore and folklife, transnational and diaspora theories, African American and multiethnic literature, cultural 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
	Christopher Okonkwo Professor	WMS 416 cokonkwo@fsu.edu	Twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures and cultural productions of Africa and the diaspora; slavery, modernity, colonization, (post)colonization and black literatures; cultural studies; the Black Atlantic; migration; critical theories; Chinua Achebe and Toni Morrison studies; (Black) literature and music
	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		20th and 21st century U.S. literature and culture, ecocriticism, feminist and queer theory, science fiction, the weird
	Robert Stilling Associate Professor	WMS 309 rstilling@fsu.edu	Modern British and Irish literature and culture, modernism, postcolonial studies, Fin-de-siècle literature, poetry and poetics, queer literature
	Gary Taylor Chair, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor	WMS 405 gtaylor@fsu.edu	Shakespeare, early modern drama, history of text technologies, history of the book, digital humanities, editorial theory and practice
	Frances H. Tran Assistant Professor	WMS 414 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, Director, Literature, Media, and Culture	WMS 220 candace.ward@fsu.edu	18th-century British and Anglo-Caribbean literature and culture, early women's fiction