Literature Faculty

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, Professor of Theatre	WMS 111 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	Renaissance literature, feminist theory, and critical race studies
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, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Critical Race and Ethnicity 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, American studies, cultural studies, 19th century U.S. literature and culture
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; authorship; comparative studies
Alisha Gaines Timothy Gannon Associate Professor	WMS 228 amgaines@fsu.edu	African American literature and studies, popular culture, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, New Southern studies, race and empathy, empathy and historical reenactment
David Gants Associate Professor	WMS 416 dgants@fsu.edu	Humanities computing, history of the book, history of text technologies, renaissance literature, descriptive and analytical bibliography
John J. Garcia Assistant Professor	WMS 229 jjgarcia@fsu.edu	History of the book in America, seventeenth- through nineteenth-century; history of text technologies, colonial and nineteenth-century American literature; critical theory (materiality, media, social theory); Latinx literature
S. E. Gontarski Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor	WMS 430 sgontarski@fsu.edu	20th-century Irish studies, modernism, performance theory, history of text technologies
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, Director, Literature, Media, and Culture	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	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 Professor	WMS 433 mmontgomery@fsu.edu	African American fiction, contemporary black women's novels, cultural and gender studies
Christina Parker-Flynn Assistant Professor	WMS 441 christina.parker-flynn@fsu.edu	Film theory and criticism, gender studies, 19th-century literature and culture, comparative literature, Hitchcock studies
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
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, Pryor Professor in Shakespearean Literature	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, Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies	WMS 220 candace.ward@fsu.edu	18th-century British and Anglo-Caribbean literature and culture, early women's fiction