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English Department Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialties
Mais T. Al-Khateeb Assistant Professor	WMS 222D malkhateeb@fsu.edu	Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, Transnational Feminisms, Feminist Phenomenology, New Materialism, Posthumanism, Disability Studies, Studies of Science and Technology, Health and Medicine
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
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 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
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 Chair, 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
Barry Faulk Professor	WMS 219 bfaulk@fsu.edu	Music and Literature, Literary Theory, Victorian literature and culture, popular culture studies
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 and 21st-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, Director, Rhetoric & Composition	WMS 224 tgraban@fsu.edu	Histories and theories of rhetoric; Histories and theories of composition; Global and comparative rhetorics; Transnational feminist rhetorics; Archival studies; Digital humanities; Multilingualism
Barbara Hamby Senior Lecturer, Distinguished University Scholar	WMS 419 bhamby@fsu.edu	Creative writing, poetry
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
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 437B 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	WMS 223B michael.neal@fsu.edu	Rhetoric and composition, writing assessment, digital composition, writing technologies (including AI and intellectual property), and online writing instruction
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
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 427 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, 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
Candace Ward Professor	WMS 220 candace.ward@fsu.edu	18th-century British and Anglo-Caribbean literature and culture, early women's fiction
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 Janet Burroway Professor, Associate Chair, Graduate Studies	WMS 418 mwinegardner@fsu.edu	Creative writing, fiction, non-fiction

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