Faculty | The English Department

All Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialties
Virgil Suarez Professor	WMS 452 vsuarez@fsu.edu	Creative writing, fiction and poetry, Latino/a literature
Trinyan Paulsen Mariano Assistant Professor	WMS 323 tmariano@fsu.edu	19th and 20th century American literature, culture, and history; African-American literature; law and literature; the novel
Terri Bourus Professor of Theatre, Courtesy Professor of English	FAA 108 terri.bourus@fsu.edu	Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Irish drama, book history, women's studies
Tarez Samra Graban Associate Professor	WMS 221 tgraban@fsu.edu	Histories of rhetoric and composition, digital humanities, feminist rhetorics and rhetorical theory, transnationalism, multilingual writing
Stephen McElroy Lecturer, Director, Reading Writing Center and Digital Studio	WMS 229 smcelroy@fsu.edu	Writing centers & digital studios, multimodal composition, assemblage
Skip Horack Associate Professor	WMS 438 shorack@fsu.edu	Creative writing, fiction and creative non-fiction
S. E. Gontarski Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor	WMS 430 sgontarski@fsu.edu	20th-century Irish studies, modernism, performance theory, history of text technologies
Russ Franklin	WMS 437 rfranklin@fsu.edu
Robin Truth Goodman Professor, Director, Literature	WMS 216 rgoodman@fsu.edu	Critical and Cultural Theory, Postcolonial literature and theory, feminism, cultural studies
Robert Stilling Assistant Professor	WMS 309 rstilling@fsu.edu	Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century British literature and culture, global Anglophone literature, modernism, postcolonial studies, Fin-de-siècle literature, poetry and poetics, queer literature
Robert Olen Butler Francis Eppes Professor	WMS 411 rbutler@fsu.edu	Creative writing, fiction, screenwriting
Rhea Estelle Lathan Associate Professor	WMS 222F rlathan@fsu.edu	Rhetoric and composition, African American literacies pedagogy, Afrifeminist theory, composition research methodology
Ravi Howard Assistant Professor	WMS 428 ryhoward@fsu.edu	Creative writing, fiction, creative non-fiction, African-American narratives
Ned Stuckey-French Associate Professor	WMS 325 nstuckeyfrench@fsu.edu	20th-century American literature and culture, creative non-fiction
Molly Hand Lecturer, Entrepreneur in Residence	WMS 423 mhand@fsu.edu	Academic and professional editing and writing, early modern cultural studies
Michael Neal Associate Professor	WMS 223C michael.neal@fsu.edu	Rhetoric and composition, composition theory and practice, writing assessment, multi-media composition
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
Maxine Lavon Montgomery Professor, Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies	WMS 433 mmontgomery@fsu.edu	African American fiction, contemporary black women's novels, cultural and gender studies
Mark Winegardner Janet Burroway Professor	WMS 453 winegardner@fsu.edu	Creative writing, fiction, non-fiction
Leigh H. Edwards Associate Professor	WMS 439 ledwards@fsu.edu	19th- and 20th-century U.S. literature and culture, American and cultural studies, popular culture
Kristie S. Fleckenstein Professor, Director, Rhetoric & Composition	WMS 224 kfleckenstein@fsu.edu	Visuality and rhetoric, technologies and composition pedagogies, feminist theory, modern rhetorical theory
Kathleen Blake Yancey Kellogg W. Hunt Professor	WMS 223B kyancey@fsu.edu	Composition studies, writing assessment, and literacies and technologies
Karen Laughlin Associate Professor, Dean of Undergraduate Studies	UCA 3300 klaughlin@admin.fsu.edu	Modern and American drama, women's studies and critical theory
Judith Pascoe George Mills Harper Professor	WMS 427 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 442 jribo@fsu.edu	U.S. Latina/o, Latin American, and Caribbean literatures, comparative literature, cultural studies, popular culture
John Mac Kilgore Assistant Professor	WMS 324 jmkilgore@fsu.edu	Early American literature, 18th- and 19th-century US literature, American studies, transnationalism, critical theory and philosophy, literature and politics
Joann Gardner Associate Professor	WMS 426 jgardner@fsu.edu	Creative writing, poetry, 20th-century literature, women's studies
Jerrilyn McGregory Professor	WMS 458 jmcgregory@fsu.edu	Folklore and folklife, transnational and diaspora theories, African American and multiethnic literature, cultural studies
Jamie C. Fumo Professor	WMS 413 jfumo@fsu.edu	Medieval English literature, especially Chaucer; intertextuality and reception; classical transmission; authorship; comparative studies
James Kimbrell Professor	WMS 427 jkimbrell@fsu.edu	Creative writing, poetry, and translation
J. Perry Howell Associate Lecturer	WMS 113 phowell@fsu.edu	Rhetoric of science and technology, media and anxiety, negotiation processes, surveillance.
Gary Taylor George Matthew Edgar Professor, Chair	WMS 405 gtaylor@fsu.edu	Shakespeare, early modern drama, history of text technologies, history of the book, digital humanities, editorial theory and practice
Erin Belieu Professor	WMS 326 ebelieu@fsu.edu	Creative writing, poetry
Eric Walker Professor	ewalker@fsu.edu	British Romantic culture, Austen, adoption studies
Elizabeth Stuckey-French Professor	WMS 226 estuckey-french@fsu.edu	Creative writing, fiction
Diane Roberts Professor	WMS 434 dkroberts@fsu.edu	Creative non-fiction, Southern culture, gender studies, 19th- and 20th-century culture
Dennis Moore Associate Professor, University Distinguished Teaching Professor	WMS 416 dmoore@fsu.edu	18th-century circumatlantic culture, antebellum U.S. and African American culture, American studies
Deborah Coxwell-Teague Teaching Professor, Director, College Composition	WMS 222A dteague@fsu.edu	First-Year Composition Program
David Kirby Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor	WMS 420 dkirby@fsu.edu	Creative writing, poetry, 19th- and 20th-century U.S. literature, non-fiction
David Gants Associate Professor	WMS 316 dgants@fsu.edu	Humanities computing, history of the book, history of text technologies, renaissance literature, descriptive and analytical bibliography
David F. Johnson Professor	WMS 431 djohnson@fsu.edu	Medieval literature and culture, Old and Middle English language and literature, textual studies
Christina Parker-Flynn Assistant Professor	WMS 436 christina.parker-flynn@fsu.edu	Film theory and criticism, gender studies, 19th-century literature and culture, comparative literature, Hitchcock studies
Celia R. Caputi Professor	WMS 422 celia.caputi@fsu.edu	Renaissance literature, feminist theory, and critical race studies
Candace Ward Associate Professor	WMS 213 candace.ward@fsu.edu	18th-century British and Anglo-Caribbean literature and culture, early women's fiction
Bruce Boehrer Professor	WMS 112A bboehrer@fsu.edu	Milton, Shakespeare, Jonson, early modern English drama, neo-Latin verse
Bob Shacochis Senior Lecturer	WMS 405	Creative writing, fiction and non-fiction
Barry Faulk Professor, Associate Chair, Curriculum	WMS 414 bfaulk@fsu.edu	Music and Literature, Literary Theory, Victorian literature and culture, popular culture studies
Barbara Hamby Senior Lecturer, Distinguished University Scholar	WMS 419 bhamby@fsu.edu	Creative writing, poetry
Andrew Epstein Professor, Associate Chair, Graduate Studies	WMS 409 aepstein@fsu.edu	20th- and 21st-century U.S. literature and culture, modern and postmodern poetry and poetics, 19th century American literature
Alisha Gaines Assistant Professor	WMS 228 amgaines@fsu.edu	African American literature and studies, popular culture, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, New Southern studies
Aaron Jaffe Frances Cushing Ervin Professor	WMS 429 ajaffe@fsu.edu	Modernism; Modern and contemporary literature, culture, media
A. E. B Coldiron Professor	WMS 447 acoldiron@fsu.edu	Renaissance and late-medieval literature, history of text technologies, comparative literature, translation studies, poetry