Theory | Literature, Media, and Culture Faculty

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Name Contact Specialties
Rebecca McWilliams Ojala Ballard 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
Photograph of Celia Caputi by Cindy Miller Celia R. Caputi
Professor 		WMS 422
celia.caputi@fsu.edu 		Shakespeare/Early Modern Studies, Feminist Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Virginia Woolf, Italian Studies
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
Barry Faulk
Professor 		WMS 219
bfaulk@fsu.edu 		Music and Literature, Literary Theory, Victorian literature and culture, popular culture studies
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 Goodman Robin Truth Goodman
Professor 		WMS 216
rgoodman@fsu.edu 		Critical and Cultural Theory, feminism, cultural studies
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
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
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
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