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The English faculty at Marquette University are actively engaged in research and publication as well as in teaching and service. Committed to the scholar-teacher model, the faculty believe that university teaching introduces students into the world of the scholar where knowledge is constructed and concepts of academic discourse are formulated, applied, and revised. To demonstrate their commitment to teaching, faculty regularly conduct courses at all levels, from introductory surveys through doctoral seminars.

Full-time faculty

  • Aesha Adams, Assistant Professor. Rhetoric & Composition; African-American Women's Studies.
  • Milton J. Bates, Professor. 20th-c American Literature; Wallace Stevens, Vietnam War Literature, Environmental Literature .
  • Ronald Bieganowski, SJ, Associate Professor. 19th-c American Literature; Rhetoric & Composition.
  • Amy Blair, Assistant Professor. 20th-c American Literature; Women's Studies, Literature & Popular Culture
  • Ed Block Jr., Professor. Victorian Literature; Critical Theory, Religion & Literature.
  • M.C. Bodden, Associate Professor. English Linguistics; Medieval Literature, Women's Studies.
  • John Boly, Associate Professor. 20th-c British Literature; Literary Theory.
  • Virginia Chappell, Associate Professor & Director of First-Year English. Rhetoric & Composition.
  • Julia Chavez, Visiting Assistant Professor. 19th-c British Literature; The Victorian Novel.
  • John Curran, Associate Professor. Renaissance Literature; Shakespeare.
  • Ed Duffy, Associate Professor. 19th-c British Literature; Percy Shelley.
  • Amara Graf, Visiting Assistant Professor. American Literature; Mexican American Literature.
  • Heather Hathaway, Associate Professor. American Literature; Immigrant Literature; Ethnic Literature; African-American Studies.
  • Diane L. Hoeveler, Professor. British Romantic Poetry; Gothic Fiction & Drama; Women's Literature;, Catholic & Anti-Catholic Literature; Literature & Psychology.
  • C.J. Hribal, Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies. Creative Writing: Fiction; Contemporary Fiction.
  • Thomas L. Jeffers, Professor. 19th-c & 20th-c British Literature.
  • Ryan Jerving, Visiting Assistant Professor. American Literature; Jazz Modernisms.
  • Daniel Khalastchi, Visiting Assistant Professor, Creative Writing (poetry)
  • Stephen Karian, Assistant Professor. Restoration & 18th-c British Literature; History of the Book, Bibliography, & Textual Criticism.
  • Steven Hartman Keiser, Associate Professor. Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Language Change & Social Identity.
  • Christine L. Krueger, Associate Professor. Victorian Literature & Historical Writing; Literature & Law; Gender Studies; 18th-c & 19th-c Religious Writing by Women.
  • Tim W. Machan, Professor. Medieval Literature; Linguistics; History of the English Language; Manuscript Production; Textual Criticism; Chaucer; Old Norse.
  • Jodi Melamed, Assistant Professor. 20th-c American Literature; Cultural Studies; White Privilege & Critical Race Studies.
  • Rebecca Nowacek, Assistant Professor. Rhetoric & Composition; Drama.
  • Dana Prodoehl, Visiting Assistant Professor, Interim Director of the Ott Memorial Writing Center. 
  • Krista Ratcliffe, Professor & Chair. Rhetoric & Composition; Feminist Theory; White Privilege & Critical Race Studies.
  • Albert J. Rivero, Professor. Restoration & 18th-c British Literature; Textual Criticism; Women's Studies.
  • Angela Sorby, Associate Professor. 19th-c American Literature; American Poetry, Creative Writing: Poetry.
  • R. Clifton Spargo, Associate Professor. 20th-c Studies; Holocaust Literature; Ethics; Ethnic Studies; Contemporary Fiction.
  • John Su, Associate Professor. Contemporary Anglophone Literature; Post-Colonial Literature; Cross-Cultural Studies of Memory & Imagination; Literature & Philosophy.
  • Sarah Wadsworth, Associate Professor. 19th-c American Literature; Literary Criticism; Children's Literature.
  • Larry Watson, Visiting Professor. Modern & Contemporary American Literature; Creative Writing.
  • Amelia Zurcher, Associate Professor. Renaissance Literature; Shakespeare; Women's Studies; Literary Theory; Feminist Theory.

Adjunct Faculty


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