Administration

A. Samuel Kimball, Ph.D. (University of Florida)
Department Chair
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2605
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Areas of expertise: Nineteenth Century American Literature; American Renaissance; Literary Theory (Philosophical, Psychological, Psychoanalytic, and Other Criticism); History of Literary Criticism and Theory.

Marnie Jones, Ph.D. (Northwestern University)
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Professor of English
Office: Social Sciences Building (51), Room 3300
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Mark Workman,Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania)
Provost, Vice President for Academic Affairs
Professor of Literature and Folklore
Office: JJ Daniel Hall, Suite 2500
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Jason Mauro, Ph.D. (University of Connecticut)
Graduate Coordinator
Associate Professor of English
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2629
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Areas of expertise: American Cultural Studies; American Literature; Literary Theory; Film Studies; Fiction Writing; Thanatology.

Jeanette Berger, Ph.D. (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Writing Coordinator
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2602
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Mark Ari, MFA (Brooklyn College, The City University of New York)
Instructor
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Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2107
Areas of expertise: Writing (particularly Fiction, Creative Nonfiction and Song); anti-literature; Form and practice in the application of algebra, fire and wildcards in creative acts; Radical Jewish Culture.

Mary Baron, Ph.D. (University of Illinois)
Professor of English
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Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2617
Areas of expertise: British Renaissance Literature, Adolescent Literature, Children's Literature; Collaborative Learning in the Classroom; Computer Enhanced Education; Writing, Poetry

James Beasley, Ph.D. (Purdue University)
Assistant Professor of English
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Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2333
Areas of expertise: Composition and Rhetoric, History of Rhetoric and Composition

Tiffany Beechy Ph.D. (University of Oregon)
Assistant Professor of English
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Office:Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2211
Areas of expertise: Medieval Literature, Linguistics

Richard Bizot , Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of English
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Keith Cartwright, Ph.D. (Indiana University)
Associate Professor of English
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2621
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Areas of expertise: African American, Caribbean, and Southern Literature; African Diaspora Studies; West African Expressive Traditions; Post-Colonial and Gender Studies; Creative Writing (Poetry)

John Chapman, Ph.D. (University of Florida)
Instructor
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Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2207

Frederick Dale, M.A. (University of North Florida)
Instructor
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2627
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Nicholas de Villiers, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota)
Assistant Professor of English
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Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2302
Areas of expertise: Film Theory, Gender Studies, Philosophy, Queer Theory, Autobiography

Timothy Donovan, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University)
Assistant Professor of English
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2219
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Areas of expertise: Rhetoric and Composition, Literacy and Mediacy Studies, Critical and Literary Theory.

Joseph Flowers, M.A. (University of North Florida)
Instructor
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2111
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D. Christopher Gabbard, Ph.D. (Stanford University)
Graduate Coordinator, M.A. Program in English
Associate Professor of English
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2611
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Areas of expertise: British Literature and Culture of "The Long Eighteenth Century" (1660-1800); Disability and Normalcy in English and American Literature; Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson; Gender in Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature; Early Modern Travel Writing.

Bernadette Gambino, M.A. (George Mason University)
Instructor
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2325
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Gary L. Harmon , Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of English
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Pamela Hnyla, M.A. (University of North Florida)
Instructor
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2329
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C. Susan Kraegel, M.A. (University of Missouri)
Instructor
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2317
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Tru Leverette, Ph.D. (University of Florida)
Assistant Professor of English
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2229
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Areas of expertise: African-American, Multicultural, and Mixed Race Literatures; Gender, Cultural, and Mixed Race Studies.

Nancy Levine, Ph.D. (Columbia University)
Associate Professor of English
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2637
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Areas of expertise: Modern and Contemporary American Literature and Culture; Art and Literature of the Grotesque; Experimental Fiction; Utopian Literature; Blues and Literature; the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance.

Clark Lunberry, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Associate Professor of English
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2645
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Areas of expertise: Dramatic literature and performance studies, modern and postmodern literature and the visual arts, and creative non-fiction.

Eileen Maguire, M.A. (University of North Florida)
Instructor
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2639
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Brenda Maxey-Billings, M.A. (University of North Florida)
Instructor
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Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2606

Alex Menocal, Ph.D. (University of Florida)
Instructor
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Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2608

Pamela Monteleone, Ph.D. (State University of New York, Buffalo)
Associate Professor of English
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2534
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Areas of expertise: Shakespeare; Dramatic Literature and Theory; Renaissance to Contemporary (Emphasis on American) Play Production and Playwriting; Film; Popular Culture.

Betsy Nies, Ph.D. (University of Florida)
Associate Professor of English
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2227
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Areas of expertise: Composition; Chidlren's and Adolescent Literature; American Literature; Multi-Cultural Literature.

Marcus Pactor, M.A. (University of North Florida)
Instructor
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Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2525

Barbara Roberts, M.A. (University of North Florida)
Instructor
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2321
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William Slaughter, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of English
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Jillian Smith, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University)
Assistant Professor of English
Office: Arts and Sciences Building
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Areas of expertise: American Literature; Visual Culture; Film.

Brian Striar, Ph.D. (Claremont Graduate School)
Associate Professor of English
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2221
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Areas of expertise: Classical and Renaissance literatures, translation, and classical influences upon English and Romance literatures.

Allen Tilley , Ph.D.
Emeritus P rofessor of English
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Russell Turney, M.A. (George Mason University)
Instructor
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2313
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Amy Wainwright, M.A. (American University)
Instructor
Office: Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2623
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Bart Welling, Ph.D. (University of Virginia)
Associate Profesor of English
Office: Arts and Sciences, Room 2635
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Areas of expertise: Twentieth Century Literature and Culture of the United States; Textual and Bibliographic Studies; Ecocriticism and Green Culture Studies; Southern and Faulkner Studies; Literature of the Americas.

Michael Wiley, Ph.D. (New York University)
Associate Professor of English
Office:Arts and Sciences Building, Room 2641
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Areas of expertise: British Romantic Literature; Literary Theory; Spatial Studies in Literature.

Timothy Robinson, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin)
Affiliated Professor of Applied Linguistics
Office: Honors Hall, Room 2475
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Office Staff

Linda Howell, Office Manager
David MacKinnon, Administrative Secretary
Saber Gray, Student Assistant