Professors
Frederick Luis Aldama
Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities & Affiliate Faculty Radio-Television-Film as well as Adjunct Professor and Distinguished University Professor at the Ohio State University
aldama@utexas.edu |
5103679112 |
Patton Hall 410
Education: PhD, Stanford
Interests: Latinx/BIPOC Comic books, TV, film and pop culture generally
Janine Barchas
Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor in English Literature
barchas@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8379 |
CAL 203
Education: Ph.D., 1995, University of Chicago
Interests: Eighteenth-century literature and culture; digital humanities; the British novel; book history; textual studies; and Jane Austen.
Phillip J Barrish
Tony Hilfer Professor of American and British Literature
pbarrish@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7840 |
PAR 130
Education: Ph.D., 1991, Cornell University
Interests: American literature 1870-1930; medicine and literature.
Lance Bertelsen
Iris Howard Regents Professor in English Literature
lberte@utexas.edu |
512-471-8769 |
PAR 314
Education: Ph.D., 1979, University of Washington
Interests: Eighteenth-century British literature and culture; representations of World War II.
Mary E Blockley
Professor
blockley@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8362 |
PAR 320
Education: Ph.D., 1984, Yale University
Interests: Old English language and literature; history of the English language; medieval manuscripts; Germanic philology.
Douglas S Bruster
Mody C. Boatright Regents Professor of American and English Literature, Distinguished Teaching Professor
bruster@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3635 |
PAR 220
Education: Ph.D., 1990, Harvard University
Interests: Shakespeare; Drama; Renaissance literature; Film; Digital Literacies; Theory
Oscar Cásares
Professor
ohcasares@utexas.edu |
512-471-8758 |
PAR 222
Education: M.F.A., 2001, University of Iowa
James H. Cox
Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of English and Distinguished Teaching Professor
jhcox@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8380 |
CAL 218
Education: Ph.D., University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Interests: Native American literature and film; ethnic US literatures; literature of immigration; American literature since 1920
Elizabeth Cullingford
(on leave)
University Distinguished Teaching Professor
cullingford@austin.utexas.edu |
CAL 313
Education: Ph.D., Oxford University
Interests: Only children, Irish literature, politics, and culture; modern poetry; women's studies; drama and film; Shakespeare; the relation between high and popular culture
Diane Davis
Professor and Chair of Rhetoric & Writing
ddd@utexas.edu |
512-471-8735 |
FAC 17
Interests: My work is situated at the intersection of rhetorical theory and continental philosophy.
Alan W Friedman
Professor
friedman@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8376 |
CAL 214
Education: Ph.D., 1966, University of Rochester
Interests: British and American modernism; the novel; drama, especially Shakespeare; international programs, faculty governance and academic freedom.
John Morán González
J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American & English Literature
jmgonzal@utexas.edu |
512-471-8117 |
PAR 321
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests: Latino/a literature; Chicano/a literature; late nineteenth-century American literature; narrative theory; postcolonial studies.
Kurt Heinzelman
Professor
kheinz@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-6688 |
PAR 121
Education: Ph.D., 1978, University of Massachusettes
Interests: British Romanticism 1750-1850; poetry and poetics; creative writing; archives and collecting; modernism and cultural economics.
Geraldine Heng
Professor
heng@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7480 |
PAR 213
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Heather Houser
(she/her)
houserh@utexas.edu |
n/a during pandemic |
PAR 228
Education: Ph.D., 2010, Stanford University
Interests: 20th- and 21st-century fiction (US focus); environmental literature and humanities; science & technology studies; the medical humanities; affect studies; data in narrative and new media
Martin W Kevorkian
Chair
mkevorkian@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-4991 |
CAL 226E
Education: Ph.D., 2000, University of California Los Angeles
Interests: American Renaissance (mid-nineteenth-century New England literary culture); technology and race.
Peter LaSalle
Susan Taylor McDaniel Regents Professor in Creative Writing
pnl315@yahoo.com |
512-471-8113 |
PAR 24
Education: B.A., Harvard University, 1969, M.A., University of Chicago, 1972
James N Loehlin
Shakespeare at Winedale Regents Professor; University Distinguished Teaching Professor
jnloehlin@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4993 |
CAL 205
Education: Ph.D., 1993, Stanford University
Interests: Shakespeare in performance (stage and film); Renaissance drama; modern drama.
Mark Garrett Longaker
Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric and Writing
longaker@utexas.edu |
512-471-8725
Education: Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Carol H MacKay
University Distinguished Teaching Professor
mackay@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-8970 |
PAR 221
Education: Ph.D., 1979, University of California Los Angeles
Interests: Victorian novel; women's studies; autobiography; authors: William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Julia Margaret Cameron, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Annie Besant, Elizabeth Robins, Virginia Woolf.
Elizabeth McCracken
James A. Michener Chair in Creative Writing
CAL 317
Education: M.F.A., 1990, University of Iowa
Lisa L Moore
Archibald A. Hill Regents Professor in American and English Literature and Director of the LGBTQ Studies Program
llmoore@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-1837 |
CAL 216
Education: Ph.D., 1991, Cornell University
Interests: Eighteenth-century English and American literature; women's literature; LGBT literature and culture; poetry and poetics; visual studies and garden history; feminist and queer theory; history of sexuality.
Gretchen Murphy
Professor
gretchen@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-8532 |
CAL 311
Education: Ph.D., 1999, University of Washington
Interests: U.S. Literature and culture to 1914; nationalism and imperialism; sentimental and domestic writing.
Lisa Olstein
Professor
512-471-6095 |
CAL 315
Education: M.F.A., 2003, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Interests: poetry, poetic prose, creative process, interdisciplinary artistic collaboration
John P Rumrich
Professor
rumrich@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8115 |
PAR 315 and SZB 323
Education: Ph.D., 1981, University of Virginia
Elizabeth Scala
Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English, Graduate Advisor for Medieval Studies, Director of English Honors Program
scala@austin.utexas.edu |
CAL 316
Education: Ph.D., 1994, Harvard University
Interests: Chaucer; the history of Chaucer studies; the textual environments of medieval literature.
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Faculty
cathy.schlundvials@austin.utexas.edu |
CALHOUN 219
Education: Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Interests: Immigrant and refugee narratives, Asian American literature, ethnic American literature, Asian American studies, disability studies, ecocriticism, ethnic studies, cultural studies, nationalism, memory, U.S. imperialism.
Clay Spinuzzi
Professor & Associate Chair, the Department of Rhetoric and Writing
clay.spinuzzi@utexas.edu |
512-471-8707 |
PAR 17
Education: Ph.D., 1999, Iowa State University
Interests: Rhetoric; computers and English studies; genre theory; activity theory; computers and writing; workplace studies; research methods and methodologies.
Jeffrey Walker
Professor of Rhetoric and Writing
jswalker@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7843 |
PAR 3
Education: Ph.D., 1985, University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Rhetorical theory, history of rhetoric, ancient rhetoric, rhetoric and poetics, modern rhetoric and literature
Hannah C. Wojciehowski
Arthur J. Thaman and Wilhelmina Doré Thaman Professor of English
gemelli@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8768 |
PAR 230
Education: PhD, Yale University
Interests: the history of subjectivity; group identity formation; globalization and transculturation; sixteenth-century travel literature; cognitive criticism; women writers in early modern Europe
Marjorie Curry Woods
Sue Goldston Lebermann Professor of Liberal Arts
marjoriewoods@austin.utexas.edu |
CAL 301
Education: Ph.D., U. of Toronto
Interests: Medieval literature; medieval and renaissance rhetoric and pedagogy; composition exercises in premodern classroom; modern use of premodern compostion exercises
Dean Young
William Livingston Chair of Poetry
deanyoung@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-8394 |
CAL 312
Education: M.F.A. in Creative Writing, 1984, Indiana University
Interests: Poetry
Associate Professors
Samuel Baker
(on leave)
Associate Professor
sebaker@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8389 |
CAL 308
Education: Ph.D., 2001, University of Chicago
J.K. Barret
Associate Professor
jkbarret@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8390 |
CAL 310
Education: Ph.D., 2008, Princeton University
Interests: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature; the Renaissance future; time; literature and the visual arts; early modern legal theory; classical reception; narrative.
Chad Bennett
Associate Professor
chad.bennett@utexas.edu |
PAR 319
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Interests: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture, poetry and poetics, queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, film and media studies, and creative writing.
Daniel Birkholz
Associate Professor
birkholz@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8807 |
PAR 225
Education: Ph.D., 1999, University of Minnesota
Interests: Middle English literature (especially lyric); Anglo-Norman literature (especially fabliau); geography, travel writing, and the history of cartography; medieval manuscript culture (miscellanies especially); Viking literature and culture; biography and biographical theory; post-medieval medievalism; pedagogy; Digital Humanities
Mia Carter
Associate Professor, University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor
miac@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8733 |
PAR 123
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Tanya Clement
Associate Professor
tclement@utexas.edu |
PAR 218
Education: MFA in Fiction, University of Virginia; PhD in English Literature, University of Maryland
Interests: Digital Humanities, American Modernism, Textual Studies, Sound Studies, Scholarly Information Infrastructure, Humanities Data Curation
Rasha Diab
Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric and Writing
rashadiab@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3280 |
PAR 3
Education: Ph.D., Composition and Rhetoric, 2009, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Rhetorical theory, history and criticism; composition studies; political discourse; critical discourse analysis; comparative/contrastive and (inter)cultural rhetoric; public address; transnational rhetoric; multilingual writing and writing center pedagogy; qualitative research methods; rhetorics of reconciliation and peacemaking.
Linda Ferreira-Buckley
Associate Professor, Associate Chair, Graduate Advisor
lfb@utexas.edu |
512-471-7843 |
PAR 16
Elizabeth A Hedrick
Associate Professor
eahedrick@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-8705 |
PAR 226
Education: Ph.D., 1986, Columbia University
Interests: Feminist theory since 1970; gender and science; eighteenth-century novel and drama; Samuel Johnson; history of charity and philanthropy.
Susan S Heinzelman
Associate Professor
sheinz@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8736; 512-471-5149 |
PAR 126; GEB 4.208
Education: Ph.D., 1977, University of Western Ontario
Interests: Eighteenth century women's novels; feminism, law, and literature.
Lars Hinrichs
Associate Professor
TxE@utexas.edu |
512-471-8755 |
PAR 219
Education: Ph.D., 2006, English Linguistics, University of Freiburg
Interests: Sociolinguistics; anthropological linguistics; corpus linguistics, Pidgins and Creoles; computer-mediated communication.
Neville Hoad
Associate Professor
nhoad@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-8749 |
PAR 215
Education: Ph.D., 1998, Columbia University
Interests: Victorian feminism; psychoanalysis (particularly Freud and Klein); contemporary feminist theory in French and English; lesbian and gay studies; queer theory; international human rights law pertaining to sexual orientations; sexuality and gender issues in Southern Africa.
Coleman Hutchison
Associate Professor
coleman.hutchison@utexas.edu |
512-471-8372 |
CAL 314
Education: Ph.D., 2006, Northwestern University
Interests: U.S. literature and culture to 1900; the U.S. south; the American Civil War; poetry; print culture
David Kornhaber
Associate Professor
david.kornhaber@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8712 |
CAL 209
Education: Ph.D., 2009, Columbia University
Interests: Modern and contemporary drama; intersections of theatre and philosophy; critical theory; modernism and the avant-garde
Donna Kornhaber
Associate Professor
donna.kornhaber@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8392 |
CAL 207
Education: Ph.D., 2009, Columbia University
Interests: Film Studies
Allen MacDuffie
Associate Professor
allenmacduffie@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8767 |
PAR 229
Education: Ph.D., 2007, Harvard University
Interests: Victorian literature, literature and science studies, environmental literature and criticism
Eric S Mallin
Associate Professor
emall@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-1697 |
PAR 317
Education: Ph.D., 1986, Stanford University
Interests: Shakespeare; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English drama; new historicism; queer theory; Shakespearean/early modern themes as they transmogrify and metastasize in contemporary cinema.
Julie A. Minich
Associate Professor
minichja@utexas.edu |
PAR 227
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Neil R Nehring
Associate Professor
neilnehring@sbcglobal.net |
512-471-8713 |
PAR 23
Education: Ph.D., 1985, University of Michigan
Interests: Popular music and youth subcultures; the avant-garde.
Domino R. Perez
Associate Chair
drperez@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-9434 |
CAL 401
Education: Ph.D., University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Interests: Young Adult Fiction; Mexican American and Latinx Literature and Culture; American Literature; Popular Culture; Film; Cultural Studies
Roger Reeves
Faculty
Education: M.F.A, Michener Center for Writers; PhD, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
UT Regents’ and Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of English, Director of the Program in Comparative Literature
emrg@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-5708 |
PAR 119
Education: Ph.D., 1992, Columbia University
Interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century European drama; Oscar Wilde; the Gothic and Orientalism; decadence; detective fiction; aesthetic and literary theory; literature and the fine arts.
Snehal Shingavi
Associate Professor
snehal.shingavi@utexas.edu |
512-471-8114 |
PAR 26
Education: PhD, University of California-Berkeley
Interests: Anglophone South Asian literature, 20th century literature, Hindi/Urdu literature, Literature in Translation and Translation Theory, Theories of “the nation” and/or postcolonialism, Classical Marxism, Ethnic and Third World Literature, Asian American Literature
Deb Olin Unferth
Associate Professor
debou@utexas.edu |
PAR 322
Education: M.F.A., 1998, Syracuse University
Jennifer M. Wilks
Associate Professor
jmwilks@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8702 |
PAR 329
Education: Ph.D., 2003, Cornell University
Interests: Comparative African American and Caribbean literatures, contemporary African diasporic literature, Francophone literature and culture, women's and gender studies
Helena Woodard
Associate Professor
hwood@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8703 |
PAR 331
Education: Ph.D., 1991, English, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Interests: 18th century British literature; ethnic and Third World literature; american literature, critical race theory; women, gender, and literature
Assistant Professors
Minou Arjomand
Assistant Professor
arjomand@utexas.edu |
Parlin 224
Education: PhD, 2013, Columbia University
Interests: twentieth and twenty-first century theatre, performance studies, aesthetic and political philosophy, opera
Casey A Boyle
Assistant Professor and Director of Digital Writing & Research Lab
Education: Ph.D., University of South Carolina
Scott Graham
Faculty
ssg@utexas.edu |
PAR 29
Education: PhD, Iowa State University
Interests: Computational Rhetorics; Science, Technology & Medicine Studies; New Materialisms; Rhetorical Genre Studies
Donnie Sackey
Assistant Professor
donnie.sackey@austin.utexas.edu |
PAR 20
Education: Ph.D., Rhetoric & Writing, 2013, Michigan State University
Interests: Rhetoric; environmental rhetoric; risk communication; community-engaged research; community literacy; computers and writing; research methods and methodology
Senior Lecturers
Betsy A Berry
Senior Lecturer
bbarama@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8385 |
CAL 306
Education: Ph.D., 1994, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Poetry; the short story; the British novel.
Brian Doherty
Senior Lecturer
bfd@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8798 |
PAR 326
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Interests: World literature. The Graphic Novel. Sixties Literature.
Patricia M. García
Senior Lecturer
pmgarcia@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-4991 |
Zoom
Education: Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Interests: Renaissance literature; women, gender, and literature; cultural studies.
Lecturers
George S Christian
Adjunct Professor
gschristian@utexas.edu |
512-232-7804 |
CAL 14
Education: Ph.D., 2000, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: The relationship of law and literature in the nineteenth-century English novel; the history of Scotland during the French Revolution.
Zachary Ryan Hines
Postdoctoral Lecturer
zhines@utexas.edu |
PAR 217
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Chaucer and Middle English literature; medieval manuscript culture; books and libraries; the English Middle Ages. Also, 'Quad'.
John Pipkin
Lecturer and Director of the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program
pipkinj@utexas.edu |
PAR 122
Education: Ph.D., Rice University
Interests: Creative Writing, Historical Fiction, Climate Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, British Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Literary Theory, New Historicism, Marxism
Aaron T. Pratt
Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts, Harry Ransom Center
aaron.pratt@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-6593 |
Harry Ransom Center
Education: Ph.D., 2016, Yale University
Interests: Early Modern Literature and History (esp. Drama); Bibliography; History of the Book; Genre Cinema; Home Video Technologies
Professors Emeriti
James B Ayres
Shakespeare at Winedale Regents Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., 1964, Ohio State University
Jeffrey Barnouw
Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., 1969, Yale University
Interests: Literature and philosophy; literature and music; history of critical theory and rhetoric; the Enlightenment.
Brian A Bremen
Associate Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., 1989, Princeton University
Interests: American literature; modernism; the digital humanities; writers of the Harlem Renaissance; literary theory.
Thomas M Cable
Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., 1969, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: History of the English language; rhythms and rhetoric of English poetry.
Evan B Carton
Joan Negley Kelleher Centennial Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., 1979, Johns Hopkins University
Interests: 19th and 20th century American literature; literary and cultural theory and historiography; antebellum evangelism, secularism, and radical politics, and their contemporary legacies; the theory and practice of the humanities.
Lester L Faigley
Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., 1976, University of Washington
Interests: Impacts of digital technologies on writing; visual rhetoric; written argument; travel literature.
John P Farrell
Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., 1967, Indiana University
Interests: Victorian literature; romantic literature; history of social though from Rousseau to the present; contemporary American poetry; contemporary Irish literature.
Laura Furman
Professor Emerita
ljfurman@mail.utexas.edu |
CAL 18
Education: B.A., 1968, Bennington College
Interests: Creative writing; fiction; non-fiction; biography.
James D Garrison
University Distinguished Teaching Professor
Education: Ph.D., 1972, University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Restoration and eighteenth-century literature; satire; epic; the Bible in English and American literature.
Ian Hancock
Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., London University
Interests: human rights; language and identity
Jacqueline M Henkel
Associate Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., 1985, University of Minnesota
Interests: The relation of linguistics to literary criticism; ordinary language philosophy; narrative theory; language and gender.
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois
Interests: Writer. Life and Literature of the Southwest.
Wayne A. Rebhorn
Mildred Hajek Vacek and John Roman Vacek Chair Emeritus of English in Honor of Professor Willet T. Conklin
Education: Ph.D., 1968, Yale University
Interests: English and European Renaissance literature and Renaissance rhetoric.
Patricia Roberts-Miller
Professor Emeritus
patriciarobertsmiller@gmail.com
Education: Ph.D., Rhetoric, 1987, University of California, Berkeley
Interests: History, theory, and pedagogy of public argumentation.
Charles R Rossman
University Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., 1968, University of Southern California
Interests: The nineteenth- and twentieth-century European novel; contemporary Latin-American fiction.
William J Scheick
J.R. Millikan Centennial Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., 1969, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Interests: American literature and culture, especially colonial and nineteenth through early twentieth century; turn-of-the-century British; narrative and poetic morphology.
Thomas F Staley
Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., 1962, University of Pittsburgh
Interests: James Joyce, Modern British Literature, Humanistic Research, and Building Library Collections
John R Trimble
University Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., 1971, University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Expository Writing; Editing; Rhetoric; Pedagogy; American Drama; the Short Story
Gary N Underwood
Associate Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., 1970, English Language & Linguistics, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, M.A. 1996, Theology & Ministry, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Frank F Whigham
Arthur J. Thaman and Wilhelmina Dore' Thaman Endowed Professorship in English
Education: Ph.D., 1976, University of California, San Diego
Michael B Winship
Iris Howard Regents Professor Emeritus in English Literature
Education: D.Phil, 1990, Oxford University
Interests: American and Transatlantic literature of the industrial era; History of the book, bibliography, and scholarly editing; Textual studies and digital humanities
Visiting Professor
Jonathan Howard
Donald D. Harrington Fellow
jonathandavid.howard@austin.utexas.edu; jonathan.howard@bc.edu
Education: Ph.D., Duke University
Interests: African Diaspora Literature, Black Studies, Environmental Humanities, Oceanic Studies
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Erica Brozovsky
Postdoctoral Lecturer
Interests: Sociolinguistics, language variation and change, bicultural identity, Texas English, Asian American literature
John D Fry
Postdoctoral Lecturer
Education: Ph.D. English Literature; M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry), University of Texas at Austin; Texas State University
