Professors
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
Professor
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
Evan B Carton
Professor
e.carton@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-8916 |
PAR 223
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.
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
University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Chair of the English Department
cullingford@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4991 |
CAL 226E
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
Director, Center for Mexican American Studies; Professor, Department of English
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
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 N 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.
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
lisaolstein@gmail.com |
512-471-6095 |
CAL 315
Education: M.F.A., 2003, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Interests: poetry, poetic prose, creative process, interdisciplinary artistic collaboration
Wayne A Rebhorn
Mildred Hayek Vacek and John Roman Vacek Chair of English
warebhorn@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8759 |
PAR 328
Education: Ph.D., 1968, Yale University
Interests: English and European Renaissance literature and Renaissance rhetoric.
Patricia Roberts-Miller
Professor and Director of the University Writing Center
patriciarobertsmiller@gmail.com |
512-471-8378 |
PAR 21
Education: Ph.D., Rhetoric, 1987, University of California, Berkeley
Interests: History, theory, and pedagogy of public argumentation.
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
Professor, Associate Chair, Graduate Advisor for Medieval Studies
scala@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8375 |
CAL 213
Education: Ph.D., 1994, Harvard University
Interests: Chaucer; the history of Chaucer studies; the textual environments of medieval literature.
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
Michael B Winship
Professor
bal@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8381 |
CAL 219
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
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 H 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
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
Assistant 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; popular medievalism; pedagogy
Mia Carter
Associate Professor, University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor
miac@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8733 |
PAR 123
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Oscar H. Casares
Associate Professor
ohcasares@utexas.edu |
512-471-8758 |
PAR 222
Education: M.F.A., University of Iowa
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.
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, Director of the Center for Women's & Gender Studies
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.
Jacqueline M Henkel
Associate Professor
henkelj@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4942 |
PAR 14
Education: Ph.D., 1985, University of Minnesota
Interests: The relation of linguistics to literary criticism; ordinary language philosophy; narrative theory; language and gender.
Lars Hinrichs
Associate Professor
larshinrichs@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.
Heather Houser
(she/her)
houserh@utexas.edu |
512-471-8766 |
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
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 Professor
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
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., Syracuse University
Jennifer M. Wilks
Associate Professor
jmwilks@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8702 |
PAR 329
Education: Ph.D., 2003, Cornell University
Interests: Paris as a site of diasporic intellectual exchange and transformation, comparative African American and Caribbean literature, contemporary African diasporic literature, Caribbean women’s writing, apocalyptic narratives
Helena Woodard
Associate Professor
hwood@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8703 |
PAR 331
Education: Ph.D., 1991, English, University of North Carolina
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
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.
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.
Patricia M. García
Lecturer
pmgarcia@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-4991 |
CAL 305
Education: Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Interests: Renaissance literature; women, gender, and literature; cultural studies.
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'.
Travis Chi Wing Lau
Lecturer
travisclau@austin.utexas.edu |
5124714991 |
CAL 403
Interests: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture; Disability Studies; History of Medicine; Medical Humanities; Literature and Science; Gender and Sexuality Studies
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.
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
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois
Interests: Writer. Life and Literature of the Southwest.
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
