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; Jane Austen; early fiction by women.
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
Jerome F Bump
Professor
bump@utexas.edu |
512-471-8747 |
PAR 132
Education: Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Interests: Gerard Manley Hopkins; Alice books; Victorian literature; literature of nature; animal humanities; digital humanities.
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
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
Ann Cvetkovich
Professor
cvet@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8374 |
PAR 323
Education: Ph.D., 1988, Cornell University
Interests: Gay and lesbian studies; public feelings; trauma studies.
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.
Lester L Faigley
Professor Emeritus
faigley@utexas.edu |
512-471-7471 |
CAL 216
Education: Ph.D., 1976, University of Washington
Interests: Impacts of digital technologies on writing; visual rhetoric; written argument; travel literature.
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.
Don B Graham
Professor
dgbb@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-8387 |
CAL 306
Education: Ph.D., 1971, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Southwestern American literature; Australian literature and film; American literature.
Ian Hancock
Professor
xulaj@mail.utexas.edu |
512-232-7684 |
CAL 420
Education: Ph.D., London University
Interests: human rights; language and identity
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.
Martin W Kevorkian
Professor
mkevorkian@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-4991 |
PAR 325
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.
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
llmoore@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-1837 |
PAR 217
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, Graduate Advisor
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.
Wayne A Rebhorn
Celanese Centennial Professor, Department 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
Education: Ph.D., 1981, University of Virginia
John J Ruszkiewicz
Professor Emeritus
jr@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8764 |
CAL 202
Education: Ph.D., 1977, The Ohio State University
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
Blumberg Centennial Professor of English and University Distinguished Teaching Professor
marjoriewoods@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8383 |
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
Michael W Adams
Associate Professor, University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor
adameve@austin.utexas.edu |
CAL 316
Education: Ph.D., 1973, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Legal writing; history of Western thought; the Bible as literature; the modern short story; the modern American novel.
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.
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
Brian A Bremen
Associate Professor
bremen@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7842 |
PAR 127
Education: Ph.D., 1989, Princeton University
Interests: American literature; modernism; the digital humanities; writers of the Harlem Renaissance; literary theory.
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
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.
Geraldine Heng
Associate Professor
heng@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7480 |
PAR 213
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
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
Associate Professor
houserh@utexas.edu |
512-471-8766 |
PAR 228
Education: Ph.D., 2010, Stanford University
Interests: 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone fiction (US focus); environmental literature and criticism; science, technology, and culture; 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
Sara E Kimball
Associate Professor
kimballs321@gmail.com |
512-471-8363 |
CAL 15
Education: Ph.D., 1983, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Hittitology; Hittite and Indo-European languages; historical linguistics; lexicography; language and gender; history of literacy.
David Kornhaber
Associate Professor; Graduate Adviser, Program in Comparative Literature
david.kornhaber@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8712 |
PAR 22
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; intersections of film, theatre, and literature
Mark Garrett Longaker
Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric and Writing
longaker@utexas.edu |
512-471-8725
Education: Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
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.
Lisa Olstein
Associate 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
Domino R. Perez
Associate Professor
drperez@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7853 |
CAL 401
Education: Ph.D., University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Interests: Young Adult Fiction; American Literature; Popular Culture; Cultural Studies; Film
Matt T Richardson
Associate Professor
matturichardson@austin.utexas.edu |
BLS 3.200M
Education: Ph.D., 2005, African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor, 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; Renaissance drama; Oscar Wilde; the Gothic and Orientalism; decadence; aesthetic and literary theory; literature and the fine arts.
Snehal Shingavi
Faculty
snehal.shingavi@utexas.edu |
512-471-8114 |
PAR 26
Education: PhD, University of California-Berkeley
Interests: Anglophone South Asian literature, Hindi/Urdu literature, Literature in Translation and Translation Theory, Theories of “the nation” (anticolonialism, nationalism, statism, postcolonialism, postnationalism, cosmopolitanism, globalization, transnationalism, internationalism), Classical Marxism, 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
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.
Casey A Boyle
Assistant Professor and Director of Digital Writing & Research Lab
Education: Ph.D., 2011, University of South Carolina
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.
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.
Katherine N Cox
Lecturer
calliope@utexas.edu |
PAR 110A
Education: Ph.D., 2016, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Medieval Literature, Milton and Shakespeare.
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.
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
Laurie Saurborn
Lecturer
laurasaurborn@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8734 |
PAR 124
Education: M.F.A., 2008, Warren Wilson M.F.A Program for Writers
Interests: Creative writing (poetry, fiction, and non-fiction); cultural psychology and creative processes; text and photographic image; women, gender, and literature
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.
Thomas M Cable
Professor Emeritus
tcable@mail.utexas.edu |
CAL 310
Education: Ph.D., 1969, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: History of the English language; rhythms and rhetoric of English poetry.
John P Farrell
Professor Emeritus
jackfar@austin.utexas.edu |
5123497462
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
jdgar@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8370 |
CAL 203
Education: Ph.D., 1972, University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Restoration and eighteenth-century literature; satire; epic; the Bible in English and American literature.
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
Professor Emeritus
rorro@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-8796 |
PAR 324
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois
Interests: Writer. Life and Literature of the Southwest.
Joseph E Kruppa
Professor Emeritus
joekruppa@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-8360 |
CAL 11
Education: Ph.D., 1964, Johns Hopkins University
Roger deVeer Renwick
Professor Emeritus
renwick@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-8775 |
PAR 317
Education: Ph.D., 1974, University of Pennsylvania
Charles R Rossman
University Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
rossman@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-8766 |
PAR 228
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
scheick@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-8383 |
CAL 301
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
tfs@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-9111 |
HRC 3.210
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
David A Wevill
Professor Emeritus
wevill@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8767 |
PAR 229
Education: M.A., 1958, Cambridge University
Visiting Professor
Agnes Boyer - Lafont
Faculty
agnes.lafont@utexas.edu |
512-806-6581 |
PAR 218
Education: Ph.D., 2003, University of Montpellier
Interests: Early Modern literature (especially drama and poetry); classical mythology; emblem books
