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Department of English

Hosam Aboul-Ela. Assistant Professor of English. Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.

Margot Backus. Associate Professor of English. Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.

Dorothy Z. Baker. Associate Professor of English. B.A., Middlebury College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

John D. Bernard. Emeritus Professor of English. A.B., M.A.T., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of Minnesota.

Harmon S. Boertien. Associate Professor of English. B.A., M.A., University of Washington; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.

Robert Boswell. Cullen Foundation Professor of English. B.A., M.F.A., M.S. University of Arizona.

Elizabeth Brown-Guillory. Professor of English. B.A., M.A., University of Southwestern Louisiana; Ph.D., Florida State University.

Ann Christensen. Director of Lower Division Studies and Associate Professor of English. B.A., Quincy College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois.

James D. Cleghorn. Associate Professor of English. B.A., University of Illinois; M.A., M.F.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts.

Marianne Cooley. Associate Professor of English. B.A., Oklahoma State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.

Chitra A. Divakaruni. Professor of English. B.A., Calcutta University, India; M.A., Wright State University; Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley.

Terrell F. Dixon. Associate Professor of English. B.A., University of Oklahoma; Ph.D., Indiana University.

Mark Doty. John and Rebecca Moores University Scholar and Professor of English. B.A., Drake University; M.F.A., Goddard College.

Ted L. Estess. Dean of The Honors College and Professor of English. B.A., Baylor University; M.Div., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Syracuse University.

Karen Fang. Assistant Professor of English. B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.

Nick Flynn. Assistant Professor of English. B.A., University of Massachusetts; M.A., New York University.

Peter J. Gingiss. Associate Professor of English. B.A., Colgate University; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University.

Maria Gonzalez. Associate Professor of English. B.A., M.A., Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio; Ph.D., Ohio State University.

Elizabeth Gregory. Director of the Women's Studies Program and Associate Professor of English. B.A., Barnard College; M.A., University of Kentucky; Ph.D., Yale University.

Paul Guajardo. Associate Professor of English. B.A., Brigham Young University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle.

Kimiko Hahn. Visiting Professor of English. B.A., University of Iowa; M.A., Columbia University.

Wyman H. Herendeen. Chair and Professor of English. B.A., M.A., Brown University; Ph.D., University of Toronto.

Edward Hirsch. Distinguished University Professor of English. B.A., Grinnell College; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

Tony Hoagland. Associate Professor of English. B.A., University of Iowa; M.F.A., University of Arizona.

W. Lawrence Hogue. Professor of English. B.A., University of Minnesota; M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., Stanford University.

Natalie Houston. Director of Upper-Division Studies and Associate Professor of English. B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D. Duke University.

David C. Judkins. Associate Professor of English. B.A., Ball State University; M.A., Eastern Michigan University; Ph.D., Michigan State University.

James L. Kastely. Director of Creative Writing and Associate Professor of English. A.B., University of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago.

Carl Lindahl. Professor of English. B.A., Harvard College; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University.

Rubén Martínez. Associate Professor of English.

David S. Mazella. Associate Professor of English. B.A., Columbia College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University.

John F. McNamara. Professor of English. A.B., Spring Hill College; M.A., Marquette University; Ph.D., Louisiana State University.

David Mikics. Professor of English. A.B., New York University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University.

William F. Monroe. Associate Dean of the Honors College and Professor of English. B.A., M.A., University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., University of Chicago.

Antonya Nelson. Cullen Foundation Professor of English. B.A., University of Kansas; M.F.A., University of Arizona.

Robert Phillips. John and Rebecca Moores University Scholar and Professor of English. B.A., M.A., Syracuse University.

James H. Pickering. Professor of English and Professor of Educational Leadership and Cultural Studies. B.A., Williams College; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University.

James W. Pipkin. Associate Professor of English. B.A., University of Florida; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University.

Claudia Rankine. Associate Professor of English. B.A., Williams College; M.F.A., Columbia University.

Dudley W. Reynolds. Associate Professor of English. B.A., Davidson College; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University.

Irving N. Rothman. Professor of English. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh.

Daniel Stern. Cullen Distinguished Professor of English.

Lorraine Kochanske Stock. Associate Professor of English. B.A., City University of New York, Lehman College; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University.

George Y. Trail. Associate Professor of English. A.B., M.A., Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia.

Lynn M. Voskuil. Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of English. B.A., Covenant College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago.

Roberta F. Weldon. Associate Professor of English. B.A., St. John's University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University.

Linda A. Westervelt. Associate Professor of English. B.S., Georgetown University; Ph.D., Rice University.

Barry Albert Wood. Associate Professor of English. B.A., University of Toronto; M.A., University of British Columbia; Ph.D., Stanford University.

Patricia Lee Yongue. Associate Professor of English. A.B., M.A., University of San Francisco; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Adam Zagajewski. Distinguished University Professor of English and Visiting Professor of English. B.A., M.A., Jagellonian University (Krakow, Poland).

Lois Zamora. Professor of English, History and Art. B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Sherry Ann Lutz Zivley. Associate Professor of English. B.A., University of Texas; M.A., New Mexico State University; Ph.D., Tulane University.