College of Liberal Arts

Faculty

Emily Allen elallen@purdue.edu

(765) 49-49393 HEAV 426

Associate Professor, Department of English Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, gender studies, and culture studies

Janet Alsup jalsup@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43777 HEAV 436

Associate Professor, Departments of English and Curriculum & Instruction Teacher education and professional identity development; teaching composition, literature, and cultural studies in secondary schools; qualitative and narrative research methods in English education, and young adult literature

Dorsey Armstrong darmstrong@purdue.edu

(765) 49-48576 HEAV 309B

Associate Professor, Department of English British Literature; Arthurian Literature; Medieval Romance; Anglo-Saxon; Gender and Feminist Studies

Dwight Atkinson datkinso@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43764 HEAV 417

Associate Professor, Department of English English as a Second Language; Social, cultural, economic and political contexts of English

Jennifer Bay jbay@purdue.edu

(765) 49-48122 HEAV 301C

Assistant Professor, Department of English Rhetoric and Composition, New Media, Digital Rhetorics, Feminisms and Rhetorics, Professional Writing

Elena Benedicto ebenedi@purdue.edu

(765) 49-48118 HEAV 307B

Associate Professor, Department of English Theoretical Linguistics; General Grammar; Syntax and Syntax-Semantics Interface; Indigenous, endangered and minority languages; Mayangna; American Sign Language; African American English; and Romance Languages

Linda Bergmann lbergmann@purdue.edu

(765) 49-62814 HEAV 228A

Associate Professor, English Department and Director of the Writing Lab Rhetoric and Composition; Nineteenth-century American culture; writing theory, practice, and pedagogy

Margie Berns berns@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43774 HEAV 432

Professor, Department of English and Director of English as a Second Language English as a Second Language; World Englishes

Samantha Blackmon blackmos@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43742 HEAV 302B

Associate Professor, Department of English and Director of Composition Rhetoric and Composition, computers and composition, African-American culture, lesbian and women's studies

David Blakesley blakesle@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43772 HEAV 302C

Professor, Department of English and Director of Professional Writing Rhetoric and Composition, Modern rhetorical theory, film and digital media

Marianne Boruch mboruch@purdue.edu

(765) 49-40765 HEAV 204C

Professor, Department of English Creative Writing; Poetry Writing; 20th-century poetry

Kristina Bross kbross@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43745 HEAV 325B

Associate Professor, Department of English American Literature, particularly exploration and mission writings, transatlantic studies, gender and early colonial American culture

Marlo David mdavid@purdue.edu

(765) 49-40765 HEAV 204E

Assistant Professor, Departments of English and Women's Studies

Dorothy Deering ddeering@purdue.edu

(765) 49-40765 HEAV 204D

Associate Professor, Department of English Postcolonial Literature, British Literature, Bible as literature, Victorian poetry and non-fiction prose, and the the literatures of India

Lance Duerfarhd lduerfah@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43764 HEAV 420

Assistant Professor, Department of English Theory and Cultural Studies; bad films and film noir; history of photography; post-war Italian cinema; writing and illness

Angelica Duran duran0@purdue.edu

(765) 49-63957 HEAV 327B

Associate Professor, Department of English; Director of Religious Studies British Literature; 16th-century and 17th-century literature, natural philosophy/science, and educational reforms, with special interest in Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Herbert, Bunyan, and Donne; Comparative Literature, with a special interest in Anglophone-Hispanophone translation and influence, as well as the relationship of censorship and aesthetics

John Duvall  jduvall@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43760 HEAV 332B

Professor, Department of English and Editor, Modern Fiction Studies American Literature; 20th Century American Fiction; Modernism and Postmodernism; William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Don DeLillo

Dino Felluga felluga@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43770 HEAV 430

Associate Professor, Department of English British Literature, nineteenth-century literature (especially poetry), media studies, and critical theory

Wendy Flory floryw@purdue.edu

(765) 49-40765 HEAV 204B

Professor, Department of English American Literature; Poetry; Ezra Pound; American Literary Romance; Melville

Elaine Francis ejfranci@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43326 HEAV 408

Assistant Professor, Department of English Linguistics; Syntax, semantics, language processing, grammatical categories, Autolexical Grammar, Cantonese, form and function in linguistic theory

Jennifer Freeman Marshall jlfreem@purdue.edu

(765) 49-62810 HEAV 329C

Assistant Professor, Departments of English and Women's Studies

Geraldine Friedman friedman@purdue.edu

(765) 49-62805 HEAV 310C

Associate Professor, Department of English and Director of Literature British Literature, Literature and culture of Romanticism and Sensibility, critical theory, poststructuralism, women's writing, feminist theory, and theory and history of sexuality

April Ginther aginther@purdue.edu

(765) 49-62810 HEAV 329B

Associate Professor, Department of English and Director of OEPP English as a Second Language, Language testing and measurement

Sandor Goodhart goodhart@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43778 HEAV 438

Associate Professor, Department of English and Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Classics Dramatic literature (Greek tragedy and philosophy, Shakespeare, modern drama), literary theory and criticism (structuralism and poststructuralism, the history of critical theory), and Jewish Studies (Hebrew Bible, modern Jewish thought, Holocaust Studies)

Patricia Henley phenley@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43770 HEAV 428

Professor, Department of English Creative Writing; Fiction

Shaun Hughes sfdh@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43776 HEAV 434

Professor, Department of English Old Norse/Icelandic and Early Modern Icelandic Literature and Culture, Old and Middle English Language and Literature, History of the English Language, British Literature, Postcolonial Literature and World Literatures

Tara Johnson tarastar@purdue.edu

(765) 49-61220 HEAV 409

Assistant Professor, Department of English The intersections among race, class, gender, and sexuality in education; teacher-student relationships; poststructural feminism in qualitative research

Richard Johnson-Sheehan rjohnso@purdue.edu

(765) 49-62205 HEAV 302A

Professor, Department of English Rhetoric of Science, Professional Writing, Technical Writing

Michael Johnston mjohnst@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43326 HEAV 412

Assistant Professor, Department of English Middle English literature, the history of the book, theories of textual editing

Christian Knoeller knoeller@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43779 HEAV 314D

Associate Professor, Departments of English and Curriculum & Instruction Why English teachers have historically chosen - and been encouraged - to write, metaphors that students and teachers use to describe their writing processes, classroom discourse analysis, and imaginative writing in response to literature

Bob Lamb lambr@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43776 HEAV 435

Professor, Department of English American fiction 1791-1955; Euro-American realism, naturalism, and modernism; the short story; race and ethnicity; Jewish American Literature; American Studies; American social, cultural, and intellectual history, 1765-1974; American political thought; popular culture; film studies; sports culture

Mary Leader mleader@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43848 HEAV 314C

Associate Professor, Department of English Creative Writing

Clayton Lein lein@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43778 HEAV 440

Professor, Department of English Seventeenth-Century prose and poetry, choral music, and music in the Renaissance

Maren Linett mlinett@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43848 HEAV 411

Associate Professor, Department of English Modern British fiction; Anglo-American modernism; Modern Irish Literature

Al Lopez alopez@purdue.edu

(765) 49-40765 HEAV 204A

Associate Professor, Department of English Postcolonial Literature

Christopher Lukasik clukasik@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43324 HEAV 410

Assistant Professor, Department of English; Director of Undergraduate Studies, American Studies American literature and art history before 1900; Early American Studies; visual culture and theory; class and gender studies; history and theory of the novel; literature and science; literature and history; American literary history and criticism

Robyn Malo rmalo@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43756 HEAV 331B

Assistant Professor, Department of English British Literature; Chaucer and later medieval devotional literature

Bob Marzec rmarzec@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43759 HEAV 332A

Associate Professor, Department of English and Associate Editor, Modern Fiction Studies Contemporary British and Postcolonial Literature

Dan Morris dmorris@purdue.edu

(765) 49-62804 HEAV 308B

Professor, Department of English 20th Century American Literature; American Poetry, 20th Century American Art; Popular Culture; American literature, poetry, and drama; the relationship between American poetry and drama; Jewish-American literature, visual arts

Bill Mullen bvmullen@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43735 HEAV 315

Professor, Department of English and Director of American Studies American Literature and Studies; African American Studies; Cultural Studies; Working-Class Studies; Critical Race Theory; Marxist Theory

Bich Nguyen nguyenb@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43764 HEAV 416

Associate Professor, Department of English Creative Writing

Mary Niepokuj niepokuj@purdue.edu

(765) 49-48576 HEAV 309C

Associate Professor, Department of English and Director of English Language and Linguistics

Derek Pacheco dpacheco@purdue.edu

(765) 49-61647 HEAV 405

Assistant Professsor, Department of English American Literature

Joe Palmer wjpalmer@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43729 HEAV 313

Professor, Department of English and Director of Graduate Studies The Victorian Novel, Film Studies, 20th-Century British Fiction, New Historicism, Sports and Literature, Vietnam War Literature, Modern Irish Literature, and Postmodernism

Venetria Patton vpatton@purdue.edu

(765) 49-61647 HEAV 403

Associate Professor, Department of English; Director, African American Studies Research Center African American and Diasporic Women’s Literature, African American Literature, 19th c. American Literature, & Feminist Discourse

Nancy Peterson njp@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43741 HEAV 324A

Professor & Interim Head, Department of English Contemporary American Literature and postmodern theory; contemporary issues in American Studies, feminist theory and women's literature; American Indian history and literature

Don Platt plattd@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43727 HEAV 311B

Professor, Department of English Creative writing with emphasis on poetry; Twentieth-Century Poetry

Arkady Plotnitsky plotnits@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43770 HEAV 431

Professor, Department of English; Director of Theory and Cultural Studies Theory and Cultural Studies, specializing in critical and cultural theory, British and European romanticism; continental philosophy; modernism and postmodernism; relations among literature, philosophy, and science

Manushag (Nush) Powell mnpowell@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43778 HEAV 437

Assistant Professor, Department of English 18th Century British Literature

Victor Raskin vraskin@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43782 HEAV 441

Professor, Department of English Linguistics

Thomas Rickert trickert@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43719 HEAV 303B

Associate Professor, Department of English Rhetoric and Composition, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory

Charles Ross cross@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43749 HEAV 304A

Professor, Department of English and Director, Comparative Literature Romance epic, literature and law, and law in the English Renaissance

Margaret Moan Rowe mmrowe@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43756 HEAV 331C

Professor, Department of English Postcolonial Literature, Twentieth-century British fiction and poetry; commonwealth and women's literature

Aparajita Sagar asagar@purdue.edu

(765) 49-62804 HEAV 308C

Associate Professor, Department of English

Michael Salvo salvo@purdue.edu

(765) 49-48122 HEAV 301B

Associate Professor, Department of English Professional and technical writing, digital culture and new media studies, usability, and information architecture and design

James Saunders saunderj@purdue.edu

(765) 49-63390 HEAV 330B

Professor, Department of English African American literature; contemporary African American authors; American popular culture

Ryan Schneider pschnei@purdue.edu

(765) 49-62805 HEAV 310B

Associate Professor, Department of English 19th-century American Literature; Transcendentalism; African American literature; Public Intellectuals and Intellectual History

Patsy Schweickart pschweic@purdue.edu

(765) 49-63957 HEAV 327C

Professor, Department of English and Women's Studies Feminist theory, as well as feminist literary criticism, literary theory and theories of reading

Melanie Shoffner shoffner@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43763 HEAV 415

Assistant Professor, Department of English and Curriculum & Instruction preservice teacher reflection; teacher education and the preparation of secondary English teachers; the teaching of literature in secondary schools; beginning English teachers' issues of practice

Porter Shreve pshreve@purdue.edu

(765) 49-61651 HEAV 406

Professor, Department of English and Director of the MFA Creative Writing Program Creative writing, fiction

Tony Silva tony@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43774 HEAV 433

Professor, Department of English and Director, ESL Writing and Graduate Programs English as a Second Language Writing

Sharon Solwitz solwitz@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43745 HEAV 325C

Associate Professor, Department of English Creative Writing; Fiction

Pat Sullivan psulliva@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43768 HEAV 401

Professor, Department of English and Director of Rhetoric and Composition Rhetoric and Composition, methodology (including postmodern methodology); feminist issues in technology and writing; technical and professional writing; institutional critique; visual rhetorics communication

Irwin Weiser iweiser@purdue.edu

(765) 49-46478 HEAV 324

Professor, Department of English and Interim Dean, College of Liberal Arts Rhetoric and Composition, Composition theory, writing across the curriculum, and writing program administraton

Paul White pwhite@purdue.edu

(765) 49-63390 HEAV 330C

Professor, Department of English and Director, Medieval and Renaissance Studies British Literature, Theatrical patronage and religion/theatre relations in Renaissance England

Michael Yetman yetman@purdue.edu

(765) 49-43727 HEAV 311C

Associate Professor, Department of English British Literature

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