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David Curtis, Ph.D.
Professor of English and Associate Dean for Faculty for the College of Arts & Sciences
Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Specialization: Early American Literature; African American Literature
Email: Dr. Curtis
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Linda Holt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair of the English department
Ph.D., University of Louisville
Specialization: Rhetoric and Composition
Email: Dr. Holt
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Sarah Blomeley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director of the Writing Center
Ph.D., in English, Miami University
Specialization: Rhetoric and Composition
Email: Dr. Blomeley
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Cynthia Cox, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Ohio State University
Specialization: Rhetoric and Composition; Folklore
Email: Dr. Cox
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Susan Finch, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Florida State University
Specialization: Creative Writing with an emphasis in fiction
Email: Dr. Finch
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Amy Hodges-Hamilton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Florida State University
Specialization: Rhetoric and Composition
Email: Dr. Hodges Hamilton
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Caresse John, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Northern Illinois University
Specialization: Twentieth-Century American Literature
Email: Dr. John
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Jason Lovvorn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Specialization: Writing, literacy, culture, and technology
Email: Dr. Lovvorn
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Marcia McDonald, Ph.D.
Professor
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Specialization: Shakespeare and early modern literature
Email: Dr. McDonald
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Gary McDowell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Western Michigan University
Specialization: Creative Writing and contemporary American poetics
Email: Dr. McDowell
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Maggie Monteverde, Ph.D.
Professor
Ph.D., Ohio State University
Specialization: Medieval Literature
Email: Dr. Monteverde
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Douglas Murray, Ph.D.
Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Specialization: Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Email: Dr. Murray
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Joel Overall, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Texas Christian University
Specialization: Rhetoric and Composition
Email: Dr. Overall
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John Paine, Ph.D.
Professor
Ph.D., Emory University
Specialization: World Literature
Email: Dr. Paine
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Robbie Pinter, Ed.D.
Professor
Ed.D., Vanderbilt University
Specialization: Writing
Email: Dr. Pinter
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Annette Sisson, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the Graduate Program
Ph.D., Indiana University
Specialization: Victorian Literature
Email: Dr. Sisson
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Bonnie Smith Whitehouse, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Specialization: Writing and Rhetoric
Email: Dr. Smith Whitehouse
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Andrea Stover, Ph.D.
Professor
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Specialization: Writing
Email: Dr. Stover
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Sue Trout, M.A.
Assistant Professor
M.A., University of South Carolina
Specialization: American Literature
Email: Professor Trout
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Jayme Yeo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D, Rice University
Specialization: Renaissance devotional poetry, nationalism, and civil unrest
Email: Dr. Yeo
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Kim Balding, M.A.
Instructor
M.A., Belmont University
Specialization: Irish culture and literature
Email: Professor Balding
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Wyeth Burgess, Ph.D.
Instructor
Ph.D., Emory University
Specialization: Writing, Myth Studies, World Literature
Email: Dr. Burgess
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Victoria Doner, M.A.
Instructor
M.A., University of Iowa
Specialization: Writing
Email: Professor Doner
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Charmion Gustke, Ph.D.
Instructor
Ph.D., George Washington University
Specialization: Twentieth-Century American Literature and Postcolonial Theory
Email: Dr. Gustke
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