Department of English Faculty and Staff

Full-time Faculty

 


Robert Bray, R. Forrest Colwell Professor of American Literature

19th century American poetry, Anglophone Caribbean literature, Abraham Lincoln

 



Mary Ann Bushman, Associate Professor of English and IWU Writing Program Director

Shakespeare, humanities, Renaissance literature, British poetry
(medieval-18th century)

Wes Chapman, Associate Professor of English and Department Chair

Literary theory, poetry, modernism, postmodernism


Lynn DeVore, Associate Professor of English

Creative writing (fiction), modernism, contemporary American literature



Joanne Diaz, Assistant Professor of English

Creative writing (poetry), early modern literature


Pamela Muirhead, Associate Professor of English

19th and 20th century American literature, African American literature


Kathleen O'Gorman, Professor of English

20th century British and Irish literature, 20th century Latin American fiction, 20th century experimental fiction, 20th century women writers, American drama

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James Plath, Professor of English
Journalism, creative writing (fiction), film, American literature since 1850

Alison Sainsbury, Associate Professor of English

Post-colonial literature, British Imperialist discourse, women's studies, creative non-fiction

Dan Terkla, Professor of English and Humanities Coordinator

Medieval studies, Beat writers, travel narratives, interdisciplinary humanities

Michael Theune, Associate Professor of English

Creative writing (poetry), contemporary American poetry, British romanticism

 

Visiting and Adjunct Faculty

Dave Kindred, Adjunct Professor of English

Zarina Mullan Plath, Adjunct Instructor of English


Brandi Reissenweber, Adjunct Instructor of English

Bobbie Silk, Adjunct Instructor of English

Professors Emeriti
Barbara Bowman
James McGowan


Staff

Office Coordinator: Kathie Bradley

Student Assistants:  James Buebe, Rhiannon Dam, Audra Kuchling, Ashley Nykolajiszyn-DeSantis, and wRenRuthven (Iggy) Romack