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
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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
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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
| |  | James Plath, Professor of English
Journalism, creative writing (fiction), 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
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Visiting and Adjunct Faculty
Professors Emeriti
Barbara Bowman
James McGowan
Staff
Office Coordinator: Kathie Bradley
Student Assistants: Audra Kuchling, Ashley Nykolajiszyn-DeSantis, wRenRuthven (Iggy) Romack, Bryn Saunders, and Korey Williams