Faculty

• Marco Abel

  • Assistant Professor, PhD Pennsylvania State University. Graduate Faculty Fellow. Film, Critical Theory

• Jonis Agee

  • Adele Hall Professor, PhD State University of New York-Binghamton. Graduate Faculty Fellow. Creative writing (fiction), American literature, poetry. Current projects include a novel, book of stories, collection of essays on the writing life

• Grace Bauer

  • Associate Professor, MFA University of Massachusetts. Graduate Faculty Fellow. Creative writing (poetry), contemporary poetry. Currently working in poetry, the poetic series, and some creative nonfiction

• Stephen C. Behrendt

  • University Professor and George Holmes Distinguished Professor, PhD University of Wisconsin. Romanticism, later 18th century, literature and the other arts, the Corvey Collection of Romantic literature. Current projects include books on Romantic women writers, issues of canonicity and periodization in Romanticism, and William Blake, as well as original poetry

• Susan Belasco

  • Professor, PhD Texas A&M University. 19th Century American literature and culture; Women’s Studies; new technologies in rhetorical and literary study

• Franz G. Blaha

  • Associate Professor, PhD University of Graz. Popular literature, 20th-century drama, comparative literature

• Robert Brooke

  • Professor, PhD University of Minnesota. Composition and rhetoric. Current interests include composition theory, ethnographic research, K-12 schools outreach, creative non-fiction, regional and rural literacies

• Stephen M. Buhler

  • Professor, PhD University of California-Los Angeles. Renaissance literature, especially the works of Milton, Shakespeare, and Spenser. Current projects involve literary engagements with music, philosophy, and popular culture. Related studies in performance-based approaches to the teaching of literature

• Joy Castro

  • Associate Professor, PhD Texas A&M University. Memoir, Fiction, U.S. Ethnic Literatures, Women's Literatures, Modernism.

• Frances Condon

  • Associate Professor, PhD University at Albany. Writing Center Theory and Practice, Critical Race Theory, Composition. Current projects include writing on identity, ethos, and academic culture and on writing centers, subjectivity, and the writing subject.

• Barbara DiBernard

  • Professor, PhD State University of New York Binghamton. Lesbian literature, 20th-century U.S. women's literature, literature by women with disabilities, feminist pedagogy

• Wheeler Winston Dixon

  • Ryan Professor of Film Studies; PhD Rutgers University. Recent projects include books on Images of Eden in the Cinema, American Cinema of the 1940s and 1950s, Film and Television After 9/11, and Images of the Apocalypse in the Cinema. Editor-in Chief, with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video

• Kwakiutl L. Dreher

  • Assistant Professor, PhD University of California-Riverside. African American Literature, Popular Culture, Film

• James E. Ford

  • Associate Professor, PhD University of Chicago. Literary criticism, TESL. Currently working in critical pluralism, research methods.

• Gwendolyn A. Foster

  • Professor, PhD University of Nebraska. Film, Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, Coordinator of Film Studies. Recent work on Class-Passing, and film/video theory, Editor-in-Chief of The Quarterly Review of Film and Video

• Chris W. Gallagher

  • Associate Professor, PhD State University of New York Albany. Composition and Rhetoric, pedagogy, literacy, school reform

• Tom Gannon

  • Assistant Professor , PhD University of Iowa. Native American literatures, British Romanticism, ecology and literature

• Amy M. Goodburn

  • Professor, PhD Ohio State University. Composition, rhetoric, and literacy studies. Interests include multicultural and critical pedagogies, community literacy practices, and documentation of postsecondary teaching

• Donald L. Gregory

  • Associate Professor, PhD Ohio State University. American literature

• June Griffin

  • Assistant Professor of Practice, PhD University of Virginia. Areas of specialty include: Composition and Rhetoric, Discourse Analysis, Teaching with Technology. Courses regularly taught Rhetoric as Argument, Writing and Communities, and Nebraska Writing Project Technology Institute

• Michael Harpending

  • Assistant Professor, PhD Texas A & M. ESL Coordinator

• Anthony Hawley

  • Lecturer, MFA Columbia University. Poetry, Avant-garde Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction Writing, Italian Literature, Journal Editing

• Melissa J. Homestead

  • Associate Professor, Ph.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, American Literature and the History of the Book, with a focus on women’s authorship

• Maureen Honey

  • Professor, PhD Michigan State University. American Studies, Women's Studies, women in World War II, Harlem Renaissance, Popular Culture. Currently working on early 20th century American Women Writers, with an emphasis on recovery work

• Frances W. Kaye

  • Professor, PhD Cornell University. Canadian studies, Plains studies, Native studies. Interests include Canadian/American comparisons, arts and literature, history and culture

• T. Lew Kaye-Skinner

  • Lecturer, PhD University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Composition Theory and Practice, Online Teaching, Non-modernist writers during the Modernist period, English Renaissance, Bible as Literature

• Ted Kooser

  • Presidential Professor, MA University of Nebraska; Litt.D. Honorary, University of Nebraska; Litt.D. Honorary, South Dakota State University. U. S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006. Poet and essayist.

• Greg Kuzma

  • Professor, MA Syracuse University. Creative writing (poetry). Widely publishing poet and reviewer of poetry

• Thomas Lynch

  • Assistant Professor, PhD University of Oregon. Ecocriticism, Western and Southwestern American Literature

• Deborah Williams Minter

  • Associate Professor, PhD Univerity of Michigan. Composition, literacy studies and rhetoric. Current projects include a study of the rhetoric of serious childhood illness in literary and public discourse and a study of the uses of teaching portfolios at the college English level

• Amelia Montes

  • Associate Professor, PhD University of Denver. 19th-Century American Literature, Chicana/o Literature and Theory, creative writing, (fiction ). Current projects involve a book on Midwest Latinas, a memoir, Chicana/Latina Queer cultural criticism, and fiction writing

• Ruth Nissé

  • Associate Professor, PhD University of California-Berkeley. Medieval and early modern literature, esp. drama

• Seanna Sumalee Oakley

  • Francophone and Anglophone Afro-Caribbean literature; Comparative African Diasporic and European Poetics; Genre studies

• Kenneth M. Price

  • University Professor and Hillegass Chair of 19th Century American Literature, PhD University of Chicago. American literature, American periodicals, textual editing, humanities computing. Co-director, Walt Whitman Archive; co-director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities

• Stephen Ramsay

  • Assistant Professor, PhD University of Virginia. Fellow, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. Digital Humanities (text analysis and visualization), Literary Theory (with an emphasis on new media), Theater History.

• Hilda Raz

  • Professor, B.A. Boston University, Editor Prairie Schooner. Graduate Faculty Fellow. Creative Writing (Poetry). Has published collections of poetry, essays, and edited books. Current work: poetry and essays, literary magazine editing, assembling the book manuscript. Current projects include collaborations in creative nonfiction and mixed genres

• Guy Reynolds

  • Professor, Ph.D. University of Cambridge. Willa Cather, American women's fiction, American Studies. Currently working on a study of postwar U.S. writing and the Third World

• Joy Ritchie

  • Professor, PhD University of Nebraska. Composition and rhetoric. Feminist literary theory, literacy theory and education. Current work in women's rhetorical theory and feminist re-reading of the history of composition studies

• Gregory E. Rutledge

  • Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison. African-American Literature and Culture, American literature. Currently working on a book and articles on the "Epic Trickster," a paradigm for the (dis)continuity of the traditional African epic in African-American literature and culture, and a second novel

• Timothy Schaffert

  • Lecturer, MFA University of Arizona. Director of the Nebraska Summer Writers’ Conference. Fiction writing and creative nonfiction.

• Julia Schleck

  • Assistant Professor, PhD New York University. Renaissance Literature, and interdisciplinary study of the period. Currently working on early modern travel writings to the Near East.

• Gerald Shapiro

  • Willa Cather Professor, MFA University of Massachusetts. Creative writing (fiction) and Jewish-American Fiction.

• Judith Slater

  • Professor, MFA University of Massachusetts. Creative writing (fiction). Has published a collection of stories and is working on a new collection. Has published short fiction in a variety of literary and commercial magazines.

• Nicholas Spencer

  • Associate Professor, PhD Emory University. 20th Century American literature, critical theory

• Shari Stenberg

  • Associate Professor, Ph.D. State University of New York, Albany. Composition and Rhetoric, critical and feminist pedagogy, teaching and writing development.

• Mary K. Stillwell

  • Lecturer, PhD University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Writing (poetry, composition, personal narrative), Environmental literature and eco-critical thought, Plains literature, American poetry, Nebraska literature

• Robert Stock

  • Professor, PhD Princeton University. Restoration and 18th-century literature, the literary treatment of religious experience. Current projects involve daemonic enthrallment in literature from classical to modern times

• Jack Vespa

  • Assistant Professor of Practice. PhD University of Utah. Literature of Sensibility and Romanticism, the Wordsworth Circle

• Laura Mooneyham White

  • Associate Professor, PhD, Vanderbilt University. 19th and 20th century British literature, esp. novels. Interests include narrative theory, genre theory, history of manners, Anglo American modernism, and Jane Austen