Faculty and Staff

Teaching & Research Areas: Asian American literary traditions, representations of race in American literature, intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality in social identity formation as depicted in literary texts.  

Teaching & Research Areas: American literature, gender issues in language and literature, research methods, American women’s writing, biography, autobiography, memoir, utopian and communal studies, religion and literature, science and literature.

Teaching & Research Areas: fiction, short fiction, flash fiction, contemporary literature, editing, and publishing.

Teaching & Research Areas: professional development for educating English learners, teaching emergent multilinguals, development of academic language/literacy, English language teaching, action research in language education.

Teaching and Research Areas: Pedagogy in technical and professional writing, intercultural studies, students' transition from school to work, multigenerational groups in the workplace, recruitment, retention, and recognition in the workplace.

Teaching & Research Areas: British literature, critical approaches to literature, 18th/19th-century literature, creative writing, literature and science/medicine, gender studies, popular culture, pedagogy.

Teaching & Research Areas: early English literature, history of rhetoric, critical theory, research methods, creative nonfiction, writing about literature, composition.

Teaching & Research Areas: TESOL, educator collaboration, best practices to support English learners, literacy, family engagement, school improvement, Ozarks studies.

Teaching & Research Areas: creative writing, short stories, fiction. Currently engaged in publishing most recent novel, "The Hippie Novel: Throwing Peanuts at the Sun."

Teaching & Research Areas: creative writing, poetry.

Teaching & Research Areas: creative writing, poetry, contemporary American poetry.

Teaching & Research Areas: critical approaches to literature, American literature, African American literature, race and ethnicity in the U.S., research methods in English.

Teaching & Research Areas: American Judaism, studies in literature, European literature, non-European world literature, Jewish Literature, writing for graduate and professional schools.

Teaching & Research Areas: creative writing, creative nonfiction, short stories, fiction, popular culture, horror fiction, and cinema.

Teaching & Research Areas: technical writing, writing for the professions, food writing, English/American grammar, academic advising.

Teaching & Research Areas: teaching middle and high school English, composition/rhetoric, writing for teachers, Ozarks studies, place-conscious education with an emphasis in community literacy, teacher leadership, composition theory and practice.

Teaching & Research Areas: teaching of writing, digital writing, the impact of writing professional development on teachers and students, reading, writing, and thinking in the 21st century, virtual education.

Teaching & Research Areas: folklore, American folklore, Ozarks studies, regional literature, writing and composition.

Teaching & Research Areas: public issues in popular culture, composition theory and practice, writing across the disciplines, and music.

Teaching & Research Areas: writing across the disciplines, creative writing, short stories, contemporary American fiction, ESL students and education, linguistics, sociolinguistics.

Teaching & Research Areas: qualitative research theories and methods in English education, general methods of instruction, teacher identity, religion and education.

Teaching & Research Areas: technical writing, technology, retention studies.

Teaching & Research Areas: children's and young adult literature, fantasy, censorship, literacy.

Teaching & Research Areas: English education, methods of teaching English, writing for teachers, critical thinking in homogenous school spaces, justice-oriented teaching and learning, discourse analysis in educational settings.

Teaching & Research Areas: English literature, World literature, modern British literature, Victorian literature, women's literature, gender issues in language and literature, critical approaches to literature, revolution and democracy.

Teaching & Research Areas: fiction, creative nonfiction, graphic narrative, literary theory, contemporary literature, hybrid forms.

Teaching & Research Areas: medieval studies, Shakespeare, British literature, language and power.

Teaching & Research Areas: writing for graduate and professional schools, writing across the disciplines, argument writing, Women's lIterature.

Teaching & Research Areas: intercultural technical writing, transnational higher education, workplace writing, police writing, technical writing pedagogy.

Teaching & Research Areas: technical writing, writing for health professions, online environments, and workplace writing environments.

Teaching & Research Areas: world Englishes/sociolinguistics, Second language writing, linguistics, TESOL.

Teaching & Research Areas: creative nonfiction, scientific literature, editing, publishing, regulatory writing, online education.

Teaching & Research Areas: composition pedagogy, feminist and postmodern rhetorics, collaborative theories, writing center studies, basic writing, and directed self-placement.