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Research Interests of the English Faculty


Arnold, David L. G.
David Arnold's research interests include William Faulkner's use of elegy, American folklore, film and television, and crosspollinations of literature and music.

Balhorn, Mark G.
Professor Balhorn's research interests include theoretical linguistics, second language acquisition, and the socio-political issues associated with teaching English as a second language.

Berry, James
James Berry’s academic interests include generative syntax, language change, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, language contact, stylistics, and language invention.

Bowman, Mary R.
Mary Bowman's research interests include narrative and lyric poetry (especially epic and romance), reader response, and feminist criticism.

Gantz, Lauren
Lauren Gantz specializes in Caribbean and American Ethnic Literatures, with additional interests in trauma, memory, and archival studies. Her research focuses on the way that novels by contemporary Caribbean writers negotiate historical trauma.

Gott, Patricia
Patricia Gott's professional areas of specialization include modern and contemporary British literature, multicultural American writers, and feminist studies.

Kuzmanovic, Dejan
Dejan Kuzmanovic specializes in 19th- and 20th-century British literature, psychoanalysis, and theories of gender and sexuality.

Ludwig, Lynn
Lynn Ludwig's research and teaching interests include technical writing in government, industry and private business, current practices in business communication, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL), and experiential learning in all fields of writing.

Mahon, M. Wade
Wade Mahon's areas of interest include rhetoric, composition, and 18th-century literature.

Morgan, Lawrence
Lawrence Morgan interests include various introductory writing courses, technical and professional writing, writing about the outdoors, and online instruction.

Ringelspaugh,Erica
Erica's research interests include the power of formative assessment and feedback for learning, how teachers best create and strengthen relationships with students to increase student motivation, and developing "teacher identity" in pre-service education students.

Roloff, David
Interested in the effects that access to technology has on student learning, especially when its intertwined with the process approach to writing.

Sirabian, Robert H
Robert Sirabian's primary area of interest is nineteenth-century British literature (Romantic and Victorian periods), while additional research areas include nineteenth-century Anglo-Saxonism, Armenian-American literature, and sports and literature.

Stephens, Rebecca
Rebecca Stephens' research interests are in drama, television, and nationalism.

Tangedal, Ross
Ross Tangedal’s research interests include 19th- and 20th-century American print & publishing culture, authorship, book history, bibliography, textual editing, and editorial theory. His published work focuses primarily on Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the profession of authorship in America.

Williams, G. Christopher
Christopher Williams is interested in a broad variety of topics in twentieth century literature, literary theory, and other newly emerging fields of study that have an interest in narrative, including film studies, pop culture studies, and media studies.





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