Faculty List
American Literature
Michael W Adams
Associate Professor, University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor
adameve@austin.utexas.edu | CAL 316
Education
Ph.D., 1973, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Legal writing; history of Western thought; the Bible as literature; the modern short story; the modern American novel.Phillip J Barrish
Associate Professor
pbarrish@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-7840 | PAR 130
Education
Ph.D., 1991, Cornell University
Interests
American literature 1870-1930; medicine and literature; gender studies; "masculinity" as a cultural construction; whiteness studies; relationship between literature and liberalism.Chad Bennett
ACLS New Faculty Fellow
chad.bennett@utexas.edu | PAR 25
Education
Ph.D., 2010, Cornell UniversityBetsy A Berry
Senior Lecturer
bbarama@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8385 | CAL 306
Education
Ph.D., 1994, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Poetry; the short story; the British novel.Mary E Blockley
Professor
blockley@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8362 | PAR 320
Education
Ph.D., 1984, Yale University
Interests
Old English language and literature; history of the English language; medieval manuscripts; Germanic philology.Brian A Bremen
Associate Professor
bremen@uts.cc.utexas.edu | 512-471-7842 | PAR 127
Education
Ph.D., 1989, Princeton University
Interests
American literature; modernism; the digital humanities; writers of the Harlem Renaissance; literary theory.Matt Cohen
Associate Professor
matt.cohen@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-8112 | PAR 20
Education
Ph.D., 2002, College of William and MaryJames H. Cox
Associate Professor
jhcox@austin.utexas.edu | 512-232-7804 | CAL 218
Education
Ph.D., University of Nebraska at LincolnAnn Cvetkovich
Professor
cvet@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8374 | PAR 323
Education
Ph.D., 1988, Cornell University
Interests
Gay and lesbian studies; public feelings; trauma studies.Alan W Friedman
Professor
friedman@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8376 | CAL 214
Education
Ph.D., 1966, University of Rochester
Interests
British and American modernism; the novel; drama, especially Shakespeare; international programs, faculty governance and academic freedom.John Morán González
Associate Professor
jmgonzal@utexas.edu | 512-471-8117 | PAR 321
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests
Latino/a literature; Chicano/a literature; late nineteenth-century American literature; narrative theory; postcolonial studies.Don B Graham
Professor
dgbb@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8387 | CAL 306
Education
Ph.D., 1971, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
Southwestern American literature; Australian literature and film; American literature.Kurt Heinzelman
Professor
kheinz@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-6688 | PAR 121
Education
Ph.D., 1978, University of Massachusettes
Interests
British Romanticism 1750-1850; poetry and poetics; creative writing; archives and collecting; modernism and cultural economics.Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
Professor
rorro@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-8796 | PAR 324
Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Interests
Writer. Life and Literature of the Southwest.Heather Houser
Assistant Professor
houserh@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-8766 | PAR 228
Education
Ph.D., 2010, Stanford University
Interests
20th- and 21st-century Anglophone fiction (US focus); environmental literature and criticism; science, technology, and culture; the medical humanities; affect studies; description in narrative and new mediaColeman Hutchison
Associate Professor
coleman.hutchison@utexas.edu | 512-471-8372 | CAL 314
Education
Ph.D., 2006, Northwestern University
Interests
U.S. literature and culture to 1900; poetry; print culture; the U.S. south; the American Civil WarMartin W Kevorkian
Associate Professor, Associate Chair of the English Department
mkevorkian@utexas.edu | 512-471-8797 | PAR 325
Education
Ph.D., 2000, University of California Los Angeles
Interests
American Renaissance (mid-nineteenth-century New England literary culture); technology and race.David Kornhaber
Assistant Professor
david.kornhaber@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-9715 | PAR 22
Education
Ph.D., 2009, Columbia University
Interests
Modern and contemporary drama; intersections of theatre and philosophy; critical theory; modernism and the avant-gardeJoseph E Kruppa
Professor Emeritus
joekruppa@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-8360 | CAL 11
Education
Ph.D., 1964, Johns Hopkins UniversityJulia H. Lee
Assistant Professor
jxlee@utexas.edu | 512-471-6095 | CAL 315
Education
Ph.D., 2005, University of California, Los Angeles
Interests
Asian American, African American, and twentieth-century American literatures.Wayne Lesser
Associate Professor
lesser@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-8754 | PAR 218
Education
Ph.D., 1975, University of ChicagoLisa L Moore
Professor
llmoore@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-1837 | PAR 217
Education
Ph.D., 1991, Cornell University
Interests
Eighteenth-century English and American literature; women's literature; LGBT literature and culture; poetry and poetics; visual studies and garden history; feminist and queer theory; history of sexuality.Gretchen Murphy
Professor
gretchen@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8532 | CAL 311
Education
Ph.D., 1999, University of Washington
Interests
U.S. Literature and culture to 1914; nationalism and imperialism; sentimental and domestic writing.Domino R. Perez
Associate Professor, Co-Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies
drperez@austin.utexas.edu | 512-232-7853 | PAR 117
Education
Ph.D., University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Interests
Chican@ literature; American literature; popular culture; cultural studies; film.Eric Darnell Pritchard
Affiliate Faculty; Asst. Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies
Education
Ph.D., English, 2008, University of Wisconsin-MadisonMatt Richardson
Assistant Professor
mattrichardson@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-8700 | PAR 327
Education
Ph.D., 2005, African Diaspora Studies and Emphasis in Women's and Gender Studies, University of California, BerkeleyPatricia Roberts-Miller
Professor
redball@mindspring.com | 512-471-8378 | PAR 21
Education
Ph.D., Rhetoric, 1987, University of California, Berkeley
Interests
History, theory, and pedagogy of public argumentation.William J Scheick
J.R. Millikan Centennial Professor Emeritus
scheick@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-8383 | CAL 301
Education
Ph.D., 1969, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Interests
American literature and culture, especially colonial and nineteenth through early twentieth century; turn-of-the-century British; narrative and poetic morphology.John R Trimble
University Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
Education
Ph.D., 1971, University of California, Berkeley
Interests
Expository Writing; Editing; Rhetoric; Pedagogy; American Drama; the Short StoryJeffrey Walker
Professor & Chair, Department of Rhetoric & Writing
jswalker@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-7843 | PAR 3
Education
Ph.D., 1985, University of California, Berkeley
Interests
Rhetorical theory, history of rhetoric, ancient rhetoric, rhetoric and poetics, modern rhetoric and literatureThomas B Whitbread
Professor
whitbread@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-8750 | PAR 216
Education
Ph.D., 1959, Harvard University
Interests
Poetry, poetics, and literary criticismJennifer M. Wilks
Associate Professor
jmwilks@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8702 | PAR 329
Education
Ph.D., 2003, Cornell University
Interests
The figure of the traveling heroine in contemporary African diasporic fiction, portrayals of the Southern U.S. in Caribbean literature, and Paris as a site of diasporic intellectual exchange and transformationMichael B Winship
Professor
bal@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8381 | CAL 219
Education
D.Phil, 1990, Oxford University
Interests
History of the book, bibliography, and textual criticismHelena Woodard
Associate Professor
hwood@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8703 | PAR 331
Education
Ph.D., 1991, University of North Carolina
