Faculty List
Modern British Literature
Samuel Baker
Associate Professor
sebaker@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8389 | CAL 308
Education
Ph.D., 2001, University of ChicagoJanine Barchas
Associate Professor
barchas@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8379 | CAL 209
Education
Ph.D., 1995, University of Chicago
Interests
Eighteenth-century literature and culture; the British novel; book history; textual studies; Jane Austen; early fiction by women.Jeffrey Barnouw
Professor Emeritus
Education
Ph.D., 1969, Yale University
Interests
Literature and philosophy; literature and music; history of critical theory and rhetoric; the Enlightenment.Betsy 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.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.Douglas S Bruster
Professor
bruster@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-3635 | PAR 220
Education
Ph.D., 1990, Harvard University
Interests
Shakespeare; drama; Renaissance literature; film; theory.Jerome F Bump
Professor
bump@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-8747 | PAR 132
Education
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Interests
Gerard Manley Hopkins; Alice books; Victorian literature; literature of nature; animal humanities; digital humanities.Mia Carter
Associate Professor, University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor
miaC@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8733 | PAR 123
Education
Ph.D., English and Modern Studies, 1992, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeLarry D Carver
Director, Liberal Arts Honors Program
carver@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-3458 | GEB 1.206
Education
Ph.D., 1973, University of Rochester
Interests
Eighteenth-century British literature and rhetoric.Elizabeth Cullingford
Chair, Department of English, University Distinguished Teaching Professor
cullingford@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-4991 | PAR 108
Education
Ph.D., Oxford University
Interests
Irish literature, politics, and culture; modern poetry; women's studies; drama and film; Shakespeare; the relation between high and popular culture.Ann 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.James D Garrison
University Distinguished Teaching Professor
jdgar@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8370 | CAL 203
Education
Ph.D., 1972, University of California, Berkeley
Interests
Restoration and eighteenth-century literature; satire; epic; the Bible in English and American literature.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.Barbara Harlow
Professor
bharlow@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8716 | PAR 26
Education
Ph.D., 1977, SUNY- Buffalo
Interests
Third world studies; critical theory; prison and resistance writings and postcolonial studies (particularly Anglophone African and modern Arabic literatures and cultures).Elizabeth A Hedrick
Associate Professor
eahedrick@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-8705 | PAR 226
Education
Ph.D., 1986, Columbia University
Interests
Feminist theory since 1970; gender and science; eighteenth-century novel and drama; Samuel Johnson; eighteenth-century lexicography; history of charity and philanthropy.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.Susan S Heinzelman
Associate Professor, Director of the Center for Women's & Gender Studies
sheinz@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8736; 512-471-5149 | PAR 126; GEB 4.208
Education
Ph.D., 1977, University of Western Ontario
Interests
Eighteenth century women's novels; feminism, law, and literature.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 mediaDavid 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-gardeJames N Loehlin
Shakespeare at Winedale Regents Professor; University Distinguished Teaching Professor
jnloehlin@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-4993 | CAL 205
Education
Ph.D., 1993, Stanford University
Interests
Shakespeare in performance (stage and film); Renaissance drama; modern drama.Carol H MacKay
University Distinguished Teaching Professor
mackay@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-8970 | PAR 221
Education
Ph.D., 1979, University of California Los Angeles
Interests
Victorian novel; women's studies; autobiography; authors: William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Julia Margaret Cameron, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Annie Besant, Elizabeth Robins, Virginia Woolf.Neil R Nehring
Associate Professor
neilnehring@sbcglobal.net | 512-471-8713 | PAR 23
Education
Ph.D., 1985, University of Michigan
Interests
Popular music and youth subcultures; the avant-garde.Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor, Director of the Program in Comparative Literature
emrg@austin.utexas.edu | 512-232-5708 | PAR 119
Education
Ph.D., 1992, Columbia University
Interests
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century European drama; Renaissance drama; Oscar Wilde; the Gothic and Orientalism; decadence; aesthetic and literary theory; literature and the fine arts.Charles R Rossman
University Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
rossman@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-8766 | PAR 228
Education
Ph.D., 1968, University of Southern California
Interests
The nineteenth- and twentieth-century European novel; contemporary Latin-American fiction.John P Rumrich
Professor
rumrich@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8115 | PAR 315
Education
Ph.D., 1981, University of VirginiaWilliam 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.Snehal Shingavi
Assistant Professor
snehal.shingavi@utexas.edu | 512-471-8114 | PAR 27
Education
Ph.D., 2008, University of California, Berkeley
Interests
Anglophone South Asian literature; Hindi/Urdu literature; literature in translation and translation theory; theories of “the nation” (anticolonialism, nationalism, statism, postcolonialism, postnationalism, cosmopolitanism, globalization, transnationalism, internationalism); classical Marxism.Thomas F Staley
Director, Harry Ransom Center
tfs@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-9111 | HRC 3.210
Education
Ph.D., 1962, University of Pittsburgh
Interests
James Joyce, Modern British Literature, Humanistic Research, and Building Library CollectionsThomas B Whitbread
Professor
whitbread@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-8750 | PAR 216
Education
Ph.D., 1959, Harvard University
Interests
Poetry, poetics, and literary criticismHelena Woodard
Associate Professor
hwood@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8703 | PAR 331
Education
Ph.D., 1991, University of North Carolina
