Faculty List
Poetry & Poetics
Samuel Baker
Associate Professor
sebaker@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8389 | CAL 308
Education
Ph.D., 2001, University of ChicagoJ.K. Barret
Assistant Professor
jkbarret@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8390 | CAL 305
Education
Ph.D., 2008, Princeton University
Interests
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature; the Renaissance future; time; literature and the visual arts; early modern legal theory; classical reception; narrative.Chad Bennett
ACLS New Faculty Fellow
chad.bennett@utexas.edu | PAR 25
Education
Ph.D., 2010, Cornell UniversityBrian 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.Thomas M Cable
Professor Emeritus
tcable@mail.utexas.edu | CAL 310
Education
Ph.D., 1969, University of Texas at Austin
Interests
History of the English language; rhythms and rhetoric of English poetry.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.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.Geraldine Heng
Associate Professor
heng@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-7480 | PAR 213
Education
Ph.D., Cornell UniversityColeman 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 WarLisa 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.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.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.Jeffrey 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 literatureDavid A Wevill
Professor Emeritus
wevill@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8767 | PAR 229
Education
M.A., 1958, Cambridge UniversityThomas B Whitbread
Professor
whitbread@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-8750 | PAR 216
Education
Ph.D., 1959, Harvard University
Interests
Poetry, poetics, and literary criticismMarjorie Curry Woods
Blumberg Centennial Professor of English and University Distinguished Teaching Professor
marjoriewoods@austin.utexas.edu | 512-471-8383 | CAL 301
Education
Ph.D., U. of Toronto
Interests
Medieval literature; medieval and renaissance rhetoric and pedagogy; composition exercises in premodern classroom; modern use of premodern compostion exercisesDean H Young
William Livingston Chair of Poetry
deanyoung@mail.utexas.edu | 512-471-8394 | CAL 312
Education
M.F.A. in Creative Writing, 1984, Indiana University
