Emeritus Faculty
Jack Barbera, Professor Emeritus
Teaching and research interests include Twentieth-Century Poetry and Drama, Film, Literature, and Art
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Deborah Barker, Professor Emerita
Teaching interests include American literature (with an emphasis on 19th and 20th century women writers), film studies (with an emphasis on southern film), and gender theory..
Ph.D., Princeton
Benjamin Fisher, Professor Emeritus
Teaching and research interests include Edgar Allen Poe, 19th Century and early 20th Century American Literature, Victorian Literature, Gothic-ism, Detective Fiction, and Turn-of-the-century women writers.
Ph.D., Duke University
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Ann Fisher-Wirth, Professor Emeritus
Teaches poetry workshops and seminars, 20th-century American literature, and a wide range of courses in environmental literature.
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School
Joan Wylie Hall , Professor Emeritus
Teaches American literature, southern literature, and women’s literature. Her research interests are southern women’s writing and African-American literature.
Ph.D., Notre Dame
J.R. Hall, Professor Emeritus
Specializes in Old English and Middle English language and literature.
Ph.D., Notre Dame
Donald Kartiganer, Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies Emeritus
Ph.D., Brown
Colby Kullman, Professor Emeritus
Specializes in Restoration and Eighteenth Century Studies
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Ben McClelland, Professor Emeritus
Teaching interests include contemporary nonfiction literature and writing, advanced writing, and in American modernist fiction. His current research and writing projects include a collection of nonfiction stories about families that use diabetic alert dogs to help manage Type 1 Diabetes.
Ph.D., Indiana University
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Chris Offutt, Professor Emeritus
Specializes in film and screenwriting
M.FA. Fiction, University of Iowa
Gregory Schirmer, Professor Emeritus
Teaching and research interests include Irish literature and British twentieth-century literature.
Ph.D., Stanford University
Natalie Schroeder, Professor Emeritus
Teaching and research interests include Victorian literature, Dickens, contemporary women’s literature, popular literature, and Gothic fiction.
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Ronald A. Shroeder, Professor Emeritus
Teachings focus on the novel and Romanticism, among other topics.
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Peter Wirth, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Harvard University