Faculty and Staff
Department Chair
Lesley Wheeler
Professor of English
Payne Hall 23
(540) 458-8758
wheelerlm@wlu.edu
Twentieth-century and twenty-first-century poetry in English: sound, voice, performance, gender.
Faculty
Edward Adams
Associate Professor of English (on leave winter 2010)
Payne Hall 32C
(540) 458- 8764
adamse@wlu.edu
History and fiction; novel and epic; high culture and popular culture.
Theresa Braunschneider
Associate Professor of English (on leave 2009-10)
Payne Hall 22
(540) 458-8762
braunt@wlu.edu
Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature and culture; history of sexuality and gender; feminist theory.
Marc Conner
Professor of English
Payne Hall 32B
(540) 458-8924
connerm@wlu.edu
Modernity and modern narrative; twentieth-century American fiction; African-American literature; modern Irish literature; literature and philosophy; literature and religion.
Curriculum Vitae
Edwin Craun
Henry S. Fox, Jr. Professor of English (on leave fall 2009)
Payne Hall 2B
(540) 458-8757
craune@wlu.edu
Medieval literature; justice and law in Medieval and Renaissance literature; virtues and vices; social reform in the Middle Ages.
Jasmin Darznik
Assistant Professor of English
Payne Hall 22
(540) 458-8762
darznikj@wlu.edu
Twentieth century ethnic American autobiography and fiction; creative writing.
Genelle Gertz
Assistant Professor of English
Payne Hall 32G
(540) 458-8763
gertzg@wlu.edu
Medieval and early modern women writers; the Reformation; republicanism and the English revolution; prophecy, mysticism and heresy trials; the politics of reading.
Curtis Jirsa
Assistant Professor of English
Payne Hall 32D
(540) 458-8345
JirsaC@wlu.edu
Lyric poetry, hybrid texts, sequences; medieval English literature; Anglo-Norman poetry; Arthuriana; sermons; Germanic linguistics; intersections between the sacred and the secular.
Suzanne Keen
Thomas H. Broadus Professor of English
Payne Hall 32A
(540) 458-8759
skeen@wlu.edu
Contemporary British fiction, Victorian novels, postcolonial literature, narrative theory, the novel in English, psychological approaches to literary study.
Deborah Miranda
Associate Professor of English
Payne Hall 32E
(540) 458-8755
mirandad@wlu.edu
Poetry; Native American women's literature; literatures of U.S. populations whose work has been traditionally overlooked; indigenous erotics.
Holly Pickett
Assistant Professor of English
Payne Hall 32F
(540) 458-8078
picketth@wlu.edu
Shakespeare, medieval and early modern drama, history of drama, religious identities and controversies, representations of religious difference.
Curriculum Vitae
Rod T. Smith
Writer-in-Residence | Editor, Shenandoah
Mattingly House
(540) 458-8908
rodsmith@wlu.edu
Fiction, poetry; editor of Shenandoah.
Kary Smout
Associate Professor of English, Writing Program Coordinator and Writing Center Director
Payne Hall 31
(540) 458-8979
smoutk@wlu.edu
Rhetoric and culture; writing instruction; the politics of higher education; Native American literature; southern American literature; western American literature.
Jim Warren
S. Blount Mason, Jr. Professor of English
Payne Hall 25
(540) 458-8761
warrenj@wlu.edu
Nineteenth-century literature and culture; literature of the environment; Walt Whitman.
Visiting Faculty
Department Secretary
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