Modernity and modern narrative; twentieth-century American fiction; African-American literature; modern Irish literature; literature and philosophy; literature and religion.
Shakespeare, late Elizabethan literature and culture
Genelle Gertz Associate Professor of English and Writing Program Director Payne 111 (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.
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 and Interim Dean of the College Lee-Jackson House / Payne 110 TR 8-9 a.m. (540) 458-8746 DOC office / (540) 458-8759 English Dept skeen@wlu.edu
in the Office of the Dean of the College 2012-14
Students may consult any dean. Dean Keen receives petitions concerning academic matters for the Committee on Courses and Degrees: http://www.wlu.edu/x35809.xml. For petitions to the Faculty Executive Committee, please contact Dean Peppers in the Williams School.
Kary Smout Associate Professor of English, Director of the Writing Center Washington 112 (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.