Faculty & Staff
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Nora Alter
Professor
Film & Media Studies, Contemporary Drama & Performance, Comparative Literature (American & European), Cultural & Visual Studies
<nma@ufl.edu>
Apollo Amoko
Assistant
Professor
Postcolonial
Theory & Literatures (esp.
African Literature), Critical Theory, Modern Drama
<aamoko@ufl.edu>
Donald
Ault
Professor
Romantic Poetry (William Blake), Literature & Mathematics,
Literary Theory, Comics & Animation
<ault@ufl.edu>
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Roger
Beebe
Associate Professor
Experimental Film & Video Production, Popular American Cinema(s), Critical Theory, Cultural Studies
<rogerbb@ufl.edu>
Marsha
Bryant
Associate Professor
20th-Century Literature & Culture
(American & British), Poetry, Women’s Literature, Visual Culture
<mbryant@ufl.edu>
Richard
Burt
Professor
Shakespeare & Renaissance
Drama; Film, Mass Media & Digital Media; Literary & Media Theory
<burt@ufl.edu>
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Ronald
Carpenter
Professor
Rhetorical
Theory, Speechwriting, Persuasion
<ronstyle@ufl.edu>
John
Cech
Professor
Children’s Literature, 20th-Century
American Literature, Adolescent Literature
<jcech@ufl.edu>
Jill Ciment
Professor
Creative Writing (Fiction)
<jciment1@ufl.edu>
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Sidney
Dobrin
Associate Professor
Composition Studies/Theory, Ecocomposition,
Visual Rhetoric
<sdobrin@ufl.edu>
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Kim
Emery
Associate Professor
U.S. Literatures & Culture, Queer Studies,
Semiotics
<kimemery@ufl.edu>
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Pamela
Gilbert
Department Chair
Albert Brick Professor
Victorian Literature & History, The
Novel, Women’s Literature, Cultural Studies
<pgilbert@fl.edu>
Andrew
Gordon
Professor
Modern American Literature & Psychology,
Jewish-American Fiction, Science Fiction
<agordon@ufl.edu>
Debora
Greger
Professor
Creative Writing (Poetry)
<dgreger@ufl.edu>
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Terry
Harpold
Associate Professor
Media Studies, Narrative Theory, Psychoanalysis, Science & Literature, Science Fiction
<tharpold@ufl.edu>
Tace
Hedrick
Associate Professor
Chicana/o & Latina/o Cultural Studies; Afro-Latino/a Cultural Studies; Feminist Theory; Transnational American Intellectual History; Feminist Art History; Women’s Studiess
<tace@ufl.edu>
Susan
Hegeman
Associate Professor
American Studies, Modernism, Literature & Anthropology
<shegeman@ufl.edu>
Michael
Hofmann
Professor
Creative Writing (Poetry), Translation
<mhofmann@ufl.edu>
Sidney
Homan
Professor
Drama (Shakespeare & Modern), Theatre,
Acting & Directing
<shakes@ufl.edu>
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R. Brandon Kershner
Professor
20th-Century British Literature, Popular
Culture, Cultural Studies, James Joyce, Creative Writing (Poetry)
<kershner@ufl.edu>
Kenneth
Kidd
Associate Professor
19th-Century Literature & Culture,
Children’s Literature & Media, Lesbian & Gay Studies
<kbkidd@ufl.edu>
Debra
King
Professor
African-American Literature, American Literature,
Women’s Studies & Feminist Theory
<dwking@ufl.edu>
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John
Leavey
Professor
Philosophy, Literary Theory, Translation & Theory
<jpl@ufl.edu>
David
Leavitt
Co-Director of Creative Writing
Professor
Creative Writing (Fiction)
<dleavitt@ufl.edu>
David
Leverenz
Professor
19th-Century American Literature & Social
History, Gender & Literature
<ldavid@ufl.edu>
William
Logan
Professor
Creative Writing (Poetry)
<wlogan@ufl.edu>
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Brian
McCrea
Professor
18th-Century
Literature, Expository Writing, Literary Criticism
<bmccrea@ufl.edu>
Barbara
Mennel
Associate Professor
International
Cinema, Feminist and Queer Studies, German Studies
<mennel@ufl.edu>
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Scott
Nygren
Professor
Film & Media
Studies, Video Production, Media & Cultural Studies, Film & Literature
<nygren@ufl.edu>
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Amy
Abugo Ongiri
Assistant Professor
African
American Literature & Culture,
Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender & Sexuality
<aongiri@ufl.edu>
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Judith
W. Page
Professor
Romanticism,
British Women Writers of the 18th & 19th Centuries, Wordsworth,
Judaism
<page7@ufl.edu>
James
Paxson
Associate Professor
Medieval
Literature, Critical Theory, Medieval Drama, Literature/Science/Technology
<jpaxson@ufl.edu>
Padgett
Powell
Co-Director of Creative Writing
Professor
Creative
Writing (Fiction)
<powell@ufl.edu>
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Robert
Ray
Professor
Film,
Critical Theory, World Literature, Poetry Writing, Popular Music
<robertbeverleyray@gmail.com>
Mark
A. Reid
Professor
African & African
Diaspora Studies in Film, Media & Literature, Cultural Studies,
Womanism & Gender
Studies
<reid@ufl.edu>
Mary
Robison
Professor
Creative
Writing (Fiction)
<profrobison@gmail.com>
Leah
Rosenberg
Associate Professor
Anglophone
Caribbean Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies
<rosenber@ufl.edu>
Peter
L. Rudnytsky
Professor
Freud, Psychoanalytic Studies, Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature
<plr@ufl.edu>
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Raúl Sánchez
Director of Writing Programs
Associate
Professor
Composition
Studies, Composition Theory, Critical Theory
<rsanchez@ufl.edu>
Jodi Schorb
Assistant
Professor
Early
American Literatures & Cultures, Gender Studies, Lesbian & Gay
Studies, Criminal Narratives
<jschorb@ufl.edu>
Malini
Schueller
Associate Graduate Coordinator
Professor
19th- & 20th-Century American Literature, Asian-American
Studies, Postcolonial & Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theories
<malini@ufl.edu>
R.
Allen Shoaf
Professor
Medieval Studies, Early Modern Studies, Milton, Literary
Theory, Dante
<ras@ufl.edu>
Stephanie
Smith
Professor
19th-Century American Literature, Feminist Theory,
Fiction, Fiction Writing
<ssmith@ufl.edu>
Chris
Snodgrass
Professor
Victorian Literature & Art, esp. 1880–1900;
Fin-de-Siècle “Decadence”; Cultural Studies; Poetry
<snod@ufl.edu>
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Roger
Thompson
Professor
Linguistics, Social Linguistics, Teaching English as
a Second Language, World English
<rthompso@ufl.edu>
Robert
Thomson
Associate Chair & Undergraduate Coordinator
Associate Professor
Folklore, The Ballad, The Folktale/Myth/Legend, Shakespeare,
New Zealand Literature
<rthomson@ufl.edu>
Maureen
Turim
Director of Film & Media Studies
Professor
Film History & Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory, Feminist & Gender
Theory, Deconstruction, Comparative Art Theory
<mturim@ufl.edu>
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Anastasia
Ulanowicz
Assistant Professor
Children's Literature & Media, 20th-Century American
Literature, Religion & Literature, Trauma Studies
<aulanow@ufl.edu>
Gregory
Ulmer
Professor
Comparative Literature & Theory, Pop Culture, Media
Studies, Computers & Writing
<glue@ufl.edu>
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Sidney
Wade
Professor
Creative Writing (Poetry), Translation
<swade@ufl.edu>
Phillip
Wegner
Graduate Coordinator
Associate Professor
20th-Century American, British, & World Literatures;
Marxism; Science Fiction; Utopias; Cultural Studies; Theory
<pwegner@ufl.edu>
Ed
White
Associate Professor
Early American Literature & Culture, Critical Theory
<edw@ufl.edu>
Staff
Carla Blount
Program Assistant to the Director of Writing Programs
&
the Director of Creative Writing
<cblount@ufl.edu>
Melissa Davis
Administrative Assistant
<madavis@ufl.edu>
Janet Moore
Office Assistant
<jkmoore1@ufl.edu>
Marie Coleman
Program Assistant to the Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar
& Institute for the Psychological Study of the Arts
<marie376@ufl.edu>
Dr. John Murchek
Coordinator, Student Affairs
<murchek@ufl.edu>
Jeri White
Senior Secretary
<jeri@ufl.edu>
Kathy Williams
Program Assistant to the Graduate Coordinator
& Associate
Graduate Coordinator
<kcwill@ufl.edu>
Department of English Computing Support
<help@english.ufl.edu>
Department of English WWW Site Inquiries
<www@english.ufl.edu>
