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English Faculty

Nancy Barry

Nancy Barry
Professor of English
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; B.A., Western Maryland College
Interests: poetry, Modernism, Contemporary literature, non-fiction and essay writing

Anne Bulliung

Anne Bulliung

Instructor in English

Education: M.A., Central Washington University; B.A. (equivalent), University of Texas-Austin; B.G.S., University of New Orleans

 

Joy Conrad

Joy Conrad
Instructor in English

Education: Ph.D. candidate, University of Wisconsin; M.A., University of Iowa; B.A., Grinnell College

Interests: Russian literature, Women in South Africa, Spirituality and the Body, essay writing

David Faldet

David Faldet
Professor of English, Department Chair
Education: Ph.D, University of Iowa; M.A., University of Washington; B.A. Luther College
Interests: Victorian period, especially the work of William Morris, intersections of writing, ecology, and local history

Rachel Faldet

Rachel Faldet
Assistant Professor of English
Education: M.A., University of Iowa; B.A., Luther College
Interests: creative and expository writing

Carol A. Gilbertson

Carol Gilbertson
Professor of English
Education: Ph.D, University of Minnesota, M.A., University of North Carolina; B.A., Augustana College (Sioux Falls)
Interests: Milton and the Seventeenth Century, Romantic literature, literary modernism, women writers, and poetry of all kinds

Lise Kildegaard

Lise Kildegaard
Associate Professor of English
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of Chicago; B.A., Carleton College

Martin Klammer

Martin Klammer
Professor of English and Africana Studies
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of Iowa; M.A., Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago; B.A., University of Oregon
Interests: South African literature and history, African-American literature, American novel, Walt Whitman

Cathryn Meyer

Cathryn Meyer
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of Texas at Austin; B.A., St. Olaf College
Interests: Late-Medieval literature and religion, Chaucer, confession, autobiography, women's writing, intersections of writing and identity

Mark Z. Muggli

Mark Muggli
Professor of English
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of Minnesota; B.A., St. John's College
Interests: English Renaissance (especially Shakespeare and the drama), news writing (especially the origins of the English newspaper and modern literary journalism), and computer-aided writing instruction

Kate Narveson

Kate Narveson
Associate Professor of English
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of Chicago; M.Phil., The Warburg Institute, University of London; B.A., Washington University in St. Louis
Interests: Elizabethan and early Stuart literature, medieval literature, Milton, devotional writing

Nick Preus

Nick Preus
Associate Professor of English and Education
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.A., Luther College
Interests: nineteenth-century literature, cultural and political construction of manners, high school and college writing

Diane Scholl

Diane Scholl
Professor of English
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of Chicago; B.A., St. Olaf College
Interests: American conversion narratives and confessional writing, scriptural story in American narrative, and the influence of 17th century English devotional poetry on American poets

Peter Scholl

Peter Scholl
Professor of English
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of Chicago; B.A., Augustana College, (Rock Island, IL)
Interests: American literature, rhetoric, film, and studies in Chinese culture, American humor, American war literature, American autobiography

Amy Weldon

Amy Weldon
Assistant Professor of English
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; B.A., Auburn University
Interests: creative writing, Romantic and Contemporary literature, film, intersections of writing, politics, and faith

Novian Whitsitt

Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.A., University of California-L.A.
Interests: Hausa literature and language (spoken in northern Nigerian, southern Niger, and various parts of west and central Africa)




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