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1 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH DOCTORAL PROGRAM GUIDE Contents: Doctoral Degree Requirements and Suggested Timelines For Students Entering with the B.A. or Equivalent 1 For Students Entering with the M.A. or Equivalent 4 Doctoral Examination Regulations Doctoral Comprehensive Examination Regulations, effective September Dissertation Procedures, effective September Language Requirements 12 Graduate Faculty Specialties 14 Forms available upon request from Graduate Office (m.daigle@neu.edu) and online at September 1, 2015

2 DOCTORAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENT CHECKLIST For students entering with the B.A. in English or equivalent Use this checklist for your personal records and annual review meetings with your advisor. Student s Name Advisor s Name Academic Year Semester /Year Program Start Date Estimated Graduation Date Curriculum, effective Fall 2010 Semester/Year Course Number and Name ENGL 5103: Proseminar Theories & Methods course (1 of 2) Theories & Methods course (2 of 2) Medieval through early Renaissance (to 1600, including Shakespeare) 17th Century/Restoration/18th Century (including Early American literature) 19th Century/20th Century Rhetoric or Composition course (1 of 2) Rhetoric or Composition course (2 of 2) M.A. Elective course (1 of 2) M.A. Elective course (2 of 2) Ph.D. Elective (1 of 4) Ph.D. Elective (2 of 4) Ph.D. Elective (3 of 4) Ph.D. Elective (4 of 4) Other Requirements Semester/Year Description Language Requirement 1 Language Requirement 2 Ph.D. Field Paper 1 Ph.D. Field Paper 2 Ph.D. Field Paper 3 Ph.D. Comprehensive Oral Examination/Degree Candidacy Dissertation Prospectus Prospectus or 1 st Chapter Presentation Dissertation Defense Effective Fall Last updated: June

3 DOCTORAL PROGRAM SUGGESTED TIMELINE For students entering with the B.A. in English or equivalent, effective Fall 2013 The GSC expects that students entering with the B.A. will complete a total of 14 courses (42 semester hours) by the end of the fall semester of their third year. The GSC recommends that students finish the Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination sequence, including the oral examination, no later than December 15 of the fourth year; file an approved prospectus no later than June of the fourth year; and defend the dissertation no later than April of the sixth year in the program. Individual timelines may vary. Courses Examinations Dissertation Year 1 Year 1 Year 5 Fall Semester M.A. Distribution 1/ENGL 5103 M.A. Distribution 2/ENGL 7392 M.A. Distribution 3 Language requirement study or product M.A. Distribution 7 M.A. Distribution 8 M.A. Distribution 9 Spring Semester M.A. Distribution 4 M.A. Distribution 5 M.A. Distribution 6 M.A. Distribution 10 Ph.D. Elective 1 Ph.D. Elective 2 Comprehensive Examination Preparation (details on pages 8-10) Language requirement study or product Read broadly in your potential Comprehensive Examination fields and also look at key journals in your fields. Ph.D. Elective 3 Ph.D. Elective 4 Field Paper #1 Field Paper #3 Dissertation research ENGL 9986 or 9990 (consult Grad Office) Oral examination no later than December 15. Dissertation research ENGL 9990 or 9996 (consult Grad Office) ENGL 8960: Exam Prep Field Paper #2 Field Paper #3 (recommended) Oral examination by August 1 for those who wish to receive the higher SGA stipend in.* ENGL 9990: Dissertation Prospectus meeting Prospectus approval w/in 6 months of candidacy Public Presentation of First Chapter or Prospectus Year 5 Year 6 Article in circulation, as appropriate Job-market preparation Defend in April Commence in May * The Graduate School awards the senior SGA stipend to students who have advanced to doctoral candidacy (i.e., passed the oral examination) by August 1. Stipended Graduate Assistantships are awarded as one-year contracts. Students who wish to receive the higher stipend in September should plan their exam schedule accordingly, in consultation with the examining committee. The difference between the two stipends is $500 (based on stipend rates). Last updated: September

4 DOCTORAL PROGRAM SUGGESTED TIMELINE For transition year students entering with the B.A. or equivalent, prior to Fall 2013** Year 1 Fall Semester M.A. Distribution 1/ENGL 5103 M.A. Distribution 2/ENGL 7392 Spring Semester M.A. Distribution 3 M.A. Distribution 4 M.A. Distribution 5 Courses Examinations Dissertation Year 1 Year 5 Language requirement study or product M.A. Distribution 6 M.A. Distribution 7 M.A. Distribution 8 M.A. Distribution 9 M.A. Distribution 10 Preliminary Examination Comprehensive Examination Preparation (details on pages 8-10) Language requirement study or product Read broadly in your potential Comprehensive Examination fields and also look at key journals in your fields. Ph.D. Elective 1 Ph.D. Elective 2 Field Paper #1 Field Paper #3 Dissertation research ENGL 9986 or 9990 (consult Grad Office) Oral examination no later than December 15. Dissertation research ENGL 9990 or 9996 (consult Grad Office) Ph.D. Elective 3 Ph.D. Elective 4 Field Paper #2 Field Paper #3 (recommended) Oral examination by August 1 for those who wish to receive the higher SGA stipend in.* ENGL 9990: Dissertation Prospectus meeting Prospectus approval w/in 6 months of candidacy Public Presentation of First Chapter or Prospectus Year 5 Year 6 Article in circulation, as appropriate Job-market preparation Publication Defend in April Commence in May * The Graduate School awards the senior SGA stipend to students who have advanced to doctoral candidacy (i.e., passed the oral examination) by August 1. Stipended Graduate Assistantships are awarded as one-year contracts. Students who wish to receive the higher stipend in September should plan their exam schedule accordingly, in consultation with the examining committee. The difference between the two stipends is $500 (based on stipend rates). ** Students who entered with the B.A. in Fall 2010 or earlier followed a different course work and exam timeline, finishing course work in and starting exams in. Last updated: July

5 DOCTORAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENT CHECKLIST For students entering with the M.A. in English or equivalent Use this checklist for your personal records and annual review meetings with your advisor. Student s Name Advisor s Name Academic Year Semester /Year Program Start Date Estimated Graduation Date Curriculum Semester/Year Course Number and Name ENGL 5103: Proseminar ENGL 7392: Writing and the Teaching of Writing Ph.D. Elective (1 of 5) Ph.D. Elective (2 of 5) Ph.D. Elective (3 of 5) Ph.D. Elective (4 of 5) Ph.D. Elective (5 of 5) Other Requirements Semester/Year Description Language Requirement 1 Language Requirement 2 Ph.D. Field Paper 1 Ph.D. Field Paper 2 Ph.D. Field Paper 3 Ph.D. Comprehensive Oral Examination/Degree Candidacy Dissertation Prospectus Prospectus or 1 st Chapter Presentation Dissertation Defense Effective Fall Last updated: June

6 DOCTORAL PROGRAM SUGGESTED TIMELINE For students entering with the M.A. in English or equivalent The GSC expects that students entering with the B.A. will complete a total of 14 courses (42 semester hours) by the end of the fall semester of their third year. The GSC recommends that students finish the Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination sequence, including the oral examination, no later than December 15 of the fourth year*; file an approved prospectus no later than June of the fourth year; and defend the dissertation no later than April of the sixth year in the program. Courses Examinations Dissertation Year 1 Year 1 Fall Semester ENGL 5103 ENGL 7392 Ph.D. Elective 1 Spring Semester Ph.D. Elective 2 Ph.D. Elective 3 Ph.D. Elective 4 Comprehensive Examination Preparation (details on pages 8-10) Language requirement study or products Read broadly in your potential Comprehensive Examination fields and also look at key journals in your fields. Ph.D. Elective 5 ENGL 8960: Exam Prep Field Paper #1 Field Paper #3 Dissertation research ENGL 9986 or 9990 (consult Grad Office) Oral examination no later than December 15. Dissertation research ENGL 9990 or 9996 (consult Grad Office) ENGL 9986: Doctoral Research Field Paper #2 Field Paper #3 (recommended) Oral examination by August 1 for those who wish to receive the higher SGA stipend in.* ENGL 9990: Dissertation Prospectus meeting Prospectus approval w/in 6 months of candidacy Public Presentation of First Chapter or Prospectus Year 5 Article in circulation, if appropriate Job-market preparation Defend in April Commence in May * The Graduate School awards the senior SGA stipend to students who have advanced to doctoral candidacy (i.e., passed the oral examination) by August 1. Stipended Graduate Assistantships are awarded as one-year contracts. Students who wish to receive the higher stipend in September should plan their exam schedule accordingly, in consultation with the examining committee. The difference between the two stipends is $500 (based on stipend rates). Last updated: September

7 DOCTORAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENT CHECKLIST For transition year students entering with the M.A. or equivalent, prior to Fall 2013 Use this checklist for your personal records and annual review meetings with your advisor. Student s Name Advisor s Name Academic Year Semester /Year Program Start Date Estimated Graduation Date Curriculum Semester/Year Course Number and Name ENGL 7392: Writing and the Teaching of Writing Ph.D. Elective (1 of 6) Ph.D. Elective (2 of 6) Ph.D. Elective (3 of 6) Ph.D. Elective (4 of 6) Ph.D. Elective (5 of 6) Ph.D. Elective (6 of 6) Other Requirements Semester/Year Description Language Requirement 1 Language Requirement 2 Ph.D. Field Paper 1 Ph.D. Field Paper 2 Ph.D. Field Paper 3 Ph.D. Comprehensive Oral Examination/Degree Candidacy Dissertation Prospectus Prospectus or 1 st Chapter Presentation Dissertation Defense Effective September Last updated: June

8 DOCTORAL PROGRAM SUGGESTED TIMELINE For transition year students entering with the M.A. or equivalent, prior to Fall 2013 Year 1 Fall Semester ENGL 7392 Ph.D. Elective 1 Spring Semester Ph.D. Elective 2 Ph.D. Elective 3 Courses Examinations Dissertation Year 1 Year 5 Ph.D. Elective 4 Ph.D. Elective 5 Ph.D. Elective 6 ENGL 8960: Exam Prep Comprehensive Examination Preparation (details on pages 8-10) Read broadly in your potential Comprehensive Examination fields and also look at key journals in your fields. ENGL 9986: Doctoral Research Field Paper #1 Field Paper #3 Language requirement study or product, as needed Dissertation research ENGL 9986 or 9990 (consult Grad Office) Oral examination no later than December 15. Article in circulation, as appropriate ENGL 9990 or 9996 (consult Grad Office) Job-market preparation Field Paper #2 Field Paper #3 (recommended) Oral examination by August 1 for those who wish to receive the higher SGA stipend in.* ENGL 9990: Dissertation Prospectus meeting Prospectus approval w/in 6 months of candidacy Public Presentation of First Chapter or Prospectus Defend in April Commence in May * The Graduate School awards the senior SGA stipend to students who have advanced to doctoral candidacy (i.e., passed the oral examination) by August 1. Stipended Graduate Assistantships are awarded as one-year contracts. Students who wish to receive the higher stipend in September should plan their exam schedule accordingly, in consultation with the examining committee. The difference between the two stipends is $500 (based on stipend rates). Last updated: July

9 DOCTORAL PROGRAM COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION REGULATIONS Ph.D. students must complete this examination no later than twelve months after completing course work. (Incomplete grades do not stop the clock.) The Comprehensive Examination consists of three field and focus papers, each supervised and graded by one member of the examination committee, and a two-hour oral examination in which all three members of the committee participate. Committee The student initiates the Comprehensive Examination process by selecting a committee chair and forming an examining committee. The examining committee will normally consist of three faculty members the committee chair and two additional committee members from the Department of English. When the committee has been established, the student will inform the Graduate Office of the fact. The committee chair works with the student and the other committee members to develop and coordinate the examination s three fields and reading lists for each. The committee and the student also agree on a schedule for the written examinations. For recommended schedules, please refer to page 10 of this guide. A student may, with the consent of the Graduate Studies Committee, add a member to the examining committee from outside the department, either from Northeastern or from another institution. To do so, the student must present the GSC with a written request briefly stating the reason for adding an outside member to the committee and outlining the proposed committee member s credentials. Fields Examination fields should be chosen with a view to their overall coherence and fit with the student s intellectual interests. For students pursuing projects in literary studies, two of the three fields should be historically or nationally contiguous for example, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature or romantic and Victorian literature in the first instance, and nineteenth-century British and American literature in the second instance. The third field may fulfill one of a number of functions: It may bring theoretical and or methodological perspectives to bear; it may focus on an author, a genre, or a topos; it may focus on any other literary period; or it may be drawn from the fields of rhetoric, composition, or linguistics. For students pursuing projects in rhetoric and composition, the three fields should be determined in consultation with the committee and its chair, based on their relevance to the student's scholarly, pedagogical, and professional goals. The examination is to be substantively comprehensive; it is the committee s responsibility to ensure that each of the three fields is individually well defined, comprehensive, and sufficiently distinct from the other two examination fields. The student should also give some consideration to how she or he intends to present her or his fields of expertise and competence in relation to the categories of the job market (see Reading Lists Each field and focus paper will be based on a reading list of important texts in the field, primary and secondary (where these distinctions are appropriate). The first task of the student, in conjunction with his or her committee members, will be to develop these reading lists. Reading lists should be introduced by a rationale of approximately 100 words. The rationale will define the field and explain the criteria or lines of inquiry guiding the choice of texts to represent that field. Sample reading lists are available from the Graduate Office. In order for any field and focus paper to receive a final grade, the reading list must have been circulated to the full committee. Field and Focus Papers Each paper will be pages in length and will be composed in two parts: the field and the focus. A paper should begin with an overview of the field ( field ), followed by a second, a more detailed consideration of one or two primary works that will be framed by and refract an important current debate or conversation in the field ( focus ). The committee member for each examination field will determine when, in his or her judgment, the field and focus paper is ready to be submitted as complete for evaluation and approval. 8

10 Oral Examination Students must receive passing grades for three field and focus papers before taking the two-hour oral examination. Prior to scheduling the oral examination, the student s papers should be circulated to the full committee. The committee chair will notify the student when the oral examination may be scheduled. The purpose of the oral examination is to demonstrate for the full examining committee that the candidate had command of the comprehensive examination fields and is ready to make the transition to the dissertation. The student brings a copy of the CSSH Comprehensive Exam Results form, available from the Graduate Office, to the oral examination. Evaluation Grades for both the papers and the oral exam will be Pass with Distinction, Pass, and Fail. The grade of Pass with Distinction on at least three components of the examination shall qualify for an overall examination grade of Pass with Distinction. A failure on a paper must be made up by revising the paper until it receives a passing grade from the faculty member responsible for the field. Committee members will make every effort to grade field and focus papers within one week of submission and will file the following items with the Graduate Office: the student s paper, grading comments, and a memo to the Graduate Coordinator indicating the field, submission date, and grade. Electronic documents are acceptable. Students must receive passing grades for the three field and focus papers before taking the oral examination. The committee as a whole must agree on the student's performance (Pass, Fail, Pass with Distinction) after the oral exam, and submit the students CSSH Comprehensive Exam Results form to the Graduate Office on the day of a successful oral examination. A failure on the oral examination must be made up by a second oral examination with the same committee. A student who fails a second oral examination may not continue in the program. Time Limit A student who does not successfully complete three field and focus papers and pass the oral examination within twelve months following the completion of course work may not continue in the program. Effective September 2013; Last updated: July

11 Year 1 (If entering with MA) (If entering with BA) DOCTORAL PROGRAM SUGGESTED COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION TIMELINE Fall Semester Spring Semester Comprehensive Examination Preparation Meet with advisor to receive to discuss fields and possible committee members. Identify a committee chair and begin to discuss with that chair the development of an intellectually coherent set of comprehensive examination fields and to identify potential committee members for those fields. After meeting with the chair, have preliminary meetings with faculty members to ascertain their willingness to serve. It may be necessary to meet with several faculty in a given field to establish an appropriate committee. Establish an examination schedule. Read broadly in identified Comprehensive Examination fields and also look at key journals in those fields. (If entering with MA) (If entering with BA) Field Paper #1 Develop primary and secondary reading list on the basis of readings and in consultation with committee member. After receiving the supervising committee member s approval, and circulate the list to the full committee. Submit Field Paper #1 for final evaluation by the supervising committee member. Field Paper #2 Field Paper #3 (recommended) Oral examination by August 1for those who wish to receive the higher SGA stipend starting in September. (If entering with MA) (If entering with BA) Complete work on Field Papers as needed Oral examination no later than December 15. Additional Notes It is possible, but not required, that one or more of the field and focus papers might be developed in conjunction with a seminar taken in the comprehensive exam year, or with a teaching practicum taken in that year. Developed in conjunction means that the syllabus or materials for the seminar or the undergraduate class associated with the practicum would form the basis for, or a starting point, the development of a more comprehensive reading list and set of questions that the student would develop in consultation with the advisor/instructor. Students may petition the Graduate Studies Committee if extraordinary examination issues arise. Last updated: July

12 Dissertation Committee DOCTORAL PROGRAM DISSERTATION PROCEDURES As soon as possible after completing the doctoral comprehensive examination, the student should form a Dissertation Committee. The Dissertation Committee will normally consist of three faculty members from the Department of English. They need not be the same three faculty members who administered the student s Comprehensive Examination. One member of the Dissertation Committee, with her/his consent, will be designated by the student as Director of the dissertation. Once the Dissertation Committee has been formed and the prospectus approved by the Dissertation Committee and the Graduate Studies Committee, the student may change the membership only with the consent of the Graduate Studies Committee. Upon establishing the committee, the student should notify the Graduate Office. A student may, with the consent of the Graduate Studies Committee, add a fourth member to the Dissertation Committee from outside the Department either from Northeastern or from another institution. The student must present the Graduate Studies Committee with a written request briefly outlining the rationale for adding a fourth member to the Dissertation Committee and summarizing the proposed member s credentials in the area of the dissertation. Prospectus Within six months after completing the comprehensive examination, a student must submit to the Graduate Studies Committee a dissertation prospectus approved by the Dissertation Committee. The prospectus should be 5-10 pages in length, excluding bibliography. It should state the basic aims and proposed argument of the dissertation; relate the dissertation s argument to existing work in the area; and provide a description of the basic organization of the dissertation, including tentative chapter divisions. It should be accompanied by a bibliography of both primary and secondary works to be consulted: the bibliography of primary works should be comprehensive, while the bibliography of secondary works should indicate major existing critical works in the dissertation s area as well as critical works closely related to the dissertation s proposed methods and aims. The Dissertation Director files the approved prospectus with the Graduate Office. Public Presentation Within one year after completing the comprehensive examination, a student must give a public presentation of his or her prospectus or first chapter of the dissertation to the English Department. Preparing the Dissertation While writing the dissertation, students should be in frequent contact with members of the Dissertation Committee, especially the Director. The members of the committee must have the opportunity to review drafts of chapters, so that the student may have the benefit of commentary and suggestions on drafts. For information on the College of Social Sciences and Humanities dissertation format requirements and procedures for depositing the dissertation, students should consult the Guide to the Preparation and Submission of Theses and Dissertations issued by the Graduate School. The English Department requires one copy of the dissertation for every member of the Dissertation Committee. Dissertation Defense When the Dissertation Committee agrees that the dissertation is ready to defend, the student and the Director will establish a date and time for the defense. The dissertation defense, which presents the major aims and findings of the dissertation, is a public lecture of approximately 45 minutes duration, followed by a question period. The student will assume responsibility for obtaining a room and notifying the Graduate Studies Committee, the Department, and the College of when the defense will take place. If the Dissertation Committee is satisfied by the defense, the student may proceed to deposit the dissertation. If the Committee is not fully satisfied by the defense, members may request that the student make revisions before depositing the dissertation or that a second defense be scheduled. Note commencement deadlines when scheduling the defense (see Effective September Last updated: July

13 GRADUATE PROGRAMS LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS A Ph.D. student must demonstrate reading proficiency in two languages or one language and one ARS. As of Fall 2015, incoming and future Ph.D. students must satisfy the language requirement before advancing to candidacy upon entry if they have previous course work or native proficiency. Continuing Ph.D. students must have in their files evidence of having satisfied the appropriate language requirement in order to be cleared for graduation, or no later than the beginning of the Fall 2017 semester. Languages commonly used to fulfill the requirement include French, Spanish, Italian, German, Hebrew, Latin, and Greek; students wishing to satisfy the requirement in a language other than these, including a signed language, should consult the Chair of the Graduate Studies Committee. Students may demonstrate proficiency in five ways: 1. Reading comprehension examination. A student must pass a language examination provided by the Department of English or the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and evaluated by qualified faculty. Examinations are generally given once each semester, and the date will be announced well in advance. Students have two hours to translate a passage of words, on a topic related to literary studies. Print dictionaries may be used; however, grammar or vocabulary aids such as 501 French Verbs are not permitted. The examination is given on a pass/fail basis, and students will be notified of the result in writing. Students who do not pass may repeat the examination without penalty. Copies of previous examinations are available in the Graduate Programs office. Grading criteria can be found on the next page. 2. Previous course work. A student may provide an official transcript demonstrating one year of intermediate-level undergraduate literature (not language) courses (or the equivalent in the case of signed languages) in the language with grades of B or higher. The transcript will be evaluated by the Chair of the Graduate Studies Committee, and the student will be notified of the result in writing. Doctoral students entering with a Master s degree may present evidence of having completed a similar examination at the previous institution. The request will be evaluated by the Graduate Program Director. 3. Native proficiency. A student may petition to have proficiency in a native language other than English count toward satisfaction of the requirement. Petitions and supporting materials will be evaluated by the Chair of the Graduate Studies Committee, and students will be notified of the result in writing. 4. Advanced Research Skill. For students planning research programs that require other kinds of advanced research skills (ARS), one of the proficiency requirements may be met by demonstrating proficiency in an advanced research skill relevant to their dissertation or Master s research. An ARS would be a research skill that goes beyond the traditional textual analysis techniques taught in English graduate programs, e.g. text encoding, oral history, qualitative coding, geographic information systems, database design, statistical analysis, rhetorical strategy, or computational text analysis. 5. Another method, proposed by the student and approved by the advisor and the Graduate Studies Committee. Petitions and supporting materials will be evaluated by the Chair of the Graduate Studies Committee, and students will be notified of the result in writing. Use the General Petition Form for options 2-5. Form available upon request from Graduate Office (m.daigle@neu.edu) and online at Effective September 1,

14 GRADUATE PROGRAMS READING COMPREHENSION EXAMINATION The goal of the reading comprehension examination is to test your competence as a translator of literary and critical works in languages other than English. The exam consists of a two-hour session in which you are asked to translate a passage of words. You are allowed to consult a dictionary during the exam; you are not allowed to consult grammar or language guides. While preparing for the exam, you should keep in mind the following guidelines, which will be used to evaluate the exam. Meaning Does your translation capture accurately the overall sense of the passage and convey this sense in coherent and meaningful English? Does your translation accurately present the ideas, actions, and concepts of the original text? Grammar Is your translation an accurate representation of verb conjugations both in terms of tense and person? Does your translation link pronouns with the proper antecedents? Does your translation account for demonstrative distinctions that appear in the original? Is your translation written in grammatical English? Vocabulary Do English words chosen convey accurately the meaning of the words used in the original language? Evaluation The exam is graded on a pass/fail basis. Multiple and/or significant errors in any combination of these categories result in a failing exam. Preparing for the Language Examination To assist students preparing for the language exam in a number of languages, including German, Japanese, French, Russian, Spanish, Latin, Portuguese, and Arabic, the Modern Languages Department has placed a set of auto-tutorial CD ROMS entitled Transparent Language Now on Reserve at the main circulation desk of the library. As Reserve items, the CD ROMS are available for use in the library for up to 3 hours. Graduate students have an opportunity to enroll in NU undergraduate language courses. Please contact the Graduate Office for more information and appropriate forms. Effective May

15 GRADUATE FACULTY SPECIALTIES Professor Nicole Aljoe Eighteenth- & nineteenth-century Black Atlantic Literature; the Slave Narrative; Postcolonial Studies (Black British, African, Caribbean, Latin American, South Asian); eighteenth-century British Novel; gender/sexuality and writing; archival studies; visual culture Professor Samuel Bernstein Dramatic literature; creative writing Professor Frank Blessington Milton; seventeenth-century British literature; classics; poetry writing; fiction writing; genre (epic and lyric); sixteenth-century British literature; Spenser; Shakespeare Professor Erika Boeckeler Shakespeare; Alphabets & Alphabetic Literature; Language Theory; Renaissance Lyric Poetry; History of the Book; Early Modern Northern European Visual Art; Early Slavic Print Culture Professor Beth Britt Contemporary rhetorical criticism, especially feminist and cultural criticism; classical rhetoric; rhetoric and the law; rhetoric and materiality; qualitative research methods, including participant-observation and interviewing; discourses of domestic violence, probability, infertility/reproductive technologies Professor Ryan Cordell Nineteenth-century American literature; periodical studies; digital humanities; religion and literature; American apocalypticism; technologies of textual production Ellen Cushman Composition and rhetoric, literacy studies in tribal and urban communities, decolonial rhetorics, Cherokee language and writing, digital composing and archiving, writing pedagogies, qualitative research methodologies and research in the teaching of English Professor Theo Davis Eighteenth- & nineteenth-century American literature; literary and political theory; aesthetics 14

16 Professor Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Seventeenth- through nineteenth-century American literature; transatlantic seventeenth-nineteenth century literature; origins of the novel; public sphere and early print culture; eighteenth-century drama British and American; aesthetics; feminist theory; critical theory; early Caribbean literature; early African American literature; literature and performance; archival studies; literature and political theory Professor Chris Gallagher Rhetoric and composition, with emphases in writing pedagogy and assessment; writing program administration; educational change and reform Professor Laura Green Victorian literature; twentieth-century anglophone literature; history and theory of the novel; feminist and queer theory Professor Carla Kaplan Twentieth-century American Literature; Modernism; African American Literature and History; Feminist Theory; Biography and Cultural History; Literary Journalism and Creative Nonfiction Professor Kathleen Kelly Medieval studies; film; contemporary British novel; non-human and post-human studies; animal studies; ecocriticism; feminist and gender theories; genre theories; narrative theories (with a particular interest in magic realism and other non-traditional forms); queer theories; British literature from the medieval period through the present; speculative fiction Professor Lori Hope Lefkovitz Jewish literature; Hebrew bible; contemporary critical theory; Jewish feminism; Victorian literature; the novel Professor Neal Lerner Composition and rhetoric, writing across the curriculum, writing centers, literacy, writing studies research methods Professor Marina Leslie Early modern literature and culture; archival studies; gender studies. Specific topics of interest include utopian fiction, fictions of social contract and the origins of science fiction; travel literature and narratives of contact; literature and crime, with particular interest in the ways that true crime stories enter literary culture; early modern women as subjects and authors; the human animal connection and the pre-history of the post-human. Professor Mary Loeffelholz American literature; women writers; gay and lesbian cultural studies; nineteenth-century Anglophone poetry 15

17 Professor Patrick Mullen Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish and English culture and politics; modernity and globalization; Marxism; critical theory; history of sexuality Professor Stuart Peterfreund English Romanticism (poetry, fiction, and drama); eighteenth-century British literature; literature and science; social history of science; history of ideas Professor Mya Poe Writing and Rhetoric; writing assessment, especially issues of fairness and racial/linguistic diversity; writing across the curriculum with particular interest in disciplinary ways of knowing and representing data; public discourses about literacy, identity, and language; intersections of literary and literacy research; writing studies research methods; genre studies Professor Janet Randall Linguistics; grammar; English language teaching/education; dialects of English (including African American English); gender and language; mental representations of language; language and law Professor Bonnie TuSmith Multiethnic literatures of the US (especially African American, Asian American, Native American, US Latino/a); multiethnic literary theory and pedagogy; critical race theory; comparative American cultures; literary tricksterism; short story cycles; the American novel; literary nonfiction (memoir, autobiography, personal essay); narrative theory 16