Meet Our Faculty
Associate Professor
Victorian literature and culture, the novel, Victorian poetry, 19th-century science, Dickens, Victorian London, 19th-century political economy. Science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction and horror.
Sarah.Alexander@uvm.edu
Professor
English renaissance literature and cultural history; European epic tradition, the Bible, the history of science, and literary theory
Andrew.Barnaby@uvm.edu
Lecturer
Creative Writing - Fiction, Race and Ethnicity in Literature and Film, Critical Theory.
Lionel.Beasley@uvm.edu (802) 656-3315
Julian Lindsay Green & Gold Professor • Carnegie Fellow
African-American and 20th-Century American literature, critical theory, race and ethnicity in literature, Women's studies
Emily.Bernard@uvm.edu (802) 656-3423
Associate Professor • Director of Graduate Teaching Assistants
Rhetorical theory; composition pedagogy; Feminist rhetorics, historiographies, and pedagogies; Queer theory and studies; digital rhetorics; archival theory
Jean.Bessette@uvm.edu
Senior Lecturer • Director of the Writing Center
American literary history, race and ethnicity in literature, American autobiography, composition
Sheila.BolandChira@uvm.edu
Professor
Creative writing: memoir, personal essay, documentary narrative/literary journalism, travel writing/writing place, personal art and cultural criticism, and short fiction
Greg.Bottoms@uvm.edu
Lecturer
Modern and contemporary poetry, nature poetry and nature writing, the interaction between science and poetry, and time in poetry; Modernism and the difficulty of the modernist avant-garde; the graphic novel, comics as a literary medium, and autobiographical comics; poetic form, formal constraints, and oulipo / oubapo.
Isaac.Cates@uvm.edu
Professor
Film & video production, documentary film history and production,film festivals
Deborah.ellis@uvm.edu
Professor
19th and 20th-Century American, English, and Irish literature; creative writing (poetry)
Daniel.Fogel@uvm.edu (802) 656-1030
Professor
U.S. ethnic studies, jazz studies, food studies, popular culture, cultural criticism
John.Gennari@uvm.edu (802) 656-3435
Senior Lecturer, Emeritus
Romanticism, American literature, comparative literature, Women's studies, composition
Hesterly.Goodson@uvm.edu
Associate Professor
Performance studies/theory; cultural studies/historiography; critical race theory; theatre studies; modern drama; dramaturgy/playwriting.
Kathleen.Gough@uvm.edu
Professor • Director of Writing in the Disciplines
Rhetoric and composition, literacy
Susan.Harrington@uvm.edu
Associate Professor
Asian American literature & culture, African American literature & culture comparative race studies, detective fiction, 20th-Century American literature, cultural studies
Jinny.Huh@uvm.edu
Professor • Dean of the Honors College
Film and television, critical theory, Modernism, 20th-century literature
David.Jenemann@uvm.edu
Lecturer
Intellectual History, Literary Theory and Practice, Global Ethnic Literatures, Authorship: Scholarly Writing; Poetry; Children’s Literature
Isabella.Jeso@uvm.edu
Lecturer
Psychoanalysis, critical theory, Marxism, film theory, and contemporary American literature.
Daae.Jung@uvm.edu
Professor • Chair of the English Department
19th-Century American literature, African-American literature, critical theory, Women's studies
Mary.Kete@uvm.edu (802) 656-3839
Lecturer
Multiethnic Literatures of the United States, Women’s & Gender Studies, Indigenous Studies, Queer Theory, Archival Theory, Community Engagement & Advocacy
Emily.Lederman@uvm.edu
Professor
British romanticism, romantic to modern poetry, literature and philosophy, critical theory
Eric.Lindstrom@uvm.edu
Senior Lecturer
Women in literature, Modern literature and philosophy, Women’s and Gender studies
Annika.Ljung-Baruth@uvm.edu (802) 656-1256
Frederick M. and Fannie C.P. Corse Professor of English
African-Anglophone literature, Pan-African literature, Black Atlantic literature, Post-colonialism
Lokangaka.Losambe@uvm.edu
Professor • Director of Film and Television Studies
Hegel, psychoanalysis, and existentialism, and the intersection of these lines of thought with the cinema.
Todd.McGowan@uvm.edu
Associate Professor • Director of Speech & Debate
Critical Media Studies; Television Studies; Space/Place
Helen.Morgan-Parmett@uvm.edu (802) 656-0097
Senior Lecturer • Co-Director of Speech & Debate
speech; debate; campaign rhetoric
Justin.Morgan-Parmett@uvm.edu
Professor
Film and media theory, representations of gender and race, violence in film and on television, Women directors, documentary film/video, Feminist theory, psychoanalytic cultural theory and Marxism.
Hilary.Neroni@uvm.edu
Associate Professor
Walt Disney, the popular culture of the cold war, and cultural diplomacy
Sarah.Nilsen@uvm.edu
Senior Lecturer
American literature, race and ethnicity in U.S. literature and culture, Women in literature
Deborah.Noel@uvm.edu
Senior Lecturer
Creative writing; environmental writing; New Zealand literature; and fantasy/science fiction
Holly.Painter@uvm.edu
Lecturer
English Composition and Ethnomusicology (Folk music in the American cultural imagination)
Alexandra.Perlow@uvm.edu
Professor
19th and 20th-century American literature, LGBT literature, critical theory, Feminist theory, Queer theory, psychoanalytic theory, and narrative.
Valerie.Rohy@uvm.edu
Associate Professor
Renaissance, Shakespeare, 17th-century British, Bible as literature, critical theory, Women's studies
lisa.schnell@uvm.edu (802) 656-8627
Professor • Director of The Buckham Overseas Study Program
Post Colonialism, Caribbean anglophone, 20th-century British literature, Marxist theory
Helen.Scott@uvm.edu
Associate Professor
Medieval literature and culture, Religion and literature, and history of Christianity
Jennifer.Sisk@uvm.eduSenior Lecturer
Race and ethnicity in contemporary American literature, colorblind racism and post-racial ideology, popular culture, 20th/21st century Black Women writers, modernism, composition
Sarah.E.Turner@uvm.edu
Senior Lecturer
Beowulf, Medieval literature, Tolkien studies, sex and gender identity studies
Christopher.Vaccaro@uvm.edu (802) 656-1221
Professor Emeritus
Composition and rhetoric including rhetoric of social movements, U.S. working-class rhetorical history, and women and rhetoric; fiction and nonfiction writing; and literacy studies
Nancy.Welch@uvm.edu
Senior Lecturer
Science fiction and fantasy, Arthurian tales, Native American literature, composition
James.T.Williamson@uvm.edu
Senior Lecturer
Modernism, Postmodernism, American literature, critical theory, film & television studies, critical race and ethnic studies, dystopian fiction, addiction studies.
Sean.Witters@uvm.edu
Associate Professor
East Asian cinema, postcolonial studies, gender studies, psychoanalysis, Marxism, globalization and media.
hmurphre@uvm.edu