Faculty
Robin Bates, PhD
Shakespeare and early modern British literature; Irish studies; British post-colonial/transnational studies; literary theory; textual scholarship
Casey Clabough, PhD
Creative nonfiction (memoir, travel writing, biography); fiction (with emphasis in the historical novel and the supernatural); American literature (all periods with emphasis on the South, Appalachia, and Virginia); African-American literature; editing (editorship of the James Dickey Review); literary theory
Cheryl Coleman, PhD
20th and 21st century British and American novel; multicultural novel; literature and religion
Leslie Layne, PhD
English language and linguistics; history of English; Southern and Appalachian regional dialects
Laura Long, PhD (program director)
Creative writing: fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction; life writing; environmental literature; cultural contexts of literature; American literature; Appalachia
Laura Marello, MFA equivalent
Fiction writing; contemporary fiction; experimental fiction; women's literature; multicultural women's literature; Latin American and European modern and contemporary fiction; expatriate writers in Paris 1880-1920
Wendy Miles, MFA
Creative writing: poetry (including traditional poetic forms), short fiction, and creative nonfiction; contemporary poetry, fiction and creative/literary nonfiction
Beth Savage, PhD
Literature of the long 18th century in England; gender studies; drama, particularly comedy; literary theory; the "Laboring Poets" of the 18th century
Elza Tiner, PhD
Medieval English and Latin literature, with emphasis on Latin sources for the development of Early English biblical drama
Allison Wilkins, MFA
Poetry (19th, 20th & 21st c.); modernism; forms of poetry; translation; creative writing; ecocriticism; American Literature Pre-1900
Dr. Robin Bates's book, Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland
Dr. Casey Clabough's book, The Warrior's Path
Dr. Laura Long's book of poetry, Imagine a Door
Professor Laura Marello's book, The Tenants of the Hotel Biron
Dr. Elza Tiner's book, Teaching with the Records of Early English Drama
