People

Mofiyinfoluwa (Fi) Okupe
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Kaden St. Onge
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Aaron Pang
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Andre Perry
Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Andre Perry is a writer and arts worker. His debut nonfiction book, Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now, was hailed by NPR as "extraordinary" and Foreword called him "a fresh American voice that demands to be heard.

Lori Peterson Branch
Title/Position
Associate Professor
My scholarship focuses on the British long 18th century and ranges from the 4th-century Sayings of the Desert Fathers to contemporary Gothic fiction. Across my work, I am interested in thinking critically about secularism as an ideology and finding fresh language to speak about religion in its breadth and complexity as we encounter it in literature, the world, and personal experience.

Hannah Piette
Title/Position
CLAS Visiting Writer-Poetry

Adelina Pineda Canganelli
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student

Katie Randazzo
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Paisley Rekdal
Title/Position
Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Nonfiction Writing Program

William Rhodes
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
My work focuses on the connections among medieval/Renaissance poetry, economics, and the environment. My current book project, Work, Waste, and Reform: The Political Ecology of the Piers Plowman Tradition, 1350-1600, explores the ways in which medieval poetry about agrarian work informed early colonial ideologies in the sixteenth-century.

Kelly Riessen
Title/Position
Accountant

Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder is a scholar of twentieth and twenty-first century transnational American literature and culture. Her teaching and research interests include multiethnic literature and culture, (specifically African American and Latinx Studies), performance studies, women of color feminism, southern studies, and social movement activism.

Phillip Round
Title/Position
John C. Gerber Professor of English
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Phillip Round’s research and teaching in American literature focuses on material practices and discursive crossings. Each of his three books approaches literary practice from within very different contexts.

Paul Schmitt
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Jennie Sekanics
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Student
Jennie Sekanics is an English Ph.D. scholar and TA for Foundations of English at the University of Iowa, where she studies twentieth and twenty first century fiction, feminist theory, and trauma studies.

Kathleen Shaughnessy
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Kathleen Shaughnessy is an English Ph.D. candidate who works on themes of the gothic and medical science in 19th-century British literature.

Bela Shayevich
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Bennett Sims
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Bennett Sims is the author of the novel A Questionable Shape, which received the Bard Fiction Prize and was a finalist for The Believer Book Award, and the collection White Dialogues.

Jenny Singer
Title/Position
MFA Nonfiction Graduate Student

Sanjna Singh
Title/Position
Administrative Services Coordinator – The Nonfiction Writing Program

Alyssa (Adare) Smith
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate

Meredith Stabel
Title/Position
PhD Graduate Candidate
Meredith Stabel is a PhD candidate in English studying American literature from 1865 to the present. She has also earned the Graduate Certificate in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies. Her interests include Southern diasporic literature and African American literature, with a particular focus on parenthood—or the lack thereof—as a locus of violence and historical weight.

Anne Stapleton
Title/Position
Emeritus Professor of Instruction
My teaching and scholarship explore literature and culture of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Great Britain, with a particular focus on Scotland.

Harry Stecopoulos
Title/Position
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Professor
Harry Stecopoulos, Professor of English, teaches courses on modern US literature, culture, and performance, with specific interests in in the novel, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory.
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