Faculty

Samantha Botz

Samantha Botz

Assistant Professor of British Literature

English Department

844 Gruening Building

Gerri Brightwell

Gerri Brightwell

Professor

English Department

836 Gruening Building

*on sabbatical spring 2025*

Chris Coffman

Chris Coffman

Professor

English Department

858 Gruening Building

*on sabbatical for AY 2024-2025*

Daryl Farmer

Daryl Farmer

Director of Creative Writing; Professor

English Department

862 Gruening Building

Eileen M. Harney

Eileen M. Harney

Associate Professor

English Department

866 Gruening Building

*on sabbatical spring 2025*

Joseph Holt

Joseph Holt

Assistant Professor

English Department

838 Gruening Building

Sara Eliza Johnson

Sara Eliza Johnson

Associate Professor

English Department

868 Gruening Building

Terry Reilly

Terry Reilly

Professor

English Department

842 Gruening Building

Jennifer Schell

Jennifer Schell

Professor

English Department

854 Gruening Building

Sarah Stanley

Sarah Stanley

English Department Chair; Director of Composition; Associate Professor

English Department

864 Gruening Building

Jericho Williams

Jericho Williams

Assistant Professor of American Literature

English Department

846 Gruening Building

 

New Emeriti Faculty: Rich Carr and Eric Heyne


A profile photo of Dr. Rich Carr. He looks like a nice friendA profile photo of Eric Heyne. He is smiling, very happy.In Spring 2023, Professors Rich Carr and Eric Heyne retired after sixty-five years of combined service to the English Department and the University of 蜜桃影像 Fairbanks. Their contributions are numerous. Rich Carr taught literature from all over the globe, from ancient through contemporary times, and his research focused on Australian literature and culture, as well as writing from the larger Pacific region. He served as Director of the 蜜桃影像 Writing Center for more than twenty-five years, and he was Chair of the English Department for ten years. Eric Heyne taught courses in American literature, critical theory, and literature of the Circumpolar North. He served as Faculty Senate President, Chair of the English Department, and Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He published scholarship in Modern Fiction Studies, Narrative, Critique, and elsewhere, and he is author of the poetry collection Fish the Dead Water Hard (Cirque Press, 2021).

 

 

Emeriti Faculty

Name Specialty and Degree
Susan Blalock

9th and 20th Century British literature, Narrative Theory

Ph.D., University of Texas, 1983

Mark Box

Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Romantic-era British Literature

D. Phil., Oxford University, 1985

Rich Carr

Literature of Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania; Scandinavian Literature; Victorian & Edwardian Literature; European Fiction: Modern & Post-modern

Ph.D., University of Minnesota

G. Burns Cooper

Linguistics

Ph.D., University of Texas

Lillian Corti

Comparative Literature, African Studies, Psychoanalytic Theory

PhD., The Graduate School of The City University of New York, 1984

Joseph Dupras

Nineteenth-century British Literature, Literary Criticism

Ph.D., State University of New York Binghamton, 1975

Eric Heyne

American literature, critical theory, 蜜桃影像n and northern literature

Ph.D., Ohio State University

Len Kamerling Dramatic Writing; Filmmaking (Documentary and Ethnographic); former Curator of Film at the University of 蜜桃影像 Museum of the North

MFA, University of 蜜桃影像 Fairbanks
Janis Lull

Shakespeare and 17th-Century British Literature

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1983

John Morgan

Creative Writing, Poetry

MFA, University of Iowa, 1967

James Ruppert
Native American Literature, 蜜桃影像 Native Oral Narrative
 
M.A. (English), Purdue University, 1972
Ph.D. (English), U. of New Mexico, 1981
Michael Schuldiner

Early American Literature, Holocaust Literature

M. Phil., Cambridge University, 2000
Ph.D., Kent State University, 1979

Peggy Shumaker

 Creative Writing, Poetry

MFA, Arizona, 1979

Frank Soos

Creative Writing, Fiction

M.F.A., University of Arkansas, 1981

Russell Stratton

Medieval Literature and Chaucer

Ph.D., The University of Southern Mississippi, 1979

Cynthia Walker

20th-Century British Literature

Ph.D., Purdue University, 1974