English (ENGL)

HONORS: An Honors Program in English is offered for qualified students; see the English Department website (www.wlu.edu/x22899.xml) for details.

Department Head: Edward Adams
2014-15 Interim Department Head: Lesley M. Wheeler
 

Faculty

First date is the year in which the faculty member began service as regular faculty at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.

Edward Adams, Ph.D.—(1993)-2012
Professor of English
Ph.D., Yale University

Marc C. Conner, Ph.D.—(1996)-2008
Jo. M and James M. Ballengee Professor of English
Ph.D., Princeton University

Howard N. (Hank) Dobin, Ph.D.—(2005)-2005
Professor of English
Ph.D., Stanford University

Christopher Gavaler, M.F.A.—(2014)-2014
Assistant Professor of English
M.F.A., University of Virginia

Genelle C. Gertz, Ph.D.—(2003)-2010
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., Princeton University

Wan-Chuan Kao, Ph.D.—(2013)-2013
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., City University of New York

Suzanne P. Keen, Ph.D.—(1995)-2001
Thomas H. Broadus Jr. Professor of English and Dean of The College
Ph.D., Harvard University

Jess C. Keiser, Ph.D.—(2014)-2014
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., Cornell University

Deborah Miranda, Ph.D.—(2004)-2013
John Lucian Smith Jr. Term Professor of English
Ph.D., University of Washington

Holly C. Pickett, Ph.D.—(2005)-2011
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Rod T. Smith, M.A.—2005
Writer in Residence
M.A., Appalachian State University

Kary D. Smout, Ph.D.—(1991)-1998
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., Duke University

James Perrin Warren, Ph.D.—(1984)-1996
S. Blount Mason Jr. Professor of English
Ph.D., Yale University

Lesley M. Wheeler, Ph.D.—(1994)-2006
Henry S. Fox Professor of English
Ph.D., Princeton University