Barbara Burkhardt
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D. English, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Phone: (217) 206-8092
Office: UHB 3074
Teaching Concentration: American Literature from 1865 to 1915 with emphasis on the novel, postmodern fiction, Midwestern literature, Fiction of The New Yorker, Contemporary American fiction, and American women writers.
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Donna Alfano Bussell
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. English, Columbia University
Phone: (217) 206-8091
Office: UHB 3072
Teaching Concentration: Chaucer, Anglo-Norman literature, medieval hagiography, medieval drama and liturgy, Women in the Middle Ages, Arthurian Literature and the Crusades, Insular politics and the rhetoric of devotion in the Middle Ages.
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Bill Carpenter
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. Composition Studies and English Language, University of Kansas
Phone: (217) 206-8332
Office: UHB 3069
Research Interests: Composition theory and rhetoric, writing program administration, creative nonfiction, poetry.
Sara Cordell
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. English, University of Missouri
Phone: (217) 206-7213
Office: UHB 3066
Teaching Concentration: Nineteenth-Century
British Literature, literary theory.
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Lan Dong
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Phone: (217) 206-8334
Office: UHB 3071
Teaching Concentration: World Literature, Composition, Asian American literature and film, Chinese Women, Chinese Literature and Film, the Graphic Novel, Children's Literature
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Tena Helton
Assistant Professor of English
Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D. English (American Literature), Louisiana State University
Phone: (217) 206-7441
Office: UHB 3070
Teaching Concentration: Antebellum American literature,
genre theory, regional literatures and cultures, and American women's
literature.
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Marcellus J. Leonard
Associate Professor of English
Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
UIS Ombudsman
D.A. Teaching of Writing, Illinois State University
Phone: (217) 206-7452
Office: BRK 460
Teaching Concentration: Creative Writing, poetry, fiction, and playwriting; African-American Literature, particularly the novels of Toni Morrison and the development of African-American Literature from Wheatley to 1965.
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Ethan Lewis
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D. English, Boston College
Phone: (217) 206-7436
Office: UHB 3068
Teaching Concentration: Shakespeare, seventeenth-century
literature, modern and contemporary poetry.
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Livinus Odozor
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. English, University of Toronto
Phone: (217) 206-8335
Office: UHB 3073
Research Interests: World literatures in English, African literature, Postcolonial literature and theory, Caribbean literature, cultural studies, contemporary theory and textual studies, the modern novel.
James Ottery
Chair of the UIS English Department
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D. English, University of Missouri
Phone: (217) 206-7443
Office: UHB 3076
Teaching Concentration: History and theories of composition and rhetoric, literary theory, American Indian Literature.
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Debra Parker
Composition Coordinator, Capital Scholars Honors
Visiting Instructor of English
M.A. Linguistics, Northeastern Illinois University
Phone: (217) 206-7364
Office: UHB 3060
Nancy Genevieve Perkins
Associate Professor of Creative Writing
D.A. English, Illinois State University
Phone: (217) 206-6779
Office: UHB 3062
Teaching Concentration: Writing
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