Associate Professor
Interests: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Oklahoma History, Historical Fiction, Early Modern Women Writers.
Email: raskew@ou.edu
OU Department of English Faculty
Alphabetically | By Research Interests
Rilla Askew
Amit R. Baishya
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies for the English Department
Interests: Postcolonial literature; cultural studies; film.
Joyce Coleman
Rudolph C. Bambas Professor of Medieval English Literature & Culture
Director, University of Oklahoma Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Interests: Medieval literary reception, performance, and patronage;
"the iconography of the book" in medieval manuscripts.
Robert Con Davis-Undiano
Professor of English and Neustadt Professor
Executive Director of World Literature Today
Interests: American studies; Chicano studies; cultural studies; literary and cultural theory.
Bill Endres
Assistant Professor
Interests: Digital Humanities, medieval manuscripts, and visual rhetoric.
Rachel C. Jackson
Assistant Professor
Interests: Native American and Indigenous Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Race Theory, Decolonial Theory, Land-Based Pedagogies, Indigenous Language Revitalization, and Critical Regionalism, Transrhetorical Analysis and Decolonial Methodologies, Community Writing and Digital Storytelling, Kiowa and Cherokee Languages
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Professor
Interests: Poetry Writing, Fiction Writing, Creative Nonfiction Writing, Writing for Creative Publication, Early African American Literature, Blues Poetics, and Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century African American Literature.
Susan Kates
Professor
Interests: History of rhetoric; material rhetorics; women's rhetorics; creative writing, particularly creative nonfiction; Oklahoma cultural studies.
Rita Keresztesi
Professor
Interests: African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies: the Harlem Renaissance, Black Arts/Black Power, Anglophone Caribbean Literatures and Music; Postcolonial African Cinema (Francophone West Africa, Nollywood, and Bongo Cinema).
William C. Kurlinkus
Assistant Professor
Director, Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Director, Technical Writing
Interests: New media; rhetoric; technical communication; design.
Joseph Mansky
Assistant Professor
Interests: Early modern literature; libel; theater and social history; rhetoric and poetics; political theory
Email: jmansky@ou.edu
William Henry McDonald
Associate Professor
Interests: Nineteenth-century American literature; twentieth-century American literature; literary theory
Roxanne Mountford
Chair, Department of English
Director, First-Year Composition
Professor
Interests: Rhetorical history, theory, and criticism; writing; women’s rhetoric; African American rhetoric; rhetorical education; religious rhetoric; environmental rhetoric; institutional history.
Joshua B. Nelson
Associate Professor
Interests: American Indian and Indigenous literature, film, and media; Cherokee culture; identity theory; agency; anarchism; pragmatism.
Ronald Schleifer
George Lynn Cross Research Professor
Adjunct Professor in Medicine
Interests: Twentieth-century literature; literature and medicine; critical theory; semiotics
schleifer@ou.edu
Justin A. Sider
Assistant Professor
Interests: Nineteenth-century literature (especially poetry and non-fiction), aestheticism and decadence, Pre-Raphaelite art and poetry, twentieth-century poetry, aesthetic theory, genre theory.
justin.sider@ou.edu
Jake Skeets
Jonathan Stalling
Professor
Interests: Modern to Contemporary American Poetry; Comparative Chinese-Western Poetics, Literary and Cultural Theory, Translation Studies, Creative Writing (poetry), and EFL.
Sandra L. Tarabochia
Associate Professor
Interests: Writer development; faculty writers; inclusive publishing, educational access, inclusion, and transformation; writing across the curriculum and in the disciplines; writing pedagogy; rhetoric, literacy and sexuality; writing research methods/methodologies; transformative learning; undergraduate research mentorship
Cedric R. Tolliver
Julie-Françoise Tolliver
Associate Professor
Interests: World literature (early, 20th-century, and contemporary), world cinema, postcolonial studies, North American studies, translation studies
Kathleen E. Welch
Presidential Professor
Interests: Writing and literacy; classical rhetorical theory; twentieth-
century rhetoric and composition theory; current technology and literacy
studies; feminist theory; historicized rhetoric.
Kimberly Wieser
Associate Professor
Interests: American Indian critical theories, literatures, and rhetorics; gender studies.
James Zeigler
Associate Professor
Interests: Twentieth-century American literature; literary theory; rhetoric.
Affiliated Faculty
Kalenda Eaton
Affiliate Faculty Member
Associate Professor, The Clara Luper Department of African and African American Studies
Affiliate Faculty Member
Director the OU Writing Center & the Expository Writing Program
Affiliate Faculty Member
Assistant Director & Editor in Chief of World Literature Today
Emeritus Faculty
Eve Tavor Bannet
Professor Emeritus
Interests: The long eighteenth century; trans-Atlantic studies; British and American literature; women; letters; history of reading; secret writing
Dan Cottom
Professor Emeritus
Interests: Nineteenth-century English literature; cultural studies; literary and cultural theory.
Geary Hobson
Vincent B. Leitch
Professor Emeritus
Interests: Literary criticism and theory; cultural studies; poetry and poetics.
Daniel Joseph Ransom
Professor Emeritus of English
Director, Variorum Chaucer Project
Interests: Medieval literature; the history of English; Chaucer.
Joanna Rapf
Professor Emeritus of English
Alan Velie
Professor Emeritus
Interests: Shakespeare; American Indian literature; poetry and poetics; the Bible as literature.
