
Emeriti faculty list


Patrick Brantlinger
James Rudy Professor Emeritus, English
- brantli@indiana.edu
Research Interests
Victorian studies; cultural studies; history of literacy and reading; aesthetics; postcolonial studies



Paul John Eakin
Ruth N. Halls Professor Emeritus, English
- eakin@iu.edu
Research Interests
autobiography; biography; life writing; concepts of self, subject, and person; relation between narrative and identity; auto-ethnography and narrative practices; ethics of life writing

Christine R. Farris
Professor Emeritus, English
- crfarris@indiana.edu
Research Interests
composition studies; contemporary rhetorical theory and practice; feminist rhetoric; writing and literature pedagogy


Raymond Hedin
Professor Emeritus, English
- hedin@indiana.edu
Research Interests
Black American literature, especially slave narratives; American fiction especially Faulkner; early American literature; autobiography


Robert Ivie
Professor Emeritus, English
- rivie@indiana.edu

Joshua Kates
Professor, English
- jkates@iu.edu
Research Interests
Literary theory, especially phenomenology, deconstruction, and philosophy of history and of language; modernism, and contemporary literature

Eugene R. Kintgen
Professor Emeritus, English
Associate Dean Emeritus, University Graduate School
- kintgene@indiana.edu
Research Interests
literacy; cognitive approaches to reading


Joan Pong Linton
Associate Professor Emeritus, English
- jlinton@indiana.edu
- (812) 855-2285
- Ballantine Hall 450
Research Interests
Renaissance/Early Modern, romance, prose fiction, narrative and story-telling; trickster poetics and politics, service learning

Karma Lochrie
Provost Professor Emeritus, English
Affiliate Professor Emeritus, Gender Studies
- klochrie@indiana.edu




Lewis H. Miller, Jr.
Professor Emeritus, English
- millerl@indiana.edu
Research Interests
advertising and American culture; James Joyce; Robert Frost; American renaissance


James Naremore
Chancellors' Professor Emeritus
- naremor@indiana.edu
Research Interests
Film studies; modern US and UK literature.

Richard Nash
Professor Emeritus, English
- nash@indiana.edu
Research Interests
18c British literature and culture; literature and science; animality and animal studies; early 18c satire and fiction

David J. Nordloh
Professor Emeritus, English
- nordloh@indiana.edu
Research Interests
American literature; late-19th-century; American studies; textual criticism; textual theory and bibliography; publishing and authorship

Ranu Samantrai
Associate Professor, English
- rsamantr@indiana.edu
- (812) 855-6550
- Ballantine Hall 455
Research Interests
Post-WWII English literature & culture; Black & Asian British studies; postcolonialism & postmodernism; transnational studies & the new world literature; 20th-century intellectual history



Kathy O. Smith
Associate Professor Emeritus, English
- kosmith@indiana.edu
- (812) 855-3283
- Lindley Hall 225C
Research Interests
Rhetorical criticism; history of rhetoric; logic and argumentation; early modern poetry and critical theory; basic writing





Stephen Watt
Provost Professor Emeritus, English
Adjunct Professor Emeritus, Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
- watt@indiana.edu
- (812) 855-3140

Nicholas Williams
Associate Professor Emeritus, English
- nimwilli@indiana.edu
- (812) 855-7649
- Ballantine Hall 452
Research Interests
British Romanticism, especially William Blake; Bible as Literature; Marxist, aesthetic and phenomenological criticism

John Woodcock
Associate Professor Emeritus, English
- woodcock@indiana.edu
Research Interests
autobiography; literature and medicine; literature and science