Retired faculty list
John Arthos
Professor, English
Director, Rhetoric, Writing. and Communication
- jarthos@iu.edu
- Ballantine Hall 476
Research Interests
Rhetoric and Hermeneutics; rhetoric in creativity and ethics
Patrick Brantlinger
James Rudy Professor Emeritus, English
- brantli@iu.edu
Research Interests
Victorian studies; cultural studies; history of literacy and reading; aesthetics; postcolonial studies
Linda Charnes
she/her/hers
Professor Emeritus, English
- lcharnes@iu.edu
- (812) 855-6643
- Ballantine Hall 561
Research Interests
Shakespeare and renaissance studies; Shakespeare and postmodernism, critical and cultural theories; feminist cultural studies; early modern transatlantic and restoration literatures; political philosophy and theories of democracy
Romayne Rubinas Dorsey
Senior Lecturer, English
Director, Creative Writing Pedagogy
- rrubinas@iu.edu
- Ballantine Hall 457
Research Interests
Creative writing: poetry and creative nonfiction; creative writing pedagogy
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@iu.edu
Research Interests
composition studies; contemporary rhetorical theory and practice; feminist rhetoric; writing and literature pedagogy
Raymond Hedin
Professor Emeritus, English
- hedin@iu.edu
Research Interests
Black American literature, especially slave narratives; American fiction especially Faulkner; early American literature; autobiography
Patricia Clare Ingham
she/her/hers
Professor Emeritus, English
Affiliate Professor, Gender Studies
Director, Institute for Advanced Study
- pingham@iu.edu
- (812) 855-0521
- Ballantine Hall 432
Research Interests
Chaucer; medieval romance, including Arthurian; magic and marvels in literature; literary histories of the Middle Ages; psychoanalytic, post-colonial, and gender theories
Robert Ivie
Professor Emeritus, English
- rivie@iu.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@iu.edu
Research Interests
literacy; cognitive approaches to reading
Joan Pong Linton
Associate Professor Emeritus, English
- jlinton@iu.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@iu.edu
Rosemarie McGerr
Professor, Comparative Literature
Director, Graduate Studies, Comparative Literature
Adjunct Professor, Medieval Studies
Adjunct Professor, English
- rmcgerr@iu.edu
- (812) 855-7627
- Ballantine Hall 902
Lewis H. Miller, Jr.
Professor Emeritus, English
- millerl@iu.edu
Research Interests
advertising and American culture; James Joyce; Robert Frost; American renaissance
James Naremore
Chancellors' Professor Emeritus
- naremor@iu.edu
Research Interests
Film studies; modern US and UK literature.
Richard Nash
Professor Emeritus, English
- nash@iu.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@iu.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@iu.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@iu.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@iu.edu
- (812) 855-3140
Nicholas Williams
Associate Professor Emeritus, English
- nimwilli@iu.edu
- (812) 855-7649
- Ballantine Hall 452
Research Interests
British Romanticism, especially William Blake; Bible as Literature; Marxist, aesthetic and phenomenological criticism
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