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Bradley Deane

Brad Deane

Associate Professor

Ph.D., Northwestern University
B.A., University of Michigan


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Areas of Expertise

  • Nineteenth Century British Literature

Julie Eckerle

Julie Eckerle

Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities


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Areas of Expertise

  • Early Modern British Literature
  • Women’s Writing and Representations of Gender in Literature

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David Ericksen

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Illinois


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Areas of Expertise

  • American Literature before the Civil War
  • Creative Writing

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Janet Schrunk Ericksen

Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Illinois

Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award


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Areas of Expertise

  • Old English Literature
  • Middle English Literature
  • Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
  • History of the English Language

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Becca Gercken

Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Miami


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Vicki Graham

Vicki Graham

Professor

Ph.D. University of California
M.A., University of California
B.A., San Francisco State University


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Areas of Expertise

  • Poetry and poetics
  • 20th Century British and American poetry
  • Nature poetry
  • Eco-criticism
  • Creative writing

Athena Kildegaard

Athena Kildegaard

Teaching Specialist

M.A.T., University of Chicago
B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College


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Areas of Expertise

  • Poetry
  • Creative writing about the natural world

Christine Kolaya

Chrissy Kolaya

Teaching Specialist

M.F.A., Indiana University


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Michael Lackey

Michael Lackey

Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Kentucky


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Areas of Expertise

  • Twentieth-century Intellectual History
  • God and Religion in Literature
  • Atheism

Argie Manolis

Argie Manolis

Coordinator

M.F.A., Arizona State University
B.A., Kent State University
B.S., Kent State University


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Areas of Expertise

  • Creative Writing
  • Poetry
  • Fiction

Chris Miller

Brook Miller

Associate Professor

Ph.D., Indiana University


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Brian Parmeter

Brian Parmeter

Teaching Specialist


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Areas of Expertise

  • Visual Rhetoric

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Nancy Pederson

Teaching Specialist

M.A., University of Minnesota


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Tom Sarmiento

Tom Sarmiento

Graduate School Fellow

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minnesota


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Tisha Turk

Tisha Turk

Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin


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Areas of Expertise

  • Fan Videos
  • Composition Studies
  • Writing Centers and Peer Tutoring
  • Narrative Theory
  • History of the Novel in English
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies