Christopher Butler
Teaching Specialist
- Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz (in progress)
- M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz
- M.A., University of Notre Dame
- B.A., Miami University
Contact
- Office: Camden 116
- Phone: 320-589-6181
Areas of Expertise
- International development
- Social movements
- Political ecology/environmental issues
- Sports
- Gender
Brad Deane
Associate Professor
- Ph.D., Northwestern University
- B.A., University of Michigan
- Alumni Association Teaching Award
Contact
- Office: Humanities 224
- Phone: 320-589-6265
Areas of Expertise
- Nineteenth Century British Literature
Julie Eckerle
Associate Professor
Assistant Chair of the Humanities Division
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Contact
- Office: Humanities 210
- Phone: 320-589-6262
- Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Expertise
- Early Modern British Literature
- Women’s Writing and Representations of Gender in Literature
- Early Modern Life Writing
David Ericksen
Assistant Professor
- Ph.D., University of Illinois
Contact
- Office: Humanities 14
- Phone: 320-589-6284
Areas of Expertise
- American Literature before the Civil War
- Creative Writing
Janet Schrunk Ericksen
Associate Professor
- Ph.D., University of Illinois
- Alumni Association Teaching Award
- Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award
Contact
- Office: Humanities 201
- Phone: 320-589-6251
Areas of Expertise
- Old English Literature
- Middle English Literature
- Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
- History of the English Language
Becca Gercken
Associate Professor
- Ph.D., University of Miami
Contact
- Office: Humanities 204
- Phone: 320-589-6259
Areas of Expertise
- American Indian Literature
- Multicultural Literature
Vicki Graham
Professor
- Ph.D. University of California
- M.A., University of California
- B.A., San Francisco State University
Contact
- Office: Humanities 202
- Phone: 320-589-6258
Areas of Expertise
- Poetry and poetics
- 20th Century British and American poetry
- Nature poetry
- Eco-criticism
- Creative writing
Athena Kildegaard
Teaching Specialist
- M.A.T., University of Chicago
- B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College
Contact
- Office: HFA 4
- Phone: 320-589-7002
Areas of Expertise
- Poetry
- Creative writing about the natural world
Chrissy Kolaya
Assistant Professor
- M.F.A., Indiana University
- B.A., Loyola University
Contact
- Office: Humanities 216
- Phone: 320-589-6255
Areas of Expertise
- Poetry
- Creative Writing
- Fiction and Short Stories
Michael Lackey
Associate Professor
- Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Contact
- Office: Humanities 212
- Phone: 320-589-6263
- Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Expertise
- Twentieth-century Intellectual History
- God and Religion in Literature
- Atheism
Argie Manolis
Coordinator of Community Engagement
- M.F.A., Arizona State University
- B.A., Kent State University
- B.S., Kent State University
- Morris Academic Staff Award
Contact
- Office: Welcome Center 206
- Phone: 320-589-6276
Areas of Expertise
- Project planning/coordination
- Reflective practices
- Program assessment
- Creative Writing
Brook Miller
Associate Professor
- Ph.D., Indiana University
Contact
- Office: Humanities 206
- Phone: 320-585-6260
Brian Parmeter
Teaching Specialist
- M.S., Michigan Technological University
Contact
- Office: Camden 215
- Phone: 320-589-6296
Areas of Expertise
- Visual Rhetoric
Nancy Pederson
Teaching Specialist
- M.A., University of Minnesota
Contact
- Office: MRC 218
- Phone: 320-589-6454
Areas of Expertise
- English as a Second Language
Tisha Turk
Associate Professor
Writing Center Director
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Contact
- Office: Humanities 208
- Phone: 320-589-6261
- Website
Areas of Expertise
- Fan Videos
- Composition Studies
- Writing Centers and Peer Tutoring
- Narrative Theory
- History of the Novel in English
- Gender and Sexuality Studies