Faculty & Staff
![headshot of Dr. David Stevens](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/stevens_david.jpg)
Professor of English
Chair, Department of English
Specialties:
- Creative Writing
- American Literature (19th Century to the present)
- The Short Story
- The Western
- Canadian Literature
(804) 289-8310
![headshot of Dr. Bertram Ashe](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/ashe_bertram.jpg)
Professor of English
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- African American Literature and Culture
- 20th Century American Literature
- Black Vernacular Tradition
- Post-Blackness
(804) 289-8292
Writer in Residence
Contact:
![headshot of Dr. Stephen Brauer](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/brauer-stephen-small-59x59-july-2024.jpg)
Visiting Associate Professor of English
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, American Studies
Specialties:
- American Literature
- American Culture
- American Studies
(804) 289-8309
![headshot of Dr. Laura Browder](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/browder_laura.jpg)
Tyler and Alice Haynes Professor of American Studies
Specialties:
- Women in combat
- American autobiography
- Women and guns
- American Communist Party (Earl Browder)
- Civil rights in Richmond
(804) 289-8312
![headshot of Dr. Abigail Cheever](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/cheever_abigail.jpg)
Associate Professor of English
Specialties:
- Post World War II American novels and films
- Contemporary American literature and culture
- Hollywood Film
(804) 289-8297
![headshot of Dr. Joe Essid](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/essid_joe.jpg)
Director, Writing Center
Specialties:
- Technology in the Classroom
- Generative AI
- Writing Centers
- Writing Across the Curriculum
(804) 289-8935
![headshot of Dr. Erik Fredner](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/fredner-erik-small-59x59-june-2024.jpg)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Data Science
Specialties:
- Digital Humanities
- Computational Literary Studies
- US Literature
![headshot of Dr. Elisabeth Gruner](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/gruner-libby.jpg)
Professor of English
Specialties:
- Children's and Young Adult Literature
- Fairy Tales and Retellings
- Victorian Fiction
- Writing & Writing Pedagogy
- Assessment of Student Learning
- Learning from Student Feedback
(804) 289-8298
![headshot of Mr. Brian Henry](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/henry-brian-small.jpg)
Mr. Brian Henry
He/Him
Professor of English and Creative Writing
Specialties:
- Creative Writing
- Literary Translation
- Contemporary Poetry
- Literary Editing and Publishing
(804) 287-643
![headshot of Dr. Raymond F. Hilliard](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/hilliard_ray.jpg)
Professor of English, Emeritus
Specialties:
- Eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British novel
(804) 289-8289
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Contact:
![headshot of Dr. Suzanne Jones](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/jones_suzanne.jpg)
Professor of English, Emerita
Specialties:
- Southern Literature
- Literature by Women
- The Novel
![headshot of Dr. Joyce MacAllister](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/macallister_joyce.jpg)
Associate Professor of English Emerita
Specialties:
- History & Biography
- Rhetoric & Composition
(804) 289-8309
![headshot of Dr. Thomas Manganaro](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/manganaro_thomas.jpg)
Dr. Thomas Manganaro
He/Him
Associate Professor of English
Specialties:
- 18th-century and Romantic literature
- Literature in relation to intellectual history and ethics
- Literature and science
- The novel
- Arab-American literature and culture
(804) 289-8289
![headshot of Dr. Elizabeth Outka](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/Outka-small.jpg)
Professor of English
Tucker-Boatwright Professor of Humanities
Specialties:
- Modernism
- Twentieth-century British and Irish literature and culture
- History of the novel
(804) 287-1806
Associate Professor of English
Specialties:
- Early-American Literature
- U.S. Apocalyptic Literature
- Race and slavery
- American Humor
- Philosophies of Humor
(804) 289-8776
![headshot of Dr. Anthony Russell](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/russell-anthony.jpg)
Associate Professor of English and Italian Studies
Coordinator, Italian Studies Program
Specialties:
- Renaissance Studies
- Comparative Literature (English, Italian, French)
- Shakespeare
(804) 289-8294
![headshot of Dr. Louis Schwartz](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/schwartz_louis.jpg)
Professor of English
Specialties:
- 16th- and Early 17th-Century English Literature and Culture
- 16th- and Early 17th-Century English Medical and Obstetric History
- History and Theory of English Poetics
(804) 289-8315
![headshot of Dr. Monika Siebert](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/siebert_monika.jpg)
Associate Professor of English
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator of Film Studies
Specialties:
- Contemporary American Literature
- Indigenous literature and film in North America
(804) 289-8311
![headshot of Dr. Julietta Singh](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/singh_julietta.jpg)
Professor of English and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Stephanie Bennett-Smith Chair of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Specialties:
- Postcolonial Studies
- Critical Theory
- Transnational Feminisms
- Queer Theory
- Environmental Humanities
(804) 289-8308
![headshot of Dr. Nathan Snaza](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/snaza_nathan.jpg)
Director, Humanities Center
Assistant Professor of English
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Studies
Specialties:
- Modern Narrative, primarily British and American
- Literary Theory and Continental Philosophy
- Affect Theory and Biopolitics
- Social and Cultural Foundations of Education, Critical Pedagogy, Literacy Studies
- Sexuality and Gender Studies
(804) 289-8300
![headshot of Ms. Emily Tarchokov](https://english.richmond.edu/_common_KP3/images/faculty-staff-bio/as/small/poore_emily.jpg)