Faculty & Staff
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
Visiting Associate Professor of English
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, American Studies
Specialties:
- American Literature
- American Culture
- American Studies
(804) 289-8309
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
Associate Professor of English
Specialties:
- Post World War II American novels and films
- Contemporary American literature and culture
- Hollywood Film
(804) 289-8297
Visiting Assistant Professor of Data Science
Specialties:
- Digital Humanities
- Computational Literary Studies
- US Literature
(804) 662-3349
Professor of English
Director of FYS and Writing Across the Curriculum
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
Mr. Brian Henry
He/Him
Professor of English and Creative Writing
Jabez A. Bostwick Chair of English
Specialties:
- Creative Writing
- Literary Translation
- Contemporary Poetry
- Literary Editing and Publishing
(804) 287-643
Professor of English, Emeritus
Specialties:
- Eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British novel
(804) 289-8289
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Specialties:
- Medieval English Literature
- Food Studies
- Writing and Critical Inquiry
Professor of English, Emerita
Specialties:
- Southern Literature
- Literature by Women
- The Novel
Associate Professor of English Emerita
Specialties:
- History & Biography
- Rhetoric & Composition
(804) 289-8309
Dr. Thomas Salem Manganaro
He/Him
Associate Professor of English
Specialties:
- Eighteenth-Century Literature
- Romanticism
- Literature and philosophy Specialty 4
- Intellectual History
(804) 289-8289
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
Associate Professor of English and Italian Studies
Coordinator, Italian Studies Program
Specialties:
- Renaissance Studies
- Comparative Literature (English, Italian, French)
- Shakespeare
(804) 289-8294
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
Associate Professor of English
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator of Film Studies
Specialties:
- Contemporary American Literature
- Indigenous literature and film in North America
(804) 289-8311
Professor of English and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Stephanie Bennett-Smith Chair of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Postcolonial Studies
- Critical Theory
- Transnational Feminisms
- Queer Theory
- Environmental Humanities
(804) 289-8308
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
Emeriti Faculty
Professor of English, Emeritus
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member, Emeritus
Specialties:
- African American Literature and Culture
- 20th Century American Literature
- Black Vernacular Tradition
- Post-Blackness
(804) 289-8292
Director, Writing Center, Emeritus
Adjunct Assistant Professor, SPCS, Liberal Arts
Specialties:
- Technology in the Classroom
- Generative AI
- Writing Centers
- Writing Across the Curriculum
(804) 289-8935