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CALS-affiliated faculty and graduate students conduct research investigating the cultural, ethical, and imaginative work of literature, rhetoric, and/or theory in political, institutional, and historical contexts. This interdisciplinary work in and across a wide array of literary periods, areas, and methodologies includes specializations in American Literature Before 1900, American Literature After 1900, Modernist Studies, Contemporary Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, African American Language and Literature, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Media and Digital Studies, Visual Culture, Theory and Cultural Studies, and Book History and Textual Studies.

Michael Anesko

Professor of English and American Studies

W. Oliver Baker

Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies

Kevin Bell

Associate Professor of English

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Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature

(814) 863-8863
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Distinguished Professor of English

Affiliated Faculty, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies

Founding Editor, Verge: Studies in Global Asias

Founding Director, Global Asias Initiative

Richard Matthew Doyle

Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English

Affiliate Faculty, Information Science and Technology

Digital Director, Zebrapedia.org (Zebrapedia.psu.edu)

(814) 883-9597
Gabrielle Foreman

Paterno Family Professor of American Literature and Professor of African American Studies and History

Keith Gilyard

Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African American Studies

Sean X. Goudie

Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Associate Professor of English

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Associate Professor of English

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McCourtney Professor of Civic Deliberation;

Senior Scholar, McCourtney Institute for Democracy

Professor of English and of Communication Arts and Sciences

(814) 863-3069
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Director of the College of the Liberal Arts' Africana Research Center (ARC), Associate Professor of English

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Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Weiss Chair of the Humanities

(814) 865-1188
Elizabeth Kadetsky

Associate Professor of English

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Associate Research Professor of English

Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway

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Liberal Arts Professor of English

(814) 865-0025
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Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Deborah Lutz

George and Barbara Kelly Professor in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature

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Disability Studies Minor

Associate Professor Emeritus of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Department Head, English

Professor of English

(814) 863-2627
Shara McCallum

Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English

Shirley Moody-Turner

Co-Director, Center for Black Digital Research, #DigBlk

Co-Director, Cooper-Du Bois Mentoring Program

Associate Professor of English and African American Studies

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Liberal Arts Professor of English

(814) 863-2626
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Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Honors Advisor

Jeffrey Nealon

Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Philosophy

Aldon Nielsen

The George and Barbara Kelly Professor Emeritus of American Literature

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Mitrani Family Professor of Jewish Studies

Professor of English and Jewish Studies

Editor, Studies in American Jewish Literature

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Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Women's Studies

General Editor, Hemingway Letters Project

(814) 865-9702
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Associate Professor of English

Director, Digital Culture and Media Initiative

Honors Adviser