Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Jessica Ann Hughes

Chair, Department of Language and Literature

Associate Professor of English

Teaching and Research Interests

  • The long 19th century
  • The novel
  • Religion in 19th-century Britain
  • Bible as literature
Gary Tandy

Gary Tandy, PhD

Professor of English

Teaching and Research Interests

  • C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and the Inklings
  • Early British literature, Shakespeare
  • Music and literature
  • Christianity and literature
Harrison Dietzman

Harrison Dietzman, MFA, PhD

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Postsecular theory
  • Medical humanities
  • Fiction and creative nonfiction writing
Ben Hawkins

Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Brooks Lampe

Associate Professor of Language and Literature

Honors Teaching Fellow

Jay David Miller

Assistant Professor of English

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Early American literature
  • The Atlantic World
  • Theology and literature
  • Literature and the environment
  • Quakerism
Holly Shelton

Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Multilingual Writing
  • Translingual literacy
  • Multimodel composition
Melanie Springer Mock

Professor of English

Teaching and Writing Interests

  • Journalism
  • Creative nonfiction, including longform journalism
  • First-year writing
  • Cultural criticism

Staff

Susana Barnreuther-Martinez

Susana Barnreuther-Martinez

Administrative Assistant, Department of Language and Literature