Emeriti Professors

Professors Emeriti
Craig Abbott
Professor Emeritus
Bibliographical and Textual Studies, 20th-century American Literature (especially poetry)
Christine Abbott
Professor Emeritus
Professional and Technical Writing
Gerald M. Berkowitz
Professor Emeritus
Shakespeare, Modern British and American Drama
William Baker
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Victorian Literature, Bibliography and post-1945 British Literature
David Bywaters
Professor Emeritus
Restoration and 18th-century Literature, Grammar, Essay Composition
Susan F. Callahan
Professor Emeritus
English Education, Advanced Composition
Edward Callary
Professor Emeritus
Linguistics
Frank Court
Professor Emeritus
19th-century British Literature, Literature and Cultural Studies, Walter Pater, Bibliography and Criticism
Susan E. Deskis
Old English literature; Medieval proverbs
Sue Doederlein
Professor Emeritus
Eighteenth Century British Literature
Philip E. Eubanks
Professor Emeritus
Rhetoric and Composition, Professional Writing
James Giles
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
19th- and 20th-century American Literature, African American Literature, Nelson Algren
Rosalie Hewitt
Professor Emeritus
American Literature Rhetoric and Composition
William C. Johnson
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
16th- and 17th-century English Literature
Mark A. Kipperman
Professor Emeritus
19th-century British Literature, Poetry, the Victorians and the Romantics, Shakespeare
John Knapp
Professor Emeritus
Modern British and American Literature, English Education
Amy K. Levin
Professor Emeritus
Women's Studies and Women's Literature, Museum Studies, Victorian Literature, African-American Literature
Doris M. Macdonald
Linguistics, Bilingual and Multilingual Education
Glenn Meeter
Professor Emeritus
20th-century American Literature, Bible as Literature, Creative Writing
James Miller
Professor Emeritus
Medieval Literature, Old English, Grammar and Linguistics
Kathleen Renk
Professor Emeritus
19th, 20th and 21st-Century British literature, Postcolonial literature, Women’s literature
John D. Schaeffer
Professor Emeritus
Rhetoric, Renaissance and 17th-century Literature
Mary Sue Schriber
Professor Emeritus
19th-century American Literature, Travel Literature, Women’s Studies
Robert Self
Professor Emeritus
19th- and 20th-century American Literature, Literature and Film, Film Theory and Criticism
Diana L. Swanson
20th-Century British Fiction, especially Virginia Woolf; Feminist theory, especially literary theory and ecofeminism; Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender studies; Women, education and development; Environmental studies
Sean Shesgreen
Professor Emeritus
18th-century British Literature, Literary Studies, Essay Composition
Lynne Waldeland
Professor Emeritus
20th-century American Literature, Film Studies, the Short Story
William Proctor Williams
Professor Emeritus
Renaissance Drama, Textual Criticism, Bibliography