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NIU English Department Faculty and Staff

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Melissa Adams-Campbell     (click for details)
Assistant Professor
Early American Literature, Transatlantic and Transnational Colonial and Romantic Period Literature, Gender Studies
Gulsat Aygen     (click for details)
Associate Professor
Linguistics
William Baker     (click for details)
Professor
Distinguished Research Professor, Board of Trustees Professor, 19th-century British Literature, Bibliography
Scott Balcerzak     (click for details)
Assistant Professor
Film and Media Studies
Alexandra Bennett     (click for details)
Associate Professor
Renaissance English Literature and Drama, Modern British & American Drama
Betty J. Birner     (click for details)
Professor
Linguistics, Cognitive Science
Joseph W. Bonomo     (click for details)
Assistant Professor
Writing Creative Non-fiction, Literary Non-fiction, 20th-century American Literature
David Bywaters     (click for details)
Professor Emeritus
Restoration and 18th-century Literature, Grammar, Essay Composition
Susan F. Callahan     (click for details)
Professor Emeritus
Coordinator of Teacher Preparation and Development for the College of Liberal Arts and Science

English Education, Advanced Composition
Edward Callary     (click for details)
Professor
Linguistics
Nicole Clifton     (click for details)
Associate Professor
Medieval Literature and Language
Lara Crowley     (click for details)
Assistant Professor
Renaissance English Literature
Tim Crowley     (click for details)
Assistant Professor
Renaissance English Literature
Michael Day     (click for details)
Professor

Director, First-Year Composition Program
Rhetoric, Technical Writing, Composition Pedagogy
Deborah De Rosa     (click for details)
Associate Professor
Later 19th-century American Literature
Susan E. Deskis     (click for details)
Associate Professor
Medieval Literature and Language
Jeffrey Einboden     (click for details)
Assistant Professor
19th-century American Literature, Comparative Literature
Philip E. Eubanks     (click for details)
Professor
Rhetoric and Composition, Professional Writing
Stephen Franklin     (click for details)
Visiting Asst. Prof.
James Giles     (click for details)
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
19th- and 20th-century American Literature, African American Literature, Nelson Algren
Ibis Gomez-Vega     (click for details)
Associate Professor
Twentieth-Century American literature, Ethnic literature, American Drama, Gay & Lesbian literature
David J. Gorman     (click for details)
Associate Professor
Critical Theory, Comparative Literature
William Johnson     (click for details)
Professor Emeritus
16th- and 17th-century English Literature
Mark A. Kipperman     (click for details)
Professor Emeritus
19th-century British Literature, Poetry, the Victorians and the Romantics, Shakespeare
John V. Knapp     (click for details)
Professor
Modern British and American Literature, English Education
Amy K. Levin     (click for details)
Professor, English
Department Chair
Chair of the Department, Women's Studies and women's literature, Museum Studies, Victorian literature, African-American literature
Doris M. Macdonald     (click for details)
Associate Professor
Applied Linguistics, TESOL
Brian May     (click for details)
Associate Professor
19th-century British Literature Placement Advisor
Thomas McCann     (click for details)
Associate Professor
Teacher Certification
Amy Newman     (click for details)
Professor
Creative Writing, 20th Century British and American Literature
Bradley Peters     (click for details)
Professor
Undergraduate Program Director
Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum, Rhetoric and Composition
Kathleen Renk     (click for details)
Associate Professor
20th-century British Literature, Postcolonial Literature
Jessica L. Reyman     (click for details)
Associate Professor
Rhetoric and Professional Writing
Tim Ryan     (click for details)
Assistant Professor
20th Century American Literature & Culture, Modernism, African American Literature, Southern Studies
John D. Schaeffer     (click for details)
Professor
Rhetoric, Renaissance and 17th-century literature
Sean Shesgreen     (click for details)
Professor Emeritus
18th-century British literature, Literary Studies, Essay Composition
Diana L. Swanson     (click for details)
Associate Professor of Women's Studies and English
19th and 20th century British Fiction, Feminist Theory, Women’s Studies
Mark W. Van Wienen     (click for details)
Professor
19th- and 20th-century American Literature