People Type: Graduate Program Faculty

Ozier, Amadi

Website amadiozier.com Linkedin linkedin.com/in/amadiozier/ Twitter twitter.com/amadiozier Biography Degrees and Institutions Bio Amadi Ozier is a scholar specializing in black American diasporic literature and performance, with a particular interest in race, humor, lynching culture, capitalism, and black cultural history. Ozier is currently working on a book entitled Humor Among Uppity Negroes at the Turn of the …

Purnell, Thomas C.

Interests Phonetics, Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Dialectology Biography Degrees and Institutions Courses Taught English Department Language Sciences Program Integrated Liberal Studies (First-Year Interest Group Courses) Edited Volumes Selected Publications Current Projects I am currently working on a book with Eric Raimy (English) and Joseph Salmons (German, CSUMC) Modularity in phonology to appear in the Cambridge University Press Key Topics …

Raimy, Eric

Interests cognitive science, generative grammar, phonology, morphology, phonetics, syntax Biography Degrees and Institutions Selected Publications Current Research There are two projects continuing my work on reduplication. The first is a collaboration with Bill Idsardi (University of Maryland) on a book that contains our work on computational aspects of reduplication, reduplication in Sanskrit and artistic uses …

Shreve, Porter

Biography Porter Shreve is the author of the novels The Obituary Writer, Drives Like a Dream, When the White House Was Ours, and The End of the Book, which have been on best of the year lists in many newspapers and magazines including the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York Times. …

Vareschi, Mark

Interests Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama, Aesthetics, Digital Studies, Surveillance Studies, Media Theory, Philosophy and Literature, Literary Theory Biography Degrees and Institutions PhD, English, Rutgers University, 2011 MA, English, Rutgers University, 2007 BA, English, Ithaca College, 2003 Selected Publications Books Intermediate Horizons: Book History and Digital Humanities, coedited with Heather …

Waggoner, Jess

Biography Research Interests feminist disability studies, queer and trans studies, Black studies Degrees and Institutions Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington Recent Publications Black Crip Modern: Race, Gender, and the Roots of Disability Consciousness (Forthcoming from New York University Press) “Problem Girls”: Gender Nonconformity as Resistance in Early Disabled Feminist Life Writing. A/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 1–31. (2025) …

Wanner, Anja

Biography Research Interests Discourse syntax, the passive construction and linguistic prescriptivism, Syntactic variation in context, Syntax and semantics of verbs Degrees and Institutions Recent Publications Discourse Syntax: English Grammar Beyond the Sentence. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Syntactic Variation and Genre. Edited by Heidrun Dorgeloh and Anja Wanner. DeGrutyer Mouton, 2011. Deconstructing the English Passive. DeGrutyer …

Wells, Sarah Ann

Director Center for Visual Culture and Performance Studies Interests Modernism, the avant-gardes, and theories of modernity; film and media studies; comparison and transnationalism; labor resistance and collective movements; Latin American studies; science fiction and technology; translation. Biography Degrees and Institutions Teaching: Recent and Future Courses Select Publications Books and Book Projects Media Laboratories: Late Modernist …

Young, Morris

Biography Research Interests Writing and identity, the intersections of literacy and rhetorical studies, and Asian American literature and culture. Degrees and Institutions Recent Publications Books: Stephen Parks, Brian Bailie, Heather Christiansen, Elisabeth Miller, and Morris Young, Eds. The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2013. Clemson, South Carolina: Parlor Press, 2015. Mao, LuMing …

Yu, Timothy

Interests Asian American and Asian diasporic literature, modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, 20th- and 21st-century American literature, science fiction Biography Photo credit: Carolyn Fath/Isthmus Degrees and Institutions Selected Publications Books Editor Recent Articles Courses Taught English 150: Literature and Culture of Asian America English 373: Contemporary American Poetry English 462: Asian American Graphic Novels …