- Edmond Chang: video game studies; game studies; speculative fiction, especially by queer and underrepresented authors
- Hayley Haugen: horror fiction
- Mary Kate Hurley: medievalism in popular culture, speculative fiction
- Paul Shovlin: speculative fiction; cryptozoology as cultural phenomenon
- Matt Wanat: literary formula (crime, the Western), film genre, postmodern fiction
- Tony Vinci: speculative fiction, contemporary film
English Department Scholarly Collaborations
Browse this page for clusters of faculty in focus areas that cross places, times, and disciplinary specializations. The faculty include English Department faculty as well as faculty from other OHIO departments.
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Speculative Fiction and Popular Culture
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African American Literature
- Marilyn Atlas: African American literature, primarily 20th-century fiction with additional interest in 19th-century texts and authors
- Edmond Chang: African America fiction, particularly Afrofuturism
- Gary Holcomb: (Department of African American Studies): African American literature, particularly the Harlem Renaissance
- Pamela June: African American fiction, especially ecofeminism
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Queer Studies
- Edmond Chang: queer gaming; queer speculative fiction
- Paul Jones: queerness in 19th-century American fiction
- Casey Plett: trans fiction
- Jeremy Webster: queer bibliography
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Digital and Multi-Modal Writing
- Edmond Chang: video game studies
- Eric LeMay: interactive digital texts; multi-modal and new media nonfiction
- Nitya Pandey: new media composition, composing with AI
- Paul Shovlin: new media composition, composing with AI, ethics of AI-assisted writing
- Eric R. Williams: (J. Warren McClure School of Emerging Communication Technologies): new media storytelling; cinematic virtual reality
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Regional Literature and Culture
- Marilyn Atlas: Midwestern literature
- Matt Wanat: Western American literature and film; ecological, localist, extraction literatures of northern Appalachia and the Ohio Valley; Ohio Valley fiction writer
- Paul Shovlin: Appalachian and Ohio folk culture
See also the interdisciplinary undergraduate Appalachian Studies Certificate housed in the College of Health Sciences & Professions.
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English Studies and Health/Medicine
- Yogesh Sinha: writing pedagogy and wellness
- Spencer Smith: disability studies in literature and writing
- Jeremy Webster: clandestine networks for distributing knowledge about sexuality in the late 17th and early 18th centuries
English also houses the interdisciplinary .
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Translation Studies
- Neil Bernstein: (Department of Classics and Religious Studies): Latin poetry, classical tradition
- Mary Kate Hurley: theoretical status of translation; cultures of translation, particularly in medieval Britain
- Ghirmai Negash: African literatures and languages, particularly Tigrinya
- Mar铆a Postigo: (Department of Modern Languages): Spanish
- Christopher Coski: (Department of Modern Languages): French
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Bibliography and Book History
- Joseph McLaughlin: history of the book; Hogarth Press and the Woolf network; printing Alice in Wonderland
- Beth Quitslund: early modern print culture, particularly religious texts and steady sellers
- Nicole Reynolds: history of the book; manuscript and print networks among WWI poets
- Jeremy Webster: late 17th- and early 18th-century manuscript miscellanies and manuscript distribution of satire
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Literature and Law
- Loreen Giese: Shakespeare and law, including legal proceedings for domestic relations in Shakespearean London
- Paul Jones: the death penalty, particularly in the 19th-century American South
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Literature and Music
- Beth Quitslund: songs, particularly early modern sacred parodies and the evolution of English hymns
- Linda Zionkowski: music and literature in the 18th century