IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI: Faculty & Staff Directory

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American Studies

M. A. Coleman (Director)

Campus Address: ES 0025M
Phone: (317)278-8572
Email: martcole@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Director and Lead Advisor, American Studies Program
Associate Editor, Santayana Edition
Website: http://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/
Academic Interests: American Philosophy, George Santayana, John Dewey
Teaching: Introduction to Philosophy, Logic, Ethics, American Philosophy, George Santayana, John Dewey, History of Philosophy

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Michael Brodrick

Campus Address: ES0025
Phone: (317)278-1019
Email: msbrodri@iupui.edu
Appointments: Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies
Academic Interests: American thought, philosophy of George Santayana, ethics, nineteenth century philosophy, Asian philosophy, spirituality, adult development
Teaching: Optimism in America (AMST-A 103), The Question of American Identity: Growing Young vs. Growing Up (AMST-A 301), Logic (PHIL-P 162)

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Edward E. Curtis, IV

Campus Address: CA 335
Phone: (317)278-1683
Fax: (317) 278-1325
Email: ecurtis4@iupui.edu
Appointments: Millennium Chair of the Liberal Arts; Professor of Religious Studies; Adjunct Professor of American Studies.
Website: http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/rel/curtisweb/curtishome.htm
Academic Interests: Muslim American and African American history; Islam in the African Diaspora; modern Middle East; religion and politics.

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Jonathan R. Eller

Campus Address: ES 0017A
Phone: (317)274-1451
Fax: 317-274-2170
Email: jeller@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of English
Adjunct Professor of American Studies
Senior Textual Editor, Institute for American Thought
Director, Center for Ray Bradbury Studies
Volume Editor, The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury
Textual Editor, Peirce Edition Project
Textual Editor, Santayana Edition
Academic Interests: American literature, literature and science, textual studies with an emphasis on the work of Ray Bradbury, and the history of publishing.
Teaching: Core courses and electives for the scholarly editing concentration of the graduate research certificate program in Professional Editing, School of Liberal Arts.

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Carol Brooks Gardner

Campus Address: CA 303E
Phone: 274-2703
Fax: 278-3654
Email: cgardne@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies and American Studies
Academic Interests: Sociology of everyday life, gender & family, current qualitative sociological theory & methods, disability

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Nancy D. Goldfarb

Campus Address: Taylor Hall (UC) 2001F
Phone: (317)278-8431
Email: ngoldfar@iupui.edu
Appointments: Visiting Assistant Professor, English and American Studies
Academic Interests: Charity in American fiction, textual theory and criticism, comparative literature, romantic and modern poetry
Teaching: Introduction to Poetry (Eng L205), Literary Interpretation (Eng L202), Textual Theory, Textual Criticism, and Editing (Eng L680), International Studies Themed Learning Community First Year Success Seminar (SLA S100), and First Year Success Seminar (UC U110)

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Nathan Houser (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Founding Directory, Institute for American Thought Senior Fellow, Institute for American Thought
Academic Interests: American thought
Pragmatism
Thought of C. S. Peirce
Formal semiotics
History of logic
Critical Editing
Theory of Text

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Karen Ramsay Johnson

Campus Address: CA 501Q
Phone: (317)274-0088
Email: kjohnso6@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of English
Adjunct Associate Professor of Women's Studies and American Studies
Academic Interests: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature, Southern literature, postcolonial literature, literature of South Africa and India, literature in social and historical context

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John R. Kaufman-McKivigan

Campus Address: CA 531
Phone: (317) 274-5860
Fax: 317-278-78000
Email: jmckivig@iupui.edu
Appointments: Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of History
Academic Interests: Nineteenth-century U.S. history (the Antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction eras), American reform movements, and American ethnic history, American labor history

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Missy Dehn Kubitschek

Campus Address: CA 501L
Phone: (317) 274-0080
Email: mkubitsc@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of English, Africana Studies,Women's Studies, and American Studies
Academic Interests: African-American literature, women's fiction, British Victorian fiction, and multicultural American literature

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Nancy Marie Robertson

Campus Address: CA 503T
Phone: 317/274-8017
Fax: 317/278-7800
Email: nmrobert@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of History and Philanthropic Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor of Women's Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies
Faculty of the University Graduate School
Academic Interests: U.S. history; late nineteenth and twentieth centuries; American philanthropy; women; religion; U.S. race relations; women and banking; and history of citizenship.

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Jane E. Schultz

Campus Address: CA 501R
Phone: (317)274-0082
Fax: 317-278-1287
Email: jschult@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of American Studies, Women's Studies, Medical Humanities, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis (1988- )
Fellow and Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, U.K. (1999-2000); Visiting Scholar, Sydney University, New South Wales, Australia (2006-07)
Academic Interests: nineteenth-century American literature and culture, literature and medicine, especially illness narrative; American domestic fiction, historical narrative, the social history of Civil War relief work, history of nursing, and gender studies
Teaching: American Lit, 1800-1860; American Lit, 1870-1920; Civil War Literature and Culture; Illness Narrative; 19th-C. American Domestic Fiction; Mark Twain; the Literature of Slavery; Jane Austen and Edith Wharton; Henry James; Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville

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William F. Touponce

Campus Address: ES 0017A
Phone: (317)274-0081
Email: wtouponc@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of English, Institute for American Thought, Center for Ray Bradbury Studies

Website: http://www.iupui.edu/~crbs
Academic Interests: textual theory and textual criticism
semiotics
fantasy and science fiction

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Victoria Saker Woeste

Campus Address: Inlow Hall 333
Phone: (317)274-8087
Email: vwoeste@iupui.edu
Appointments: Visiting Associate Professor of Law and American Studies
Academic Interests: Twentieth-century U.S. legal history (history of regulation, political economy, constitutionalism) Judicial biography First Amendment history (group libel, hate speech) Agricultural history, farmers' movements, California and Western U.S. Law and society
Teaching: Fall 2010 Law 850 Seminar in American Legal History American Studies 303A From Political Speech to Hate Speech Spring 2011 Natural Resources Law American Studies 303A From Political Speech to Hate Speech

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Marianne S. Wokeck

Campus Address: CA441D
Phone: (317)274-5820
Fax: 317.278-2525
Email: mwokeck@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Chancellor's Professor of History
Adjunct Professor of American Studies, New Media, Women's Studies, and University College
General Editor and Director of the Santayana Edition
Fellow of the Max Kade German-American Studies Center in the Institute for American Thought
Academic Interests: American history, colonial and Revolutionary history, history of the Atlantic world 1500-1800, immigration and ethnicity, and women's history, scholarly editing.

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Kevin Patrick Coleman

Campus Address: ES0017K
Phone: (317) 278-1019
Email: kecolema@indiana.edu

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