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David Beck

Campus Address: CA 504K
Phone: (317) 278-2550
Email: dabeck@iupui.edu
Appointments: Lecturer in English
Academic Interests: Composition and literature, contemporary American literature especially Walker Percy

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Dr. Terri Bourus

Campus Address: 334 N. Senate Ave. Suite GL-B
Phone: (317)278-0887
Fax: (317)278-1287
Email: tbourus@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of English Drama
Director and General Editor: New Oxford Shakespeare Project Founding Director: Hoosier Bard Productions
Website: http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/directory/bio/tbourus
Academic Interests: My primary research focuses on the Print and Performance of Early Modern Drama. As a Bibliographer and Text Editor as well as a performer, I am most interested in the ways that Early Modern Drama was received by, and integrated into late 16th and early 17th culture, creating a playing space for this drama that continues to prosper. How did performance and print make it both possible (and problematic) for that drama to be reinterpreted for every succeeding generation of scholars and performers? I am also interested in issues of adaptation and attribution by examining not just the early modern texts, but the stagings, films, photography and art that continue to evolve from them and adapt to new and exciting technologies: some in place, others yet to be developed. I am one of three General Editors of the New Oxford Shakespeare and as I edit, I will continue to explore these texts through the lens of performance. I am passionate about teaching these plays and, perhaps even more, I am passionate about performing them.
Teaching: The Major Plays of Shakespeare
Conversations with Shakespeare
Theories of Theatre
Women Writers of the Early Modern Period
Critical Views of Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Contemporaries
Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama
Introduction to Drama
Introduction to Shakespeare
British Literature, 1500-1800
Fiction without Boundaries: Travel Literature 1600-1800
Introduction to Literary Theory

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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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Sharon Henriksen

Campus Address: CA 429A
Phone: 278-8580
Email: shenriks@iupui.edu
Appointments: Senior Lecturer in English, English Department Website Coordinator
Website: http://mypage.iu.edu/~shenriks/
Academic Interests: Instructional technology; Visual composition; Women's Literature; Creative writing

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Ronda C. Henry Anthony

Campus Address: Cavanaugh Hall 501N
Phone: (317) 278-0885
Email: ronhenry@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies
Public Scholar of African American Studies and Undergraduate Research
Academic Interests: American Literature/Studies
African, African-American, and American Literature
Gender Studies
Teaching: Courses in English include early American literature, 19th century American literature, African American literature, the Harlem Renaissance, and Black masculinities
Courses in Africana Studies include Deconstructing Barbie, Hip Hop, Race, and Gender, and Africana Studies Research Methods.

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David E. Hoegberg

Campus Address: CA 503A
Phone: (317) 274-9823
Email: icic100@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of English
Academic Interests: I am interested broadly in issues of power, negotiation, and community in literature, intertextuality in literature, and cultural hybridity. My most recent work is on post-colonial literature, particularly South African literature and J. M. Coetzee; I have also published and presented conference papers on Athol Fugard (South Africa), Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), and Earl Lovelace (Trinidad). Teaching interests include South African literature and society, British literature to 1800, European classics in translation, Shakespeare, and colonialism in literature.

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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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Francia Kissel

Campus Address: CA 340B
Phone: 278-8584
Fax: 278-1287
Email: fkissel@iupui.edu
Appointments: Senior Lecturer in English, Course Coordinator for S100: First Year Seminar in Liberal Arts, Adjunct Faculty of University College
Academic Interests: Elementary composition, first-year composition, developmental writing, first-year success seminar, themed learning community links

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Karen Kovacik

Campus Address: CA 503U
Phone: (317)274-9831
Email: kkovacik@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor of English
Director of Creative Writing
Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies
Academic Interests: contemporary American poetry, history of the lyric, working-class poetry, literary translation, and creative writing

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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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Thomas Marvin

Campus Address: CA 501J
Phone: (317)274-9844
Email: tmarvin1@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of English
Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies
Director, The Sam Masarachia Scholars Program
Academic Interests: American literature, African-American literature, American Studies.

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Brian McDonald

Campus Address: CA 504K
Phone: 274-9671
Email: bcmcdona@iupui.edu
Appointments: Lecturer in English
Academic Interests: Elizabethan and 19th century British drama, fiction, and poetry Classical literature of the Western Literary Canon Applicatoin of Girardian theory to teaching of literature Online pedagogy

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Megan L. Musgrave

Campus Address: CA 502H
Phone: (317)274-5671
Email: memusgra@iupui.edu
Appointments: Assistant Professor of English
Academic Interests: Children's literature, Native American literature, magical realism, Women's Studies

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Jim Powell

Campus Address: CA 429
Phone: 278-2985
Email: jepowell@iupui.edu
Appointments: Senior Lecturer in English; Associate Chair for Students
Academic Interests: include Indiana literature, contemporary fiction, and "how writers work"

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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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Judith (Judy) Ann Spector (Retired)

Campus Address: CO 162A
Phone: 812-348-7213
Appointments: Professor Emerita, English (IUPU Columbus)
Academic Interests: literature and psychology, and language and psychology (psychoanalytic interpretation of texts, gender studies,computer-assisted learning, concepts of narrative identity)
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Jennifer Thorington Springer

Campus Address: CA 501K
Phone: (317) 278-2636
Email: jtspring@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of English
Academic Interests: Caribbean literature; postcolonial literature and studies; African American literature; ethnic immigrant literature

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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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Richard C. Turner (Retired)

Appointments: Professor Emeritus of English and Philanthropic Studies
Chair of Philanthropic Studies Faculty
Academic Interests: Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature, literary criticism and theory, the teaching of literature, literature and science, and philanthropic studies
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Adrianne Wadewitz

Campus Address: CA335B
Email: awadewit@indiana.edu
Appointments: Visiting Assistant Professor
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/wadewitz/
Academic Interests: I am interested in 18th-century children's literature, in particular how it helped construct the self and didacticism during the century. I am also interested in emerging technologies and how they are going to change the ways in which we read.
Teaching: I teach children's literature and adolescent literature.

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Associate Faculty ( Literature )

Shawn D Kimmel

Campus Address: CA313
Phone: (317)274-2188
Email: shkimmel@iupui.edu

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Amy M. Locklin

Campus Address: CA 313
Phone: (317) 274-3824
Email: alocklin@indiana.edu
Appointments: Associate faculty, writing
Academic Interests: Creative, professional, and song writing, narrative theory, literary studies, ecology, unconscious influences on group and individual experience, and processes of learning. Editor of an anthology of literary quality science fiction and fantasy short stories entitled Altered States and jazz vocalist.

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