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Faculty & Staff

Note:  All faculty members teach EN 101 (The Art of Reading) and EN 200-level courses (second Core) in addition to upper-division courses in their fields of expertise. 

Carol Abromaitis
Carol Nevin Abromaitis Professor Emerita
Ph.D., University of Maryland
Areas of Interest: Restoration and 18th-century English literature, fantasy literature
Brett Butler
Brett H. Butler Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D., Morgan State University
Areas of Interest: 20th century American literature, popular culture, comic books / graphic novels, men and masculinity studies, technical / professional writing 
Jean Lee Cole
Jean Lee Cole Professor Emerita
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Areas of Interest: American literature, American Studies, multiethnic American literature, gender studies, history of the book, visual cultural studies
Bryan Crockett
Bryan Crockett Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Areas of Interest: English Renaissance literature and culture, modern drama
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David C. Dougherty Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Miami University (Ohio)
Areas of Interest: Detective and crime literature, filming Shakespeare's plays, Vietnam War fiction and films, sports and literature
Juniper Ellis
Juniper Ellis Professor Emerita
Areas of focus: Postcolonial literature, Justice in Jesuit higher education
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Kathleen Forni Professor
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Areas of Interest: Chaucer, Middle English literature, medievalism, popular culture
Melissa Girard 190
Melissa Girard Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Areas of Interest: Modern poetry and poetics, 20th and 21st century American literature, gender studies, history of literary criticism
Sondra Guttman 190
Sondra Guttman Teaching Professor
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Areas of Interest:  U.S. Multi-ethnic literatures, African American literature, 20th century protest literature, Modernism, Gender Studies
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Gayla McGlamery Associate Professor, Co-Director of the Loyola Honors Program
Ph.D., Emory University
Areas of Interest: Victorian literature and culture, the novel, film adaptation
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Nicholas Andrew Miller Department Chair, Professor, Director of Film Studies
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Areas of Interest: Modernism, Irish literature, early cinema, film animation
Robert Miola
Robert S. Miola Gerard Manley Hopkins Professor, Lecturer in Classics
Ph.D., University of Rochester
Areas of Interest: Shakespeare, Renaissance drama and poetry, classical backgrounds of English literature, Catholic Renaissance writers
Mark Osteen
Mark Osteen Professor
Ph.D., Emory University
Areas of Interest: Modern and contemporary literature, film studies, disability studies
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Stephen Park Associate Professor, Faculty Director of Community-Engaged Learning and Scholarship
Ph.D., University of Southern California

Areas of Interest: 20th-Century American Literature, Multiethnic U.S. Literature
Trevon Pegram
Trevon Pegram Assistant Professor
Education:
Ph.D., Howard University
M.A., Howard University
B.A., The Pennsylvania State University

Areas of Specialization:
19th and 20th Century African American Literature and Culture
Hip Hop Studies
Black Geographies
Black Popular Culture Studies
Film Theory and Criticism
Hunter Plummer 190 -2023
Hunter Plummer Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Areas of Interest: 19th and 20th century transatlantic literature, periodical studies, feminist geography, modern drama
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Sophie Ragot they/them Program Assistant of English and Political Science
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Thomas Scheye Loyola Distinguished Service Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Areas of Interest: Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, Milton
Katherine Shloznikova
Katherine Shloznikova Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D., City University of New York (CUNY)
Areas of Interest: American 19th-century poetry and prose, Henry James, Environmental Humanities, Humor and Pop Culture
Dr. Gary Slack, Jr. - 200
Gary Slack Jr. Assistant Professor - African American Literature
Ph.D., Cornell University
Areas of Interest: African American literature, the Black Arts Movement, editing, print culture, publishing