UCF: CAH: English: Faculty and Staff

Patrick D. Murphy, Ph.D.
Department Chair
Professor
patrick.murphy@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Nature-oriented Literature; Modern American Poetry; Ecocriticism; science fiction; bodied subjecthood and identities; Bakhtinian dialogics

Patricia Angley, Ph.D.
Instructor
Advisor of Undergraduate Programs
pangley@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Twentieth-Century American Literature; Faulkner and Southern Literature; Women Writers and Feminist Theory; Native American Literature; Toni Morrison

Research Interests: ; Rhetoric ; Technical Communication for students across UCF in all majors—ENC 3241: Writing for the Technical Professional ; Hypertext, XML, and Digital Archiving ; Literature of Science and Technology

Jocelyn Bartkevicius, Ph.D.
Program Director of M.F.A. in Creative Writing
Associate Professor
Jocelyn.Bartkevicius@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Literary nonfiction; Memoir; Personal Essay; Ecological Criticism and Ecotheory; Virginia Woolf

James Campbell, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Programs
Associate Professor
jcampbel@mail.ucf.edu

Research Interests: British and Irish Literature since 1885, War and Literature, Sexuality Theory, Science Fiction

Research Interests: African American Slave Narratives; Autobiography and Life Writing Studies; Literacy Studies; Literary Theory

Research Interests: ; World Literature ; American Literature (especially 19th-century slave and women’s literature) ; Women’s Studies & Feminist Theory ; Womanist Studies ; Cultural Studies ; Magical Realism ; Speculative Fiction/Fantasy

Research Interests: Rhetoric theory, history, and practice, classical to contemporary; Texts and Technology, rhetorical and ethical aspects, and statistics and research design; technical communication, especially rhetorical and ethical aspects; discourse about rhetoric studies.

Research Interests: International Technical Communication; Virtual Teams; Visual Communication; Document Design and Layout; Publication and Production; International Studies

Research Interests: Literature of the British Empire; English Novel, Gender Studies; 18th and 19th century English Literature Literature and Translation; Postcolonial Theory; Critical Theory

Research Interests: writing and reading contemporary fiction; creative writing pedagogy; the art and craft of speculative fiction

Anna Maria Jones, Ph.D.
Interim Director of Graduate Programs
Associate Professor
anna.jones@ucf.edu

Research Interests: Victorian literature and culture; critical theory; history of the novel; sensation fiction; Gothic literature; science and literature; Japanese manga

Research Interests: Professional and technical communication, plain English and plain language, the relations of literature and science, writing and designing online help, and science fiction.

Research Interests: ; Brown and the Early Republic, 1771-1810 ; Eighteenth-Century Periodicals and Print Culture ; Native American Studies ; Digital Humanities and Textual Editing

Anna Lillios
Associate Professor
lillios@mail.ucf.edu

Research Interests: Early American Literature; Women's Personal Narratives, including autobiography, diary, and memoir, and especially captivity, crime, travel, and cross-dressing; Feminist Theory; American Novel; theories of space and place

Research Interests: Film and Media Studies; Cultural Studies; Rhetoric and Composition; Literary Theory; Memory and Monuments

Research Interests: Caribbean Literature, African American Literature, Haitian Studies, Literature and Educational Development

Research Interests: Herman Melville, Edgar Lee Masters, and Mark Twain

Research Interests: Literary Fiction; Literary Nonfiction; Memoir; Poetry and Flash Fiction; Native American Literature; Writing of the Southwest; Southern Writers; Eudora Welty

Research Interests: British Literature and Culture, 1660 - 1830; The Eighteenth-Century Novel; Clothing and Accoutrement in Literature; The Early Gothic; Historicism (New and Old), Literary History, and Cultural Materialism; Feminist and Gender Theory

Research Interests: Fiction Writing; The Short Story; Contemporary American Literature; Southern Literature; Creative Writing Pedagogy

Research Interests: Medieval English Literature; Queer and Gender Studies; Pedagogy; Film; Children's Literature; Southern Literature

Research Interests:
Latino/a Literature, writing, women writers of color, Emergent American Literature and women's studies.

Research Interests: Fiction, memoir, and personal essay; medical humanities, disability studies, representations of health and illness; images and physical aspects of home and place; the relationships between genres (e.g., architecture and narrative, painting and digital art, fiction and nonfiction); and twentieth-century American literature and women's studies.

Research Interests: Fiction writing, screenwriting, contemporary fiction.

Research Interests: Dr. Seidel publishes in the area of women writers and literature of the American South.

Research Interests: Shorebirds. Poetry. The Literature of Fact.

Research Interests: Poetry Writing; Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Creative Non-Fiction; Literary Arts and Community; Community-Based Learning; Women's Studies; Marginalized Learners

Research Interests:
Creative nonfiction: memoir, essay, segmented forms (braided, collage, lyrical), and literary journalism. Fiction: short stories, flash fiction.