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http://web.utk.edu/~english/

Stanton B. Garner, Head
Thomas Haddox, Director of Graduate Studies

Professors
Atwill, J.M., PhD - Purdue
Bellamy, E.J., PhD - Duke
Dunn, A.R., PhD - Washington
Garner, Jr., S.B. (Alumni Distinguished Humanities Professor), PhD - Princeton
Heffernan, T.J.A. (Curry Professor), PhD - Cambridge (UK)
Henry, N.E., PhD - Chicago
Jennings, L.D. (Young Professor), PhD - North Carolina
Kallet, M. (Young Professor), PhD - Rutgers
Keene, M.L., PhD - Texas
Knight, M., MFA - Virginia
Liuzza, R.M., PhD - Yale
Lofaro, M.A. (Young Professor), PhD - Maryland
Luprecht, M.A., PhD - Florida State
Maland, C., PhD - Michigan
Papke, M.E., PhD - McGill (Canada)
Smith, A.E., PhD - Houston
Stillman, R.E. (Young Professor), PhD - Pennsylvania
Wier, A., MFA - Bowling Green
Zomchick, J.P. (Executive Associate Dean), PhD - Columbia

Associate Professors
Anderson, M.G., PhD - Vanderbilt
Billone, A.C., PhD - Princeton
Elias, A.J., PhD - Penn State
Haddox, T.F., PhD - Vanderbilt
Hirschfeld, H.A., PhD - Duke
Hirst, R., PhD - Rensselaer Polytechnic
Howes, L.L., PhD - Columbia
Schoenbach, L.M., PhD - Virginia
Seshagiri, U. S. (Carroll Teaching Professor), PhD - Illinois

Assistant Professors
Chiles, K.L., PhD - Northwestern
Cohen-Vrignaud, G.G., PhD - Chicago
Coleman, D.D., PhD - Stanford
Commander, M.D., PhD - Southern California
Dean, M.L., MFA - Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Dzon, M.C., PhD - Toronto (Canada)
Gold, D.P., PhD - Texas (Austin)
Griffin, M., PhD - California (Los Angeles)
Hardwig, W.J., PhD - Florida
King, L.M., PhD - Kansas
Lee, B.F., PhD - Virginia
Ndigirigi, J.G., PhD - California (Los Angeles)
Saenkhum, T., PhD - Arizona State
Welch, A.K., PhD - Yale

Lecturers
Abernathy, J.L., PhD - Tennessee
Barrow, R., PhD - Iowa
Brouwers, M.H., PhD - Western Michigan
Burton, J.C., PhD - State University of New York (Stony Brook)
Capps, S.E., PhD - Tennessee
Harris, S.C., PhD - Tennessee
Havens, K.L., PhD - Tennessee
Hewitson, J.K., PhD - Toronto (Canada)
Hoffer, L., PhD - Tennessee
Keefauver, M.B., PhD - Tennessee
Knox, L., MA - Indiana
Larsen, W.B., PhD - Tennessee
MacCartey, K., PhD - Warwick (UK)
McCue, K., MA - Tennessee
McKinstry, D., PhD - Tennessee
Massey, K.L., PhD - Tennessee
Melton, S.E., PhD - Tennessee
Meredith, E.G., MA - Tennessee
Murphy, S.A., PhD - George Washington
Newburn, H.F., PhD - Illinois (Carbondale)
Nicks, R.J.G., PhD - Florida
Norman, T., PhD - Tennessee
Pearson, S., PhD - Georgia
Peavler, J.L., MA - Tennessee
Pelletier, E.Y., PhD - Toronto (Canada)
Robbins, J., PhD - Tennessee
Scaperoth, D.A., PhD - Tennessee
Sheffield, C.L., MA - Radford
Smith, E., PhD - S. Mississippi
Smith, R. M., PhD - Florida
Spirko, R.L., PhD - North Carolina
Stivers, C., PhD - Tennessee
Wilhelm, R., PhD - Tennessee
Yost, R., M.A. - Tennessee

Writing Center Interim Director
Brouwers, M.H., PhD - Western Michigan

The Department of English offers the Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts (pending THEC approval for fall 2014 admission), and Doctor of Philosophy degrees with a major in English. Concentrations for the MA are available in: Literature, Criticism, and Textual Studies (thesis or non-thesis option); Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics (thesis option only); and Writing. Concentrations for the PhD are available in Creative Writing (with creative dissertation); Literature, Criticism, and Textual Studies; and Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics.

Detailed information about the master’s and doctoral programs and individual graduate courses may be obtained by writing the Director of Graduate Studies in English, 306 McClung Tower. A prospective student may contact the department for application forms and procedures or may download them from the departmental graduate website at http://web.utk.edu/~english/grad/index.shtml. For additional information, please visit the graduate website through the College of Arts and Sciences home page at www.artsci.utk.edu.

The Department of English does not accept students in nondegree or provisional status. A student who wishes to enter the department must apply in degree-seeking status for his/her application to receive consideration for admission to any graduate program in English.

Important Note: Students enrolling in English graduate courses must first register in the Office of the Director of Graduate Studies in 306 McClung Tower.

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