Graduate Faculty
Aqdas Aftab
Assistant Professor
- Office Location: Crown Center 427
- Phone Number: 82246
- E-mail: aaftab@luc.edu
- Specialty Areas: Postcolonial Literatures, African Disaporic Literatures, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer and Trans Studies
Badia Ahad
Professor, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
- Office Location: Crown Center 421
- Phone Number: 82792
- E-mail: bahad@luc.edu
- Specialty Areas: Contemporary American and African American Literature, Cultural and Memory Studies.
- Recent Graduate Course: ENGL 496: Race and Temporality in African American Literature.
Suzanne Bost
Professor, Affiliate in Women's Studies and Gender Studies
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Phone Number: 88470
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E-mail: sbost@luc.edu
- Specialty Areas: Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Latinx Studies, Posthumanism, Feminist and Gender Studies.
- Recent Graduate Courses: ENGL 400: Intro to Graduate Study; ENGL 490: Topics in American Literature; and ENGL 426: Feminist Theory and Criticism.
Melissa Bradshaw
Senior Lecturer, Writing Across the Curriculum Coordinator
- Office Location: Loyola Hall 202
- Phone Number: 82796
- E-mail: mbradshaw@luc.edu
- Specialty Areas: Pedagogies and Methodologies, Collective Cultural Memories, Composition and Rhetoric, Feminist and Queer Theory, and Women's Studies and Gender Studies.
- Recent Graduate Course: ENGL 402: Teaching College Composition (taught annually during the spring semester).
David E. Chinitz
Professor, Chair of the English Department
- Office Location: Crown Center 415
- Phone Number: 82789
- E-mail: dchinit@luc.edu
- Specialty Areas: Modernist Poetry, Literature and Culture of the Jazz Age, Modern and Contemporary Literature, Harlem Renaissance, Popular Culture, and T.S. Eliot.
- Recent Graduate Courses: ENGL 484: Literature of the Jazz Age; and ENGL 481: Modern Poetry.
Ian Cornelius
Associate Professor, Edward L. Surtz, S.J. Professor
- Office Location: Crown Center 411
- Phone Number: 82784
- E-mail: icornelius@luc.edu
- Specialty Areas: Medieval English Poetry and Alliterative Verse, Textual Studies and Editing, Medieval Literary Education, Piers Plowman, and Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy.
- Recent Graduate Course: ENGL 441: Old English Language and Literature.
Jasper (Jack) Cragwall
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Program Director
- Office Location: Crown Center 449
- Phone Number: 82259
- E-mail: jcragwall@luc.edu
- Specialty Areas: British Romanticism, Religious History, Secularization, and Poetic Form.
- Recent Graduate Courses: ENGL 470: Topics in Romanticism - The Beast, the Whore, and the Year 1798; and ENGL 470: Natural Religion - Romanticism and the Markings of Belief.
Jeffrey Glover
Associate Professor
- Office Location: Crown Center 453
- Phone Number: 82783
- E-mail: jglover@luc.edu
- Specialty Areas: Early American Literature
- Recent Graduate Course: ENGL 491: Early American Literature - Pursuing Freedom in the Early Atlantic World; and ENGL 491: New World Narratives.
Priyanka Jacob
Assistant Professor
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Phone Number: 87447
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E-mail: pjacob@luc.edu
- Specialty Areas: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novels, Material Culture, Novel Theory, Thing Theory, and Media and Information Studies.
- Recent Graduate Course: ENGL 478: The Paper Trails of Victorian Literature.
John (Jack) Kerkering
Professor
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Phone: 83801
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E-mail: jkerker@luc.edu
- Specialty Areas: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture, Poetry and Poetics, and National and Racial Identity.
- Recent Graduate Courses: ENGL 400: Intro to Graduate Study; ENGL 420: Signs and Selves - Relational Accounts of Identity; and ENGL 490: Regionalism, Racial Identity, and Conspicuous Consumption.
James A. Knapp
Professor, Graduate Program Director
- Office Location: Crown Center 423
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Phone Number: 82255
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E-mail: jknapp3@luc.edu
- Specialty Areas: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century British Literature, Shakespeare, History of the Book, Literature and Visual Culture, and Literary and Aesthetic Theory.
- Recent Graduate Courses: ENGL 455: Shakespeare; and ENGL 450: Natural Philosophy and Early Modern Poetics.
Long Le-Khac
Assistant Professor
- Office Location: Crown Center 408
- Phone Number: 82788
- E-mail: llekhac@luc.edu
- Specialty Areas: American Literature and Culture, Modern and Contemporary Literature, Literature and Identity,Literary Theory, and Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Recent Graduate Course: ENGL 485: Literatures of the New U.S. Immigration.
Harveen Mann
Associate Professor
- Office Location: Crown Center 405
- Phone Number: 82244
- E-mail: hmann@luc.edu
- Specialty Areas: Postcolonial Studies, South Asian Studies, Third World Feminism.
Frederick Staidum Jr.
Assistant Professor
- Office Location: Crown Center 451
- Phone Number: 82272
- E-mail: fstaidum@luc.edu
- Specialty Areas: African American and African Diasporic Literatures and Cultures, Gender and Queer Studies, Digital Humanities, and Critical Theory.
- Recent Graduate Course: ENGL 496: Black Queer Methods and the Literatures of Slavery.
Jayme Stayer
Associate Professor
- Office Location: Crown Center 419
- Phone Number: 82251
- E-mail: jatsyer@luc.edu
- Specialty Areas: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music and Opera, British and American Modernism, History of Criticism and Theory, Rhetoric, Religious Poetry, T. S. Eliot.
- Recent Graduate Course: ENGL 488: 20th Century Literature
Virginia Lee Strain
Associate Professor
- Office Location: Crown Center 417
- Phone Number: 82787
- E-mail: vstrain@luc.edu
- Specialty Areas: Early Modern Literature and Legal Culture, and Law and Literature.
- Recent Graduate Course: ENGL 437: Comedy + Time - Theories of Comedy and Philosophies of History.
Marta L. Werner
Professor, Martin J. Svaglic Chair in Textual Studies
- Office Location: Crown Center 457
- Phone Number: 82328
- E-mail: Mwerner7@luc.edu
- Specialty Areas: American Literature Culture, Nineteenth-Century Studies, Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, Poetry and Poetics.
- Recent Graduate Courses: ENGL 413: Textual Criticism
