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The Department of English faculty is internationally renowned for innovative research and teaching and explores pan-world expression of the English language and its literatures, which span the global yet connect directly to the local. Our active and engaged group of teachers, scholars, and students pursue research in a number of traditional disciplines—such as creative writing, education, film and media studies, linguistics, literature, and rhetoric and composition—and also conduct research and publish work on the cutting edge of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary fields—from border studies, digital humanities and material culture to literature and science, sustainability, and women’s studies.
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Regents Professor
Devoney Looser is an internationally recognized scholar of British women’s writings, the history of the novel, and Jane Austen. The author or editor of nine books, she is a Guggenheim Fellow and an NEH Public Scholar.
480-965-3925
Ross-Blakley Hall 372 PO Box 871401
Aging, Criticism-History and Theory, Intellectual History, British Literature, 18th Century British Literature, 19th Century British Literature, Women and Gender Studies, English, Autobiographical Studies, Biographic Stuides, Professional Writing, Restoration Period, Romantic Period, Scholarly Writing
Piper Center Director and University Professor
Ríos’s latest collection of poems is Not Go Away Is My Name (Copper Canyon Press). A National Book Award finalist, he is Arizona’s inaugural poet laureate and a recent chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
480-965-3800
Ross-Blakley Hall 220 PO Box 871401
Center Director & Regents Professor
Ayanna Thompson is a Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University, and the Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies (ACMRS).
480-965-5982
COOR 4438
Regents Professor
Elly van Gelderen is a syntactician interested in language change. Her work shows how regular syntactic change (grammaticalization and the linguistic cycle) provides insight in the Faculty of Language.
480-965-3535
Ross-Blakley Hall 327 PO Box 871401
President's Professor
Adamson is President's Professor of environmental humanities and Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHI) at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at ASU.
480-727-3675
Ross-Blakley Hall 210 PO Box 871401
Professor
Ratcliffe's research focuses on intersections of rhetoric, feminist theory, and critical race studies.
Ross-Blakley Hall 170E PO Box 871401
Foundation Professor
Bjork specializes in Old English language and literature as well as Old Norse, modern Swedish, and modern medical writing. He was educated at Pomona College and UCLA.
480-965-4659
Ross-Blakley Hall 249
Professor
Lester's specialization is African American literary and cultural studies.
480-727-7030
250 East Lemon Street Discovery Hall, Suite 112
Associate Chair, Professor
Warriner is a linguistic anthropologist of education who uses ethnographic methods to examine the educational, social, political, economic, and ideological dimensions of immigration and transnationalism.
480-727-6967
Ross-Blakley Hall 170D PO Box 871401
Interim Chair, Associate Professor
Ryner's teaching interests include Shakespeare and Renaissance drama; British literature to 1700; drama as a genre; literary theory and cultural studies.
480-965-1140
Ross-Blakley Hall 170C PO Box 871401
Professor
Adams research interests are in the study of language in its social and linguistic context. She is the director of English graduate studies.
480-965-3013
Ross-Blakley Hall 156 PO Box 871401
Interim Director of Film and Media Studies, Professor
Baker's research focuses primarily on sports culture, film authorship and the representation of race, ethnicity and gender in American cinema.
489-965-3168
Ross-Blakley Hall 370 PO Box 871401
Director of Creative Writing, Professor
Ball is the author of three collections of poems: "Hold Sway," "Wreck Me" and "Annus Mirabilis," all from Barrow Street Press. She's an associate director of Four Way Books.
480-965-5829
Ross-Blakley Hall 355 PO Box 871401
Professor
Bebout has authored two books: "Mythohistorical Interventions: The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies" and "Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the US Racial Imagination in Brown and White."
Ross-Blakley Hall 241 PO Box 871401
Professor
Bivona has published three books on 19th and 20th century British literature and culture as well as a co-edited collection and a number of essays.
480-965-2789
Ross-Blakley Hall 212 PO Box 871401
Professor
Blasingame focuses on young adult literature, Indigenous education, secondary writing instruction, preparing pre-service teachers, and cowboy poetry.
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Ross-Blakley Hall 349 PO Box 871401
Professor
Broglio's research focuses on how philosophy and aesthetics can help us rethink the relationship between humans and the environment.
Ross-Blakley Hall Room 178 PO Box 871401
Professor
Gregory Castle teaches literature and theory. His books include Modernism and the Celtic Revival, Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman, Literary Theory Handbook, A History of the Modernist Novel, A History of Irish Modernism.
480-965-0856
Ross-Blakley Hall 262 PO Box 871401
Professor
Clarke's primary field is 20th century American fiction.
480-965-7405
Dean & Professor
Cohen is the dean of humanities in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He is widely published in the fields of medieval studies, monster theory, and the environmental humanities.
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Assistant Professor
Acevedo's research focuses on teacher identity, preparing pre- and in-service teachers, queer young adult literature, the teaching of writing, and masculinity/machismo in Caribbean/Puerto Rican communities.
480-965-1752
Ross-Blakley Hall Office 122
Instructor
Ackerman teaches composition for the Department of English at ASU
Ross-Blakley Hall 205AB PO Box 871401
Professor
Adams research interests are in the study of language in its social and linguistic context. She is the director of English graduate studies.
480-965-3013
Ross-Blakley Hall 156 PO Box 871401
President's Professor
Adamson is President's Professor of environmental humanities and Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHI) at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at ASU.
480-727-3675
Ross-Blakley Hall 210 PO Box 871401
Lecturer, Sr
Alfandre has been with ASU since 2012 and leads an annual, faculty-directed study abroad to Costa Rica.
Ross-Blakley Hall 239 PO Box 871401
Lecturer
Bacino is from Northwest Indiana (near Chicago) and attended Michigan State University for both undergraduate and graduate school. She enjoys music, dance, and writing.
Ross-Blakley Hall 239 PO Box 871401
Interim Director of Film and Media Studies, Professor
Baker's research focuses primarily on sports culture, film authorship and the representation of race, ethnicity and gender in American cinema.
489-965-3168
Ross-Blakley Hall 370 PO Box 871401
Clinical Associate Professor
Baldini's research interests are concentrated on British and European 19th century literature and culture.
480-965-7755
Ross-Blakley Hall 148 PO Box 871401
Director of Creative Writing, Professor
Ball is the author of three collections of poems: "Hold Sway," "Wreck Me" and "Annus Mirabilis," all from Barrow Street Press. She's an associate director of Four Way Books.
480-965-5829
Ross-Blakley Hall 355 PO Box 871401
Instructor
Barua is an instructor with the Writing Programs, Barrett Honors College and W.P. Carey School of Business.
Ross-Blakley Hall 205AB PO Box 871401
Professor
Bebout has authored two books: "Mythohistorical Interventions: The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies" and "Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the US Racial Imagination in Brown and White."
Ross-Blakley Hall 241 PO Box 871401
Associate Professor
Matt Bell’s next novel, Appleseed, is forthcoming from Custom House/William Morrow in 2021. He is the author of seven other books, including the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods.
480-965-1208
Ross-Blakley Hall 214 PO Box 871401
Grad Teaching Assistant
Ross-Blakley Hall 101AA PO Box 871401
Instructor
480-965-3535
Ross-Blakley Hall 203AA PO Box 871401