For more information regarding our programs, please feel free to contact us.

Lech Walesa Hall, Room 2010
(773) 442-5810

Bradley Greenburg, Chair: (773) 442-5467; b-greenburg@neiu.edu
Timothy Scherman, Associate Chair: (773) 442-5817; t-scherman@neiu.edu

Academic Advisors in English are regularly assigned to new majors. 

Kristen Over, Graduate Program Literature Track Advisor: (773) 442-5833; k-over@neiu.edu
Marcia Buell, Graduate Program Composition Track advisor: (773) 442-5955; m-buell@neiu.edu
Olivia Cronk, Creative Writing Minor Coordinator: (773) 442-5958; o-cronk@neiu.edu

Virtual Creative Writing advising hours: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays by appointment. Email the day before to schedule: o-cronk@neiu.edu

(773) 442-5810
Timothy Barnett
Timothy
P.
Barnett
Professor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-6030
Expertise
Composition history and pedagogy, critical literacy, LGBTQ literature and theory
Courses Taught
ENGL 101 Writing I
ENGL 102 Writing II
ENGL 200 Writing in Context
ENGL 202 World of Drama
ENGL 203 World of Fiction
ENGL 210 WIP: Methods for English Majors
ENGL 335 Written Communication for Business
ENGL 375 The Essentials of Tutoring Writing
ENGL 376 Advanced Composition
ENGL 377 Argumentative Prose
ENGL 433 Seminar in Composition Theory
ENGL 434 Seminar in Basic Writing
WGS 210 Into to LGBTQ Studies
WGS 360 Queer Theory
Research Interests
History of Composition, Composition Pedagogy, Critical Literacy, LGBTQ Literature, Feminist and Queer Studies
Education

Ph.D.; M.A. English, The Ohio State University, 1997
B.A. English, University of Connecticut, 1986

Selected Publications

“’Love Letters:’ Narrating Critical Theory in the First-Year Writing Class.” Open Words 7.1 (Spring 2013): 21-40. Electronic.

“Politicizing the Personal: Frederick Douglass, Richard Writing, and Some Thoughts on the Limits of Critical Literacy.” College English 68.4 (March 2006): 356-81. Print.

Teaching Argument in the Composition Classroom: Background Readings. Bedford/St. Martin’s. 2002.

“Reading ‘Whiteness’ in English Studies.” College English 63.1 (September 2000). 9-37. Print.

Background

Native of Stamford, CT. Father of one son, Tyler Steinkamp.

Room LWH 2016 or Room B 147
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-6030
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Tuesday and Thursday: 2:30-4:30 p.m.

Please email appointment requests and messages at least 24 hours in advance to t-barnett1@neiu.edu.
Main Campus
Marcia Buell
Marcia
Z.
Buell
Associate Professor, First-Year Writing Coordinator
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5955
Expertise
Writing Studies and Rhetoric, Developmental Writing, English as a Second Language
Courses Taught
ENGL 101 Writing I
ENGL 102 Writing II
ENGL 309 Reading and Writing in a Changing Digital Economy
ENGL 376 Advanced Composition
ENGL 427 Pedagogies of College Level Writing
ENGL 434 Seminar in Basic Writing
ENGL 435 Assissment of Writing
ENGL 437 Computers and English Studies
Research Interests
Developmental Writers and Identity; Writing in Graduate College; Disability Studies and Medical Rhetorics, Multimodality and Writing
Education

Ph.D. English/Writing Studies, University of Illinois
M.A. TESL/Linguistics, Ohio University
B.A. Antioch College

 

Selected Publications

Buell, Marcia Z. "Negotiating Rich Response Networks and Textual Ownership in Dissertation Writing" Research Literacies and Writing Pedagogies for Masters and Doctoral Writers, Eds. Badenhorst, Cecile and Cally Guerin. Brill Online Books and Journals. 2015. 221-237.

Buell, Marcia Z. “The Place of Basic Writing at Wedonwan U: A Simulation for Graduate Level Seminars" Journal of Basic Writing E-Journal (2013-2014).

Buell, Marcia Z. “Negotiaitng Textual Authority: Response Cycles for a Personal Statement of a Latina Undergraduate.” Journal of Basic Writing 31(2) 5-28, (2012).

Buell, Marcia, and Park, So Jin. “Positioning expertise: The shared journey of a South Korean and a North American doctoral student.” In Christine Casanave and XiaoMing Li (Eds.), Learning to do graduate school: Perspectives on academic enculturation, literacy practices, and identity. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Michigan University Press. 2008.

Buell, Marcia. “Code-switching and second language writing: How multiple codes are combined in a text.” In Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior (Eds.), What writing does and how it does it (97-122). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2004.

Room LWH 2019
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
United States

(773) 442-5955
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Tuesday: 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., El Centro, and 6:00-7:00 p.m., Main Campus
Wednesday: 12:30-2:00 p.m., Online
Thursday: 10:00-10:30 a.m., El Centro

Available for consultation via Zoom, Google Meet, email, or phone.
Please email for an appointment at least 24 hours ahead at m-buell@neiu.edu.
Main Campus
Curriculum Vitae
Evan Cantor
Evan
Cantor
Instructor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5813
Expertise
English, Composition, Literature, Cinema Studies
Courses Taught
ENGL 101 Writing I
ENGL 102 Writing II
ENGL 202 World of Drama
ENGL 203 World of Fiction
SCED 305 Student Teaching Supervisor
Research Interests
Cinema
Education

M.Ed. Secondary English Education, Loyola Chicago, 1998
B.A. Cinema Studies, University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, 1996
Post-Master's, Education Leadership and Research, University of Illinois, Chicago
 

 

 

Room LWH 2022
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5813
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours

Monday and Wednesday: 3:35-4:05 p.m.
Contact in advance via email/online at e-cantor@neiu.edu to set up appointments.
Main Campus
Olivia Cronk
Olivia
E.
Cronk
Instructor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5958
Expertise
College writing, contemporary poetry, Creative Writing constraints, Hybrid-form writing
Courses Taught
ENGL 101 Writing I
ENGL 102 Writing II
ENGL 235 Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 304A Literary Editing
ENGL 316 Forms of Poetry
ENGL 340A Elements of Style
ENGL 346 Critical Writing for Creative Writers
ENGL 374A Hybrid Form Writing
ENGL 384/385 Creative Writing: Poetry I & II
ENGL 389 Contemporary Poetry
ENGL 397 Summer Creative Writing Institute
ENGL 398A Creative Nonfiction
ENGL 416 Ekphrastic Practice
HUM 192 Introduction to the Humanities
Research Interests
Contemporary poetry, hybrid forms, hybrid pedagogies, constraint- and game-based writing modes
Education

MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Selected Publications

Critical Writing

on Madison McCartha's Freakophone World
https://tskymag.com/2022/11/madison-mccartha-2/

"Vision as palimpsest: on Johannes Göransson’s translations of Ann Jäderlund"
http://criticalflame.org/vision-as-palimpsest-on-johannes-goranssons-translations-of-ann-jaderlund/

on Andra Rotaru's Lemur
https://www.therupturemag.com/the-collagist/2018/7/25/lemur-by-andra-rotaru-translated-by-florin.html

"I Cannot Resist the Terror"
https://tskymag.com/2019/09/terror-olivia-cronk/

Poetry Collections

Womonster, 2020, Tarpaulin Sky
https://tarpaulinsky.com/olivia-cronk/womonster/

Louise and Louise and Louise, 2016, The Lettered Streets Press
https://lettered-streets-press.square.site/product/louise-and-louise-and-louise-olivia-cronk/1?cs=true

Skin Horse, 2012, Action Books
https://actionbooks.org/olivia-cronk-skin-horse/

Room LWH 2100
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5958
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours

Monday: 10:00-11:00 a.m. /1:00-2:00 p.m. (drop in)
Tuesday: 3:00-4:00 p.m. (email appt.), 6:00-7:00 p.m. (drop in)
Wednesday: 1:00-2:00 p.m. (by email appt.)
Thursday: 3:00-4:00 p.m. (by email appt.)
Friday: 1:00-3:00 p.m. via Zoom (email for appointment)

Please email 24 hours in advance for Zoom or in-person appointments at
o-cronk@neiu.edu.
Main Campus
Larry O. Dean
Larry
O.
Dean
Instructor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5855
Expertise
Creative Writing, Poetry, Literature
Courses Taught
ELP 098 Supportive Instruction Writing Skills Workshop
ENGL 101 Writing I
ENGL 102 Writing II
ENGL 109E First Year Experience: Your Chicago: Write On!
ENGL 201 World of Poetry
ENGL 202 World of Drama
ENGL 203 World of Fiction
ENGL 235 Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 316 Forms of Poetry
ENGL 347 Rust Belt Literature
ENGL 359 Independent Study in English
ENGL 371 Studies in Women's Literature
ENGL 374B Creative Writing: Flash Forms
ENGL 384/385 Creative Writing: Poetry I & II
ENGL 384R Research Poetry
ENGL 397 Summer Creative Writing Institute
Research Interests
Contemporary American Poetry, Hard-boiled Literature, Working Class Literature, Satire, Popular Culture
Education

M.A. Northeastern Illinois University
M.F.A. Murray State University
B.G.S. University of Michigan

Selected Publications

Frequently Asked Questions. Salmon Poetry - forthcoming

Muse, Um. Finishing Line Press (2022)

Activities of Daily Living. Salmon Poetry (2017)

Even the Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry. Salmon Poetry (2016)

Language Lessons, Vol 1. Third Man Books (2014)

Brief Nudity. Salmon Poetry (2013)

Basic Cable Couplets. Silkworms Ink (2012)

abbrev. Beard of Bees (2011)

About the Author. Mindmade Books (2011)

I Am Spam. Fractal Edge Press (2004)

Identity Theft for Dummies. Zenith Beast Books (2003)

Selected Performances

AWP, The Art Institute of Chicago, Bucktown Arts Festival, Chicago Poetry Festival, Chicago Poetry Invasion, Poets Against the War, Poetry Cram, Midwest Literary Festival, Printers Row Lit Fest, Looptopia, Pilcrow Lit Fest, Creative Writing Institute, Series A, Orange Alert Reading Series, Writers Block, Wordeater, Revolving Door, Ipsento Reading Series, Chicago Book Expo, Excited Utterance, GCHS Writers Week, Wit Rabbit and Poetry Foundation, Typewriter Factory, Haymarket House, Sunday Salon

Room LWH 2018
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5855
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Monday and Wednesday: 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m./ 2:15-3:15 p.m.

Or by Zoom/in-person appointment. Email the day before to schedule at l-dean@neiu.edu.
Main Campus
Michael Davros
Michael
Davros
Instructor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5831
Expertise
American literature, including African American and ethnic American
Courses Taught
ENGL 101 Writing I
ENGL 102 Writing II
ENGL 109 FYE: Chicago's Literary Diversity: Reading Chicago's Neighborhoods
ENGL 201 World of Poetry
ENGL 202 World of Drama
ENGL 203 World of Fiction
ZHON 192 Introduction to the Humanities: Race and Ethnicity
ZHON 192 Introduction to the Humanities: Combat Literature
Honors Colloquium: Classical Culture, Study Tour in Greece
Honors Colloquium: Greek American Literature (Byzantium v the Caliphate), Study Tour in Greece
Research Interests
Greek American literature, African American literature, Combat literature
Education

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago
M.A.H. Louisiana State University
B.A. Tulane University

Selected Publications

Greeks in Chicago.  Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2009.

“The Maze: A Historical Novel.” Review of The Maze.  By Panos Karnezis.  The National Herald.  15 February 2009. 

“A Greek Stylist: History Contests with Progress and Loses.” Review of Little Infamies. By Panos Karnezis.  The National Herald. 15 February 2009.

 “A Sense of Sacred Space.”  Review of  Ecclesia: Greek Orthodox Churches of the Chicago Metropolis.  By Panos Fiorentinos.  The National Herald.  15 February 2009. 

“Loss and Transformation on the Road in Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex and Don DeLillo’s   Underworld.”  The Image of the Road in Literature, Media and Society.  Ed. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan.      Pueblo, Co:  The Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery.  August 2005.  148-153.

Room LWH 2009
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5831
Office Hours
Spring 2024 student hours
2:15-3:15 p.m. Monday and Wednesday, in person
10:40 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, in person
Zoom meetings available by appointment

Email the day before to schedule Zoom meetings at m-davros@neiu.edu
Main Campus
Curriculum Vitae
E. Mar Garcia head shot
Emily
M
Garcia
Ph.D.
Associate Professor, English; Affiliate Faculty: Latina/o/x & Latin American Studies; Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5563
Expertise
Latina/o/x Studies, Early American Literature and Culture
Courses Taught
ENGL 479 US Latina/o Literature
ENGL 471 Studies in the American Novel
ENGL 380 Multicultural Literature in America
ENGL 369 US Latina/o Literature and Culture
ENGL 365 Caribbean Literatures
ENGL 362 US Fiction: Traditions and Counter-Traditions
ENGL 361 Development of the American Novel
ENGL 349 Gloria Anzaldua: Deep Dive
ENGL 345 Practical Criticism
ENGL 313 American Literary Renaissance: 1830 - 1860
ENGL 301 Contemporary LGBTQ+ Literature
ENGL 219 American Literature: 1865 to Present
ENGL 218 American Literature: Beginnings to 1865
ENGL 210 WIP: Methods for English Majors
ENGL 203 World of Fiction
ENGL 102 Writing II
LLAS 391 Capstone: Internship in Latina/o/x & Latin American Studies
LLAS 353 Latino Diversities
LLAS 201 WIP: Culture and History of US Latinos
WGS 360 Queer Theory
ZHON 192 Introduction to the Humanities
Research Interests
Literatures of Independence, Early Latina/o/x Literature and Culture, Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism, Translation, The Novel
Education

Ph.D., English, University of Florida

Selected Publications

"The First of July, 1784" The Museum of Americana: A Literary Review. Special Issue: Queering Americana. Issue 28 (Fall 2022) https://themuseumofamericana.net/issue-twenty-eight/ (poem)

“Logics of Exchange and the Beginnings of US Hispanophone Literature” Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition Cambridge University Press, 2021.

“Interdependence and Interlingualism in Santiago Puglia’s El desengaño del hombre (1794)” Early American Literature 53:3 (October 2018) p. 745 – 772.

“On the Borders of Independence: Manuel Torres and Spanish American Independence in Filadelfia.” Latino/a Studies and Nineteenth-Century America.”  Ed. Jesse Alemán and Rodrigo Lazo. New York: NYU Press, 2016. 71-88.

“Novel Diplomacies: Henry Marie Brackenridge’s Voyage to South America (1819) and Inter-American Revolutionary Literature.” Literature in the Early American Republic 3 (April 2011) p. 145 – 171

“‘The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind’: American Universalism and Exceptionalism in the Early Nation.” American Exceptionalisms, Ed. Sylvia Söderlind and Jamey Carson. Albany: SUNY Press, 2011. p. 51 – 70.

“Roundtable: Critical Keywords in Early American Studies,” Co-edited and Introduction with Duncan Faherty. Early American Literature 46:3 (Fall 2011) pp. 601-602; pp. 603-632.

Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5563
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Tuesday and Thursday: 4:00-5:30 p.m. (In person in Room LWH 2007)
Friday: 3:00-4:00 p.m (Zoom)

By appointment: USE NEIUSTAR on NEIUport at https://NEIU.Starfishsolutions.com/Starfish-ops/support/login.html.
Email to check additional availability.
Main Campus
Bradley Greenburg
Bradley
Greenburg
English Department Chair, Professor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5467
Expertise
Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, Film, Creative Writing
Courses Taught
ENGL 221 British Literature: Beginnings to 1750
ENGL 330 Shakespeare Comedies and Romances
ENGL 331 Shakespeare Tragedies
ENGL 364 Reading Film
ENGL 345 Practical Criticism
ENGL 365 Caribbean Literature
ENGL 418 Studies in Shakespeare
ENGL 420 Teaching Shakespeare
ENGL 421 The Metaphysical Poets
ENGL 441 Seminar in 16th Century Literature
ENGL 469 Seminar in Southern Literature
Research Interests
Shakespeare; British literature, 16th and 17th centuries; British historiography; 20th-century poetry; Literary and critical theory; psychoanalytic theory; Modernist poetics
Education

Ph.D. English, State University of New York, Buffalo, 2001
M.A. Political Philosophy, University of Georgia, 1991
B.A. Political Science, Purdue University, 1988

Selected Publications

Books

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed, a novel. Sandstone Press, UK,  June 2014.

A Quail Is a Pretty Bird. Manuscript of a book of short fiction, under consideration at various journals/reviews/magazines.

Articles/Book Chapters

“Michael Bogdanov: An International Director’s The Winter’s Tale at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.” Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action To the Word, ed. Regina Buccola and Peter Kanelos, Northern Illinois University Press, 2013.

“Sack Drama: The Return of Falstaff in Henry V.” A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of Interpretation, ed. Nina Levine and David Lee Miller, Fordham University Press, 2009. Pages 45-57.

The Shakespeare Encyclopedia, entries on Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, Henry V, King John, Henry VIII, The Merry Wives of Windsor, General Introduction to The History Plays. Global Book Publishing, Sydney, Australia, 2009. Pages 62-83, 116-119.

“‘O for a muse of fire’: Henry V and Plotted Self-Exculpation.” Shakespeare Studies (Vol. 36, 2008), 182-206.

“T. S. Eliot’s Impudence: Hamlet, Objective Correlative, and Formulation.” Criticism 49.2 (Spring 2008), 215-239.

“’the double variacioun of wordly blisse and transmutacioun’: Shakespeare’s Return to Ovid in Troilus and Cressida.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History (Third Series, Vol. 5, May 2008), 293-312.

“Romancing the Chronicles: 1 Henry IV and the Rewriting of Medieval History.” Quidditas (Vol. 27, 2006), 34-50. Published as the 2005 Allen D. Breck Award Winner.

Book Reviews

Shakespeare Studies (Vol. 38, 2011). Jennifer Summit, Memory’s Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Journal of British Studies (Vol. 49, No. 2, April 2010). Stewart Mottram, Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature. Cambridge, England: D. S. Brewer, 2008.

Renaissance Quarterly (Vol. 59, No. 2, Summer 2006). William M. Hamlin, Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare’s England. London and New York: Palgrave, 2005.

The 16th Century Journal (Vol. XXXVII, No. 4, Winter 2006). Ken MacMillan and Jennifer Abeles, Eds. John Dee: The Limits of the British Empire. New York: Praeger, 2005.

The 16th Century Journal (Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, Summer 2006). Ton Hoenselaars, ed. Shakespeare’s History Plays: Performance, Translation and Adaptation in Britain and Abroad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Arthuriana (Vol. 14 No. 2, Summer 2004). Liam O. Purdon, The Wakefield Master’s Dramatic Art: A Drama of Spiritual Understanding. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.

Arthuriana (Vol. 13 No. 3, Fall 2003). Frances A. Underhill, For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh. The New Middle Ages Series. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Short Fiction

“The Confectioner.” First Intensity, #19, Fall 2004.

“Insurance.” The Cimarron Review, Spring 2004, issue 147.

“Two Brothers.” South Dakota Review, Winter 2003 (Vol. 41 #4).

Poetry

“Cauthard.” Beloit Poetry Journal, Summer 2004 (Vol. 54 #4), 35-45.   
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Room LWH 2008
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5467
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Monday and Wednesday: 2:00-4:00 p.m. via Zoom

Email b-greenburg@neiu.edu to arrange an appointment.
Main Campus
Julie Kim
Julie
H.
Kim
Professor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5825
Expertise
Early Modern British Literature, Detective Fiction, 20th Century American and British Literature
Courses Taught
ENGL 219 American Literature,1865-Present
ENGL 221 English Literature, Beginnings-1750
ENGL 222 English Literature, 1750-Present
ENGL 323 Shaw and Modern British Drama
ENGL 329 Milton
ENGL 330 Shakespeare Comedies and Romances
ENGL 331 Shakespeare Tragedies
ENGL 360 Detective Fiction
ENGL 379 20th Century Fiction II, 1945-Present
ENGL 422 Graduate Seminar on Milton
ENGL 428 The English Novel
Research Interests
Early Modern British Literature (especially Milton), Detective Fiction
Education

Ph.D. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
M.A. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
B.A. University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)

Selected Publications

Edited Books:

Crime Fiction and National Identities in the Global Age (Editor), 2020

Class and Culture in Crime Fiction: Essays on Works in English Since the 1970s (Editor), 2014 

Murdering Miss Marple: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in the New Golden Age of Women’s Crime Fiction (Editor), 2012   

Race and Religion in the Postcolonial British Detective Story (Editor), 2005     

Selected Significant Articles:

“Sabrina . . . or, the Lady?: Gender, Class, and the Spectre of Milton in Sabrina (1995),” in Milton and Popular Culture, edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers and Gregory M. Semenza (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 151-162.

“The Lady’s Unladylike Struggle: Redefining Patriarchal Boundaries in Milton’s Comus,” in Milton Studies (35), 1997, pp. 1-20.

Room LWH 2002
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5825
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
In person, Room LWH 2002:
Monday and Wednesday: 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

For virtual/Zoom student hours: Please email at least one weekday/business day in advance to schedule a specific time at j-kim6@neiu.edu.
There may also be "pop-up" Zoom hours announced that do not need appointments.
Main Campus
Tim Libretti
Timothy
R
Libretti
Acting Associate Dean
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5823
Courses Taught
ENGL 101 Writing I
ENGL 203 World of Fiction
ENGL 218 American Literature: Beginnings -1865
ENGL 219 American Literature: 1865-Present
ENGL 345 Practical Criticism
ENGL 357 Land, Labor, and Literature
ENGL 369 American Realism
ENGL 371 Studies in Women's Literature
ENGL 381 African-American Literature
ENGL 382 Chicana/o Literature
ENGL 410 Literary Method and Practice
ENGL 430 Studies in Literary Criticism
ENGL 448D Hawthorne and Melville
ENGL 449M Studies in the American Novel
ENGL 449N Ethnic Literatures
ENGL 468 US Literary Modernism and Its Other
WGS 301E The Radical Feminist Imagination
Research Interests
US Literature, Working-Class Literature, Multi-Ethnic Literature, Marxism
Education

PhD  English, University of Michigan, 1995
MA   English, University of Michigan, 1991
BA    English summa cum laude, Cornell University, 1989

 

Selected Publications

Books
The Making of U.S. Warking-Class Literature and Consciousness: The Nations, Genders, and Sexualities of U.S. Proletarian Literature from the 1930s to the Present (forthcoming from University of Mississippi Press).

Articles and Chapters
"A Proletarian Book of Laughter and Remembering: The Cry and the Dedication and the Inter/National Class Struggle" in Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan, ed. Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao, University Press of America, 2016.

"Dis-Alienating the Neighborhood: The Representation of Work and Community in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," in Revisiting Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, eds. Kathy Merlock Jackson, Steven M. Emmanuel. North Carolina: McFarland Press, 2016.

"Beyond the Innocence of Globalization: The Abiding Necessity of Carlos Bulosan's Anti-Imperialist Imagination."  Kritika Kultura, no. 23 (Summer 2014). On-line.

"'Verticality is such a risky enterprise': Class Epistemologies and the Critique of Upward Movility in Colson Whitehead's The Intiutisionist," in Class and Culture in Contemporary Crime Fiction, ed. Julie H. Kim. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2014, pp. 201-224.

"'A Broader and Wiser Revolution': Refiguring Chicago Nationalist Politics in Latin Amercan Consciousness in Post-Movement Chicana/o Literature" in Imagined Transnationalism: Latina/o Literature, Culture and Identity, eds. Francisco Lomelí, Marc Priewe, and  Kevin Concannon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 137-155.

"Modernism and Politics" in Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, ed M. Keith Booker. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005, pp. 176-180.
 

LWH 2012
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5823
Office Hours
Summer 2016
Main Campus
Curriculum Vitae
Kristen L. Over smiles into the camera.
Kristen
L.
Over
Associate Professor, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Coordinator
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5833
Expertise
Comparative literature, medieval British literature, medieval Welsh literature, French and Welsh romance, Arthurian literature, poststructural theory, postcolonial theory, feminist theory, gender and sexuality studies
Courses Taught
ENGL 210 WIP:Methods for English Majors
ENGL 221 English Literature: Beginnings to c. 1750
ENGL 307 Medieval Studies: Arthurian Tradition
ENGL 308 English Literature from Beowulf to Malory
ENGL 314 Chaucer and His Age
ENGL 345 Practical Criticism
ENGL 371 Studies in Women's Literature
ENGL 410 Literary Method and Practice
ENGL 430 Studies in Literary Criticism
ENGL 495 Rethinking Race and Gender
WGS 201 WIP: Feminist Ideas
ZHON 192 Honors Introduction to the Humanities
Research Interests
Race and gender, medieval sexualities, epistemologies of ignorance, indigenous American women’s writing, philosophies of identity and freedom, politics of nation and identity
Education

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
B.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Selected Publications

Book Article. “Warrior Ideal or Sinful Beast? Ambiguous Sovereignty in Culhwch ac Olwen.” In The Language of Gender, Power, and Agency in Celtic Studies. Amber Handy and Brian Ó Conchubhair, editors. Arlen House Press 2013. Examines the sovereign power of God and Arthur  in an early Welsh Arthurian tale.

Book Article. “Hybridity Reconsidered: Rewriting the Literary Welshman in Peredur vab Efrawc.” In Other Nations: The Hybridization of Medieval Insular Mythology and Identity. Wendy Marie Hoofnagle and Wolfram R. Keller, editors. Winter, Heidelberg, 2011. Examines a Welsh version of the Perceval tale in the context of distinct insular identities.

Book. Kingship, Conquest, and Patria: Literary and Cultural Identities in Medieval French and Welsh Arthurian Romance. Routledge Press, 2005. A study of vernacular literature, medieval colonialisms, and state formation focusing on the romances of Chrétien de Troyes and three thirteenth-century Welsh tales.

Book Article. “Transcultural Change: Romance to Rhamant.” In Medieval Celtic Literature and Society. Helen Fulton, editor. Four Courts Press, Dublin 2005. Assessment of the genres of romance/rhamant from a postcolonial perspective.

Room LWH 2006
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
United States

(773) 442-5833
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Tuesday and Thursday: Noon-1:00 p.m./4:00-5:00 p.m. (in person)
Monday and Wednesday: 2:00-4:00 p.m. via ZOOM

Also by appointment. Email k-over@neiu.edu the day before to schedule.
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Ryan Poll
Ryan
Poll
Associate Professor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5824
Expertise
U.S. literature and culture, critical theory, popular culture and cultural studies.
Courses Taught
ENGL 482 Contemporary Poetic Forms
ENGL 480 Ethnic Literatures
ENGL 476 Oil Fictions: Reading Along the Transnational Pipelines
ENGL 456A Graphic Novels and Social Conflicts
ENGL 449M The Literary Small Town in the Age of Globalization
ENGL 430 Studies in Literary Criticism
ENGL 413 Crafting Literary, Cultural and Compositional Fields
ENGL 411A Cultural and Literary Studies: History, Theory, Practice
ENGL 410 Literary Methods and Practices
ENGL 402 Ecological Crises and Narratives
ENGL 390 Young Adult Novel
ENGL 380 Multi-Cultural Literature in America
ENGL 379 Twentieth Century Fiction II
ENGL 356A The Graphic Novel
ENGL 354 Star Wars: Narratives, Politics, and Economics of a Billion-Dollar, Multi-Media Franchise
ENGL 352 Jewish-American Literature: People of the Books
ENGL 345 Practical Criticism
ENGL 343 Global Ecologies: U.S. Literature in the Age of Environmentalism
ENGL 316 Forms of Poetry
ENGL 311 Introduction to Popular Culture Studies
ENGL 302 Literatures and Theories of Love
ENGL 301A Special Topics in Literature and Culture
ENGL 219 American Literature: 1865-Present
ENGL 218 American Literature: Beginnings-1865
ENGL 210 Methods for English Major
Research Interests
Narratives and cultures of globalization; cultural geographies and ecologies; energy cultures; working-class narratives; media studies; poetic forms
Education

Ph.D. English with Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, University of California, Davis, 2009

Selected Publications

Ryan is also a staff writer at PopMatters. 

Books

Main Street and Empire: The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization (Rutgers University Press, 2012)

Aquaman and the War on Oceans: Comics Activism in the Anthropocene (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023)

Journal Articles/Book Chapters

“The Rising Tide of Neoliberalism: Attica Locke’s Black Water Rising and the Segregated Geographies of Globalization” in Class and Culture in Crime Fiction: Essays on Works in English Since the 1970s (McFarland & Company, 2014)

“The Boss and the Workers: Bruce Springsteen as Blue-Collar Icon” in Blue Collar Pop Culture: From NASCAR to the Jersey Shore (Praeger, 2012)

"Can One Get Out? The Aesthetics of Afro-Pessimism," Journal of Midwest Modern Language Association, Special Issue: "Arts and Activism" (Fall 2019)

"Neoliberal Heroes:Clint Eastwood's Sully and the Haunting of History." The Journal of Popular Culture, Special Edition: Neoliberalism and Popular Culture," (April 2018)

"Lynn Nottage's Theatre of Genocide: Ruined, Rape, and Afropessimism." Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 35.1 (2020): 81-105.

 

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Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5824
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Mondays: 6:00–7:00 p.m. (in office)
Tuesdays: 1:00–2:00 p.m. (via Zoom)
Wednesdays: 1:00–2:00 p.m. (in office)
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Timothy H. Scherman
Timothy
H.
Scherman
Associate Chair, English Department; Audrey Reynolds Distinguished Professor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5817
Expertise
American Literature and Culture; Literary Theory and Criticism, Material Culture
Courses Taught
ENGL 210: Literary Methods and Practice (WIP)
ENGL 218: Survey of American Literature, Beginnings to 1865
ENGL 219: Survey of American Literature: 1865 to present
ENGL 345: Practical Criticism
ENGL 368: American Realism
ENGL 372: American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
ENGL 378: Twentieth Century Fiction I
ENGL 410: Literary Methods and Practice
ENGL 430: Seminar on Literary Criticism and Theory
ENGL 484: Seminar on US Literature After the Cold War
ENGL 487: Material Culture
Research Interests
U.S. Literature and Culture; History of Authorship and Publishing; Women Writers of the 19th Century, Material Culture
Education

Ph.D. (American Literature) Duke University

Selected Publications

The Selected Works of Elizabeth Oakes Smith, edited and annotated, with an introduction, 3 vols (forthcoming, Mercer Press, 2023-2024)

2020     section editor and author, “Elizabeth Oakes Smith 1806-1893—American novelist essayist, lecturer, poet and short-story writer,” Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism vol 387, Layman Poupard Publishing, LLC: 95-177.  

2020     “Poe, Pandemic and Underlying Conditions,” PopMatters, May 26, 2020: https://www.popmatters.com/poe-pandemic-and-underlying-conditions- 2646000879.html

2017     “Eluding the Authorities: Tom Waits in Postmodern Context,” PopMatters, January 9, 2017: https://www.popmatters.com/feature/tom-waits-eluding-the-authorities/

1993    "The Authority Effect: Poe and the Politics of Reputation in the Pre-Industry of American Publishing," Arizona Quarterly 49/3 (Fall 1993): 1-21.

1992   "Translating From Memory: Patrick Modiano in Postmodern Context," Studies inTwentieth-Century Literature 16/2 (summer 1992): 289-303.

Additional Information

Scherman is the founder and current president of The Elizabeth Oakes Smith Society (501(c)3).  

Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5817
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Tuesday and Wednesday: 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Thursday: 10:00 a.m.-noon
Class times excepted.
Or by appointment. Email the day before to schedule at t-scherman@neiu.edu.
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Christopher L. Schroeder
Christopher
L.
Schroeder
Professor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5483
Expertise
Political economies of literacy, literacy philosophies and language policies.
Courses Taught
Cultural Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
English Studies and Technology
Grammars of Standard English and Competing Discourses
Literacies and Political Economies
Seminar in Composition Theory
Summer Writing Institute (National Writing Project)
Writing Across the Curriculum
Writing Assessment
Advanced Composition
American Literature
Drama and Diversity
History of Chicago Drama
Intro to Global Studies
Literatures and Literacies
Modern American Drama
Technical Writing
WAC-Writing Center Tutoring
The World of Drama
Research Interests
Chicago drama, textual circulation, and political economies of literacy
Education

Ph.D. with distinction in English from the University of Louisiana (1999)

M.A. in English from the University of Missouri (1994)

B.A. with honors in English from Southern Illinois University (1992)

Selected Publications

Books
Schroeder, Christopher. 2011. Diverse by Design: Literacy Education within Multicultural Institutions. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press.
• recipient of 2012 CCCC Research Impact Award

Schroeder, Christopher, Helen Fox, and Patricia Bizzell, eds. 2002. ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook.
• reprinted by Heinemann in 2004
• college best-seller for Heinemann in 2002

Schroeder, Christopher. 2001. ReInventing the University: Literacies and Legitimacy in the Postmodern Academy. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press.
• reviewed in College English
• nominated for the 2002 David H. Russell Award sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English

Articles, Chapters, and Essays
Schroeder, Christopher. 2016. “Continuity and Community in a Cosmopolitan World: Code Switching and Its Effects on Community Identity.” In Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries: The Rhetoric of Lines Across America, ed. Barbara Couture and Patricia Wojahn, 43-59.  Boulder, Colo.: Utah State University Press.

---. 2010. “Web Authoring Software and Electronic Expertise.” In Digital Tools in Composition Studies: Critical Dimensions and Implications, ed. Ollie O. Oviedo, Joyce R. Walker, and Byron Hawk, 95-113. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, Inc.

---. 2009. “English Teachers We Have Known.” In Transforming English Studies: New Voices from an Emerging Genre, ed. Lori Ostergaard, Jeff Ludwig, and Jim Nugent, 212-228. West Lafayette, Ind: Parlor Press.

---. 2007. “Notes Toward a Dynamic Theory of Literacy.” In Locations of Composition, ed. Christopher Keller and Christian Weisser, 267-287. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

---. 2006. “The Limits of Institutionalized Literacies: Minority Bilinguals at One U.S. University.” Community Literacy Journal 1: 67-82.

---. 2005. “Natural Diversity: A Response to David Quammen.” In Writing Environments: Rhetoric, Texts, and the Construction of Nature, ed. Sidney Dobrin and Chris Keller, 99-107. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

---. 2004a. Review of Introducing English: Essays in the Intellectual Work of Composition, by James Slevin. Composition Studies 32: 143-146.

---. 2004b. “The Ethnographic Experience of Postmodern Literacies.” In Ethnography Unbound: From Shock Theory to Critical Praxis, ed. Stephen Brown and Sidney Dobrin. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

---. 2002. “From the Inside Out (or the Outside In, Depending).” In ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy, ed. Christopher Schroeder, Helen Fox, and Patricia Bizzell, 178-190. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook.

---. 2002. “Rereading the Literacy Crisis in Colleges and Universities in the United States.” In Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers from the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference, ed. Frederick J. Anczak, Cinda Goggins, and Geoffery D. Klinger, 187-192. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

---. 2001. “Academic Literacies, Legitimacy Crises, and Electronic Cultures.” The Journal of Literacy and Technology

---. 1999. “Blurring Boundaries: Rhetoric in Literature (and Other) Classrooms.” In Teaching in the 21st Century: Adapting Writing Pedagogies to the College Curriculum, ed. Alice Robertson and Barbara Smith, 297-311. New York: Garland Press.

---. 1998. “Writing, Reading, and Resistant Meanings: Teaching Students to Fish.” Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 17: 61-72. (all footnotes were omitted without permission)

---. 1997. “Knowledge and Power, Logic and Rhetoric, and Other Reflections in the Toulminian Mirror: A Critical Consideration of Toulmin’s Contributions to Composition.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 17: 95-107.

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Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5483
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Tuesday and Thursday: 12:05-1:35 p.m./ 3:00-4:00 p.m. (in office)

Other times by appointment via Google Meet
Email at c-schroeder2@neiu.edu
Main Campus
Brian White
Brian
D.
White
Instructor
English
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5832
Expertise
My focus at Northeastern Illinois University has been in freshman composition and research writing, although previous to that time my focus was on ESL when I was teaching for the City Colleges of Chicago. In that capacity I researched many different patterns of learning and language development of non-native speakers of English. I also continue to develop and hone my craft as a writer of short fiction. In regard to literature, my focus has been on 20th century American writers, although I have a broad interest of literature from British 19th century romantic poets to modern European writers such as Franz Kafka to Latin American writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In all my areas of concentration as an instructor I look to engage and challenge students to think for themselves and connect what they read and write for my classes to their own lives and the world at large in which they seek to establish their profession (or conquer).
Courses Taught
ENGL 101 Writing I
ENGL 102 Writing II
ENGL 203 World of Fiction
ENGL 205 Literature and Literacies
Research Interests
Language and learning development of non-native speakers of English
Education

M.A. English, Northeastern University
B.A. English, The University of Iowa

 

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Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5832
Office Hours
Spring 2024 Student Hours
Wednesday: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday: 12:55-1:40 p.m.
Or by appointment. Please email instructor for an appointment at b-white@neiu.edu.
Main Campus