English & Creative Writing Faculty
Department chair: Kirilka Stavreva | Contact info
Faculty & Staff
Kirilka (Katy) Stavreva
Professor of English
Teaches medieval and Renaissance literature, Global Shakespeare, film, and book arts and history. She is author of the 2015 book “Words Like Daggers: Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England,” a Global Flex Fulbright Scholar for 2016-18, and editor of two British Literature series for Gale Researcher. Ph.D., English, University of Iowa.
Rebecca Entel
Professor of English and Creative Writing, Director of the Center for the Literary Arts
Teaches courses in 19th-century American literature, multicultural literature, and creative writing (including NaNoWriMo). She takes students to the Bahamas to study Caribbean literature and to Chicago to study literature and social justice. She is the author of the novel “Fingerprints of Previous Owners” (2017). Her short stories and essays have appeared in magazines such as Guernica, LitHub, Electric Literature, and Catapult, and her scholarship on Civil War literature has been published in various academic journals and essay collections. Ph.D., English, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Glenn Freeman
Professor of English and Creative Writing
Teaches creative writing and American poetry courses and takes students to the Wilderness Field Station in Minnesota and to the Bahamas for nature writing courses. He is the author of two books of poems: “Traveling Light” (2011) and “Keeping the Tigers Behind Us” (2007). His poems have also appeared in Poetry, The Cimarron Review, The Lullwater Review, and Talking River Review. Ph.D., English, University of Florida.
Scott Russell Morris
Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing
Teaches courses including Introduction to Literary Studies, The Cinepoem and the Video Essay, Contemporary Fiction, and Introduction to Creative Writing. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Texas Tech University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brigham Young University. Prior to Cornell he was an assistant and associate professor of writing and rhetoric for six years at the University of Utah Asia Campus in Incheon, South Korea. Scott is also the creator and editor of Magpies Zines.
Katie Sagal
Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing
Teaches first-year writing, Social Media and Social Justice, Introduction to Multimedia Writing, Video Games as Literature, Fandom and Fan Fiction, Gothic Monsters, Queering the Restoration, and 18th and 19th-Century British Literature. Sagal’s research interests include eighteenth-century women’s writing, the history of science and scientific literature, and women’s botanical artwork. She published her first book, “Botanical Entanglements: Women, Plants, Literature, and Artwork in the Eighteenth Century,” in 2022. Sagal holds a Ph.D. in English from Tufts University in Massachusetts.
Jenna Kadlec
Distinguished Visiting Writer
Samuel Walker
Lecturer
Teaches courses on 20th-century literature, creative writing, and environmental writing. Walker’s primary area of research is modern and contemporary Anglophone poetry. His current project explores the role of balladry in literary modernism. For the past several years he has been a lecturer at the University of Michigan’s New England Literature Program. In 2021-2022 he was a visiting lecturer in the Department of American Studies at Technical University Dortmund in Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia.
Emeriti Faculty
Leslie Hankins
Professor of English Emeritus
(1992-2024) B.A., Duke University; M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Richard Martin
Professor of English Emeritus
B.A., Carleton College; M.A.T., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University.
Michelle Mouton
Professor of English Emerita
Ph.D., English and critical theory, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.