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
Katie Sagal
Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing
Teaches courses in Eighteenth-century British literature and academic writing. Research interests include women’s writing, scientific literature, and botanical artwork. Her first book, Botanical Entanglements: Women, Plants, Literature, and Artwork in the Eighteenth Century, is forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press in Fall 2021. Ph.D., English, Tufts University.
Jenna Kadlec
Distinguished Visiting Writer
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.