English Faculty

Robert Barsky (email)
Professor, Dept. of English; French and Italian; Comparative Literature (Ph.D. McGill, post-doc Université libre de Bruxelles). Field work and research for books and papers on Convention refugees, homelessness in Quebec and incarcerated migrants in the South. Courses on Language theory, postcolonial literature and displacement.

Sarah Childress (email)
Lecturer in English (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University). Latin American film, experimental film, film manifestos, and film theory.

Vera M. Kutzinski (email)
Martha Rivers Ingram Professor, Department of English (Ph.D., Yale University; M.A., Yale) Vera Kutzinski is a literary scholar and cultural historian whose research has focused on the U.S., the Caribbean, and Latin America during the 19th and 20th centuries. Her current research focuses on Latin American translations of 20th century U.S. poetry.

Lorraine M. Lopez (email)
Assistant Professor of English (Ph.D., University of Georgia; M.A., University of Georgia, B.A. California State University, Northridge). Latino literature.

Ifeoma Nwankwo (email)
Associate Professor of English (Ph.D., Duke). Nineteenth and twentieth century US African American and Caribbean literature and culture.