Research


The English Department faculty specialize in the following fields of research:

Lars Engle , Associate Professor, Chair. Early Modern British Literature, South African Literature, Critical Theory.

Jennifer L. Airey , Assistant Professor, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature, History of Drama.

Hermione De Almeida, Pauline Walter Professor of English and Comparative Literature. British and European Romanticism, 19th Century Literature, Modern British Literature, History of Science and Medicine, Art and Visual Culture.

George H. Gilpin, Professor and McFarlin Library Scholar-in-Residence.  Contemporary British Literature, British Romanticism and 19th Century Literature, Art and Visual Culture.

Grant Jenkins, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program. Experimental Poetry and Poetics, 19th and 20th Century American and British Literature, African American literature, Ethical and Critical Theory, Jewish American Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition..

Joseph A. Kestner , McFarlin Professor of English.  Nineteenth-century British Literature and Art, Classical Languages, Gender Studies, Film Studies. 

Holly Laird,  Professor and Executive Editor, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.  Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century British Literature, Women's Literature, Critical Theory.

Claudia Barbosa Nogueira , Assistant Professor. Film Studies, Latin American Cinema, Road Movies, Comparative Literature, Literature of the Americas, Space/Place Constructions, National Constructions, Creative Writing, Short Fiction, Short Short Fiction.

Sean Latham , Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Editor, James Joyce Quarterly; Director, Modernist Journals Project.  Modernism, Joyce, Cultural Theory, Periodical Studies, Media Studies, Film.

Laura Stevens,  Associate Professor and Editor, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.  Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Colonial American Literature, Early Modern Transatlantic Culture, Women's Studies.

Gordon O. Taylor,  Chapman Professor of English.  American Literature and Cultural History (19th-20th-c./contemporary), autobiography in America, African American writers, Asian American writers, the Vietnam War and American Culture.

James G. Watson ,  Frances W. O'Hornett Professor of Literature.  American Literature, Faulkner. 

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Henry Kendall Distinguished Professor of Languages and Literature.  Russian Poetry, European Cinema.