Faculty

Our teaching staff is well-educated, experienced, and versatile. All full-time staff have areas of scholarly specialization, and most have published in their fields, yet they are generalists in the best sense of the word: capable of teaching with equal facility an introductory course in literature or a course in a certain period, "school," or tradition.

Buinicki, Martin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor. University of Northern Colorado, University of Iowa. Teaching and research interests: American literature, history of the book, literature of philanthropy.
Martin.Buinicki@valpo.edu.

Burow-Flak, Elizabeth, Ph. D., Associate Professor. Augsburg College, University of Texas at Austin. Teaching and research interests: early modern literature, including Shakespeare; women writers; history of the book; new media.
Betsy.BurowFlak@valpo.edu

Byrne, Edward, M.F.A., Ph.D., Professor. Brooklyn College (CUNY), University of Utah. Teaching and research interests: twentieth-century poetry; contemporary fiction; creative non-fiction; creative writing.
Edward.Byrne@valpo.edu

Danger, Sara R., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, English. Concordia College (Moorhead), South Dakota State, University of Kansas. Teaching and research interests: nineteenth-century literature; women writers; children's literature; illlustrations. Sara.Danger@valpo.edu

Feaster, John, Ph.D., Walter G. Friedrich Professor of American Literature. Valparaiso, Northern Illinois University, Purdue. Teaching and research interests: American literature, American studies, literary criticism, literature of social protest.
John.Feaster@valpo.edu

Grantz, Lynn, M.A., Instructor. Purdue, Ball State. Teaching and research interests: English as a Second Language.
Lynn.Grantz@valpo.edu

Hanson, Carter F. , Ph.D., Associate Professor. Luther College, University of Iowa. Teaching and research interests: Canadian literature; Victorian literature; children's literature.
Carter.Hanson@valpo.edu

Johnson, Stephanie. Ph.D., Lilly Fellow and Lecturer in Humanities and English. St. Olaf College, University of Minnesota, University of Washington. Teaching and
research interests: Victorian literature and culture; women writers; narrative ethics.

Juneja, Renu, Ph.D., Professor. Associate Provost of the University. University of Delhi (India), Pennsylvania State University. Teaching and research interests: African and Caribbean literature; early modern literature; Shakespeare.
Renu.Juneja@valpo.edu

Owens, D. Michael, Ph.D., Associate Professor. United States Military Academy (West Point), University of Georgia, Purdue. Teaching and research interests: nineteenth-century American literature; Ambrose Bierce; modernism.
David.Owens@valpo.edu

Ruff, John, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Director, First-Year Core Program. St. John's University (Minnesota), College of St. Thomas (Minnesota), University of Washington. Teaching and research interests: American literature; the Hudson River school; modernism; poetry; children's literature. John.Ruff@valpo.edu

Rutz, Cynthia, M.A., Instructor and Director, Teaching Resource Center. University of Chicago. Teaching and research interests: ancient Greek epics and drama, Shakespeare, Jane Austen.

Cynthia.Rutz@valpo.edu

Scannell, Nancy, M.S., Instructor. U of Illinois, St. Xavier (Chicago).
Teaching and research interests: composition, technical writing, secondary education.

Nancy.Scannell@valpo.edu

Schuette-Hoffman, Allison, M.F.A., Assistant Professor. Valparaiso University, Penn State. Teaching and research interests: Composition and rhetoric, creative writing, creative nonfiction, technology.
Allison.Schuette@valpo.edu

Sponberg, Arvid F., Ph.D., Professor. Augustana College (Illinois), University of Chicago, University of Michigan. Teaching interests: twentieth-century drama; English drama; multicultural drama.
Arvid.Sponberg@valpo.edu

Uehling, Edward M., Ph.D., Professor. Chair, Department of English. Hastings College, Pennsylvania State. Teaching and research interests: medieval literature; American literature; creative non-fiction; literature of the Vietnam war.
Edward.Uehling@valpo.edu

Wangerin, Walter, Jr. M.Div. Jochum Professor of English and Theology. Concordia (Fort Wayne), Christ Seminary-Seminex. Teaching and research interests: contemporary fiction; sacred tales; creative writing.