MFA Faculty

Faculty

Kazim Ali

Professor

MFA, New York University

Teaching interests: Poetry, cross-genre and hybrid writing, dance and performance studies, border studies, indigenous studies, translation theory and practice, literature and social movements.
Amy Sara Carroll

Associate Professor

PhD, Duke University
MFA, Cornell University

Teaching interests: 20^th and 21^st-century Latin/x American art, literature, and cinema; transnational American and border studies; critical theory; cultural studies; ethnic studies; gender and sexuality studies; creative writing: poetry, creative non-fiction, performance, visual and e-literatures, cross-genre writing.
Ben Doller

Associate Professor

MFA, University of Iowa

Teaching interests: Genre intersections, experimental writing, the politics of form, performance and sound poetries, typography and graphic design, small press publishing.
Camille Forbes, Director

Associate Professor

PhD, Harvard University

Teaching interests: Short story, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, historical fiction.
Lily Hoàng

Associate Professor

MFA, University of Notre Dame

Teaching interests: Fiction, non-fiction, flash prose, fairy tales, experimental forms.
Jac Jemc

Associate Teaching Professor

MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Teaching interests: Fiction, experimental forms, and speculative fiction.
Casandra Lopez

Assistant Professor
Brandon Som

Assistant Professor

PhD, Literature and Creative Writing, University of Southern California; MFA, Poetry, University of Pittsburgh

Teaching interests: 20^th- and 21^st century poetry, transpacific literature, Asian-American and Chicanx poetry, citational poetics, sound studies.
Anna Joy Springer

Associate Professor

MFA, Brown University

Teaching interests: Graphic texts and comics, punk rock, feminist ethics, anti-establishment literatures, Buddhist praxis, radical literary arts pedagogies.
Marco Wilkinson

Assistant Professor

MFA, University of Southern Maine

Teaching interests: Creative nonfiction, ecopoetics, lyric prose, Latinx literature, and queer literature.

Affiliate Faculty

Carol Arcos Herrera

Assistant Professor

PhD, University of Chile

Teaching interests: 20th-century and contemporary Chilean and Latin American literature, gender, sexuality, and feminist studies, psychoanalysis, activism and social movements.
Gabriel Bámgbósé

Assistant Professor

PhD, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Teaching interests: Poetry and comparative poetics; Black modernist poetics and philosophy; continental, archipelagic, and diasporic African literatures; African women’s poetry; African folklore and popular culture; Black/African feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial thoughts; translation and critical literacy studies.
John D. Blanco

Associate Professor

PhD, UC Berkeley

Teaching interests: 16th-19th-century Spanish Empire in the Americas and the Philippines, colonial roots of globalization, comparative forms of imperialism and anti-colonial struggles, postcolonial studies, literary/cultural histories of the Philippines and its diaspora.
José Ignacio Carvajal Regidor

Assistant Professor

PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Teaching interests: Indigenous responses to colonialism and evangelization during the early colonial period; pedagogical approaches to Indigenous language learning; Central American literatures and cultures; Poetry; Translation, and Digital Humanities.
Gloria Elizabeth Chacon

Associate Professor

PhD, UC Santa Cruz

Teaching interests: Indigenous literatures of the Americas, Chican@/Latin@ literary and cultural movements, Central American poetics and politics, US Central Americans, and Latin American literary and cultural theories.
Alain J.-J. Cohen

Professor

PhD, UC Los Angeles

Teaching interests: Clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis, film studies, aesthetics and philosophy, literary theory, semiotics.
Géraldine Fiss

Associate Professor

PhD, Harvard University

Teaching interests: Early modern, modern and contemporary Chinese literature, intellectual history and film; Cultural translation in East Asia; East-West literary, aesthetic and cinematic relations; Modern and contemporary Chinese poetry; Chinese and transnational modernisms; The fantastic in East Asian literature and film; Chinese women's literature and film, East Asian ecocriticism.
Amelia Glaser

Professor

PhD, Stanford University

Teaching interests: 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature, modern Yiddish literature, comparative literature, translation studies, transnational Jewish literature, the literatures of Ukraine.
Shelley S. Streeby

Professor

PhD, UC Berkeley

Teaching interests: American Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, speculative fiction, social movements led by Indigenous people and people of color, radical transnational movements of the 1880s-1920s, climate change, digital humanities, transnationalism.
Kathryn Walkiewicz

Assistant Professor

PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Teaching interests: Native American and Indigenous studies, early U.S. literature and culture, nineteenth-century literature and culture, hemispheric studies, print culture, and formations of U.S. empire.