Representing the English department are several full-time faculty members, each of whom has a doctorate. Affiliate faculty teach regularly in the core level classes.
Carol Nevin Abromaitis, Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland
cabromaitis@loyola.edu
Areas of interest: Restoration and 18th-century English literature, fantasy literature.
Courses taught: EN 329, Poetry and Drama, 1660-1784; EN 332, Literature and the Catholic Imagination; EN 334, Novels of the Eighteenth Century; EN 337, Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Literature; EN 365, Seminar in Literature and Catholicism (figures studied include Bernanos and Mauriac in translation, Hopkins, Greene, Waugh, O'Connor, and Percy)
Jean Lee Cole, Associate Professor
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
jcole1@loyola.edu
Areas of interest: American literature, women's studies, ethnic American literature, history of the book
Author: The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity (2002); co-editor, Madame Butterfly by John Luther Long and A Japanese Nightingale by Winnifred Eaton: Two Orientalist Texts (2002)
Courses taught: EN 366, American Literature Before WWI; EN 379, American Women Writers; EN 397, Seminar in American Literature (recent topics: Literature of the American West)
Bryan Crockett, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa
bcrockett@loyola.edu
Areas of interest: English renaissance literature and culture, modern drama
Author: The Play of Paradox: Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England (1995)
Courses taught: EN 300, English Literary History before 1800; EN 310 and EN 311, Shakespeare I and II; EN 374, Modern Drama; HN 260, Renaissance to Modern (Honors)
Juniper Ellis, Professor
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
jellis@loyola.edu
Areas of interest: postcolonial literature, Pacific Rim literature
Courses taught: EN 376, Postcolonial Literature; EN 385, Travel Literature; EN 385, Islands Literature
Kathleen Forni, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Southern California
kforni@loyola.edu
Areas of interest: medieval literature, apocryphal writing
Author: The Chaucerian Apocrypha: A Counterfeit Canon (2001)
Courses taught: EN 300, English Literature Before 1800; EN 301, Chaucer; EN 302, Medieval Love; EN 306, Reinventing the Middle Ages; EN 304, Arthur and Other Heroes; EN 306, Popular Medieval Literature (EN 306); seminars on various topics.
Sondra Guttman, Affiliate Faculty
Ph.D., Rutgers University
sfguttman@loyola.edu
Areas of Interest: Depression-era U.S. literature, with special attention to issues of race and sexual violence.
Louis Hinkel, Affiliate Faculty, Director, Liberal Studies Program
M.A., Emory University
lhinkel@loyola.edu
Areas of interest: Caribbean literature, minority literature, recent American literature
Courses taught: EN 130, Understanding Literature; EN 203, Major Writers: American; EN 205, Major Writers: Shakespeare
Brooke Hunter, Visiting Affiliate Assistant Professor
Ph.D., English, The University of Texas at Austin, August, 2010.
bhunter@loyola.edu
Areas of interest:Medieval literature survey; Chaucer; British literature survey; Great books; Literary theory; Medieval romance; Composition.
Karen Kettnich, Affiliate Visiting Instructor
M.A., University of Maryland
kmkettnich@loyola.edu
Giuseppina Iacono Lobo, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., English, The Pennsylvania State University
gaiaconolobo@loyola.edu
Areas of interest: Milton; Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose; Literature and Religious Nonconformity; Literature and Revolution
Courses taught: EN 325, Literature and the English Revolution; EN 327, Seventeenth-Century Transatlantic Women Writers
Julius Lobo, Affiliate Assistant Professor
Ph.D., English, The Pennsylvania State University
jslobo@loyola.edu
Areas of interest: 20th/21st-century American poetry, American literature
Courses taught: EN 201, Major Writers: English Literature
Paul Lukacs, Associate Professor
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
plukacs@loyola.edu
Areas of interest: American literature, literary criticism
Author: American Vintage: The Rise of American Wine (2000); he Great Wines of America: The Top Forty Vitners, Vineyards, and Vintages (2005)
Courses taught: EN 366, American Literature to the First World War; EN 345, Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice.
Gayla McGlamery, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Emory University
gmcglamery@loyola.edu
Areas of interest: Victorian literature and culture, the novel, film adaptation
Courses taught: EN 360, Nineteenth-Century Novels; EN 361, Topics in Victorian Literature; EN 362, Victorian Poetry; EN 363, Seminar in Victorian Literature (recent topics: Crime, Mystery, and Detection: Victoria and After; Nineteenth-Century Novels into Film)
Nicholas Miller, Associate Professor; Director, Film Studies
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
nmiller@loyola.edu
Areas of interest: Irish literature, fiction and film
Author: Modernism, Ireland, and the Erotics of Memory (2002)
Courses taught: EN 130, Acts of Reading (Alpha); EN 370, Modern British and American Fiction; EN 377, History and Memory in 20th-Century British Literature; EN 380, The History of Narrative Cinema; EN 381, Fiction and Film; EN 386, Topics in Film (recent topics: Irish Cinema; Screwball Comedy); EN 409, James Joyce; HN280: The Modern World (Honors)
Robert S. Miola, Gerard Manley Hopkins Professor; Lecturer in Classics
Ph.D., University of Rochester
rmiola@loyola.edu
Areas of interest: Shakespeare, Renaissance drama and poetry, classical backgrounds
of English literature, Catholic Renaissance writers
Author: Shakespeare and Classical Comedy: The Influence of Plautus and Terence (1997); Editor, Ben Jonson, Every Man In His Humour (2000); A Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays (1997)
Courses taught: EN 300, English Literary History before 1800; EN 310 and EN 311, Shakespeare I and II; courses in Latin and Greek (Classics)
Brian Norman, Assistant Professor; Director of African and African American Studies
Ph.D., Rutgers University
bjnorman@loyola.edu
Areas of interest: African American literature, American literature, critical race and feminist studies
Author: Neo-Segregation Narratives:Jim Crow in Post-Civil Rights American Literature (2010); The American Protest Essay and National Belonging: Addressing Division (2007); co-editor: Representing Segregation: Toward an Aesthetics of Living Jim Crow, and Other Forms of Racial Division
Courses taught: EN 367, Representing Segregation; EN 373, African American Literature; EN 378, Race and Ethnicity in American Literature; EN 379, Dead Women Talking; EN 388, James Baldwin seminar
Thomas Scheye, Loyola Distinguished Service Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
scheye@loyola.edu
Areas of interest: Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, Milton
Courses taught: EN 300, English Literary History; EN 320, Milton
David C. Dougherty, Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Miami University (Ohio)
ddougherty@loyola.edu
Areas of interest: 20th-century British and American fiction and poetry, Shakespeare's English history plays
Author: Stanley Elkin (1991); James Wright (1987); A Casebook on Stanely Elkin's The Dick Gibson Show (editor, 2003); A Casebook on Stanley Elkin's The Magic Kingdom (editor, 2006).
Courses taught: EN 371, Post-Modern British and American Fiction; EN 372, Modern British and American Poetry; EN 397, Seminar in Post-Modern Twentieth-Century Literature; EN 388, Seminar in Minority American Literature
