Faculty
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; B.A., Western Maryland College
Interests: poetry, Modernism, Contemporary literature, non-fiction and essay writing
Education: Ph.D, University of Iowa; M.A., University of Washington; B.A. Luther College
Interests: Victorian period, especially the work of William Morris, intersections of writing, ecology, and local history
Education: M.A., University of Iowa; B.A., Luther College
Interests: creative and expository writing
Education: Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton; M.A., McGill University; B.A., Saint Olaf College.
Interests: American literature, contemporary literature, postcolonial studies, existentialism, Scandinavian Studies, and apocalyptic fiction.
Education: Ph.D. University of California, Davis, M.A. Western Washington University, B.A. St. Olaf College
Interests: technoculture, ecology and literature/cinema, U.S. literature, critical theory, science fiction, and Chinese cinema
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of Chicago; B.A., Carleton College
Interests:18th-century British literature, the novel, literature and the politics of gender
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of Iowa; M.A., Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago; B.A., University of Oregon
Interests: South African literature and history, African-American literature, American novel, Walt Whitman
Education: PhD, University of Aberdeen (ABD), MLitt, University of Aberdeen, M.A, Jadavpur University, B.A., Lady Brabourne College.
Interests: Contemporary Irish Literature, Contemporary poetry, poet-critics, Literature of the Indian Diaspora
Education: Ph.D., M.A., University of Minnesota; B.A., St. John's University
Interests: Shakespeare (especially Shakespeare in performance), drama and dramatic performance, Renaissance literature, and non-fiction prose
Education: Ph.D., M.A., University of Chicago; M.Phil., The Warburg Institute, University of London; B.A., Washington University in St. Louis
Interests: Elizabethan and early Stuart literature, medieval literature, Milton, devotional writing
Education: Ph.D., University of Missouri; M.F.A., Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; B.A., University of Central Missouri
Interests: Poetry, creative writing in poetry and other genres, literary genres and their instability, and pop culture, especially film and superheroes
Education: M.A., University of Iowa; B.A., Luther College; junior year study, University of Durham, Durham, England
Interests: Young Adult literature, effective English Education methods, drama in the classroom, affirming cultural diversity in the classroom, creating safe classrooms, creative writing, devotional writing
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.A., Luther College
Interests: nineteenth-century literature, cultural and political construction of manners, high school and college writing
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of Chicago; B.A., St. Olaf College
Interests: American conversion narratives and confessional writing, scriptural story in American narrative, and the influence of 17th century English devotional poetry on American poets
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of Chicago; B.A., Augustana College, (Rock Island, IL)
Interests: American literature, rhetoric, film, and studies in Chinese culture, American humor, American war literature, American autobiography
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; B.A., Auburn University
Interests: creative writing, Romantic and Contemporary literature, film, intersections of writing, politics, and faith
Education: Ph.D, M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.A., University of California-L.A.
Interests: Hausa literature and language (spoken in northern Nigerian, southern Niger, and various parts of west and central Africa)
Emeriti
John C. Bale, Professor Emeritus of English
Email: balejo01@vennehjem.org
Education: Ph.D., M.A. University of Illinois; B.A. Concordia College
Carol Gilbertson, Professor Emerita of English
Email: gilbertc@luther.edu
Education: Ph.D. University of Minnesota; M. A. University of North Carolina; B. A. Augustana College (SD)
Martin Mohr, Professor Emeritus of English
Email: mohrmart@luther.edu
Education: Ph.D., M.A., B.A. University of Iowa
Mary Hull Mohr, Professor Emerita of English
Email: mohrmary@luther.edu
Education: Ph.D. University of Colorado; M.A. University of Minnesota; B.A., Augustana College (Rock Island)
Harland S. Nelson, Professor Emeritus of English
Email: nelsonhs@luther.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota; M.A., Washington State University; B.A., Concordia College
