Faculty Directory - English Department

Name	Research Areas	Contact
Sarah Berry, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts	Twentieth-century literature, Lyric Poetry, Theater and Performance, Modernism Irish Literature	sberry@udallas.edu Braniff 120 972-721-5246
Brett Bourbon, Ph.D. Associate Professor, English Department	Philosophy of Language	bourbon@udallas.edu Braniff 368 972-265-5829
Scott Crider, Ph.D. Professor, English, English Department	Shakespeare, The Trivium	crider@udallas.edu SB Hall 207 972-721-5218
David Davies, Ph.D. Associate Professor, English Department	Milton, Greek and Latin literature	davies@udallas.edu Braniff 366 972-721-5213
Kathryn Davis, Ph.D. Associate Professor, English, English Department	Jane Austen, Dante, Shakespeare	kedavis@udallas.edu Braniff 362 972-265-5845
Robert Dupree, Ph.D. Professor, English, English Department	European Literature and Culture, Literary Theory	rdupree@udallas.edu Catherine Hall 225 972-721-5311
Eileen Gregory, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor Emerita of English, English Department	Discipline of Lyric, Contemporary poetry	eileen@udallas.edu 972-721-5243
Theresa Kenney, Ph.D. Professor, English, English Department	17th-Century Lyric, Jane Austen, Arthurian Literature, Medieval and Renaissance English and European Literature, Dante, 19th-Century Novel	tereska02@gmail.com Braniff 308 972-721-4069
Robert Maguire, O. Cist. Afilliated Assistant Professor, English Department	Southern Literature, Irish Literature	bluehawk@udallas.edu Braniff 318 972-721-5343
Andrew Moran, Ph.D. Associate Professor, English Department	Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Evelyn Waugh	amoran@udallas.edu Braniff 236 972-721-4115
Andrew Osborn, Ph.D. Associate Professor, English Department; Director of Master's Programs in English; Director of Literature, IPS Doctoral Program; incoming Chief Editor of The Wallace Stevens Journal, English Department	Poetic Difficulty, Formalism, and Lyric Theory	aosborn@udallas.edu Braniff 314 972-721-4087
Debra Romanick Baldwin, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Chair, English Department, English Department	Joseph Conrad, the psychology of extreme conditions as depicted in modern literature, the artist as critic in the 20th century.	dbaldwin@udallas.edu Braniff 364 972-721-4051
Gregory Roper (Greg), Ph.D. Associate Professor and Dean of Students, English Department	Middle English literature	roper@udallas.edu Haggar University Center, 2nd floor 972-265-5747
Steven Stryer, D. Phil. Associate Professor, English, English Department	The intersections among political ideology, historical thought, and literary style in the eighteenth century	stryer@udallas.edu Braniff 316 972-721-4080
Bernadette Waterman Ward, Ph.D. Professor, English; Undergraduate Director of English, English Department	Gerard Manley Hopkins, Cardinal John Henry Newman, Epistemology, Christian Theology	bward@udallas.edu Braniff 306 972-721-5339
Gerard Wegemer, Ph.D. Professor, English, Director, Center for Thomas More Studies, English Department	Thomas More, Shakespeare, the English Renaissance	wegemer@udallas.edu Braniff 310 972-721-5327

Affiliated Faculty

	Name	Biography
	Bainard Cowan	After graduating from the University of Dallas, Bainard Cowan studied at the University of Dallas, Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, and Yale University (Ph.D. comparative literature) before teaching English for over thirty years at Louisiana State University, where he was co-founder of the Comparative Literature Doctoral Program and co-developer of a classic-core curriculum in the Honors College. His NEH-funded summer institutes, Poetics of the Americas, tied the classics to modern literature and taught 100 Louisiana college teachers in the 1990s. He returned to the University of Dallas in 2009 to serve as Louise Cowan Chair Professor of Literature and found the Donald and Louise Cowan Archive. He has given over 50 invited lectures on literature at colleges and institutes across the country. The author of Exiled Waters: “Moby-Dick” and the Crisis of Allegory, he has also edited five books and published numerous articles on U. S. and Latin American literature, literary theory, Sophocles, Vergil, Dante, Goethe, and the classics of India and China. His animating vision has been the great forms of the poetic imagination, whose deep unity in the human soul he first encountered in UD’s Literary Tradition sequence. This priceless realization he now seeks to bring to as many people as possible.
	Matthew Spring	Matthew Spring received his Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Dallas in 2015 with a dissertation on Robert Frost. He received his M.A. in English from Saint Cloud State University and his B.A. in English and Spanish from Saint John Fisher College. His research interests include lyric poetry and the arts of the trivium.
	Shannon Valenzuela	Shannon (S.K.) Valenzuela graduated in 2000 with a B.A. in English and Classics. She married Frank Valenzuela (‘00, Politics) and then went on to study medieval literature at the University of Notre Dame. She received her PhD in 2007 and has recently returned to UD as an Adjunct Professor of English.
	Michael West	Michael West holds a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University, an M.A. from the University of Houston, and a B.A. from the University of Dallas. His research focuses on Renaissance literature, especially the theater of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He has previously taught courses in literature, writing, and Catholic Studies at the University of Houston, Columbia University, and Sacred Heart University.