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	Name	Research Areas	Contact
	Sarah Berry, Ph.D. Associate 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 Augustine 108 972-721-5218
	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	Shakespeare, Medieval literature, Dante, and Nineteenth-Century novels, especially Jane Austen	tereska02@gmail.com Braniff 308 972-721-4069
	Robert Maguire, O. Cist. Afilliate 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; Graduate Director of Literature, Institute of Philosophic Studies, 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, English Department	Middle English literature	roper@udallas.edu Braniff Graduate Building #360 972-265-5747
	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. Associate Professor, English; Graduate Director of English Masters program , 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.

Adjunct Faculty

	Name	Biography
	Elizabeth Bloch	Elizabeth Bloch received her Ph.D. in English from the Catholic University of America with a dissertation on English Renaissance pastoral. She received her B.A. in English and Classical Philology from the University of Dallas. Her research interests include Renaissance literature, lyric poetry, and the classical traditions of English literature.
	Kate Stearns	Kate Stearns is a Doctoral candidate in Literature in the Institute for Philosophic Studies at the University of Dallas. She received her B.A. from Liberty University and her M.A. from the University of Dallas. In addition to serving as managing editor for the forthcoming Essential Works of Thomas More, she is focusing her doctoral research on the Nineteenth-Century British novel.
	Leta Sundet	Leta Sundet is a Doctoral candidate in Literature in the Institute for Philosophic Studies at the University of Dallas. She received both her BA in Liberal Arts and her MA in Theology and Letters from New Saint Andrews College, and also received an MA in English Literature from the University of Dallas. Her dissertation research explores narrative surprise in the work of Jane Austen, Isak Dinesen, and Flannery O’Connor.
	Michael Terranova	Michael Terranova holds a doctorate of philosophy in theology from Boston College and a Master of Architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is a doctoral candidate in Literature at the Institute of Philosophic Studies in the Braniff Graduate School of the University of Dallas. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English and a Master of Arts in theology from the University of Dallas and studied literature, philosophy and theology in both Austria and Switzerland. His research in theology includes the relationship of faith and reason, as well as patristic and medieval theology. His current research interests are in prose fiction, especially Henry James and Herman Melville, as well as the way in which art of all forms, especially literature, fine art, architecture and city design reveal the self-understanding of individuals and societies, and embody the aspirations of humans with regard to goodness and beauty.