UNI Department of English Language & Literature Faculty

Kenneth E. Baughman  Assistant Professor of English, 1972

Ph.D., M.A., University of Chicago; B.A., Lawrence University.  
Areas of Specialty:  Early English literature, history of literary criticism.  
E-mail:   Kenneth.Baughman@uni.edu

Jeffrey S. Copeland  Professor of English, 1981 (1995)

Head of the Department of English Language and Literature, 1997.
Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia; M.A., Arkansas State University; B.S., University of Missouri-Columbia.  
Areas of Specialty:  English education, children's literature.  
E-mail:   Jeffrey.Copeland@uni.edu

James S. Davis  Assistant Professor of English, 2003

Director, Iowa Writing Project, 2003.
Ph.D., M.A., University of Missouri; B.S., Southwest Missouri State University.  
Areas of Specialty:  English education, teaching writing, K-12 school reform.  
E-mail:   James.Davis@uni.edu

Stephen J. Gaies  Professor of English, 1978 (1986)

Ph.D., M.A., Indiana University; B.A., Hamilton College.  
Areas of Specialty:  TESOL and applied linguistics.  
E-mail:   Stephen.Gaies@uni.edu

Samuel Lyndon Gladden  Associate Professor of English, 2000 (2004)

Ph.D., M.A., Texas A&M University; B.A., University of Texas.  
Areas of Specialty:  Nineteenth-Century British literature and culture, literary theory, and gender studies.  
E-mail:   Samuel.Gladden@uni.edu

Vince Gotera   Professor of English, 1995 (2005)

Editor, North American Review, 2000.  
Ph.D., M.F.A., Indiana University; M.A., San Francisco State University; B.A., Stanford University; A.A. City College of San Francisco.  
Areas of Specialty:  Creative writing, poetics, contemporary poetry, multicultural literature (especially Asian American), American literature, Vietnam War studies.  
E-mail:   Vince.Gotera@uni.edu     For North American Review business: nar@uni.edu

David Grant Assistant Professor of English, 2007

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A., Northern Arizona University; B.A. Winona State University. 
Areas of Specialty:  Rhetoric and composition, Native American studies. 
E-mail:   David.Grant@uni.edu

Tammy Gregersen  Assistant Professor of English, 2003

Ph.D., Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso (Chile); M.A., Universidad Los Condes (Chile); B.A., Bethel College (Minnesota).  
Areas of Specialty:  Individual differences in language acquisition, TESOL methodology.  
E-mail:   Tammy.Gregersen@uni.edu

Wendy Hoofnagle  Assistant Professor of English, 2008

Ph.D., University of Connecticut; M.A., Binghamton University; B.A., SUNY-Potsdam.  
Areas of Specialty:  Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Saxon, Old French, and Old Norse literatures; women in the medieval world; postcolonial theory; cultural history.  
E-mail:   Wendy.Hoofhagle@uni.edu

Julie Husband  Associate Professor of English, 2000 (2007)

Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo; M.A., University of Chicago; B.A., Bucknell University.  
Areas of Specialty:  American literature, African American literature.  
E-mail:   Julie.Husband@uni.edu

Michael D. Janopoulos  Associate Professor of English, 1989 (1995)

Ph.D., Ohio State University; M.A., University of Northern Iowa; M.A., B.S., Northwestern University.  
Areas of Specialty:  TESOL, foreign language education, composition.  
E-mail:   Michael.Janopoulos@uni.edu

Jerome F. Klinkowitz  Professor of English, 1972 (1976)

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin; M.A., B.A., Marquette University.  
Areas of Specialty:  Contemporary narrative and literature.  
No E-mail address.  Call (319) 273-2821 to leave a message for Dr. Klinkowitz.

Adrienne P. Lamberti  Assistant Professor of English, 2005

Coordinator, UNI Professional Writing Program, 2005.
Coordinator, Departmental Cooperative Education Program, 2006.
Ph.D., Iowa State University, M.A., Iowa State University, B.A., Simpson College.  
Areas of Specialty:  Rhetoric, professional communication, organizational culture, technology-mediated communication, discourse communities.  
E-mail:   Adrienne.Lamberti@uni.edu

Catherine A. F. MacGillivray  Associate Professor of English, 1996 (1999)

Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley; M.A., University de Paris VIII; A.B., Barnard College.  
Areas of Specialty:  Feminist theory, women's literature, translation theory, comparative literature, critical theory.  
E-mail:   Catherine.MacGillivray@uni.edu

Ardith J. Meier  Professor of English, 1992 (2005)

Ph.D., University of Vienna, Austria; M.A., University of Iowa; B.A., Wartburg College.  
Areas of Specialty: Sociopragmatics, intercultural communication, language teacher education, sociolinguistics.  
E-mail:   AJ.Meier@uni.edu

Joyce B. Milambiling  Associate Professor of English, 1997 (2003)

Ph.D., City University of New York; M.A., University of California at Berkeley; B.L.S., Boston University.
Areas of Specialty:  Bilingualism, educational linguistics, English as a Global Language.  
E-mail:   Joyce.Milambiling@uni.edu

Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure  Professor of English, 1995 (2000)

Ph.D., M.A., State University of New York-Buffalo; M.A., B.A.,National University of Rwanda.  
Areas of Specialty:  19th-century American literature, African American literature and literary theory, African literature, multicultural literature, postcolonial theory and literatures, African diaspora literatures.  
E-mail:   Pierre.Mvuyekure@uni.edu

Anne G. Myles  Associate Professor of English, 1999 (2005)

Ph.D., M.A., University of Chicago; A.B., Bryn Mawr College.  
Areas of Specialty:  Early American literature and culture, American women writers, poetry, gender studies.  
E-mail:   Anne.Myles@uni.edu

Jim O'Loughlin  Assistant Professor of English, 2003

Ph.D., State University of New York-Buffalo; M.A., Boston College; B.A., Trinity College.  
Areas of Specialty:  Post-1865 American literature, creative writing, professional writing.
E-mail:   Jim.OLoughlin@uni.edu

Jeremy Schraffenberger   Assistant Professor of English, 2008

Ph.D., Binghamton University; M.A., B.A., University of Louisville.  
Areas of Specialty:  Creative writing, American literature, literature and the environment. 
E-mail:   Jeremy.Schraffenberger@uni.edu

Jesse G. Swan   Professor of English, 1998 (2002)

Ph.D., M.A., Arizona State University; B.A., University of Texas-San Antonio.  
Areas of Specialty:  Renaissance/early modern English literature and culture including women writers, bibliography and textual studies, critical race studies.  
E-mail:   Jesse.Swan@uni.edu

John W. Swope  Associate Professor of English, 1988 (1994)

Ed.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; M.S., Radford College; B.A., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.  
Areas of Specialty:  English education, composition, pedagogy.  
E-mail:   John.Swope@uni.edu

Grant Tracey  Associate Professor of English, 1996 (2002)

Editor, North American Review, 2000.  
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; M.A., Kansas State University; B.A., Trent University, Ontario.  
Areas of Specialty:  Film studies, creative writing, popular culture.  
E-mail:   Grant.Tracey@uni.edu     For North American Review business: nar@uni.edu

Karen Tracey  Associate Professor of English, 1994 (2000)

Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; M.A., B.A., Kansas State University.  
Areas of Specialty:  19th-century American literature, professional writing, composition.  
E-mail:   Karen.Tracey@uni.edu