Faculty
Samantha Botz
Assistant Professor of British Literature
English Department
Gruening Building
Gerri Brightwell
Director of Creative Writing; Professor
English Department
844 Gruening Building
Chris Coffman
English Department Chair; Professor
English Department
854 Gruening Building (Chair) | 858 Gruening Building (Faculty)
Eileen M. Harney
Associate Professor
English Department
814 Gruening Building
Joseph Holt
Assistant Professor
English Department
838 Gruening Building
Sara Eliza Johnson
Associate Professor
English Department
820 Gruening Building
Sarah Stanley
Director of Composition; Associate Professor
English Department
812 Gruening Building
Jericho Williams
Assistant Professor of American Literature
English Department
Gruening Building
New Emeriti Faculty: Rich Carr and Eric Heyne
In Spring 2023, Professors Rich Carr and Eric Heyne retired after sixty-five years
of combined service to the English Department and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Their contributions are numerous. Rich Carr taught literature from all over the globe, from ancient through contemporary times,
and his research focused on Australian literature and culture, as well as writing
from the larger Pacific region. He served as Director of the UAF Writing Center for
more than twenty-five years, and he was Chair of the English Department for ten years.
Eric Heyne taught courses in American literature, critical theory, and literature of the Circumpolar
North. He served as Faculty Senate President, Chair of the English Department, and
Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He published scholarship in Modern Fiction Studies, Narrative, Critique, and elsewhere, and he is author of the poetry collection Fish the Dead Water Hard (Cirque Press, 2021).
Emeriti Faculty
| Name | Specialty and Degree |
|---|---|
| Susan Blalock |
9th and 20th Century British literature, Narrative Theory Ph.D., University of Texas, 1983 |
| Mark Box |
Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Romantic-era British Literature D. Phil., Oxford University, 1985 |
| Rich Carr |
Literature of Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania; Scandinavian Literature; Victorian & Edwardian Literature; European Fiction: Modern & Post-modern Ph.D., University of Minnesota |
| G. Burns Cooper |
Linguistics Ph.D., University of Texas |
| Lillian Corti |
Comparative Literature, African Studies, Psychoanalytic Theory PhD., The Graduate School of The City University of New York, 1984 |
| Joseph Dupras |
Nineteenth-century British Literature, Literary Criticism Ph.D., State University of New York Binghamton, 1975 |
| Eric Heyne |
American literature, critical theory, Alaskan and northern literature Ph.D., Ohio State University |
| Len Kamerling | Dramatic Writing; Filmmaking (Documentary and Ethnographic); former Curator of Film
at the University of Alaska Museum of the North MFA, University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| Janis Lull |
Shakespeare and 17th-Century British Literature Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1983 |
| John Morgan |
Creative Writing, Poetry MFA, University of Iowa, 1967 |
| James Ruppert |
Native American Literature, Alaska Native Oral Narrative
M.A. (English), Purdue University, 1972
Ph.D. (English), U. of New Mexico, 1981
|
| Michael Schuldiner |
Early American Literature, Holocaust Literature M. Phil., Cambridge University, 2000 |
| Peggy Shumaker |
Creative Writing, Poetry MFA, Arizona, 1979 |
| Frank Soos |
Creative Writing, Fiction M.F.A., University of Arkansas, 1981 |
| Russell Stratton |
Medieval Literature and Chaucer Ph.D., The University of Southern Mississippi, 1979 |
| Cynthia Walker |
20th-Century British Literature Ph.D., Purdue University, 1974 |