English Literature and Creative Writing Faculty

English Literature Faculty

Robert Casillo, Ph.D.

Professor

(305) 284-5592
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Author, The Genealogy of Demons: Anti-Semitism, Fascism, and the Myths of Ezra Pound (1988), The Empire of Stereotypes: Germaine de Stael and the Idea of Italy (2006); Gangster Priest: The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese (2006).
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Donette Francis

Donette Francis

Assoc. Professor
Director for the Center for Global Black Studies

(305) 284-5608
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Donette Francis is director for the Center for Global Black Studies and past director the American Studies Program at the University of Miami. An Associate Professor of English and founding member of the Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Collective, her research and writing investigate place, aesthetics and cultural politics in the African...
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John R. Funchion

John R. Funchion

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-5607
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Personal Web Page John Funchion teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in early American and nineteenth-century U.S. literature. His second book, Insurgent Fictions: Partisan Sovereignty and Nineteenth-Century U.S. War Culture, is nearing completion.  His first book is Novel Nostalgias: The Aesthetics of Antagonism in...
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Tassie K Gwilliam

Tassie K Gwilliam

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-4468
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Author: Samuel Richardson’s Fictions of Gender (Stanford 1993); articles in Novel, Journal of the History of Sexuality, ELH, Representations, and Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century. Dr. Gwilliam’s teaching focuses on the encounters between popular culture and...
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Pamela S Hammons

Pamela S Hammons

Professor

(305) 284-5612
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Dr. Hammons specializes in early modern English and medieval literature, manuscript culture, poetry, women’s writing, and theories of gender and sexuality. She is the author of Gender, Sexuality, and Material Objects in English Renaissance Verse (Ashgate 2010), Poetic Resistance: English Women Writers and the...
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Kelly Baker Josephs

Kelly Baker Josephs

Professor
Director, Africana Studies Program
Director of Graduate Studies

(305) 284-2183
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Kelly Baker Josephs specializes in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Digital Humanities. She is author of Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Lit­erature(University of Virginia Press, 2013), co-editor of The Digital Black Atlantic (University of...
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Catherine Anne Judd

Catherine Anne Judd

Professor

(305) 284-2182
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As a Professor at the University of Miami, Dr. Judd teaches film history and nineteenth-century British, Irish, and American cultural history. Her research focuses on topics pertaining to these same subjects. She is the author of several books including Cheyenne Warriors, New Fort Kearny & the Coming Plains Wars,...
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Brenna M Munro

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-5574
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Brenna Munro specializes in queer and postcolonial studies, Anglophone African literature, and queer global writing and cinema. Her first book, South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2013, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist in LGBT...
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Joel T Nickels

Joel T Nickels

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-5614
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Joel Nickels focuses on world literature and American and British Literature since 1900. He is the author of The Poetry of the Possible: Spontaneity, Modernism and the Multitude (University of Minnesota Press, July 2012) and World Literature and the Geographies of Resistance (Cambridge University Press, August 2018).
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Noa Ania Nikolsky

Noa Ania Nikolsky

Asst. Professor

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Elizabeth Oldman

Elizabeth Oldman

Senior Lecturer

(305) 284-5366
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Elizabeth Oldman is a graduate of Barnard College (B.A., English), Yale University (M.A., English), and New York University (Ph.D., English), and has studied at Leiden University and The Hague. Her research interests include Renaissance literature, the history of law and political thought, the literature and philosophy of war, gender studies,...
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John Paul Russo

John Paul Russo

Professor
Chair of Classics Department

(786) 200-0803
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Meghna Sapui

Meghna Sapui

Asst. Professor

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Meghna Sapui is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Miami. She works on the literature and culture of the British empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a focus on South Asia where this empire enfolded local understandings of caste, religion, and environment to formulate new forms of literary and...
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Patricia J. Saunders

Patricia J. Saunders

Professor
Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Faculty Lead - UMIA

(305) 284-3829
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Prof. Saunders is an associate professor of English at the University of Miami and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Faculty Lead at the Miami Insitutite for the Advanced Study of the Americas. Her research and scholarship focus largely on the relationship between sexual identity and national identity in Caribbean literature and popular culture. Her...
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Peter Schmitt

Peter Schmitt

Senior Lecturer

(305) 284-2175
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Peter Schmitt is the author of four full-length collections of poems: Goodbye, Apostrophe (Regal House); Renewing the Vows (David Robert Books); Hazard Duty, and Country Airport (Copper Beech Press).  He has also published two chapbooks: Incident in an Apartment Complex: A Suite of Voices, and To Disappear, both from Pudding...
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Frank H. Stringfellow

Frank H. Stringfellow, Jr.

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-4073
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Timothy P Watson

Timothy P Watson

Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

(305) 284-3818
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Tim Watson teaches first-year writing about literature and the environment, as well as 19th- to 21st-century literatures in English. He is currently writing Mango: A Florida Cultural History, a trade book about mango trees and the people who grew them in the early twentieth century, under contract with the University Press of Florida. He is the...
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Creative Writing Faculty

Chantel Acevedo

Chantel Acevedo

Professor
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

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Called "a master storyteller" by Kirkus Reviews, Chantel Acevedo is the author of the novels  Love and Ghost Letters,  A Falling Star, The Distant Marvels, which was a finalist for the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and , The Living Infinite, hailed by...
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Jaswinder Bolina

Jaswinder Bolina

Professor
Chair of English Department
Chair of Creative Writing Department

(305) 284-2113
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Personal Site Jaswinder Bolina’s English as a Second Language and Other Poems is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in October 2023.  His debut collection of essays Of Color (2020) is available now from McSweeney’s.  His previous books include The 44th...
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Patricia A Engel

Patricia A Engel

Professor

(305) 284-2182 x2182
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Patricia Engel is the author of five works of fiction. Her most recent book, a short story collection titled The Faraway World, was published in January 2023 and named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Washington Post Notable Book, and a Boston Globe Best Book of the...
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M. Evelina Galang

M. Evelina Galang

Professor

(305) 284-5573
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M. Evelina Galang is the author of the story collection Her Wild American Self (Coffee House Press, 1996), novels One Tribe (New Issues Press, 2006) and Angel De La Luna and the Fifth Glorious Mystery (Coffee House Press, 2013), the nonfiction work Lolas’ House: Filipino Women Living With War (Curbstone Books, 2017), and the editor of...
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Amina Gautier

Amina Gautier, Ph.D.

Professor

(305) 284-2561
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Amina Gautier is the 2021-2024 University of Miami Gabelli Senior Scholar, the 2021 Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation Special Fellow at Fondazione Bogliasco (Italy), a 2022-2023 Mellon Foundation/Flamboyán Foundation Letras Boricuas Fellow, the 2023-2024 AMUW Chair in Humanistic Studies at Marquette University, and the...
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Mia Angela Leonin

Mia Angela Leonin

Senior Lecturer

(305) 284-2114
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Mia Leonin is the author of four poetry collections: Fable of the Pack-Saddle Child (BkMk Press), Braid, Unraveling the Bed, and Chance Born (Anhinga Press), and a memoir, Havana and Other Missing Fathers (University of Arizona Press). Leonin has published poetry and creative nonfiction in New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Guernica, Indiana Review,...
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Kei Miller

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Kei Miller is the author of 11 books that range across genres – fiction, nonfiction and poetry. He is interested both in that movement between genres and between creative writing and literary scholarship.  In 2014 he won the Forward Prize for Poetry for The Cartographer Tries to Map A Way To Zion. His Novel Augustown won the...
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Kimberly Reyes

Kimberly Reyes

Asst. Professor

(305) 284-2113
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Kimberly Reyes is a poet, essayist, pop culture critic, and visual culture scholar. She is the author of the critically acclaimed/award-winning books Bloodletting (Omnidawn, 2025), vanishing point. (Omnidawn, 2023), Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn, 2019), Warning Coloration (dancing girl press, 2018), and the essay collection Life During...
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