Literature at Sewanee: The University of the South

15 faculty and 29 courses in Literature at Sewanee: The University of the South.

Faculty

• William E. Engel, Nick B. Williams Professor of English h-index 8
  Notable: “:Speaking Pictures: English Emblem Books and Renaissance Culture” (1994) · 80 citations
• John Gatta, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, Emeritus h-index 7
  Notable: “George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation” (2001) · 73 citations
• Matthew Irvin, Professor of English and Department Chair h-index 4
  Notable: “Studying Race or Ethnic and Sex Segregation at the Establishment Level” (2004) · 80 citations
• Jennifer Michael, Professor of English h-index 3
  Tend to focus on late eighteenth-century and Romantic poetry, her current book project, Poetry at the Edge of Silence , is heavily informed by her participation in Environmental Arts and Humanities and particularly her course Poetry, Nature
  Notable: “Ocean meets Ossian: Staffa as Romantic Symbol” (2007) · 23 citations
• Lauryl Tucker, Professor of English h-index 2
  Notable: “Progeny and Parody: Narcissus and Echo in Stevie Smith’s Poems” (2014) · 15 citations
• Alex Bruce, Visiting Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College for Undergraduate Academic Affairs
• Britt Threatt, Assistant Professor of English
  Grant (2019) American Society for Theatre Research Anna Julia Cooper Award in Africana Studies (2017) Rhodes College Cynthia Marshall Award in English Literature (2017) Rhodes College Outstanding Achievement in Performance (2017) Rh
• Derek Ettensohn, Associate Professor of English and Humanities
  Notable: “Dislocating the Language of Modernity in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason” (2024)
• Heidi Siegrist, Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Sewanee Young Writers Conference
• James Ross Macdonald, Professor of English
• John Miller Grammer, Jesse Spaulding Professor of English and Director of the Southern Studies Program
• Kelly Malone, Professor of English
• Maha Jafri, Associate Professor of English
• Stephanie Batkie, Teaching Associate Professor of English, Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program, and Director of the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium
• Virginia Craighill, Teaching Professor of English, Emerita

Courses

• Literature and Composition ENGL 101
• Representative Masterpieces ENGL 200
• Roots of the English Literary Tradition ENGL 203
• Women in Literature ENGL 207
• Studies in Poetry ENGL 210
• Studies in Fiction ENGL 211
• Studies in Literature ENGL 212
• Studies in Drama ENGL 215
• Slavery and Race in the American Literary Imagination ENGL 224
• Studies in Speculative Fiction ENGL 227
• History of the English Language(s) ENGL 251
• Old English Language and Literature ENGL 301
• The Novel in the Global Age ENGL 316
• Chaucer ENGL 352
• Shakespeare Seminar ENGL 356
• Shakespeare I ENGL 357
• The Restoration and Eighteenth Century ENGL 365
• British Romanticism: the Early 19th Century ENGL 370
• The Victorian Novel ENGL 374
• American Literature, Beginnings to 1855 ENGL 377
• Modern American Poetry ENGL 391
• Modern American Fiction ENGL 392
• Literature of the American South ENGL 394
• African-American Literature ENGL 395
• American Environmental Literature ENGL 396
• Contemporary American Fiction ENGL 397
• Literary Criticism ENGL 401
• Independent Study ENGL 444
• Contemporary Latinx Literature ENGL 491

Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.