ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY WILLING TO
MENTOR HONORS THESIS AND
ELON COLLEGE FELLOWS RESEARCH
CRYSTAL ANDERSON
20th Century American Literature
American Studies
Comparative Ethnic Studies (African American, Asian and Asian American, esp.
literature, visual culture and popular culture) Speculative studies (science fiction,
detective fiction and mystery in literature and film) Asian film (esp. Hong Kong film)
Orientalism Modernism Afro-Asian cultural studies
Kevin Boyle
Poetry writing
Irish literature
Contemporary Poetry
Russell Gill
Renaissance through 18th century
Genres
Laughter and Comedy
Interdisciplinary approaches to literature
E. A. Poe
Eric Ashley Hairston
American Literature - Colonial through 1945
Genres (The Romance, the Novel, Epic Poetry)
African-American Literature
Classical Literature
Asian-American Literature
Law and Literature
Southern Literature
American Political Writing
Studies in Global Empires and Imperialism
Authors: Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Wheatley, DuBois, Douglass, Faulkner
Authors of the Harlem Renaissance
Rosemary Haskell
18th Century literature and culture (British and European)
Colonial literature and culture (former British colonies: Caribbean, Indian and
some African countriies)
Topic of imperialism, generally, in literature
Authors: Jane Austen; George Orwell; Daniel Defoe
Novel as a genre
Megan Isaac:
Shakespeare
Renaissance Literature and Drama
Children's Literature
Young Adult Literature
Cassie Kircher
Writing Nonfiction
Literary Nonfiction
The Personal Essay
Studying Nonfiction, specifically Travel Writing, Nature Writing, Environmental
Literature, and Women Writers
-Literature and London
--The Literature of Place
The Relationship between Nonfiction and Fiction
--Poetry and Nonfiction
Prudence Layne
African-American Literature (20th Century)
Caribbean Literature
Postcolonial Literature & Theory
Women’s and Gender Studies
Hybridity
Confinement literature
Kathy Lyday-Lee
Any language topic: dialect study, linguistics, history of the language, grammar,
etc.
Appalachian Literature
Literature of the Holocaust
Jessie Moore
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Second Language Writing (Research, Theory, Pedagogy)
Composition Studies (Research, Theory, Pedagogy, Writing Centers, WAC)
Rhetoric (History and Theory)
Intersections of any of the above
Holocaust Literature
Janet Myers
19th and 20th century British literature
Victorian cultural studies
Colonial and postcolonial literature
Emigration literature
Novel as genre
Women's literature
Feminist theory
Tim Peeples
Rhetoric Theory
Rhetorical History
Connections between Professional Writing and Rhetoric
Visual Rhetoric and Document Design
Ethics and Writing
Collaboration and Publications Management
Teaching Composition
Critical Theory Deconstruction
Critical Theory Postmodernism
Critical Thinking Cultural Studies
Drew Perry
Fiction Writing
Southern Literature
American Novel
American Short Stories
Anti-hero in Literature
Postmodern Fiction
"K-Mart" Realism
Ancient Chinese and Japanese Poetry (in translation)
Landscape and Place in Literature
American Poetics
Cross-genre Writing
Ideas of Craft in Writing
Literary Magazine and Journals
Rebecca Pope-Ruark
Rhetorical aspects of marketing
Marketing communications
Business communication
Publishing and publication design/management (usually as related to marketing)
Writing in workplaces and organizations
Organizational ethnography
Classical rhetoric
Paula Rosinski
Cyberculture studies -- all topics related to culture and technology
Intersections of technology and gender, race, ideology, socio-economics,
sexuality, etc.
Studies of online communications and social spaces, such as blogs, gaming sites,
and 3-D virtual reality spaces
Digital writing and online writing - historical approach
Digital writing and online writing -- cultural studies approach
Digital writing and online writing -- professional writing and rhetoric approach
Multimedia Studies
Science Fiction as Cultural Studies
Composition Studies/Theory/Freshman Writing Programs
Jean Schwind
American literature, especially late 19th - early 20th century fiction
Interdisciplinary studies of American literature and culture
Native American literature
Canadian literature
Michelle Trim
Rhetoric (classical and contemporary) and Composition (theories and practices)
Democratic Education
Agency Studies/ Critical theories of Language, Power, and Ideology
Critical Discourse Analysis (Social Linguistics)
Feminist Theory(ies)
Feminist Rhetoric(s)
Technology Studies (as they relate to human agency, rhetoric, feminism and
pedagogy)
Intersections of the above