Great Plains Fellows: English | Center for Great Plains Studies

Name	Title	Institution	Specialty
Jonis Agee	Professor, English	UNL	Fiction, creative nonfiction, American literature
Blake Allmendinger	Professor, English	UCLA	Literature of the American West
Eric Anderson	Associate Professor, English	George Mason University	Native American Literature, Indigenous studies
Katherine Bahr	Professor Emeritus, English and Humanities	Chadron State	Mari Sandoz, Native Americans, Cuny Table
Stephen Behrendt	George Holmes Distinguished Professor, English	UNL	British Romanticism
Susanne Bloomfield	Professor Emeritus, English	UNK	Western American literature
Gail Bowen	Associate Professor Emeritus, English	Saskatchewan Indian Federated College	Crime writer
Robert Brooke	Professor, English	UNL	Rural education, composition and rhetoric, critical theory
Joy Castro	Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies, Director of Institute for Ethnic Studies	UNL	Memoir, fiction, film, U.S. ethnic literatures, women's literatures, modernism
Paul Christensen	Professor, English	Texas A&M	20th Century American poetry, Southwestern life and literature, creative writing
Margaret Coel	Writer, Guest Lecturer	Boulder, Colo.	The West: the mountains, plains, and vast spaces
Allison Hedge Coke	Distinguished Professor, Creative Writing	University of California, Riverside	Native Americans, poetry, nonfiction, landscape
Nancy Cook	Professor Emeritus, English	University of Montana	Western American studies, literature of place, literature and the environment
Joshua Doležal	Professor, English	Central College	American literature, Willa Cather, sustainability
Kalenda Eaton	Associate Professor, The Clara Luper Department of African & African American Studies	University of Oklahoma	Black American West, African American literature, Women’s Studies, Africana Studies
Thomas Gannon	Associate Professor, English & Ethnic Studies	UNL	Native American literature, ecocriticism
Amy Goodburn	Professor, English; Senior Associate VC Academic Affairs	UNL	Critical and multicultural pedagogies, women's studies
Ralph Grajeda	Assoc. Professor Emeritus, English/Ethnic Studies	UNL	Mexican American literature, ethnic literature
Ramón Guerra	Associate Professor, English; Editor, Great Plains Quarterly	UNO	Chicano/a literature, Latino/a literature, postmodernism
P. Jane Hafen	Professor Emeritus, English	University of Nevada-Las Vegas	Native American Studies, American literature, American West
Evelyn Harris Haller	Professor, English; Chair, Fine Arts/Humanities	Doane College	Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound
Robert Haller	Professor Emeritus, English	UNL	English
Twyla Hansen	Poet	Lincoln, Neb.	Poetry, sustainable agriculture, rural land use
Sharon Harris	Professor Emeritus, English	University of Connecticut	19th Century U.S. literature, women and reform movements, feminist literary theory
Richard Harrison	Professor Emeritus, English	University of Alberta	Canadian and American literature, history of language
Daniel Holtz	Professor Emeritus, English	Peru State College	Nebraska Literature, preparing secondary English teachers
Melissa Homestead	Professor, English	UNL	American literature, history of the book, Cather studies
LeAnne Howe	Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature, Department of English	University of Georgia	American Indian Literature, theater
Jim Hoy	Professor Emeritus, English	Emporia State University	Great Plains folklore, American Indian literature, Australian outback
Matthew Jockers	Senior Research Science Manager	Apple	Irish immigrants, place-based literature, digital humanities
Charles Johanningsmeier	Professor, English	UNO	American regionalist literature, Willa Cather
Francis W. Kaye	Professor Emeritus, English	UNL	Great Plains Studies, Native American studies, Canadian studies
Lisa Knopp	Professor, English	UNO	Creative nonfiction, Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte rivers
Ted Kooser	Presidential Professor Emeritus, English	University of Nebraska	Poetry, essays
Nancy Tystad Koupal	Director; Editor-in-Chief, Pioneer Girl Project	South Dakota Historical Society Press	American literature, South Dakota, Dakota women, children's literature
Thomas Lynch	Professor Emeritus, English	UNL	Cross-cultural ecocriticism, place-conscious literary studies
Susan Naramore Maher	Dean Emeritus, Liberal Arts	University of Minnesota-Duluth	Western American literature, children's literature, creative nonfiction of the Plains and West
Cheyenne Marco	Lecturer, English	University of South Dakota	Creative writing, Great Plains literature
Doris Meredith	Writer, Public Lecturer	Amarillo, Texas	Mystery literature, historical fiction, American West
Ken Mitchell	Professor Emeritus, English	University of Regina, Canada	Plains literature, cowboy poetry
Amelia María de la Luz Montes	Associate Professor, English & Ethnic Studies	UNL	Late Nineteenth and contemporary American literature, Chicana/o literature
Paul A. Olson	Kate Foster Regents Professor Emeritus, English	UNL	Medieval literature, Plains and Plains Indian literature
Charles Peek	Professor Emeritus, English	UNK	Composition, American literature, Black studies
David Peterson	Associate Professor, English	UNO	16th-20th century American literature, gay and lesbian studies
Don Perkins	Lecturer, English	University of Alberta	Canadian drama, Native literatures, and popular culture, Canadian theatre history, trickster stories and literature
Linda Pratt	Professor Emeritus, English	UNL	English literature
John Price	Professor, English	UNO	Great Plains literature, environmental literature
Diane Quantic	Associate Professor Emeritus, English	Wichita State University	Great Plains literature, Dust Bowl, Mari Sandoz
Emily Rau	Assistant Professor, Libraries; Editor, Willa Cather Archive	UNL	American literature, digital humanities, Willa Cather, and the Great Plains
Hilda Raz	Professor Emeritus, English; Past Editor Prairie Schooner	UNL	Poetry, nonfiction, memoir
Lavona Reeves	Professor, English	Eastern Washington University	Linguistics, composition, rhetoric, English as a second language
Guy Reynolds	Professor, English; Chair, Undergraduate Program and Curriculum Committee	UNL	Willa Cather project, American literature
Barbara Rippey	Professor Emeritus, English	College of St. Mary, Omaha	English
Joy S. Ritchie	Professor Emeritus, English	UNL	Rhetoric and composition, women and gender studies
Barbara Robins	Associate Professor, English	UNO	Contemporary Native American literature
Ann Romines	Professor Emeritus, English	George Washington University	Women's writing and culture, feminist theory, 19th Century U.S. writing, American regional writing
Kari Ronning	Research Associate Professor Emeritus, English	UNL	Willa Cather's journalism
Timothy Schaffert	Professor & Director of Creative Writing, English	UNL	Creative writing, fiction writing
Connie Schomburg	Independent scholar	Fremont, Neb.	English, ethnic literature, journalism, African-American literature
Steve Shively	Associate Professor Emeritus, English	Utah State University	Willa Cather, pedagogy of place, religion in nature
Daniel Simon	Assistant Director and Editor in Chief of World Literature Today	University of Oklahoma	World literature, translation studies, comparative literature, poetry
Helen Stauffer	Professor Emeritus, English	UNK	English
Wynne Summers	Associate Professor, English	Southern Utah University	Native American literature and Studies, Ethnic literature, Western American literature
Harry Thompson	Executive Director, Center for Western Studies	Augustana University	New West, poststructuralism/theory, South Dakota, Great Plains authors
Steven Trout	Professor, English	University of Alabama	Literary modernism, war literature, and American cultural studies
Tracy Sanford Tucker	Director of Collections & Curation	The Willa Cather Foundation	Native Americans in Cather novels, Plains literature, prairie programming
Cory Willard	Writing and Learning Strategist, Student Learning Services	Mount Royal University	Ecocriticism, Place Studies, Literature of the West
George Wolf	Associate Professor Emeritus, English, Book Essay Editor GPQ/R	UNL	Melville, American and Canadian literature, Great Plains literature