Classroom discourse
Conversation Analysis
Critical language testing and assessment

Cultural-historical psychology
Development of second language teacher cognition
Second Language Acquisition
Second language pedagogy and practice
Second language teacher education
Sociocultural perspectives on L2 teacher professional development
Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory
Theory and practice of second language teacher education
Language teaching methods

Gregory Brennen is Teaching Assistant Professor of English and Associate Director of First-Year Composition at Oklahoma State University. Prior to joining OSU in 2024, he taught writing and literature at the University of Tampa, Georgia Tech, Duke, Elon, and the Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America. He holds a PhD in English from Duke University, along with a Certificate in College Teaching from the Duke Graduate School and a Certificate in Writing in the Disciplines from the Thompson Writing Program. His professional interests include British literature from the nineteenth century to the present, serial media, the British empire, multimodal composition, and writing program administration. Recent conference presentations include the International Society for the Study of Narrative and the North American Victorian Studies Association. His work appears in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, The Fortnightly Review, and Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom.  

Kathleen Burns is Assistant Professor of American Studies in the English Department at Oklahoma State University. Before joining OSU in 2024, she was the Hixon-Riggs Postdoctoral Fellow in Science and Technology Studies at Harvey Mudd College. She holds a PhD in English from Duke University, along with a certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. Her professional and research interests include transatlantic literature from the nineteenth century to present, the environmental humanities, American studies, plant studies, science and technology studies, and public humanities. Recent conference presentations include the American Studies Association and Petrocultures. Her current book project, tentatively titled Vegetal Forms, shows how scientific narratives of plant life shape the racialized and gendered hierarchies undergirding the concept of the human. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, Duke University, Harvey Mudd College, and the American Philosophical Society. 

+ The genre-based framework for teaching and learning research and professional writing

+ Writing for research and publication purposes

+ Qualitative research Design

Creative nonfiction, lyric essay, flash nonfiction, hybridity, speculative nonfiction, creative nonfiction ethics, nature writing, spiritual writing, Appalachian literature.

Stephanie Choi’s poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Electric Literature, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. Her debut collection, The Lengest Neoi, was selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the 2023 Iowa Poetry Prize and published in 2024. The Lengest Neoi embraces and complicates what it means to err—to wander or go astray; a deviation from a code of behavior or truth; a mistake, flaw, or defect. Beginning with the collection’s title, which combines a colloquial Cantonese phrase (Leng Neoi / “Pretty Girl”) and the English suffix for the superlative degree (—est), the poems in the collection wander, deviate, and flow across bodies, geographies, and languages. 

The collection was featured and reviewed by LitHub, Electric Literature, The Adroit Journal, and Verse Curious. Stephanie was featured as one of Poets and Writers Magazine Debut Poets of 2024. 

Stephanie's current book project, Wherever Shore, uses documentary poetic approaches to write into and around various Chinese American histories and voices—including the Chinese men aboard the Titanic, Polly Bemis, and the poet's own grandfather.

Poems from the collection have been published in West Branch, The Missouri Review, and The Cincinnati Review — select poems here:

"Maiden Voyage" and other poems

"Epistolary Echo"

"Dear Polly,"

Her research interests include contemporay poetics, Asian American literature, experimental poetics, and documentary poetics. 

Ty Hawkins is Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is a scholar of American literature and culture who focuses mainly on narratives of the 20th and 21st centuries. His research interrogates relationships between literary forms and their logics, and questions of gender, justice, national identity, and violence. He is the author of three monographs: Reading Vietnam Amid the War on Terror (2012), Cormac McCarthy's Philosophy (2017), and Just War Theory and Literary Studies: An Invitation to Dialogue (2021, co-authored with Andrew Kim).

Hawkins's current book project, The New Southern Noir: Surprising Alternatives to Revanchism and Ressentiment, turns his attention to Southern Studies and crime fictions. This project centers readings of canonical crime writers--Raymond Chandler, James Dickey, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Portis, and Robert Stone among them--alongside readings of contemporary writers such as John Brandon, Gillian Flynn, Donald Ray Pollock, Jesmyn Ward, and Daniel Woodrell.  A selection from the study revised into a stand-alone, peer-reviewed article appeared in a 2023 issue of LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory as "Vietnam Vet Noir: Quarry, Dog Soldiers, and the Anti-Ethical Appeal of a Contemporary Subgenre." A second selection from the study, also revised into a stand-alone, peer-reviewed article, appeared in a 2024 issue of The Cormac McCarthy Journal as "Cormac McCarthy's 'Truth that Would Silence Poetry a Thousand Years': The Atomic Bomb and the Fate of the West in The Passenger and Stella Maris."   

Dr. Lisa Hollenbach is an Associate Professor of English at Oklahoma State University. She studies and teaches courses in 20th-21st-century American literature, with a particular research focus on post-1945 American poetry, media, and culture. She is the author of Poetry FM: American Poetry and Radio Counterculture (University of Iowa Press, 2023).

I probably don't have to point this out due to the short list of my "research interests," but think of me as a feminist poet, a lesbian, and a true believer in the importance of poetry to the world and to everyone who participates in it in any way.  Most people make the mistake of avoiding it, but I am very good at helping them move closer.

Poetry
Gender and Women's Studies
Contemporary literature

Sara S. Loss is a Teaching Associate Professor of Linguistics in the English Department and Director of the Language Studies Lab. Her research focuses on language variation and change, with a focus on how various pronouns are used in English. She has mentored student work that explores Oklahoma English. 

Dr. Reanae McNeal is an Assistant Professor in Africana Studies and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies. Her research involves decolonial and holistic approaches to accentuating the lived experiences and healing activism of Afro-Indigenous, African American, and Indigenous women, and Black enslaved/freedwomen as well as U.S. Women of Color(s). Thus, her research also focuses on the interrelated histories of African Americans and Native Americans, Womanism/Womanist Spiritual Activism, Digital Ethnic Studies/Digital Humanities, and Health/Healing justice. McNeal promotes social-healing change, advances cross-cultural understanding, cultivates restorative and transformative justice, and fosters the healing of deep wounds through radical love and transformation. McNeal's research-based creative work and scholarly endeavors address such topics as diverse (her)stories, resiliency, faith, spirituality, healing, and mental wellness. Her scholarly-creative work also addresses colonial, historical, and gendered racial traumas as well as advocating for communities of care. McNeal is currently completing her book on the (her)stories of Afro-Indigenous Women's Survivance that also underscores the activist endeavors of Black and Native women. She is the recipient of the NCTE Early Career Educator of Color award and selected as one of OSU's Center for the Humanities Research Group Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year. Her work has also been supported by the prestigious Catherine Prelinger Award from the Coordinating Council for Women in History.

Research Interests:

Afro-Indigenous Studies
Afro-Indigenous Women's Survivance and Activism

Interrelated Histories of African Americans and Native Americans
Africana/African American Studies
Womanist Studies

Black Women's Studies
U.S. Women of Color(s) Activism
Enslaved Women/Freedwomen
Black and Indigenous Digital Studies
BlPOC Women's Activism
Women's Leadership and Wellness
Colonial, Historical, Gendered Racial, Generational, and Individual Traumas
Empowerment and Resiliency
Reparative, Restorative and Transformative Justice
Health Justice, Healing Justice, and Wellness
Communities of Care
Transformative Pedagogies

Jeff Menne is Head of the Department of English and Professor of Screen Studies. His research is focused on the history of American cinema, specifically in the postwar era--roughly the 1950s through the 1970s--and his current book project, The Avant-Garde University, considers the role that the university has had in developing media practices (from film and video to computer graphics). He has published two books, Francis Ford Coppola (University of Illinois Press, 2014) and Post-Fordist Cinema: Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture (Columbia University Press, 2019), co-edited an essay collection, Film and the American Presidency (Routledge, 2015), and published articles in such journals as Representations, Post45, and Cinema Journal. He was formerly Associate Editor of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.  

Timothy S. Murphy was appointed the inaugural Houston-Truax-Wentz Professor of English in 2013, and named an Oklahoma State University Regents Professor in 2016. Educated at Cornell University, UCLA, and the College International de Philosophie in Paris, he taught at the University of Oklahoma for 15 years before coming to Oklahoma State. The author of three books--Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs (1998), Antonio Negri: Modernity and the Multitude (2012), and William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird: Possibilities of the Dark (2023)--and over 30 journal articles and book chapters, he specializes in modern and contemporary US and world literature, especially experimental fiction and the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and weird fiction. He has co-edited two essay collections on Antonio Negri, edited or co-edited seven special journal issues on a wide range of topics, and translated or co-translated five books and many essays from French and Italian. From 2000 to 2013 he served as General Editor of the scholarly journal Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture and was one of the founding editors of the scholarly journal Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. He also teaches and researches in the fields of literary theory, political theory, Continental philosophy, science studies, and interdisciplinary methods.

Areas of Interest & Expertise

• Medieval Literature and Culture

• Lyric poetry

• Early Drama

• Nature of Women Debate

• Game of Love

• Codicology/ Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts
• Age of Chaucer

Selected Publications
"Outcast Lyrics: Medieval Reading vs Modern Editing Practices." in Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture: Essays on Language, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn. De Gruyter. 2021.

“A Series of Unfortunate Events: Collation Errors in Hoccleve’s Letter of Cupid.” Notes & Queries. June, 2020.

“The Findern Manuscript (CUL Ff.1.6).” Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press. Feb, 2018.

“Buried in an Hert: French Poetics and the Ends of Genre in Chaucer’s ‘The Complaint Unto Pity.’” The Chaucer Review 51, no. 2, 2016.