Thomas P. Miller

THOMAS P. MILLER worked for 34 years at the University of Arizona before retiring in May 2022. During that time, he won two HSP teaching awards, national awards for my research, and university awards for mentoring and university leadership. He directed the Writing Program and helped found the graduate program in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English. He also served as vice provost for faculty affairs for a decade.

Peter Medine

PETER E. MEDINE is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona, where he served in the English Department from 1969 to 2014. He has written, edited, or coedited seven books in Early Modern English studies. His most recent coedited book is Visionary Milton: Essays in Prophecy and Violence (2010). He is the recipient of several Humanities Seminars Superior Teaching Awards and the College of Humanities Award for Outreach Service.

Meg Lota Brown

MEG LOTA BROWN is Professor of English and Director of the UA Graduate Center. She is the author or editor of four books and has published numerous articles on Reformation politics, Renaissance literature, science, art, gender, theology, and authors from Shakespeare and Donne to Christine de Pizan and Rachel Speght. Dr. Brown has received nearly every major teaching award at the UA, as well as awards for her research, service, and leadership.

Jerry Hogle

JERROLD E. HOGLE (Ph.D., Harvard University) is UA Distinguished Professor in English. Former President of the International Gothic Association and a Guggenheim, Mellon, and Huntington Library Fellow for research–and recent winner of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America–he has published widely on Romantic poetry and theater, literary and cultural theory, and the Gothic. In addition, he is the winner of many teaching awards.

Lynda Zwinger

LYNDA ZWINGER is Professor of English, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Affiliated Faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies, and Editor of Arizona Quarterly at the University of Arizona. She specializes in the novel and late-19th- to early-20th-century American literature. Her most recent book is Telling in Henry James: The Web of Experience and the Forms of Reality.

Laura C. Berry

LAURA C. BERRY is Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona. She is the author of The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel, and numerous articles on Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, and Victorian literature and culture. She received her doctorate from UC Berkeley in 1992.

Charles Scruggs

Charles Scruggs is an emeritus professor of American literature at the University of Arizona. He has written books and articles on African-American Literature and film, and he is presently working on a book on Claude McKay, a Harlem Renaissance novelist and poet. He has also published articles on Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, John Fowles, Raymond Chandler, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and on American film.

Homer Pettey

Tyler Meier

Tyler Meier is the Executive Director of the University of Arizona Poetry Center and an Affiliated Faculty member with the Department of English. His poetry and prose have appeared in Poetry, Boston Review, Indiana Review, Washington Square Review and elsewhere. Prior to his position in Tucson, he was the Managing Editor of the Kenyon Review.

Stephanie Troutman

STEPHANIE TROUTMAN is Assistant Professor of Emerging Literacies in Rhetoric, Composition and the Teaching of English. She is an affiliated faculty member in the Institute for LGBT Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies, and Faculty Coordinator of the award-winning Wildcat Writers outreach program and Director of the Southern Arizona Writing Project, a local site of the National Writing Project. She is an editor for the groundbreaking new series “Queering Teacher Education Across Contexts,” and co-editor of Race & Ethnicity in US Television.

Humanities Seminars Program

Department of English