Faculty
Professor Timothy O'Brien, Department Chair
CDR Mark Larabee, Department Associate Chair
LCDR Chip Crane, Writing Center Director
Associate Professor Mark McWilliams, Honors Advisor
Associate Professor Jason Shaffer, Senior Academic Advisor
Associate Professor Mark McWilliams, VGEP Advisor
The DNS prefix for the Naval Academy is 281-.
| Allen-Emerson, Michelle, Associate Professor | |
| Victorian literature and culture; sanitary reform; nineteenth-century print culture; literature of the British Empire; postcolonial literature | |
| meallen@usna.edu | 3-6229 |
| Arbuthnot, Nancy P., Professor | |
| Modern poetry; modern American literature; creative writing and poetry translation; art and literature | |
| arbuthno@usna.edu | 3-6212 |
| Beckman, John A., Associate Professor | |
| American literature and culture; African-American literature and culture; critical theory; creative writing | |
| beckman@usna.edu | 3-6206 |
| Berman, Neil D., Professor | |
| Contemporary American literature; film; literature of sport | |
| berman@usna.edu | 3-6209 |
| Booth, Allyson A., Professor | |
| Modern British literature; literature of World War I; poetry; popular culture | |
| abooth@usna.edu | 3-6230 |
| Brennan, Bridget, Visiting Assistant Professor | |
| bbrennan@usna.edu | 3-6243 |
| Bushnell, William S., LCDR, USN, Master Instructor | |
| Modern and contemporary American literature; film studies; war literature | |
| bushnell@usna.edu | 3-6232 |
| Chance, Lori, Visiting Assistant Professor | |
| chance@usna.edu | 3-6210 |
| Chapman, Patrick M., LT, USN, Instructor | |
| chapman@usna.edu | 3-6208 |
| Cone, R. Temple, Associate Professor | |
| Ecocriticism and ecological poetry; contemporary Irish poetry and political violence; creative writing (poetry) | |
| cone@usna.edu | 3-6225 |
| Crane, Christopher E., LCDR, USN, Assistant Professor | |
| Rhetoric and Writing; Medieval and Renaissance Literature; Literary theory; Comedy; J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis; Asian American literature | |
| cecrane@usna.edu | 3-6238 |
| Dammeyer, Sarah, Visiting Assistant Professor | |
| sdammeye@usna.edu | 3-6237 |
| Drew, Anne Marie, Professor | |
| Drama; Shakespeare | |
| drew@usna.edu | 3-6216 |
| Fetrow, Fred M., Professor | |
| Robert Hayden; African-American literature | |
| fetrow@usna.edu | 3-6234 |
| Fleming, Bruce E., Professor | |
| Modernism; creative writing; usable philosophy | |
| fleming@usna.edu | 3-6219 |
| Furey, Nancy, Visiting Assistant Professor | |
| furey@usna.edu 3-6218 | |
| Gilliland, C. Herbert, Professor | |
| Renaissance and 17th Century; Naval and sea literature; U.S. Navy African Squadron; science fiction (especially Heinlein) | |
| gillilan@usna.edu
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3-6203 |
| Hill, John M., Professor | |
| Old and Middle English language, literature, and culture; applied anthropology and psychology | |
| jhill@usna.edu | 3-6205 |
| Howland, Mary D., Associate Professor | |
| The Bible as literature; the Koran; the development of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; the interaction of religions | |
| howland@usna.edu | 3-6202 |
| Hussey, John F., LCDR, USNR, Assistant Professor | |
| Ethics of Rhetoric, Argument from Character, Rhetoric and the Human Person | |
| hussey@usna.edu | 3-6228 |
| Johnston, Eileen T., Associate Professor | |
| Nineteenth-century British literature (especially Tennyson, Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot); religion and literature; Ignatian and desert spirituality; contemporary fiction; Philip Larkin | |
| johnston@usna.edu | 3-6204 |
| Larabee, Mark D., CDR, USN, Assistant Professor, Permanent Military Professor | |
| Modern British literature; Joseph Conrad; literature of World War I; literature of the sea; space and place in literature | |
| larabee@usna.edu | 3-6214 |
| Loggins, Vernon P., Visiting Assistant Professor | |
| loggins@usna.edu 3-6224 | |
| Mace, Nancy A., Professor | |
| Henry Fielding; eighteenth-century British novel and theatre; publishing history; eighteenth-century music publishing | |
| mace@usna.edu | 3-6215 |
| McWilliams, Mark B., Associate Professor | |
| American literature and culture; food studies | |
| mcwillia@usna.edu | 3-6227 |
| Miller, Christopher G., LT, USN, Senior Instructor | |
| Technical and Professional Communication, Literature of the American South | |
| cmiller@usna.edu | 3-6231 |
| Moore, Jessica, Visiting Assistant Professor | |
| jmoore@usna.edu 3-6236 | |
| Nelson, Lindsay, Capt, USMC, Instructor | |
| Modern American Literature | |
| lnelson@usna.edu | 3-6213 |
| Nolan, Charles J., Professor | |
| American Literature; Hemingway | |
| nolan@usna.edu | 3-6235 |
| O’Brien, Timothy D., Professor | |
| Middle English literature; Robert Frost; satire | |
| obrien@usna.edu | 3-6201 |
| Parker, Michael P., Professor | |
| Seventeenth-century poetry; Annapolis and Naval Academy history; literature of death and dying | |
| mparker@usna.edu | 3-6211 |
| Petersen, Jeremy M., LT, USN, Instructor | |
| petersen@usna.edu | 3-6233 |
| Schotland, Sara, Visiting Assistant Professor | |
| schotlan@usna.edu 3-6207 | |
| Shaffer, Thomas J., Associate Professor | |
| Theatre history and dramatic literature; pre-1865 American literature; literature of the eighteenth-century Atlantic; dramaturgy; gender theory; performance studies | |
| tshaffer@usna.edu | 3-6220 |
| Shekdar, Wendy, Visiting Assistant Professor | |
| shekdar@usna.edu | 3-2936 |
| Stanlake, Christy L., Associate Professor | |
| Theatrical theories, literature, and history; Native American studies, literature, literary theories, and cultural theories; new play development; text into performance; directing; theatre for social change | |
| stanlake@usna.edu | 3-6217 |
| Vayo, Amber, Visiting Assistant Professor | |
| vayo@usna.edu | 3-6243 |
