Joe Lockard is associate professor of English, specializing in 19th-century American literature, prison literature, and translation economies.

Rosemarie Dombrowski is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, AZ and the founding director of Revisionary Arts, a poetic medicine nonprofit committed to improving health outcomes through poetry.

Holbo studies American literature from the age of sentiment to the modernist era.

Rebecca Soares' research interests include 19th-century British and American literature, spiritualism, artistic and literary states of mind, transatlantic and global literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Olson holds a doctorate in English studies from ASU's Department of English. She has been an instructor in ASU's Writing Programs since 1996, focusing on First-Year Composition.

Bert Bender taught American literature from 1971 to 2003.His major fields are sea fiction and Darwin's profound influence on American fiction.

James Toweill is an instructor in the ASU Writers' Studio.

Brown is a public historian and a scholar of American literature and culture.

Sieglaff has been teaching all her life, but professionally for 20+ years. She has taught everything from basic composition courses, to creative writing, to a plethora of literature courses.