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, the founding director of Revisionary Arts, and a narrative medicine specialist committed to improving public health 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.

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