Maring explores the way that early English poems draw upon oral, literary, and ritual forms of signification for their meaning.

Ríos’s latest collection of poems is Not Go Away Is My Name, along with a novel, A Good Map of All Things. He is Arizona’s inaugural poet laureate and a recent chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Johnson's teaching and research interests range widely, but mainly focus on the literatures and cultures of early modern Spain, Germany, England, and the Americas.

Leveton is a theorist of post-art history and critical sustainability whose work has received support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Myers Foundations and the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.