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's program and communications work evolves Critical/Creative practice at ASU. Their book project, "Sites/Sights of Ecology," attends to image practices in music, poetics and the visual arts.