Mary Louise Buley-Meissner (Cross-Cultural Studies, Teacher Education, Experimental Writing, Hmong American Studies, and Asian American Literature)
Alice Gillam (Composition Studies, Classical Rhetoric, Writing Center Studies, and Writing Program Administration)
Charles Schuster (History and Theory of the Essay, Bakhtinian Theory, History of Composition Studies, Rhetoric and Style, Administrative Theory and Practice, and 19th Century British Literature)
As of Fall 2006, the department is in the process of hiring a senior scholar in Rhetoric and Composition.
Sukanya Banerjee (Postcolonial Theory and Literature; Victorian Studies; Transnationalism and Diaspora; Women's Studies; South Asian Literature and Culture)
Dave Clark (Rhetoric of Technology, Research Methods, Technical Writing)
Patricia Mayes (Contrastive Rhetoric, Linguistics)
Jane Gallop (Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Literary Theory, Academic Writing)
Gregory Jay (American Literature, Cultural History, Critical Theory)
Michael Noonan (Linguistics, Language Typology and Universals)
Patrice Petro (Film Theory, Marxism, Feminism)
Kumkum Sangari (Cultural and Literary Studies, Women's Studies, Feminist Theory)
Peter Sands (Computer-Mediated Pedagogy and Writing, Writing Across the Curriculum, Rhetorical/Literary Theory, American Studies, Science Fiction and Utopian Studies)
Rachel Spilka (Professional and Technical Writing, Rhetoric, Qualitative Research, Usability Testing)
