Gustavus Adolphus College

Florence Amamoto
Associate Professor

I love teaching the sweep of American literature from traditional Native American creation stories to contemporary novels although I am particularly interested in American women writers and ethnic…   (continue reading)

Elizabeth Baer
Professor

From 1987 to 2006, I made many international trips to such places as Cuba, Guatemala, Denmark, Germany, The Czech Republic, Ireland, Mexico, Poland, Hungary, England, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, India…   (continue reading)

Laura Behling
Associate Professor & Chair

Professor Behling teaches a range of courses in American literature, with special interests in the modern and contemporary periods. She also has a particular interest in the intersection of literature…   (continue reading)

Philip Bryant
Associate Professor

I'm interested in poetry and American culture, Mexican music, jazz and blues, regional (midwest Minnesota writers) literature, African-American, Native American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American…   (continue reading)

Deborah Downs-Miers
Associate Professor

Eric Eliason
Academic Dean

I am a student of early British Literature and Language, particularly the fourteenth-century Alliterative Revival and Piers Plowman. Much of my recent scholarship has been devoted to the Piers Plowman…   (continue reading)

Rebecca Fremo
Associate Professor

I teach a variety of courses, including Reading and Writing Essays, Intermediate Composition, Teaching Writing: Theory and Practice, and Secondary English Methods for CA/LT majors. All of my courses…   (continue reading)

Baker Lawley
Assistant Professor

I teach a variety of courses, from FTS to American Literature to creative writing; my main area of interest, in scholarly, teaching, and personal ways, is Fiction Writing. I love to listen to stories…   (continue reading)

Donald Scheese
Professor

As an American Studies professor and scholar, I teach all periods of American literature. I'm especially interested in the relationship between people and place—how a given environment shapes…   (continue reading)

Joyce Sutphen
Associate Professor

I teach a range of courses in British Literature and Creative Writing. Though I began as a Shakespearean and continue to write essays on the sonnets and aspects of memory in Shakespeare's plays and…   (continue reading)