People
Department of English
233 Decio Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
Phone (574) 631-7226
english@nd.edu
Administration
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Director of Undergraduate Studies
Laura Betz specializes in Romantic and eighteenth-century British literature, with additional interests in poetry and poetics and textual studies. She has published articles on Romantic poetry in Studies in Romanticism and European Romantic Review. Her teaching includes a range of courses in British literature from the Restoration to the present, the gateway course for the English major, and more general courses in poetry. Recent courses have included “Introduction to Literary Studies,” “British Literary Traditions II,” “Introduction to Poetry,” “Civilization and Its Discontents in British Literature,” and “The Romantic Century?: British Literature 1750-1850.” Research: Romantic Literature, Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Textual Studies Teaching: Romanticism, Long Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Literature, Poetry and Poetics -
Director of Creative Writing
Johannes Göransson has books in many different genre, ranging from lyric poems to impossible theater and criticism. He has also published books by many prominent Swedish, Finland Swedish and Korean poets, including Aase Berg, Ann Jäderlund, Eva Kristina Olsson, Henry Parland and Kim Yideum. He teaches classes in poetry writing, gothic literature and translation theory. American Poetry, Swedish Poetry, Poetry in Translation, Translation Theory, -
Department Chair
2022 Guggenheim Fellow Joyelle McSweeney is the author of nine books spanning poetry, prose, drama, translation, and criticism. Her debut volume The Red Bird (2001) was selected by Allen Grossman to inaugurate the Fence Modern Poets Series; her verse play Dead Youth, or, the Leaks (2012) inaugurated the Leslie Scalapino Prize for Innovative Women Playwrights. McSweeney's poetry collection, Toxicon and Arachne (2020), called a "frightening and brilliant book" by Dan Chiasson in the New Yorker, was featured in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, MS., the Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere and awarded the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her influential essay collection The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults (2014) proposes a decadent ecopoetics and reads modern and contemporary literature in light of ecological phenomenon such as mutation, extinction and decay. McSweeney is a co-translator of the award-winning Yi Sang, Selected Works (2020). With Johannes Göransson, she is a co-founder of the international press Action Books, which has built US readerships for poets from Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe, and elsewhere while advocating for translators and the act of translation itself. In 2022, McSweeney was recognized with the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, honoring exceptional accomplishment in any genre. McSweeney is a Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and has twice been awarded The Rev. Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Creative writing, poetry, poetics, translation, sound, performance, literary form, dramatic form, genre, prophecy, decadence, ecopoetics -
Director of Graduate Studies
Ian Newman works on literature, theater, song, politics, aesthetics, and urban space across the eighteenth and nineteenth century in Britain and Ireland. He is the author of the book "The Romantic Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution". He is also the co-editor, with Oskar Cox Jensen and David Kennerley of "Charles Dibdin & Late Georgian Culture," a collection of essays examining the varied career and legacy of the theater impresario, popular song writer, and author Charles Dibdin. He is the guest editor of a special issue of Studies In Romanticism on "Song and the City" (Winter 2019), and is co-editor with David O'Shaughnessy of "Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London". He is a board member of the Nineteenth-century Song Club. He is the author of an online project tracing the meeting places of the London Corresponding Society, and a founding editor of the Keats Letters Project. His most recent online project is the Francis Place Ballad Project, which examines songs "heard about the streets of London" in the 1780s. He has been a visiting scholar in the music department at King’s College London for the project “Music in London 1800-1851,” and a resident associate at the National Humanities Center. His recent research focuses on the relationship between popular song, theatre song, and ballads, and their transmission and circulation across the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries. 18th- and 19th-century British and Irish Literature, Sociability, Radicalism, Song and Ballads, History of London, Theatre History
Staff
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Paul Cunningham is the Creative Writing Program Manager at the University of Notre Dame, where he also co-manages Action Books, an international poetry and translation press. He also edits literary fashion webzine Seam Allowance. He is the recipient of the 2021 Diann Blakely Poetry Prize and the 2015 Sparks Prize. He is the author of A False Tongue (forthcoming from White Stag Publishing in 2027), Brillo (Lavender Ink, 2025), Sociocide at the 24/7 (DIAGRAM / New Michigan Press, 2025), and two titles from Schism Press: Fall Garment (2022) and The House of the Tree of Sores (2020). He is also one of the collaborators in Katrine Øgaard Jensen's Ancient Algorithms (Sarabande Books, 2025). From the Swedish, he is the translator of Helena Österlund’s Words (OOMPH! Press, 2019). He has also translated two chapbooks by Sara Tuss Efrik: Automanias: Selected Poems (Goodmorning Menagerie, 2016) and The Night’s Belly (Toad Press, 2016). His most recent poetry chapbook is The Inmost (Carrion Bloom Books, 2020). His interests include literary translation in theory and practice, decadent poetics, and ecocritical studies. He is also a board member of co•im•press, NonfictioNOW, and a faculty member of the International Network for the Comparative Humanities (INCH), funded by Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame. Cunningham’s writing has appeared in Poem-a-Day, BOMB Magazine, Amsterdam Review, Denver Quarterly, The Texas Review, The Indianapolis Review, Witness, The Fourth River, Bat City Review, Quarterly West, OmniVerse, Yalobusha Review, DIAGRAM, Spork, LIT: The Journal of The New School, Tarpaulin Sky, The Ekphrastic Review, and many others. His book reviews have appeared in Transmotion: An Online Journal of Indigenous Studies, Harvard Review, Heavy Feather Review, Kenyon Review, Fanzine, DIAGRAM, and others. His writing and translations have appeared in the following anthologies: American Pop Culture Almanac 1776-2026: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Moon Tide Press, 2026); Experimental Writing: A Guidebook and Anthology (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024); A Flame Called Indiana: An Anthology of Contemporary Hoosier Writing (Indiana University Press, 2023); Selections from Gobbet (Schism Press, 2023); Neo-Decadence: 12 Manifestos (Snuggly Books, 2021); and These Poems Are Not What They Seem: An Anthology of Twin Peaks Poetry (APEP Publications, 2020). With artist Sam Shoemaker, he completed Evidence from Lunar Rocks, a 7×7.la collaboration. In 2018, Sarah E. Brook featured one of his poems in “Viewfinding,” a public sculpture formerly located in Manhattan’s Riverside Park. His short film It Is Announced (a collaboration with Valerie Mejer Caso and photographer Barry Shapiro) premiered in the 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Other poem-films have appeared in the MAKE Magazine Lit & Luz Festival, Seattle’s Institute for New Connotative Action (INCA), the Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico City, and the 2021 Prague Microfestival. His short film adaptation of Outgoing Vessel (Udgående Fartøj) premiered in Sophia Kalkau and Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s Ung Som Bly, a 2021 art installation featured at Rønnebæksholm in Næstved, Denmark. -
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