Archibald's academic interests include creative nonfiction, essay theory, composition theory, early medieval literature, and literary criticism.  Prior to coming to Saint Martin's University, she taught creative and expository writing, literature and literary theory, and several interdisciplinary programs at The Evergreen State College and Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa.

The scholarly interests of Bailey, who chairs the University's English department, include Alfred, Lord Tennyson and 19th century British poetry and fiction. During his doctoral studies at Indiana University, he was review editor for "Victorian Studies," a scholarly journal.

Birkenstein teaches courses on American Literature, the short story and short story sequence, African American Literature, the American West, Food and Literature, Argumentative Writing/Composition, and English as a Second Language. He has published several papers in academic journals and edited collections as well as book reviews, commentaries, essays and even a short story.

Father Kilian chairs the University's religious studies department and he is the founder of the Spiritual Life Institute, a summer program that has played host to renowned theologians, religious scholars, and advocates for social justice for the last twenty-five years. His scholarly interests include the Hebrew Scriptures, transcendentalist writers of mid-19th century America and American Southern writers of short fiction. He has studied at a number of Jesuit universities in this country and in England.

Nathalie Kuroiwa-Lewis enjoys teaching composition, journalism, ESL, and literature. Her research interests include Burkean studies, dramatism, classical and contemporary rhetoric, rhetoric of fiction, rhetoric of the media, journalism, political rhetoric, literary theory and American, British, and world literature. She has taught in Japan, the Czech Republic and the United States.

Before coming to Saint Martin's, Martin taught composition and literature at Purdue University, Iowa State University, the University of Wisconsin and Pacific Lutheran University, where she also directed the writing center. At Saint Martin's, she directs the writing center and advises the University's Letters and Arts Club. Her academic interests include composition, 19th century American poetry and fiction, modern American poetry and fiction and modern American literature, particularly contemporary work by ethnic writers such as Leslie Siko, Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros.

Mead has presented and published several papers on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. His other interests include anthropology and drama, epic, film and poetry.