For more information on individual faculty members, select the faculty
member's name. Office hours for each faculty member can be found in
the Instructor Directory.
| Name |
Degree |
Area(s) of Specialization |
|
Richard Beards
|
Ph.D., University of Washington |
Victorian, D.H. Lawrence |
|
Sheldon Brivic
|
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley |
Modern British, Psychoanalytic Criticism |
| Steven Cole |
Ph.D., University of Washington |
Romanticism |
Samuel Delany
Director, Creative Writing
|
|
Creative Writing Fiction |
|
Jayne Kribbs Drake
|
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University |
Colonial American Literature, 19th-Century American Literature |
|
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
|
Ph.D., Columbia University |
Women's Literature, Modern Poetry |
|
Talissa Ford
|
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley |
Romanticism, cultural geography, the revolutionary Atlantic, young adult literature |
|
Suzanne Gauch
|
Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo |
Postcolonial Literature and Theory, World Literature in English & Translation |
|
Oliver Gaycken
|
Ph.D., University of Chicago |
Film, Popular Science, Experimental Cinema |
|
Eli Goldblatt
|
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Composition/Rhetoric, Poetry |
|
Katherine Henry
|
Ph.D., Rutgers University |
Nineteenth-Century American Literature |
| Lynda Hill |
Ph.D., New York University |
African-American Literature, Cultural Studies |
| Ralph Jenkins |
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin |
18th-Century English, Native American |
|
Priya Joshi
|
Ph.D., Columbia University |
Imperialism and its legacies, Narrative and Postcolonial theory, History of the Book, the Modern Novel, Bollywood film |
|
Joyce A. Joyce
|
Ph.D., University of Georgia |
African-American literary criticism, African-American poetry and fiction, feminist theory, and Black lesbian writers |
|
Michael Kaufmann
|
Ph.D., Columbia University |
17th, 18th, & 19th-Century American Literature |
|
Don Lee
|
M.F.A., Emerson College |
Creative Writing Fiction |
|
Sue-Im Lee
|
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago |
Post-1945 American Literature, Asian American Literature, Theories of Realism and Narrative |
|
Peter Logan
|
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley |
19th-Century British Literature, Critical Theory, and History of the Novel |
|
Joan Mellen
|
Ph.D., City University of New York |
Film (esp. Japanese), Creative Writing |
|
Nichole Miller
|
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine |
Shakespeare; Tudor and Stuart literature; political philosophy; critical theory; gender studies |
Shannon Miller
Department Chair
|
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara |
Renaissance, Early Modern Women's Writing, Milton |
Steven Newman
Director, Undergraduate Studies
|
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University |
Restoration and 18th-Century Literature, Romanticism |
|
Daniel O’Hara
|
Ph.D., Temple University |
Literary Theory, American Literature, Victorian Literature |
|
Miles Orvell
|
Ph.D., Harvard University |
American Studies, Technology and Art |
|
Jena Osman
|
Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo |
Creative Writing Poetry, 20th-Century American Poetry, Drama |
|
Paula Robison
|
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania |
Modern Fiction, World Literature |
|
James Salazar
|
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley |
Nineteenth-Century American Literature |
|
Muffy Siegel
|
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts |
Linguistics |
Alan Singer
Director, Graduate Studies
|
Ph.D., University of Washington |
Literary Theory, Narrative, Aesthetics, Theory of the Novel, Creative Writing Fiction |
|
Robert Storey
|
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles |
19th and 20th-Century Literature |
|
Lawrence Venuti
|
Ph.D., Columbia University |
17th-Century Literature, Theory of Translation |
Susan Wells
Director, First Year Writing Program
|
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin |
Composition/Rhetoric, Critical Theory |
|
Roland Williams
|
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania |
African-American Literature |
|
Philip Yannella
|
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
American Studies, 20th-Century American Literature |
|
Stephen Zelnick
|
Ph.D., University of Illinois |
Victorian Literature, Marxist Criticism |
