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English Language and Literature Faculty Listing
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Professor Michael C. Schoenfeldt, Chair
Professor Teresa Tinkle, Associate Chair
Professor Daniel Hack, Graduate Chair
Associate Professor Joshua Miller, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor Megan Sweeney, Director of the English Department Writing Program
Academics and Requirements
Professors
William F. Alexander (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English Language and Literature), Film, Pedagogy, American Literature
Michael Awkward (Gayl A. Jones Collegiate Chair of Afro-American Literature and Culture) (English/Afroamerican and African Studies), African-American Literature
Sara Blair, American Literature, Modern Literature
Enoch Brater (Kenneth T. Rowe Collegiate Professor of Dramatic Literature), Drama
Gregg Crane, 19th-Century American
Anne Curzan (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), History of English Language, Pedagogy and Composition
Peter Ho Davies, Contemporary British and American fiction
Nicholas F. Delbanco (Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature), Creative Writing
Julie Ellison, 18th + 19th American + British Literature
Lincoln B. Faller, 18th-Century Literature, Fiction
Jonathan Freedman (Marvin Felheim Collegiate Professor of English, American Studies, and Judaic Studies), Cultural Theory, Film, 19th-Century American and British Literature
Anne Gere (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Gertrude Buck Collegiate Professor of Education), Composition, Pedagogy
Laurence A. Goldstein, 19th-Century Literature, Creative Writing
Lorna Goodison (Lemuel A. Johnson Collegiate Professor of English and Afroamerican and African Studies), Creative Writing
Linda Gregerson (Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of English Language and Literature; Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English), Renaissance Literature, 20th-Century American, Early Modern, Creative Writing
Sandra Gunning, African-American Literature, American Literature
David Halperin (W.H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality), Queer Theory, Critical Theory
Clement Hawes, British literature, Gender + Sexuality, Visual Culture, Novel + Narrative
Anne Herrmann, Modern Literature
June Howard (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English, American Culture, and Women's Studies), American Literature
A. Van Jordan, Creative Writing, Poetry
Laura Kasischke (Allan Seager Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature), Creative Writing
Kerry C. Larson, American Literature
Marjorie Levinson (Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of English Language and Literature), Romantic and Victorian British Poetry, Critical Theory
Thylias Moss, Creative Writing
Anita Norich, 19th-Century Literature, Jewish American and Yiddish Literature
Adela Pinch, 19th-Century Literature
Eileen Pollack, Creative Writing
David L. Porter, 18th-Century Literature, Comparative Literature, Computer Technology
Yopie Prins, Victorian Literature
Eric S. Rabkin (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Critical Theory, Modern Literature, Computer Technology
Michael C. Schoenfeldt (John R. Knott, Jr. Collegiate Professor of English Literature), Renaissance Literature
Tobin Siebers (Vernon Louis Parrington Professor of Literary and Cultural Criticism), Critical Theory, 19th-Century Literature
Sidonie Smith (Mary Fair Croushore Professor; Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of Women's Studies and English), Women's Studies, Autobiography
Theresa Tinkle (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Medieval Literature
Valerie Traub (Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor), Renaissance Literature
Alan M. Wald (H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor of English and American Culture), American Literature
Jennifer Wenzel, Post-Colonial Literature
Patsy Yaeger (Henry Simmons Frieze Collegiate Professor), Women's Studies, Critical Theory, American Literature
Andrea Zemgulys, Modernist Literature
Associate Professors
Peter M. Bauland, Drama
Michael Byers, Literary Fiction, the American Short Story
Richard D. Cureton, Language
David Gold
Daniel Hack, 19th-Century British Literature
Lucy Hartley, English/Trans-Atlantic Literature
Petra Kuppers, Drama and Performance Studies, Disability Studies
Julian Levinson (Samuel Shetzer Endowed Professor of Jewish American Studies), 20th-Century America
Tina Lupton, 18th-Century British literature and philosophy, Marxist and critical theory
Scott Richard Lyons (American Culture/English Language and Literature), Native American and global indigenous studies
Khaled Mattawa, Creative Writing, translation, Arab and Arab-American Poetry
Joshua Miller, 20th-Century U.S. Literature
Steven Mullaney, Renaissance Literature
Susan Najita, Asian American and Pacific Literatures
Scottie Parrish, Colonial Literature
Alisse Portnoy, Rhetoric, Composition
Catherine Sanok, Medieval
Xiomara Santamarina, 19th-Century and African American Literature
Megan Sweeney, African American, 20th-Century American, Gender/Sexuality
Ruby Tapia, African-American; American: Twentieth-Century American; Gender And Sexuality; Latino Literature; Theory; Visual Culture
Karla Taylor, Medieval Literature
Thomas E. Toon, Language, Medieval Literature, Composition
Doug Trevor, 16th- and 17th-Century English Literature
John Whittier-Ferguson (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Modern Literature
Assistant Professors
Amy Carroll, Latina/o Studies
Victor Mendoza, Asian American, Gender and Sexuality, Post Colonial
Sean Silver, American: Colonial and Early American, 17th- and 18th-Century British
Gillian White, Modern and Contemporary and British Poetry; Poetics; Critical Theory (Modernism and Postmodernism, Lyric, Avant-Garde, Form)
Melanie Yergeau, Composition + Rhetoric
Lecturers
Anne Axel, Environmental Literature and Writing
Gina Brandolino, Medieval Literature, Early English Literature, Composition
Jeremiah Chamberlin, Fiction, Creative Non Fiction
George Cooper, Sweetland Center for Writing
Aric Knuth, Composition, New England Literature Program
Brenda Marshall, Creative Writing Composition
Dana Nichols, Rhetoric + Composition
Tish O'Dowd, Creative Writing
John Rubadeau, Composition
Christopher Schmidt, Poetics, 20th-Century Literature, Tech + Humanities
Keith G. Taylor, Creative Writing
Cody Walker, Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Creative Writing
Professors Emeriti
George J. Bornstein (C.A. Patrides Collegiate Professor of English), Modern Literature, Editorial Theory
John Russell Brown, Drama, Theatre
William Coles, American Literature
Hubert M. English, Renaissance Literature
Russell Fraser, Renaissance Literature
Bert Hornback, 19th-Century Literature
William H. Ingram, Renaissance Literature
Ejner J. Jensen, Renaissance Literature
John R. Knott, Renaissance Literature
Ira Konigsberg, Fiction, Film, Critical Theory
John Kucich, 19th-Century Literature, Critical Theory
Robert T. Lenaghan, Medieval Literature
Robert E. Lewis, Medieval Literature
Stuart Y. McDougal, Comparative Literature, Modern Literature
James McIntosh, American Literature
Frances K. McSparran, Medieval Literature
Lyall H. Powers, American Literature
Jay L. Robinson, Language, Composition, Medieval Literature
Macklin Smith, Medieval Literature
Richard W. Tillinghast, Creative Writing
Bernard Van't Hul, Pedagogy, Composition
Martha Vicinus (Eliza M. Mosher Distinguished University Professor of English, Women's Studies, and History), 19th-Century Literature
Robert A. Weisbuch (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), American Literature, 19th-Century Literature
Ralph G. Williams (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Renaissance Literature, Critical Theory