Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty

Richard Beards
PhD, University of Washington
Victorian, D.H. Lawrence

Sheldon Brivic
PhD, University of California at Berkeley
Modern British, Psychoanalytic Criticism

Steven Cole
PhD, University of Washington
Romanticism

Samuel Delany
Director, Creative Writing
Creative Writing Fiction

Jayne Kribbs Drake
PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Colonial American Literature, 19th-Century American Literature

Rachel Blau DuPlessis
PhD, Columbia University
Women's Literature, Modern Poetry

Talissa Ford
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Romanticism, cultural geography, the revolutionary Atlantic, young adult literature

Suzanne Gauch
PhD, SUNY at Buffalo
Postcolonial Literature and Theory, World Literature in English & Translation

Eli Goldblatt
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Composition/Rhetoric, Poetry

Katherine Henry
PhD, Rutgers University
19th-Century American Literature

Lynda Hill
PhD, New York University
African-American Literature, Cultural Studies

Ralph Jenkins
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
18th-Century English, Native American

Priya Joshi
PhD, Columbia University
Imperialism and its legacies, Narrative and Postcolonial Theory, History of the Book, the Modern Novel, Bollywood film

Joyce A. Joyce 
PhD, University of Georgia
African-American literary criticism, African-American poetry and fiction, feminist theory, and Black lesbian writers

Michael Kaufmann 
PhD, Columbia University
17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century American Literature

Don Lee
M.F.A., Emerson College
Creative Writing Fiction

Sue-Im Lee 
PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago
Post-1945 American Literature, Asian-American Literature, Theories of Realism and Narrative

Peter Logan
PhD, University of California at Berkeley
19th-Century British Literature, Critical Theory, and History of the Novel

Joan Mellen
PhD, City University of New York
Film Studies, Japanese Film Studies, Creative Writing

Nichole Miller
PhD, University of California, Irvine
Shakespeare, Tudor And Stuart Literature, Political Philosophy, Critical Theory, Gender Studies

Shannon Miller
Department Chair
PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara
Renaissance, Early Modern Women's Writing, Milton

Steven Newman
Director, Undergraduate Studies  
PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Restoration and 18th-Century Literature, Romanticism

Daniel O'Hara
PhD, Temple University
Literary Theory, American Literature, Victorian Literature

Miles Orvell
PhD, Harvard University
American Studies, Technology and Art

Jena Osman
PhD, SUNY at Buffalo
Creative Writing Poetry, 20th-Century American Poetry, Drama

Paula Robison
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Modern Fiction, World Literature

James Salazar 
PhD, University of California at Berkeley
19th-Century American Literature

Muffy Siegel 
PhD, University of Massachusetts
Linguistics

Alan Singer
Director, Graduate Studies
PhD, University of Washington
Literary Theory, Narrative, Aesthetics, Theory of the Novel, Creative Writing Fiction

Brian Teare
MFA, Indiana University
Creative Writing—Poetry

Lawrence Venuti 
PhD, Columbia University
17th-Century Literature, Theory of Translation

Shannon Walters
PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Composition/Rhetoric

Susan Wells
Director, First Year Writing Program
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Composition/Rhetoric, Critical Theory

Roland Williams
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
African-American Literature

 

Philip Yannella
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
American Studies, 20th-Century American Literature