Department of English
Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
For office hours and locations, please contact the professor.
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
Creative Writing Fiction
Jayne Kribbs Drake
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Colonial American Literature, 19th-Century American Literature
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
Director, First Year Writing Program
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Composition/Rhetoric, Poetry
Katherine Henry
Director, Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D., Rutgers University
19th-Century American Literature
Lynda Hill
Ph.D., New York University
African-American Literature, Cultural Studies
Priya Joshi
Ph.D., Columbia University
Imperialism and its legacies, Narrative and Postcolonial Theory, History of the Book, the Modern Novel, Bollywood film
Department Chair
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-, and 19th-Century American Literature
Don Lee
Director, Creative Writing
MFA, 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 Studies, Japanese Film Studies, Creative Writing
Nichole Miller
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Shakespeare, Tudor And Stuart Literature, Political Philosophy, Critical Theory, Gender Studies
Shannon Miller
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara
Renaissance, Early Modern Women's Writing, Milton
Steven Newman
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
Director, Graduate Studies
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
19th-Century American Literature
Muffy Siegel
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
Linguistics
Alan Singer
Ph.D., University of Washington
Literary Theory, Narrative, Aesthetics, Theory of the Novel, Creative Writing
Fiction
Brian Teare
MFA,Indiana University
Creative Writing - Poetry
Lawrence Venuti
Ph.D., Columbia University
17th-Century Literature, Theory of Translation
Shannon Walters
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Composition/Rhetoric
Susan Wells
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
Emeritus Faculty
Sonia Sanchez
B.A., Hunter College
Creative Writing - Poetry, Black Culture & Literature, Women's Liberation, Racial Justice
Deirdre David
Ph.D., Columbia University
Victorian Literature
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Ph.D., Columbia University
Women's Literature, Modern Poetry