Faculty

Faculty

Core Faculty

Modhumita Roy

Associate Professor and Interim Department Chair of English

Anglophone literatures of Africa and the Africa Diaspora South Asian Literature Litertures of Empire Post-colonial Theory Feminist Theory Literary Theory

Sara Akant

Professor of the Practice

Creative Writing, Poetry and Poetics, Aesthetics, Affect Theory, Performance and Ritual, Documentary and Collage

Amaris Brown

John Holmes Assistant Professor in the Humanities

African American Literature and Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Black Disability Studies, Affect Theory, Black Feminist Thought, Political Theory, Black Visual Cultures, Critical Race Studies

Kevin Dunn

Associate Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora

Lee Edelman

Fletcher Professor of English Literature

Literary Theory (especially Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Post-structuralism) Film Studies

John Fyler

Chaucer Medieval literature (including Dante and the Roman de la Rose) Latin classics and the classical tradition Biblical commentary Gender issues in medieval literature

Judith Haber

Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama Renaissance poetry Gender and sexuality studies

Simon Han

Professor of the Practice

Creative Writing (Fiction and Creative Nonfiction)

Sonia Hofkosh

Associate Professor

British Romantic poetry and prose Feminist/Gender Theory Visual and Material Culture

Jess Keiser

Associate Professor

Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Literature History of Science History and Theory of the Novel Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics Philosophy and Literature

Tonhi Lee

Assistant Professor

literature and drama of the English Renaissance; post-Reformation public culture; conversion; citizenship; migration and empire; classical reception; world literature; phenomenology of theater

Joseph Litvak

Harriet H. Fay Professor of Literature

Victorian Literature Criticism and Theory Comedy Film and Cultural Studies

John Lurz

Associate Professor

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century British Fiction, especially James Joyce and Virginia Woolf; Literary Theory: semiotics, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, phenomenology; Media studies and the history of the book; Roland Barthes; Proust

Rick Moody

Professor of the Practice

Sarah Robbins

Assistant Professor

Nineteenth-century African American literature; nineteenth-century American literature; critical bibliography; book history; print culture

Emily Strasser

Professor of the Practice

Creative Nonfiction, Journalism, Nuclear Weapons History, Climate Change, Anthropocene, Environment, Mental Illness, Secrecy

Ichiro Takayoshi

Associate Professor

Modern Literature (American, British), Modern Intellectual History (American, British), Aesthetics, Literary Theory

Greg Thomas

Associate Professor

American Literatures in English; African, African-American & African Diaspora Studies; Colonial & Post-Colonial Discourse/ Race & Empire/ Black Radical Traditions; Cultural Studies; Body Politics / Gender & Sexuality Studies; Philosophy and Critical Theory

Nathan Wolff

Associate Professor

Nineteenth-century American literature and culture Affect and emotion Politics of New Materialisms Sex, gender, sexuality Critical Theory Democracy, bureaucracy, populism

Affiliate Faculty

Jeremy Eichler

John McCann Assistant Professor of Music

Music and memory, European cultural history, art and trauma, Holocaust, exile, modernism, criticism, public humanities, creative nonfiction, music and nature, environmental humanities.

Neshat Khan

Library Assistant III

Part-time Faculty

Cheryl Alison

British and Irish Modernism; the Transatlantic Twentieth Century; Mid-twentieth-century American Literature; American Modernism; Visual Culture; Literary Theory; the Intersection of the Arts; Artistic Process & the Archive; the Relationship between Biography, Form, and Historical Moment.

Janis Bellow-Freedman

Megan Crotty

Irish and Commonwealth literature, Postcolonial literature and theory, trauma theory, intersectional feminist theory, and representations of trauma in contemporary novels by Irish women writers.

Rebecca Forney

20th century francophone literature, postcolonial studies, comparative feminist theories, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, literatures of exile and migration.

Dan Graham

Nineteenth-century American literature U.S. immigrant literature American spiritualism

Katherine Hollander

Modern European history, intellectual history, history of gender, modern European labor history and history of socialism, Central European history; German literary and drama history, history of cooperation and collaboration. Poetry writing and reading practice, prosody, history of literature.

Emmajean Holley

Creative writing (nonfiction), expository writing, journalism, memoir, environmental writing, hybrid forms.

John Howard

Fiction, poetry, Latinx literature, Colombian literature

Joseph Hurka

Ronna Johnson

American literature; postwar movements in U.S.; arts and culture; the Beat generation; feminist theory; studies of 20th century women; intersectionality

Sibyl Johnston

Stephanie Levine

Creative Writing Religion Education

Courtney Maloney

First-year writing, authentic and equitable assessment, social/emotional learning, reflective learning.

Jennifer Minnen

Expository Writing Victorian Literature and Culture Environmental Humanities Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Stephen Muscolino

Contemporary American Fiction; Postmodern Literature; Media, Communications & International Journalism; Tech Culture & Social Media Studies; Rhetorical Studies & Public Communication

Rani Neutill

Joshua Nguyen

Creative Writing (Poetry), Asian American Literature, Hybrid Poetics

Anna Ross

Creative Writing, Poetry

Carolyn Salvi

Feminism and Gender Studies; 20th Century Drama; Pop Culture; Young Adult Fiction; Genre Fiction; the Early Modern Stage; Rhetoric; Literary Theory; Intersections between Marxism and Psychoanalysis; Sociology; Dance and Dance History.

Noa Saunders

20th-21st century poetry, performance studies, film and media studies, material culture, critical theory, philosophy, affect

Ravi Shankar

Creative Writing, Journalism, Poetry, Digital Humanities, Asian American Literature

Adam Spellmire

Middle English Literature Babble and Authority Quest Narratives

David Valdes

Literature (fiction, drama, nonfiction) on the American Queer and BIPOC experience. Active inclusion. Latine theater and performance.

Ted Weesner Jr

Emeriti Faculty

Elizabeth Ammons

Professor Emerita

American Literature Environmental Humanities U.S. Literature and Race Studies

Linda Bamber

Professor Emerita

Alfred Cantor

Professor Emeritus

Sheila Emerson

Associate Professor Emerita

Contemporary fiction Nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and European writing Art and art markets in the context of social crisis Interrelations between fiction and non-fiction The bearing of science on visual and verbal art

Alan Lebowitz

Professor Emeritus

Jonathan Wilson

Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate Emeritus

Fiction Writing Contemporary Jewish Literature