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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.
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
Professor
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
Professor
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
Lecturer
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
Lecturer
Megan Crotty
Lecturer
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
Lecturer
20th century francophone literature, postcolonial studies, comparative feminist theories, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, literatures of exile and migration.
Dan Graham
Lecturer
Nineteenth-century American literature U.S. immigrant literature American spiritualism
Katherine Hollander
Lecturer
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
Lecturer
Creative writing (nonfiction), expository writing, journalism, memoir, environmental writing, hybrid forms.
John Howard
Lecturer
Fiction, poetry, Latinx literature, Colombian literature
Joseph Hurka
Lecturer
Ronna Johnson
Lecturer
American literature; postwar movements in U.S.; arts and culture; the Beat generation; feminist theory; studies of 20th century women; intersectionality
Sibyl Johnston
Lecturer
Stephanie Levine
Lecturer
Creative Writing Religion Education
Courtney Maloney
Lecturer
First-year writing, authentic and equitable assessment, social/emotional learning, reflective learning.
Jennifer Minnen
Lecturer
Expository Writing Victorian Literature and Culture Environmental Humanities Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Stephen Muscolino
Lecturer
Contemporary American Fiction; Postmodern Literature; Media, Communications & International Journalism; Tech Culture & Social Media Studies; Rhetorical Studies & Public Communication
Rani Neutill
Lecturer
Joshua Nguyen
Lecturer
Creative Writing (Poetry), Asian American Literature, Hybrid Poetics
Anna Ross
Lecturer
Creative Writing, Poetry
Carolyn Salvi
Lecturer
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
Lecturer
20th-21st century poetry, performance studies, film and media studies, material culture, critical theory, philosophy, affect
Ravi Shankar
Lecturer
Creative Writing, Journalism, Poetry, Digital Humanities, Asian American Literature
Adam Spellmire
Lecturer
Middle English Literature Babble and Authority Quest Narratives
David Valdes
Lecturer
Literature (fiction, drama, nonfiction) on the American Queer and BIPOC experience. Active inclusion. Latine theater and performance.
Ted Weesner Jr
Lecturer
Emeriti Faculty
Elizabeth Ammons
Professor Emerita
American Literature Environmental Humanities U.S. Literature and Race Studies
Linda Bamber
Professor Emerita
Alfred Cantor
Professor Emeritus
David Cavitch
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