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Distinguished Alumni

Charles Bazerman, Ph.D.

Professor of Education
University of California, Santa Barbara

Writing Across the Curriculum, 2004; Multiple Literacies for the 21st Century, Editor, 2004; What Texts Do & How They Do It, Editor, 2003; The Languages of Edison's Light, 1999; Involved: Writing for College, Writing for Your Self, 1997; Constructing Experience, 1994; Shaping Written Knowledge, 1988; The Informed Reader, 1989.

Sharon Cameron, Ph.D.'73

Professor of English
Johns Hopkins University

Impersonality: Seven Essays, 2006; Beautiful Work: A Meditation on Pain, 2000; Choosing Not Choosing: Dickinson's Fascicles, 1993; Thinking in Henry James, 1989; Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau's Journal, 1985; The Corporeal Self: Allegories of the Body in Melville and Hawthorne, 1981; Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre, 1979. Articles in PMLA and other journals.

Peter Elbow, Ph.D.'69

Professor of English, Emeritus
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Being a Writer: A Community of Writers Revisited, 2002; Everyone Can Write, 2000; Writing Without Teachers, 1st ed. 1973, 2nd ed. 1998; Writing with Power, 1st ed. 1981, 2nd ed. 1998; A Community of Writers, 1st ed. 1989, 3rd ed. 1999. Articles in College English and other journals.

Allen Grossman, Ph.D.'60

Poet

Recipient 2009 Bollingen Prize; True-Love: Essays on Poetry and Valuing, 2009; Descartes' Loneliness, 2007; Sweet Youth, 2002; How To Do Things with Tears, 2001; Long Schoolroom: Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle, 1997; Philosopher's Window and Other Poems, 1995; Ether Dome and Other Poems New and Selected (1979-1991), 1991 The Bright Nails Scattered on the Ground, 1986; Of the Great House, 1982; Against Our Vanishing: Winter Conversations with Allen Grossman, written with Mark Halliday, 1981; The Woman on the Bridge Over the Chicago River, 1979; And the Dew Lay All Night Upon My Branch, 1974; Poetic Knowledge in the Early Yeats, 1969. Articles in Harvard English Studies, ELH, Papers of the English Institute, and other journals.

MacArthur Award recipient

Judith Grossman, Ph.D.'68

How Aliens Think: Stories, 1999; Her Own Terms, a novel, 1988; short fiction in New England Review/Breadloaf Quarterly; Ploughshares; North American Review, and other joumals.

Mark Halliday, Ph.D.'83

Professor of Creative Writing
Ohio University

Jab, 2002; Selfwolf, 1999; Against Our Vanishing: Winter Conversations with Allen Grossman, written with Allen Grossman, 1981; Tasker Street, Juniper Prize winner, 1992; Stevens and the Interpersonal, 1991; Little Star, National Poetry Series winner, 1987.

Ha Jin, Ph.D.'93

Professor of Creative Writing
Boston University

A Good Fall: Stories, 2009; A Free Life, 2009; War Trash, 2004; The Crazed, 2002; Bridegroom, (short stories) 2001, Wreckage, (poems) 2001. Waiting, 1999; In the Pond, 1998; Under the Red Flag, 1997; Ocean of Words, 1996.

PEN/Faulkner Award, 2005 and 2000
National Book Award, 1999

Cynthia Lowenthal, Ph.D.'87

Dean, College of Charleston--School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage, 2002. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter, 1994.

Patricia McKee, Ph.D.'78

Professor of English
Dartmouth College

Producing American Races: Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, 1999; Public and Private: Gender, Class, and the British Novel, 1997; Heroic Commitment in Richardson, Eliot and James, 1986.

Theresa Rebeck, Ph.D.'89

Writer for NYPD Blue, CSI, Law & Order-CI

Three Girls and Their Brother, 2008; Complete Plays, 1989-1998, 1999; Harriet the Spy, screenplay, 1996; Sunday on the Rocks, a play, 1996.

Writer's Guild of American Award for Episodic Drama

Jeffrey Robinson, Ph.D.'72

Professor of English
University of Colorado, Boulder

The Walk: Notes on a Romantic Image, 2006; Unfettering Poetry: The Fancy in British Romanticism, 2006; Poetry and Diary: Wordsworth Day by Day, 2005; other books and journals.

Robert J. Scholnick, Ph.D.'69

Professor of English
College of William and Mary

American Literature and Science, 1992; Edmund Clarence Stedman, 1977. Articles in American Periodicals, American Literature, Walt Whitman Review, New England Quarterly, Journal of American Studies, American Literary Realism, and other journals.

Ivy Schweitzer, Ph.D.'83

Associate Professor of English
Dartmouth College

Perfecting Friendship, 2006; A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial American (coedited), 2005; Heath Anthology of American Literature, 2001; period editor. Literature as Sacrament: The Evolution of Puritan Sacramentalism; The Work of Self-Representation: Lyric Poetry in Colonial New England, 1991

Elaine Showalter, M.A.'64

Professor of English, Emeritus
Princeton University

Teaching Literature, 2003; Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage, 2001; Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin-de-Siecle, 1990; A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing, 1977; Women's Liberation and Literature (editor), 1971

Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Ph.D.'65

Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English
Duke University
Brown University

Mathematics, Science and Post Classical Theory (coedited), 1997; Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy, 1997; The Politics of Liberal Education (coedited), 1991; Contingencies of Value, 1988; On the Margins of Discourse, 1978; Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End, 1968. Articles in Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, SAQ, and other journals.

Hortense Spillers, Ph.D.'62

Professor of English
Vanderbilt University

Black, White & in Color, 2003; Comparative American Identities, 1991; Conjuring: Black Women, Black Fiction, and Literary Tradition, 1985; Essays in Diacritics, Slavery and the Literary Imagination, Reading Black, Reading Feminist, and numerous other journals and collections.

Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Ph.D.'85

Professor of English
Wake Forest University

More Solid Learning: New Perspectives on Alexander Pope's Dunciad, co-edited with Catherine Ingrassia, 2000; Alexander Pope and his Eighteenth-Century Women Readers, 1994.

Ronald Thomas, Ph.D.'83

President
University of Puget Sound

Detective Fiction & the Rise of Forensic Science, 2004; Nineteenth-Century Geographies (coedited) 2002; Dreams of Authority, 1990; Articles in Michigan Germanic Studies, Psychohistory Review, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and other journals.

Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Ph.D.'93

Associate Professor of Women's Studies
Emory University

Staring:  How We Look, 2008; Disability Studies, Editor, 2002; Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature, 1997; Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body, 1996; Aberrant Bodies: Figuring Corporeal Otherness in American Cultural Representation, 1992.