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Faculty List

Faculty Member	Office Hours	Research Interests (see cross-references below)
Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman Assistant Professor	Rabb 135	19th and 20th-century African American literature and culture; Gender and sexuality studies; Critical race theory; Multiethnic feminisms
Ulka Anjaria Assistant Professor	Rabb 239	Postcolonial literature; South Asian literature and film; Theories of the novel and narrative theory; Literary and social theory; Modernity, nationalism and the postcolonial state
Olga Broumas Professor of the Practice Co-Director of Creative Writing	Rabb 232	Creative Writing, Poetry
John Burt Professor Department Chair	Rabb 206	19th-Century American Literature, 20th-Century American Literature (especially poetry), Southern Gothic Fiction, American Romantic Fiction, composition, rhetoric
Mary Baine Campbell Professor	Rabb 263	Medieval and Early Modern Literature, 20th-Century Poetry, Poetry of Women in English, Travel Literature, History of Science, Cultural Studies.
William Flesch Professor	Rabb 139	Renaissance, Theory, Philosphy, Contemporary Poetry, 20th-Century Comparative Literature, Henry James, Freudian Psychoanalysis.
Michael Gilmore Professor	Rabb 141	18th-& 19th-Century American Literature, American History and Political Thought, 20th-Century American Fiction, American Cinema, American Puritanism.
Caren Irr Associate Professor	Rabb 142	American Literature and Culture since 1900, Theory, Media Studies.
Gish Jen Professor Co-Director of Creative Writing	Beginning fall 2008
Thomas A. King Associate Professor	Rabb 244	Early Modern English Drama and Social Performance, Performance Studies, Queer Studies, Gender Studies.
Susan S. Lanser Professor	Rabb 211	English and Comparative Literature 1650-1830, Feminist Theory and Criticism, History of Sexuality, Narrative Theory and the Novel.
Stephen McCauley Writer-in-Residence	Rabb 249
Paul Morrison Professor	Rabb 233	Modernism, History of Criticism, Literary Theory, Cultural Studies, Sexuality.
Thisbe Nissen Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence	Rabb 249
John Plotz Professor Undergraduate Advising Head	Rabb 264	Victorian literature, The novel, Politics and aesthetics.
Laura Quinney Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies	Rabb 131	Romanticism, 18th-Century, Literary Theory, Psychoanalysis, Philosophical Psychology.
David Sherman Assistant Professor	Beginning fall 2008	Modernism, Contemporary British, Narrative Theory, Ethical Philosophy, Elegy, Modern Deathways
Dawn Skorczewski Associate Professor Director of University Writing	Rabb 143	Composition, 20th-Century American, Psychoanalyis and Pedagogy, Psychoanalysis and Literature, Contemporary Poetry
Faith Smith Associate Professor	Rabb 116	Intellectual and Literary History of the Anglophone Caribbean, Popular Culture, Gender, African Diaspora, African American Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Criticism.
Elizabeth Swanstrom Florence Kay Fellow in the Digital Humanities	Beginning fall 2008	Digital culture, electronic literature, history of science, media theory, 20th-century American and Latin American literature.
Ramie Targoff Professor	Rabb 238	Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare, Religion and Literature.
Franz Wright Jacob Ziskind Visiting Poet-in-Residence	Rabb 250
Emeriti
Eugene Goodheart		Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century literature and thought. Literary theory.
Susan Staves		Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature and History.
Adjunct
Melanie Braverman	Rabb 250
Barbara Levy (fall only)	Rabb 226
Gordon Ruesch	Rabb 223
Nancy Salzer
Marc Weinberg (spring only)	Rabb 226

this page updated May 28, 2008