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Faculty

Paul Morrison, Chair
Professor of English
Modernism. Literary criticism and theory. Cultural Studies. Film Studies

Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman
Assistant Professor of English
19^th to 21^st-century American and African American literature and culture. Gender studies and multiethnic feminisms. Theories of race and racial formation. Visual and media culture.

Ulka Anjaria, Undergraduate Advising Head
Assistant Professor of English
South Asian literatures and film. Postcolonial literature and theory. Narrative theory. The global novel. Interdisciplinary approaches. Literary theory.

Elizabeth Bradfield
Jacob Ziskind Visiting Poet-in-Residence (2012-2014)

Melanie Braverman
Jacob Ziskind Visiting Poet-in-Residence (2010-2012)

Olga Broumas, Director of Creative Writing
Professor of the Practice of English
Poetry.

John Burt
Professor of English
American literature. Romanticism. Composition. Philosophy of education. Literature of the American South. Poetry.

Mary Baine Campbell
Professor of English
Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture. 20th-Century Poetry. Poetry of Women in English. Travel Writing. History of Science. Creative Writing.

Colin Channer
Fannie Hurst Visiting Writer

William Flesch
Professor of English
Shakespeare. History of Poetry. Narrative Theory. Literature and Science. Film

Michael Gilmore
Professor Emeritus
Puritanism. Literature of the American Revolution. American Renaissance. Film studies.

Caren Irr, Director of Graduate Studies
Professor of English
U.S. Literature and Culture since 1900. Theory. Media Studies.

Thomas King, Associate Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor of English
Early Modern English Drama and Social Performance, Eighteenth-Century British Studies, Performance Studies, Queer Studies, Gender Studies.

Susan S. Lanser
Professor of English, Women's and Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and French studies. Women writers. The novel. Women's studies and lesbian/gay studies. Comparative literature.

Kathleen Lawrence
Senior Lecturer in English
19thc U.S. literature and visual culture.  Henry James.  Emerson and his circle.  Margaret Fuller.  Caroline Sturgis.

Stephen McCauley, Associate Director of Creative Writing
Writer-in-Residence

John Plotz
Professor of English
Victorian literature. The novel. Politics and aesthetics.

Laura Quinney
Professor of English
Romanticism. Literature and philosophy. Eighteenth-century literature.

David Sherman
Assistant Professor of English
Modernism. Contemporary British literature. Narrative theory. Ethical philosophy. Elegy.

Dawn Skorczewski, Director of University Writing
Associate Professor of English
Twentieth-century poetry. Psychoanalysis and pedagogy. Composition studies.

Faith Smith
Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies and English.
African and Afro-American literature. Caribbean literature.

Ramie Targoff
Professor of English
Renaissance literature. Shakespeare. Religion and literature.

Michaele Whelan
Vice Provost and Lecturer in English
Contemporary Anglophone literature. American literature. Theory.

Adjunct

David Babcock
Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Sebastian Lecourt
Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Barbara Levy
Lecturer in Composition

Kathryn Chadbourne
Lecturer in Composition

Gordon Ruesch
Lecturer in Composition

Marc Weinberg
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies

Emeritus

Eugene Goodheart
Professor Emeritus
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century literature and thought. Literary theory.

Susan Staves
Professor Emerita
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature and History

Affliated

Sylvia Fishman
Professor in Judaic Studies

Patricia Johnston
Professor of Classical Studies

Robin Feuer Miller
Professor of German