Brandeis University: Academics: English and American Literature: Alumni

Distinguished Alumni

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• Recent Alumni Accomplishments

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Charles Bazerman, Ph.D. '71
Professor of Education
University of California, Santa Barbara
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
Beautiful Work: A Meditation on Pain, 2000; Choosing Not Choosing: Dickens 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
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
Professor of English
The Johns Hopkins University
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 joumals.

• 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
Associate 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.

Barbara Leah Harman, Ph.D. '74
Professor of English
Wellesley College
Feminine Political Novel in Victorian England, 1998; New Nineteenth Century: Feminist Readings of Underread Victorian Fiction, 1996; Costly Monuments: Representations of the Self in George Herbert's Poetry, 1982. Articles in PMLA, ELH, Diacritics, Victorian Studies, and other journals.

Susan Horton, Ph.D. '73
Professor of English
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Difficult Women/Artful Lives: Olive Schreiner and Isak Dinesen, In and Out of Africa, 1995; Thinking Through Writing, 1982; The Reader in the Dickens World, 1981; “Interpreting Interpreting, 1979. Founding coeditor, The Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies. Articles in Modern Fiction Studies, Genre, The Dickens Studies Annual, and other joumals.

Ha Jin, Ph.D. '93
Assistant Professor of English
Professor of Creative Writing
Boston University
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.

Cynthia Lowenthal, Ph.D. '78
Associate Professor
Tulane University
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
Harriet the Spy, screenplay, 1996; Sunday on the Rocks, a play, 1996.

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; additional 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
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

Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Ph.D. '65
Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English
Duke 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
Cornell University
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 joumals and collections.

Ronald Sukenick, Ph.D. '62
Professor of English, emeritus
University of Colorado, Boulder
Narrologues: Truth in Fiction, 2000; Mosaic Man, 1999; Doggie Bag a novel, 1994; Down and In: life in the underground, 1987; Blown Away, a novel, 1986; The Endless Short Story, 1986; In form: digressions on the art of fiction, 1985; Long Talking Bad Condition Blues, 1979; Ninety-Eight Point Six, 1975; Out, a novel, 1973; The Death of the Novel and Other Stories, 1969; Up, a novel, 1968; Wallace Stevens: Musing the Obscure, 1967.

Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Ph.D. '85
Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Associate 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
Specters of the Novel, 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
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.

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