English Department Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

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Faculty members teach, research, and publish in virtually every field of English, American, and postcolonial literatures as well as literary criticism, theory, cultural studies, and creative writing. Our particular strengths include medieval, early modern, 18th-century, and American literatures and cultures.

  • Andrew Albin (On Leave Spring 2025)
    Associate Professor; Director, Graduate Studies (DGS)
    Ph.D., Brandeis University
    Areas of Interest: Medieval; Literary and Cultural Theory

    Mary Bly
    Professor (On Leave Spring 2025)
    Ph.D., Yale University
    Areas of Interest: Renaissance; Literary and Cultural Theory; Creative Writing

    Frank Boyle
    Associate Professor, Interim Director, Graduate Studies (DGS) Spring 2025
    Ph.D., Trinity College (Dublin)
    Areas of Interest: 18th Century British; Literary and Cultural Theory

    Elisabeth H. Buck
    Associate Professor of English; Director of the Writing Center (Rose Hill and Lincoln Center)
    Ph.D., Ball State University
    Areas of Interest: Writing center theory; Rhetoric of popular culture; Composition studies

    John Bugg
    Professor (On Leave Spring 2025)
    Ph.D., Princeton University
    Areas of Interest: 18th Century British; 19th Century British

    Edward Cahill
    Professor
    Ph.D., Rutgers University
    Areas of Interest: American literature, culture, and intellectual history; Queer Literature; Modern and Contemporary Fiction.

    Leonard Cassuto 
    Professor
    Ph.D., Harvard University
    Areas of Interest: Early and Modern American; Creative Writing

    Catherine Chaput 
    Professor and Thomas J. Kavanagh Chair in Rhetoric (On Leave Spring 2025)
    Ph.D., University of Arizona
    Areas of Interest:  Rhetorical Theory; Affect Studies; Political Economy; Social Movements; Publics Theory

    Crystal Colombini
    Associate Professor of English,Director of the Writing and
    Composition Program (Rose Hill and Lincoln Center)
    Ph.D., University of Nevada Reno
    Areas of Interest: Rhetoric and Writing

    Daniel Contreras
    Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Stanford University
    Areas of Interest: Modern American; Comparative and Postcolonial

    Stacey D'Erasmo
    Professor
    B.A. Barnard College; M.A. New York University
    Areas of Interest: Creative Writing

    Heather Dubrow
    Professor; Rev. John Boyd, SJ Chair
    Ph.D., Harvard University
    Areas of Interest: Renaissance; Literary and Cultural Theory; Creative Writing

    Shonni Enelow
    Professor; Chair
    Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
    Areas of Interest: Modern American; Literary and Cultural Theory; Contemporary

  • Maria Farland
    Associate Professor; Director of Placement and Professional Development, Graduate Studies (DPPD);
    Editor, Studies in American Fiction
    Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
    Areas of Interest: Early American; Modern American; Literary and Cultural Theory

    Anne Fernald
    Professor
    Ph.D., Yale University
    Areas of Interest: Modern British; Literary and Cultural Theory

    Elisabeth Frost
    Professor (On Leave Spring 2025)
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
    Co-Director, Poets Out Loud (POL) and Editor, Book Prize Series
    Areas of Interest: Modern American; Literary and Cultural Theory; Contemporary; Creative Writing

    Sarah Gambito
    Professor; Director of Creative Writing; Editor, Cura
    MFA, Brown University
    Areas of Interest: Comparative and Postcolonial; Contemporary; Creative Writing

    Christopher GoGwilt
    Professor
    Ph.D., Princeton University
    Areas of Interest: 19th Century and Modern British; Contemporary; Literary and Cultural Theory; Comparative and Postcolonial

    Moshe Gold
    Associate Professor; Co-Editor of Joyce Studies Annual; Editor, Rhetorikós
    Ph.D., Columbia University
    Areas of Interest: Modern British; Literary and Cultural Theory; Film.

    Susan Greenfield
    Professor
    Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
    Areas of Interest: 18th Century British

    Glenn Hendler
    Professor of English and American Studies; Associate Chair, Lincoln Center Undergraduate Studies
    Ph.D., Northwestern University
    Areas of Interest: Early and 19th Century American; Literary and Cultural Theory, Rhetoric and Writing

    Robb Hernández
    Professor
    Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
    Areas of Interest: Latinx Literature; Visual Culture; Performance Studies, and Queer Theory

    Eve Keller
    Professor;
    Director, Fordham College Honors (RH);
    President, University Faculty Senate
    Ph.D., Columbia University
    Areas of Interest: Renaissance

    James Kim
    Associate Professor (On Leave Spring 2025)
    Ph.D., University of Virginia
    Areas of Interest: Modern American; Comparative and Postcolonial; 18th Century British

    Julie Chun Kim
    Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Duke University
    Areas of Interest: 18th Century British; Early American; Literary and Cultural Theory; Comparative and Postcolonial

    Lawrence Kramer
    Distinguished Professor; Editor, 19th-Century Music
    Ph.D., Yale University
    Areas of Interest: Literary and Cultural Theory

  • Corey McEleney
    Professor (On Leave Spring 2025)
    Ph.D., Brown University
    Areas of Interest: Literary and Cultural Theory; Queer Studies; Renaissance

    Thomas O'Donnell 
    Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
    Areas of Interest: Medieval; Comparative and Postcolonial

    Sasha Ann Panaram
    Assistant Professor (On Leave Spring 2025)
    Ph.D., Duke University
    Areas of Interest: African American Literature; Caribbean Literature; Performance Studies; Slavery Studies; Black Feminisms 

    Rebecca Sanchez
    Professor (On Leave Spring 2025)
    Ph.D., University at Buffalo
    Areas of Interest: Modern American and British; Literary and Cultural Theory

    Stephen Hong Sohn
    Professor; Thomas F.X. and Theresa Mullarkey Chair in Literature (On Leave Spring 2025)
    Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
    Areas on Interest: 20th Century American

    Cristiana Sogno
    Professor (On Leave Spring 2025)
    Ph.D., Yale University
    Areas on Interest: Letter-writing, biography, reception and adaptation of Greek and Latin texts

    Jordan Alexander Stein
    Professor
    Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
    Areas of Interest: Early and Modern American; Literary and Cultural Theory

    Elizabeth Stone
    Professor
    Ph.D., New York University
    Areas of Interest: Creative Writing; Modern American

    Dennis Tyler
    Associate Professor; Associate Chair, Lincoln Center Undergraduate Studies 
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
    Areas of Interest: Modern American; Contemporary

    Vlasta Vranjes
    Assistant Professor; Associate Chair
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
    Areas of Interest: 19th Century British

    Keri Walsh
    Professor
    Ph.D., Princeton University
    Areas of Interest: Modern British; Contemporary; Literary and Cultural Theory; Film

    Suzanne Yeager
    Professor (On Leave Spring 2025)
    Ph.D., University of Toronto
    Areas of Interest: Medieval; Global and Postcolonial

    Sarah Zimmerman
    Professor; Lincoln Center
    Ph.D., Princeton University
    Areas of Interest: 19th Century British

  • Lynne Beckenstein
    Lecturer
    BA, Columbia University; MFA, New York University; PhD, The Graduate Center, CUNY
    Areas of Interest: Twentieth and twenty-first century literature, composition and rhetoric, cultural studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies

    Kathryn Blakely
    Lecturer
    BA, New York University; MA, Brooklyn College (MFA); MPhil, PhD, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    Areas of Interest: 18th-Century women writers; ethics; gender studies

    Caitlin Cawley
    Assistant Head of the Writing Program & Advanced Lecturer of English
    BA Lehigh University, MA Carnegie Mellon University, PhD Fordham University
    Areas of Interest: 20th-21st century American literature, composition and rhetoric, critical theory, cultural studies, film studies, war studies

    Meghan Maguire Dahn
    Lecturer
    BA, University of Connecticut; MA, University of Connecticut; MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts
    Areas of Interest: Creative Writing, poetry and poetics, ecopoetics, archives and material culture, hybrid forms, building research methods for marginalized groups

    Jessica Denzer
    Advanced Lecturer
    BA, Fordham University, FCLC; MFA, Sarah Lawrence College
    Areas of Interest: First-year composition, digital and visual media, creative nonfiction, auto-theory, narrative and novel writing, literary and film theory

    Diane Detournay
    Advanced Lecturer
    PhD, Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota
    Areas of Interest: Postcolonial/transnational Feminism; Critical Race Feminisms; Queer and Trans Studies; Critical University Studies

    Tom Hertweck
    Advanced Lecturer
    PhD, University of Nevada, Reno
    Areas of Interest: Ecocriticism/environmental studies, food studies, 20th and 21st Century American literature and culture, film

    Shubhangi Garg Mehrotra
    Lecturer
    PhD, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
    Areas of Interest: Disability Studies, Social and Environmental Justice, Climate Fiction, Human Rights, Decolonization, Global South, Composition and Rhetoric, Digital Rhetoric, Creative Writing

    Alexander Mindt
    Senior Lecturer
    MFA, Columbia University
    Areas of Interest: Creative Writing, Composition, Contemporary Literature

    Michael Natriello
    Lecturer
    MFA, The New School
    Areas of Interest: Rhetoric and Writing, Language Acquisition, Linguistics, Translingualism, Creative Writing, Contemporary Literature

    Lea Puljcan Juric
    Senior Lecturer
    Ph.D., New York University
    Areas of Interest: Renaissance

    Kirk Quinsland
    Senior Lecturer; Assistant Head of the Fordham University Writing Center   
    Ph.D., Fordham University
    Areas of Interest: Renaissance; Medieval; queer theory; digital humanities

    Michael Reich
    Lecturer
    Ph.D., St. John's University
    Areas of Interest: Digital Rhetoric, Deliberative Democracy, Social Justice, Propaganda
    and Public Relations, Community-Engaged Writing, Professional and
    Technical Writing

     

  • Mark Caldwell
    Professor Emeritus of English
    Ph.D., Harvard University

    Martin Chase
    Professor Emeritus of English
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    Mary C. Erler
    Professor Emerita of English
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    Richard Giannone
    Professor Emeritus of English
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    Charles Hallett
    Professor Emeritus of English
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    John P. Harrington
    Professor Emeritus of English
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    Constance W. Hassett
    Professor Emerita of English
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    Anne Golomb Hoffman
    Professor Emerita of English
    Ph.D., Columbia University

    Fawzia Mustafa
    Professor Emerita of English
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    Stuart Sherman
    Professor Emeritus of English
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    Philip Sicker
    Professor Emeritus of English
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    Robert Wasserman
    Associate Professor Emeritus
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    Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
    Professor Emerita of English
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