English Faculty
Full-Time Faculty
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
Associate Professor, Director, Graduate Studies (DGS)
Ph.D., Brandeis University
Areas of Interest: Medieval; Literary and Cultural Theory
Eva Badowska
Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences;
Associate Vice President, Arts and Sciences
Ph.D., Cornell University
Areas of Interest: 19th Century British; Literary and Cultural Theory; Film
Mary Bly
Professor; Chair
Ph.D., Yale University
Areas of Interest: Renaissance; Literary and Cultural Theory; Creative Writing
Frank Boyle
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Trinity College (Dublin)
Areas of Interest: 18th Century British; Literary and Cultural Theory
John Bugg
Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University
Areas of Interest: 18th Century British; 19th Century British
Edward Cahill
Professor
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Areas of Interest: Early American; Literary and Cultural Theory
Mark Caldwell
Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University
Areas of Interest: Renaissance; Modern American
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
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 Program & Writing Center
at 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
Associate Professor
B.A. Barnard College; M.A. New York University
Areas of Interest: Creative Writing
Heather Dubrow
Professor; Rev. John Boyd, SJ Chair
Director, Reading Series, Poets Out Loud (POL)
Ph.D., Harvard University
Areas of Interest: Renaissance; Literary and Cultural Theory; Creative Writing
Shonni Enelow - ON LEAVE FALL 2022
Professor
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; Special Advisor to the Provost for Faculty Development
Ph.D., Yale University
Areas of Interest: Modern British; Literary and Cultural Theory
Elisabeth Frost - ON LEAVE FALL 2022
Professor
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
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, Rose Hill
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Areas of Interest: Early American; Literary and Cultural Theory
Robb Hernández
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Areas of Interest: Latinx Literature; Visual Culture; Performance Studies, and Queer Theory
Anne Golomb Hoffman
Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Areas of Interest: Literary and Cultural Theory; Comparative and Postcolonial Theory; Contemporary
Eve Keller
Professor;
Director, Fordham College Honors (RH);
President, University Faculty Senate
Ph.D., Columbia University
Areas of Interest: Renaissance
James Kim
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Areas of Interest: Modern American; Comparative and Postcolonial; 18th Century British
Julie Chun Kim - ON LEAVE FALL 2022
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Duke University
Areas of Interest: 18th Century British; Early American; Literary and Cultural Theory; Comparative and Postcolonial
Swan Kim
Visiting Assistant Professor;Assistant Director of the Writing Program & Writing Center at Rose Hill and Lincoln Center
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Areas of Interest: First-year Composition; Composition Pedagogy; Writing Across the Curriculum; Writing in the Disciplines; Asian American literature and culture
Lawrence Kramer
Distinguished Professor; Editor, 19th-Century Music
Ph.D., Yale University
Areas of Interest: Literary and Cultural Theory
Alexander Mindt
Advanced Lecturer
MFA, Columbia University
Areas of Interest: Creative Writing, Composition, Contemporary Literature
Corey McEleney
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Brown University
Areas of Interest: Renaissance; Literary and Cultural Theory
Thomas O'Donnell - ON LEAVE FALL 2022
Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Areas of Interest: Medieval; Comparative Literature; and Race, Empire, and Coloniality.
Sasha Ann Panaram
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Duke University
Areas of Interest: African American Literature; Caribbean Literature; Performance Studies; Slavery Studies; Black Feminisms
Lea Puljcan Juric
Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., New York University
Areas of Interest: Renaissance
Kirk Quinsland
Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., Fordham University
Areas of Interest: Renaissance; Medieval; queer theory; digital humanities
Rebecca Sanchez
Professor
Ph.D., University at Buffalo
Areas of Interest: Modern American and British; Literary and Cultural Theory
Stuart Sherman
Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Areas of Interest: 18th Century British
Stephen Hong Sohn
Professor; Thomas F.X. and Theresa Mullarkey Chair in Literature
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Areas on Interest: 20th Century American
Cristiana Sogno
Associate Professor; Associate Chair, Lincoln Center
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
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Areas of Interest: Modern American; Contemporary
Vlasta Vranjes
Assistant Professor
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
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Areas of Interest: Medieval
Sarah Zimmerman - ON LEAVE FALL 2022
Professor; Lincoln Center
Ph.D., Princeton University
Areas of Interest: 19th Century British
Martin Chase
Professor Emeritus of English
chase@fordham.edu
Mary C. Erler
Professor Emerita of English
erler@fordham.edu
Richard Giannone
Professor Emeritus of English
giannone@fordham.edu
Charles Hallett
Professor Emeritus of English
hallett@fordham.edu
John P. Harrington
Professor Emeritus of English
jharrington15@fordham.edu
Constance W. Hassett
Professor Emerita of English
hassett@fordham.edu
Fawzia Mustafa
Professor Emerita of English
fmustafa@fordham.edu
Philip Sicker
Professor Emeritus of English
sicker@fordham.edu
Robert Wasserman
Associate Professor Emeritus
wasserman@fordham.edu
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Professor Emerita of English
woganbrowne@fordham.edu