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
Assistant Professor
PhD, Brandeis University
Areas of Interest: Medieval; Renaissance; Literary and Cultural Theory
Eva Badowska
Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
PhD, Cornell University
Areas of Interest: 19th Century British; Literary and Cultural Theory; Film
Mary Bly
Professor
PhD, Yale University
Areas of Interest: Renaissance; Literary and Cultural Theory; Creative Writing
On Leave Spring 2017
Frank Boyle
Associate Professor
PhD, Trinity College (Dublin)
Areas of Interest: 18th Century British; Literary and Cultural Theory
John Bugg
Professor;
Director, Graduate Studies (DGS)
PhD, Princeton University
Areas of Interest: 18th Century British; 19th Century British
Edward Cahill
Associate Professor
PhD, Rutgers University
Areas of Interest: Early American; Literary and Cultural Theory
On Leave Spring 2017
Mark Caldwell
Professor
PhD, Harvard University
Areas of Interest: Renaissance; Modern American
Leonard Cassuto
Professor
PhD, Harvard University
Areas of Interest: Early and Modern American; Creative Writing
Martin Chase
Professor; Editorial Board, Traditio
PhD, University of Toronto
Areas of Interest: Medieval
Daniel Contreras
Associate Professor; Associate Chair, Rose Hill
PhD, 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)
PhD, Harvard University
Areas of Interest: Renaissance; Literary and Cultural Theory; Creative Writing
Shonni Enelow
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Areas of Interest: Modern American; Literary and Cultural Theory; Contemporary
Mary C. Erler
Professor; Editorial Board, Traditio
PhD, University of Chicago
Areas of Interest: Medieval; Renaissance
Maria Farland
Associate Professor; Editor, Studies in American Fiction
PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Areas of Interest: Early American; Modern American; Literary and Cultural Theory
Anne Fernald
Professor; Director, Writing Program, Lincoln Center
PhD, Yale University
Areas of Interest: Modern British; Literary and Cultural Theory
Elisabeth Frost
Professor
PhD, 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
Associate Professor; Director of Creative Writing; Editor, Cura
MFA, Brown University
Areas of Interest: Comparative and Postcolonial; Contemporary; Creative Writing
Jennifer Gilmore
Writer-in-Residence
BA Brandeis University; MA Cornell University
Areas of Interest: Creative Writing
Christopher GoGwilt
Professor
PhD, Princeton University
Areas of Interest: 19th Century and Modern British; Contemporary; Literary and Cultural Theory; Comparative and Postcolonial
Moshe Gold
Associate Professor; Director, Writing Program, Rose Hill; Co-Editor of Joyce Studies Annual; Editor, Rhetorikós
PhD, Columbia University
Areas of Interest: Modern British; Literary and Cultural Theory; Film.
Susan Greenfield
Professor
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Areas of Interest: 18thCentury British
John P. Harrington
Dean of Arts and Sciences
Professor
PhD, Rutgers University
Areas of Interest: Modern British
Constance W. Hassett
Professor
PhD, Harvard University
Areas of Interest: 19th Century British; Contemporary
Glenn Hendler
Professor; Chair of the English Department
PhD, Northwestern University
Areas of Interest: Early American; Literary and Cultural Theory
Anne Golomb Hoffman
Professor
PhD, Columbia University
Areas of Interest: Literary and Cultural Theory; Comparative and Postcolonial Theory; Contemporary
On Leave Spring 2017
Eve Keller
Professor
PhD, Columbia University
Areas of Interest: Renaissance
James Kim
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Virginia
Areas of Interest: Modern American; Comparative and Postcolonial; 18th Century British
Julie Chun Kim
Associate Professor
PhD, 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
PhD, Yale University
Areas of Interest: Literary and Cultural Theory
Corey McEleney
Assistant Professor
Director of Placement and Professional Development, Graduate Studies (DPPD)
PhD, Brown University
Areas of Interest: Renaissance; Literary abnd Cultural Theory
Angela Monsam
Lecturer
PhD, Fordham University
Areas of Interest: 18th Century British
Fawzia Mustafa
Professor
PhD, Indiana University
Areas of Interest: Literary and Cultural Theory; Comparative and Postcolonial;Early and Modern American; Contemporary
Thomas O'Donnell
Associate Professor
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Areas of Interest: Medieval; Comparative and Postcolonial
Scott Poulson-Bryant
Assistant Professor
PhD, Harvard University
Areas of Interest: 20th Century American; Contemporary; Creative Writing; Film
Lea Puljcan Juric
Lecturer
PhD, New York University
Areas of Interest: Renaissance
Kirk Quinsland
Lecturer
PhD, Fordham University
Areas of Interest: Renaissance; Medieval; queer theory; digital humanities
Rebecca Sanchez
Associate Professor
PhD, University at Buffalo
Areas of Interest: Modern American and British; Literary and Cultural Theory
Stuart Sherman
Professor
PhD, Columbia University
Areas of Interest: 18th Century British
Philip Sicker
Professor; Co-Editor of Joyce Studies Annual
PhD, University of Virginia
Areas of Interest: Modern British; Modern American; Literary and Cultural Theory
Jordan Alexander Stein
Associate Professor
PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Areas of Interest: Early and Modern American; Literary and Cultural Theory
Elizabeth Stone
Professor
PhD, New York University
Areas of Interest: Creative Writing; Modern American
Frances Tran
Lecturer
PhD, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Areas of Interest: 20th and 21st Century American; Asian American and Ethnic studies
Dennis Tyler
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Areas of Interest: Modern American; Contemporary
Vlasta Vranjes
Assistant Professor; Associate Chair
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Areas of Interest: 19th Century British
Keri Walsh
Associate Professor
PhD, Princeton University
Areas of Interest: Modern British; Contemporary; Literary and Cultural Theory; Film
Robert Wasserman
Associate Professor
PhD, Indiana University
Areas of Interest: Literary and Cultural Theory
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Professor; Mullarkey Chair
PhD, University of Liverpool
Areas of Interest: Medieval
Suzanne Yeager
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Toronto
Areas of Interest: Medieval
Sarah Zimmerman
Professor; Lincoln Center
PhD, Princeton University
Areas of Interest: 19th Century British