English Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Stuart Sherman

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.

Faculty A-E

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

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

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
On Leave Fall 2017

Mary C. Erler
Professor; Editorial Board, Traditio
PhD, University of Chicago
Areas of Interest: Medieval; Renaissance

Faculty F-K

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
On Leave Fall 2017 and Spring 2018

Sarah Gambito
Associate Professor; Director of Creative Writing; Editor, Cura
MFA, Brown University
Areas of Interest: Comparative and Postcolonial; Contemporary; Creative Writing
On Leave Spring 2018

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

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
On Leave Spring 2018

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

Faculty L-Z

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
On Leave Fall 2017

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
On Leave Fall 2017

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
On Leave Spring 2018