Julie Rivkin
Professor of English, Chair of the English Department
American literature • Gender studies and contemporary literature • Literary theory • Henry James
Blanche Boyd
Roman and Tatiana Weller Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence
Fiction writing • Narrative nonfiction
Hubert Cook
Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. Assistant Professor of English
Black studies • African American and Caribbean literature and culture • Black sentience • Narrative theory • Affect studies • Gender studies
Denis Ferhatović
Associate Professor of English
(On sabbatical, Academic Year 2018-2019)
Medieval literature, esp. Old and Middle English poetry • Word and image • Postcolonial theory • Translation
Rachel Gaubinger
Assistant Professor of English
Victorian literature • Modernist literature • Narrative theory • Affect studies • Queer theory • Psychoanalysis • Gender and women's studies
Charles O. Hartman
Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Endowed Professor, Department of English, Poet in Residence, Co-Director of Creative Writing Program
Poetry writing • Modern and contemporary poetry • Prosody (metrics) • Music and poetry • Computer arts
Michelle Neely
Assistant Professor of English
American literature to 1900 • Animal studies • Environmental humanities • Food studies • African-American literature • Women's literature • Literary and political theory
Marie Ostby
Assistant Professor of English
World literature • Postcolonial literature • Middle Eastern studies • Gender studies • Genre studies • Social media
Steven Shoemaker
Director of the Roth Writing Center
20th-century American literature • Writing and composition theory • Intersections of literature, technology and science • Literature and film • Critical theory
Jeff Strabone
Associate Professor of English
Eighteenth-century British literature • Romantic literature and culture • Literary relations among England, Scotland and Wales • African novels • Race, nation and empire
Lina Perkins Wilder
Associate Professor of English
(On sabbatical, Spring 2019)
Shakespeare • Renaissance literature • Performance studies
Alexandra Reider
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, Fall 2019
Jessica Soffer
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
Theresa P. Ammirati
Dean of Studies
American studies • 20th century American literature • Rhetoric and composition • Student special services
Janet Gezari
Lucretia L. Allyn Professor Emeritus of English
English novel since Defoe • Victorian culture, poetry, and fiction • Contemporary fictions
John S. Gordon
Professor Emeritus of English
Modern British literature • James Joyce - Finnegans Wake
George J. Willauer
Professor Emeritus of English, Charles J. MacCurdy Professor Emeritus of American Studies
American literature and literary figures, 1890-present • William Faulkner • Emily Dickinson • Robert Frost • Society of Friends
Kenneth A. Bleeth
Professor Emeritus, Former Director of the Medieval Studies Program
Robley Evans
Professor Emeritus of English
William Meredith
Professor Emeritus of English
Gerda Taranow
Professor Emeritus of English