Lina Perkins Wilder
Professor of English, Chair of the English Department
Shakespeare • Renaissance literature • Performance studies
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
(Pronouns: he/his/him)
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
Associate Professor of English
American literature to 1900 • American Studies • African American Literature • Environmental Humanities • Food Studies • Animal Studies • Feminist Theory
Marie Ostby
Assistant Professor of English
World literature • Postcolonial literature • Middle Eastern studies • Gender studies • Genre studies • Social media
Julie Rivkin
Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of American Studies , Professor of English
American literature • Gender studies and contemporary literature • Literary theory • Henry James
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;, Media, Rhetoric, and Communication Pathway Coordinator
Eighteenth-century British literature • Romantic literature and culture • Literary relations among England, Scotland and Wales • African novels • Race, nation and empire
Alexandra Reider
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, Fall 2019
Jessica Soffer
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
Theresa P. Ammirati
Emeritus 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 of English Emeritus , Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of American Studies Emeritus
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