Department Chair

Julie Rivkin, Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of American Studies
, Professor of English

Julie Rivkin

Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of American Studies , Professor of English

American literature • Gender studies and contemporary literature • Literary theory • Henry James


Faculty

Renée Branum, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Writer in Residence

Renée Branum

Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Writer in Residence


Hubert Cook, Assistant Professor of English

Hubert Cook

Assistant Professor of English

Black studies • African American and Caribbean literature and culture • Black sentience • Narrative theory • Affect studies • Gender studies


Denis Ferhatovic, Associate Professor of English

Denis Ferhatovic

Associate Professor of English, Pronouns: he/his/him

(Pronouns: he/his/him)

Medieval literature, esp. Old and Middle English poetry • Word and image • Postcolonial theory • Translation


Rachel Gaubinger, Assistant Professor of English

Rachel Gaubinger

Assistant Professor of English

Victorian literature • Modernist literature • Narrative theory • Affect studies • Queer theory • Psychoanalysis • Gender and women's studies


Michelle Neely, Associate Professor of English,, Director of American Studies

Michelle Neely

Associate Professor of English,, Director of American Studies

American literature to 1900 • American Studies • African American Literature • Environmental Humanities • Food Studies • Animal Studies • Feminist Theory


Marie Ostby, Assistant Professor of English

Marie Ostby

Assistant Professor of English

World literature • Postcolonial literature • Middle Eastern studies • Gender studies • Genre studies • Social media


Kate  Rushin, Professor of English, Poet in Residence

Kate  Rushin

Professor of English, Poet in Residence

Creative Writing/Poetry • 20th Century Black Women Writers • The African American Poetic Tradition • Women of Color Feminisms and Intersectionality • American Popular Culture, Media, Language and Poetry


Courtney  Sender, Visiting Assistant Professor and Writer in Residence

Courtney  Sender

Visiting Assistant Professor and Writer in Residence

Fiction


Jeff Strabone, Associate Professor of English;, Media, Rhetoric, and Communication Pathway Coordinator

Jeff Strabone

Associate Professor of English;, Media, Rhetoric, and Communication Pathway Coordinator

(Sabbatical Fall 2024)

Eighteenth-century British literature • Romantic literature and culture • Literary relations among England, Scotland and Wales • African novels • Race, nation and empire • Modern Drama • Media Theory


Summar  West

Director of College Writing

Lina Perkins Wilder, Professor of English

Lina Perkins Wilder

Professor of English

Shakespeare • Renaissance literature • Performance studies



Staff

 , Academic Department Assistant

Stacey Lion-Gardiner

Academic Department Assistant


 , Student Worker - Office Assistant

Lula Lipman

Student Worker - Office Assistant


Theresa P. Ammirati, Emeritus Dean of Studies

Theresa P. Ammirati

Emeritus Dean of Studies

American studies • 20th century American literature • Rhetoric and composition • Student special services




Alan Bradford

Professor Emeritus of English

Literature of the English Renaissance

Janet Gezari, Lucretia L. Allyn Professor Emeritus of English

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

John S. Gordon

Professor Emeritus of English

Modern British literature • James Joyce - Finnegans Wake


Charles O. Hartman, Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Professor Emeritus of English

Charles O. Hartman

Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Professor Emeritus of English

Poetry writing • Modern and contemporary poetry • Prosody (metrics) • Music and poetry • Computer arts


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

In Memoriam

William Meredith

PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ENGLISH

Gerda Taranow

PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ENGLISH