Julie Rivkin
Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of American Studies , Professor of English
American literature • Gender studies and contemporary literature • Literary theory • Henry James
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, 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
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
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
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
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
Theresa P. Ammirati
Emeritus Dean of Studies
American studies • 20th century American literature • Rhetoric and composition • Student special services
Blanche Boyd
Roman and Tatiana Weller Professor Emeritus of English
Fiction writing • Narrative nonfiction
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
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
William Meredith
PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ENGLISH
Gerda Taranow
PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ENGLISH