Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy

Certificate Program Offered: Certificate in the Teaching of Writing

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Meredith L. McGill

Director of Certificate Program: Professor Richard E. Miller, Murray Hall, College Avenue Campus (732/932-7674)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Derek Attridge, Distinguished Visiting Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cambridge
Literary theory; modernism; poetics

Louise K. Barnett, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr
Nineteenth- and 20th-century American novel; 19th-century American culture; women's studies

Emily Bartels, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Renaissance dramatic literature; colonialist discourse

John H. Belton, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Cinema studies; cultural studies

Matthew Buckley, Assistant Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Eighteenth-, 19th-, and 20th-century drama

Abena P.A. Busia, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; D.Phil., Oxford
African-American and African diaspora literature

Christine Chism, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Duke
Medieval literature, medieval drama, women's studies, cultural studies, historiography

Ed Cohen, Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford Literary and social theory; gay and gender studies; late Victorian culture

Ann Baynes Coiro, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Maryland
Renaissance and 17th-century literature; women's studies

Harriet A. Davidson, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Vanderbilt
Modern and contemporary poetry; critical theory

Marianne DeKoven, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Modernism; women's studies

Elin Diamond, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Davis)
Drama and dramatic theory; feminist and literary theory

Richard Dienst, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Duke
Cultural theory; media studies

William C. Dowling, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Eighteenth-century literature; colonial American literature and literature of the early American republic; critical theory

Brent Edwards, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
African-American literature; Francophone literature; 20th-century poetry of the Americas; music and literature; cultural studies

Katherine Ellis, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Women's studies; 18th-century fiction

David Eng, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley) Asian-American literature

Brad Evans, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Chicago
Nineteenth- and 20th-century literature; cultural studies

Kate Flint, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Oxford Nineteenth-century British literature

Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley) Cinema studies; feminist critical analysis

Thomas C. Fulton, Assistant Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale Early modern literature and cultural history

William H. Galperin, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Brown
Romantic literature; literary theory; media studies

Martin Gliserman, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Indiana
English and American literature; psychoanalytic theory

Marcia Ian, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Virginia
Modern British and American literatures; critical theory; the novel

Colin Jager, Assistant Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Michigan
English romantic literature

Myra Jehlen, Board of Governors Professor of Literature and Culture, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
American literature; feminist criticism; cultural history

Samira Kawash, Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Duke Nineteenth- and 20th-century minority and African-American literature; literary and cultural theory; race and ethnicity

Stacey Klein, Assistant Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Ohio State
Old English and medieval studies; gender and sexuality

Richard Koszarski, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., New York
Cinema studies

Jonathan Brody Kramnick, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Seventeenth- and 18th-century literature and culture; critical theory

Ronald Levao, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
English Renaissance literature and intellectual history

George Levine, Kenneth Burke Professor of English, FAS-NB/CCACC; Ph.D., Minnesota
Victorian literature; literature and science

Marc K. Manganaro, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Modern literature/literary theory and anthropology; folklore and myth

John A. McClure, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Contemporary American fiction; colonial and postcolonial discourse

Paula McDowell, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Eighteenth-century literature

Meredith L. McGill, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Nineteenth-century American literature, the history of the book, American poetry

Michael McKeon, Board of Governors Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Seventeenth- and 18th-century literature

Jacqueline T. Miller, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins Renaissance literature

Richard Miller, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Composition; pedagogy; cultural studies

Sonali Perera, Assistant Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia Postcolonial literature and theory; feminist theory; Marxism and literature; working-class literature; colonialism and class

Barry V. Qualls, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Northwestern
Victorian literature

Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford Modern thought and literature; postcolonial Americas and ethnic studies

Larry Scanlon, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Medieval studies; cultural studies; literary theory

Shuang Shen, Assistant Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., CUNY Asian-American literature

Mary Sheridan-Rabideau, Assistant Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Illinois
Composition, feminist studies; cultural studies

Jonah Siegel, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Nineteenth-century literature and culture; literature and the fine arts; modernism

Carol H. Smith, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Michigan
Modern literature; women's studies

Kurt Spellmeyer, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Washington
Composition and rhetoric; 17th-century literature

William Vesterman, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Rutgers
Eighteenth-century and American literature

Cheryl Wall, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
American and African-American literature; women's studies

William Walling, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., New York
English romantics

Michael D. Warner, Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Colonial and 19th-century American literature; queer theory; social theory

Carolyn S. Williams, Associate Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Virginia
Victorian literature; women's studies; cultural studies

Edlie Wong, Assistant Professor of English, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley) Nineteenth-century African-American and transatlantic literature; women's studies