| 36 Academic Council Faculty | ||
|---|---|---|
![]() | John Bender, Professor Office: 460-341 Office Hours: Tues. 4:15-5:30 & Wed. 1:45-3:15 Phone: 723-3817 Email: bender@stanford.edu | Literature and society in the 18th-century; comparative study of literature and the visual arts: sociology of literature; literary theory; science and literature |
![]() | Eavan Boland, Professor Office: 460-223C Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 2:00-3:30 Phone: 650-725-1207 Email: boland@stanford.edu | The writing and continuance of poetry; women and poetry; Irish literature; computer technology. |
![]() | Terry Castle, Professor Office: 460-313 Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 3:15-4:45 & by appointment Phone: 650-725-1217 Email: castle@stanford.edu | The English novel; Richardson; Defoe; Fielding; 18th-century women authors; 20th-century British women's writing; the First World War; feminist theory; Freud; gay and lesbian literature |
![]() | Michele Elam, Professor Office: 460-319 Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 1:00-2:30 & by appt. Phone: 650-723-0043 Email: melam@stanford.edu | 19th-21st Century African American literature, history & theory; Mixed Race Studies; Black Feminist Theory; Black Cultural Performance |
![]() | Martin Evans, Professor Office: 460-340 Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 11:00-12:30 Phone: 650-723-2667 Email: evans@stanford.edu | Milton; travel literature; Renaissance literature; Intellectual history; History of critical theory |
![]() | Ken Fields, Professor Office: 460-217 Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 4:15-5:30 & by appointment Phone: 650-723-1201 Email: fields@stanford.edu | Creative writing; American literature; French symbolist poetry; American Indian literature; film |
![]() | Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Professor Office: 460-420 Office Hours: Monday 3:30-4:30 & by appointment Phone: 650-723-1804 Email: sfishkin@stanford.edu | 19th- and 20th-century American literature and cultural history; Issues of race, gender and ethnicity; Mark Twain; transnational American Studies; journalism history and nonfiction narrative; feminism; theatre history; literature and the animal rights movement |
![]() | Denise Gigante, Professor Office: 460-329 Office Hours: On leave Phone: 650-725-7080 Email: dgigante@stanford.edu | Aesthetics, Poetic Form, Life Writing, the English Essay Tradition, Taste, Gastronomy, Life Science. |
![]() | Roland Greene, Professor Office: 460-302 Office Hours: Monday 2:00-3:30 & by appointment Phone: 650-725-1214 Email: rgreene@stanford.edu | Early modern literature; transatlantic culture and society; poetry and the history of how it is read; literary and cultural theory, especially lyric theory; Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton |
![]() | Ursula K. Heise, Professor Office: 460-327 Office Hours: On Leave Phone: 415-425-9174 Email: uheise@stanford.edu | Twentieth-century fiction and poetry; theories of modernization, postmodernization and globalization; ecocriticism; literature and biology/ecology; literature and media; urban studies; science fiction. |
![]() | Blair Hoxby, Associate Professor Office: 460-414 Office Hours: Tues. 9:45-10:45 & Thurs. 2:00-3:00 Phone: 723-9493 Email: bhoxby@stanford.edu | Milton, the English Civil Wars, the Restoration, Renaissance and Enlightenment theater, tragedy and tragic theory, early opera, and performance theory |
![]() | Claire Jarvis, Assistant Professor Office: 460-309 Office Hours: Tuesday, 1-3, and Friday, 10:30-12 Phone: 723-0050 Email: cjarvis@stanford.edu | Victorian literature; material culture; poetry; theories of sexuality; cultural and literary history. |
![]() | Nicholas Jenkins, Associate Professor Office: 460-423 Office Hours: Mon. 2-3:30 (MJH_423) Tues. 2-3:30 (sweet-314) Phone: 650-723-2725 Email: njenkins@stanford.edu | W.H. Auden; 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century poetry in English; Modernism; British culture of the 1930s; contemporary British culture; literary and cultural theory; intersections of art and literature; literary cosmopolitanism, nationalism, internationalism; history of the book |
![]() | Adam Johnson, Associate Professor Office: 460-324 Office Hours: By appointment Phone: 650-723-4657 Email: adamjohn@stanford.edu | Narrative theory, the development of the novel, collaboration, graphic narratives and new technologies |
![]() | Gavin Jones, Professor and Department Chair Office: 460-201C Office Hours: By Appointment Phone: 650-723-1560 Email: grjones@stanford.edu | Nineteenth-century American literature; American modernism; language politics; social issues in literature; African-American and ethnic writing; representations of social class; failure. |
![]() | Michelle Karnes, Assistant Professor Office: 460-311 Office Hours: By appointment Phone: 650-725-6485 Email: karnes@stanford.edu | Medieval literature; philosophy; theology; William Langland; Chaucer; mysticism; education; the Bible |
![]() | Andrea Lunsford, Professor Office: 460-413 Office Hours: On leave Phone: 650-723-0682 Email: lunsford@stanford.edu | Literacy and its relation to culture and literature; feminist rhetorics; theories of authorship; the politics of language; technology and discourse |
![]() | Saikat Majumdar, Assistant Professor Office: 460-415 Office Hours: On leave 2011-12 Phone: 723-2726 Email: majumdar@stanford.edu | Late 19th and 20th century British, Irish and World Anglophone literatures, postcolonial and globalization studies, critical theory |
![]() | Mark McGurl, Professor Office: 460-419 Office Hours: Mon. 1:00-2:30 & Wed. 6:00-7:30pm Phone: 723-4722 Email: mcgurl@stanford.edu | Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture. The Novel. Sociology and Literature. Classical Hollywood Cinema. |
![]() | Franco Moretti, Professor Office: 460-416 Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00-3:00 & by appointment Phone: 650-723-4590 Email: moretti@stanford.edu | Cultural geography; theory of the novel and of tragedy; interdisciplinary models |
![]() | Paula Moya, Associate Professor Office: English 460-331 Office Hours: Tues. 3:00-4:30 & Thurs. 2:00-3:30 Phone: 650-723-0034 Email: pmoya@stanford.edu | Writings by women of color; U.S. Latina/o literature, multicultural education, race and ethnicity |
![]() | Sianne Ngai, Professor Office: 460-417 Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 3:30-5:00 Phone: 723-4622 Email: xngai@stanford.edu | Aesthetic Theory and Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, 19th, 20th, and 21st Century American Literature, Critical Race Studies, Modern Culture and Media. |
![]() | Stephen Orgel, Professor Office: 460-304 Office Hours: Mon. 1:30-3:00 & Wed. 9:30-11:00 Phone: 650-723-4597 Email: orgel@stanford.edu | Shakespeare, Renaissance theater, history of the book, mythology and iconology |
![]() | Patricia Parker, Professor Office: 460-338 Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 5:00-6:00p, & by appt. Phone: 650-723-1818 Email: parker@stanford.edu | Shakespeare; comparative early modern studies; feminism and race |
![]() | Peggy Phelan, Professor Office: SHC-114 Office Hours: On Leave Phone: Email: pphelan@stanford.edu | Twentieth-Century performance, dance and visual art. Beckett. Critical Theory. Performance and Politics |
![]() | Vaughn Rasberry, Assistant Professor Office: 460-326 Office Hours: Mon & Wed. 11:00-12:30 Phone: 723-4226 Email: gvr2@stanford.edu | American and African American Studies; twentieth-century American fiction; the Enlightenment and its critics; philosophical theories of modernity; postcolonial theory |
![]() | Judith Richardson, Senior Lecturer Office: 460-323 Office Hours: Thurs. 1:00-2:00 & Fri. 10:00-12:00 Phone: 650-723-2724 Email: judithr@stanford.edu | Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture: place and historical memory; regionalism; women's studies; popular culture; folklore. |
![]() | Christopher Rovee, Senior Lecturer Office: 460-305 Office Hours: Tues. 4:00-6:00 & Fri. 3:00-4:00 Phone: 723-4616 Email: ckr@stanford.edu | 18th- & 19th-century British literature and culture; aesthetics and politics; photography and literature; theory of the museum; Keats; Wordsworth; Wilde |
![]() | Nancy Ruttenburg, Professor Office: 460-418 Office Hours: On Leave Phone: 650-725-1644 Email: ruttenburg@stanford.edu | Literatures and cultures of colonial through antebellum America and of 19th-century Russia; North American literature in comparative context; democratic theory and history of modern democratic forms; novel history and theory; philosophies of religion and ethics. |
![]() | Ramon Saldivar, Professor Office: 460-322 Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 1:30-3:00 & by appointment Phone: 650-725-1213 Email: saldivar@stanford.edu | 20th Century American, British, and postcolonial cultural history and theory; modernity and postmodernity; literary theory; theory of the novel; US Latino writings |
![]() | Stephen Hong Sohn , Assistant Professor Office: 460-422 Office Hours: On Leave Phone: 723-3014 Email: ssohn@stanford.edu | Asian American Literature, Asian American Studies, transnationalism and globalization, critical theory, urban studies, cultural geography, gender and sexuality, psychoanalysis |
![]() | Jennifer Summit, Professor Office: 460-318 Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 3:15-4:45 Phone: 650-723-2634 Email: summit@stanford.edu | Histories of reading, writing and knowledge, late medieval through early modern England; literary history and periodization; English and the disciplines |
![]() | Elizabeth Tallent, Professor Office: 460-214 Office Hours: Wed. & Fri. 1:30-3:00 & by appt. Phone: 650-723-0031 Email: tallent@stanford.edu | The short story and novel form, feminist literary tradition, gay and lesbian literature. |
![]() | Blakey Vermeule, Professor Office: 460-325 Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 10:00-11:30 Phone: 650-723-2905 Email: vermeule@stanford.edu | 18th-century British literature; Romanticism; critical theory; cognitive approaches to literature; the history of the novel |
![]() | Tobias Wolff, Professor Office: 460-218 Office Hours: Mon. 1:00-2:30, Tues. 10-11 & by appt. Phone: 650-723-0504 Email: twolff@stanford.edu | American literature; development of the short story; autobiography; Chekhov. |
![]() | Alex Woloch, Associate Professor Office: 460-307 Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 1:30-3:00 & by appt. Phone: 650-723-4594 Email: woloch@stanford.edu | Literary theory and criticism; narrative theory; aesthetics of realism; politics and literature; Austen; Dickens |



































