34 Academic Council Faculty
Image of Professor BenderJohn Bender, Professor
Office: 460-341
Office Hours: Wed. 1:45-3:00 & Thurs. 1:45-3:30
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
Image of Professor BolandEavan Boland, Professor
Office: 460-223C
Office Hours:
Phone: 650-725-1207
Email: boland@stanford.edu
The writing and continuance of poetry; women and poetry; Irish literature; computer technology.
Image of Professor CastleTerry Castle, Professor
Office: 460-313
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00-5:00 & by appt.
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
Image of Professor ElamMichele Elam, Professor
Office: 460-319
Office Hours: Thursday 1:00-3:00 & 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
Image of Professor FieldsKen Fields, Professor
Office: 460-217
Office Hours: Tues. 10-11, 3-4 & Wed. 3-4
Phone: 650-723-1201
Email: fields@stanford.edu
Creative writing; American literature; French symbolist poetry; American Indian literature; film
Image of Professor FishkinShelley Fisher Fishkin, Professor
Office: 460-420
Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00-4:30 & by appt.
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
Image of Professor GiganteDenise Gigante, Professor
Office: 460-329
Office Hours: On Leave 2012-13
Phone: 650-725-7080
Email: dgigante@stanford.edu
18th and 19th-century British; Romanticism; poetry and poetics; the essay tradition; taste, gastronomy, and aesthetic theory; transatlantic book history; life writing and life science
Image of Professor GreeneRoland Greene, Professor
Office: 460-302
Office Hours: Tuesday 12 noon to 2:00 & by appt.
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
Image of Professor HoxbyBlair Hoxby, Associate Professor
Office: 460-414
Office Hours: Tues. & Wed. 11:00-12:00
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
Image of Professor JarvisClaire Jarvis, Assistant Professor
Office: 460-309
Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs 9:30-10:30 & 1:00-3:00
Phone: 723-0050
Email: cjarvis@stanford.edu
Victorian literature; material culture; poetry; theories of sexuality; cultural and literary history.
Image of Professor JenkinsNicholas Jenkins, Associate Professor
Office: 460-423
Office Hours: Mon. 3:00-4:30 (Sweet 314) Fri. 3:00-4:30 (460-423)
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
Image of Professor JohnsonAdam Johnson, Associate Professor
Office: 460-324
Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 3:15-4:15 & Wed. 6:15-7:15 pm
Phone: 650-723-4657
Email: adamjohn@stanford.edu
Narrative theory, the development of the novel, collaboration, graphic narratives and new technologies
Image of Professor JonesGavin Jones, Professor and Department Chair
Office: 460-201C
Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 4:00-5:00
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.
Image of Professor KarnesMichelle Karnes, Assistant Professor
Office: 460-311
Office Hours: On Leave 2012-13
Phone: 650-725-6485
Email: karnes@stanford.edu
Medieval literature; philosophy; theology; William Langland; Chaucer; mysticism; education; the Bible
Ivan Lupic, Assistant Professor
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Shakespeare and early modern English literature; European Renaissance; literature and political thought; textual scholarship, book history, and manuscript studies; theater history; history of the discipline (whatever it is); translation studies; queer studies; new boredom
Image of Professor MajumdarSaikat Majumdar, Assistant Professor
Office: 460-415
Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 12:45-2PM & by appt.
Phone: 723-2726
Email: majumdar@stanford.edu
World literature in English, modernism, critical theory, colonial and postcolonial studies
Image of Professor McGurlMark McGurl, Professor
Office: 460-419
Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 4:15-5:30
Phone: 723-4722
Email: mcgurl@stanford.edu
Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture. The Novel. Sociology and Literature. Classical Hollywood Cinema.
Image of Professor MorettiFranco Moretti, Professor
Office: 460-416
Office Hours: On Leave 2012-13
Phone: 650-723-4590
Email: moretti@stanford.edu
Cultural geography; theory of the novel and of tragedy; interdisciplinary models
Image of Professor MoyaPaula Moya, Associate Professor
Office: English 460-331
Office Hours: Mon. 3:30-4:30, Thurs. 1:30-2:30 & by appt.
Phone: 650-723-0034
Email: pmoya@stanford.edu
20th and 21st Century American Literature and Culture, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Narrative Theory, Feminist Theory, Philosophies of Race, Social Psychological Approaches to Literature, Ethnic Literature
Image of Professor NgaiSianne Ngai, Professor
Office: 460-417
Office Hours: Monday 1:00-3:00 & by appt.
Phone: 723-4622
Email: xngai@stanford.edu
19th-21st Century American Literature, Aesthetic Theory and Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies.
Image of Professor OrgelStephen Orgel, Professor
Office: 460-304
Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 1:30-3:00
Phone: 650-723-4597
Email: orgel@stanford.edu
Shakespeare, Renaissance theater, history of the book, mythology and iconology
Image of Professor ParkerPatricia Parker, Professor
Office: 460-338
Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 5:00-6:00 & by appt.
Phone: 650-723-1818
Email: parker@stanford.edu
Shakespeare; comparative early modern studies; feminism and race
Image of Professor PhelanPeggy Phelan, Professor
Office: 460-339
Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 11:50-1:15
Phone: 723-2723
Email: pphelan@stanford.edu
Twentieth-Century performance, dance and visual art. Beckett. Critical Theory. Performance and Politics
Image of Professor RasberryVaughn Rasberry, Assistant Professor
Office: 460-326
Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 11:00-12:30 & by appt.
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
Image of Professor RichardsonJudith Richardson, Senior Lecturer
Office: 460-323
Office Hours: Wed. 1-2 & Thurs. 10-12
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.
Image of Professor RuttenburgNancy Ruttenburg, Professor
Office: 460-418
Office Hours: By appointment
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.
Image of Professor SaldivarRamon Saldivar, Professor
Office: 460-322
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00-3:30 & by appt.
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
Image of Professor Sohn Stephen Hong Sohn , Assistant Professor
Office: 460-422
Office Hours: by appointment
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
Image of Professor SummitJennifer Summit, Professor
Office: 460-318
Office Hours: On Leave 2012-13
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
Image of Professor TallentElizabeth Tallent, Professor
Office: 460-214
Office Hours: Wed. 3:30-5:30, Fri. 2:00-3:00 & by appt.
Phone: 650-723-0031
Email: tallent@stanford.edu
The short story and novel form, feminist literary tradition, gay and lesbian literature.
Image of Professor TreharneElaine Treharne, Professor
Office: 460-327
Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 9:45-10:45
Phone: 723-4609
Email: treharne@stanford.edu
Medieval Studies: the cultural contexts, contents, and languages of Early English manuscripts from c. 700 to 1500
Image of Professor VermeuleBlakey Vermeule, Professor
Office: 460-325
Office Hours: Thurs. 9:00-11:00, 2:00-4:00 & by appt.
Phone: 650-723-2905
Email: vermeule@stanford.edu
18th-century British literature; Romanticism; critical theory; cognitive approaches to literature; the history of the novel
Image of Professor WolffTobias Wolff, Professor
Office: 460-218
Office Hours: Mon. 1:00-2:30 & Tues. 10:00-11:00 & by appt.
Phone: 650-723-0504
Email: twolff@stanford.edu
American literature; development of the short story; autobiography; Chekhov.
Image of Professor WolochAlex Woloch, Associate Professor
Office: 460-307
Office Hours: Tuesday 2:00-4:00 & by appt.
Phone: 650-723-4594
Email: woloch@stanford.edu
Literary theory and criticism; narrative theory; aesthetics of realism; politics and literature; Austen; Dickens