39 Academic Council Faculty
Image of Professor BenderJohn Bender, Professor
Office: 460-341
Office Hours: Tuesday 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
Image of Professor BolandEavan 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.
Image of Professor CastleTerry Castle, Professor
Office: 460-313
Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 2:00-4:00 & 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 Di PieroSimone Di Piero, Professor
Office: 460-212
Office Hours: On Leave
Phone: 650-723-0359
Email: dipiero@stanford.edu
Modern painting and photography; Basil Bunting; William Carlos Williams
Image of Professor ElamMichele Elam, Associate Professor
Office: 460-319
Office Hours: W: 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
Image of Professor EvansMartin Evans, Professor
Office: 460-340
Office Hours: T/Th: 12:00-1:30
Phone: 650-723-2667
Email: evans@stanford.edu
Milton; travel literature; Renaissance literature; Intellectual history; History of critical theory
Image of Professor FelstinerJohn Felstiner, Professor
Office: 460-327
Office Hours: Mon: 1:30-2:30, Tues: 1:00-2:00 & by appt.
Phone: 650-723-4722
Email: felstiner@stanford.edu
Literature, art, and music of the Holocaust; literary translation; Pablo Neruda; Paul Celan; poetry and environment.
Image of Professor FieldsKen Fields, Professor
Office: 460-217
Office Hours: Tues. 2:15-3:15 & Wed. 1:15-3:15
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: M: 2:00-4:00 & by appt.
Phone: 650-723-1804
Email: sfishkin@stanford.edu
Issues of race, gender and ethnicity; Mark Twain; transnational American Studies; American theatre; journalism history and nonfiction narrative; feminism; theatre history; literature and the animal rights movement
Image of Professor FriedlanderLarry Friedlander, Professor (Teaching) Emeritus
Office: 460-331
Office Hours: By appointment only
Phone: 650-725-1644
Email: larryf@stanford.edu
Shakespeare; Drama, Performance Practice and Theory; Ethics and Tragedy;Literature of fantasy and science fiction; technology and education
Image of Professor GiganteDenise Gigante, Associate Professor
Office: 460-329
Office Hours: M/W: 12:00-1:30 & by appt.
Phone: 650-725-7080
Email: dgigante@stanford.edu
Aesthetics, Poetic Form, the English Essay Tradition, Taste, Gastronomy, Life Science.
Image of Professor GreeneRoland Greene, Professor
Office: 260-109/460-303
Office Hours: T/Th: 1:00-2:00
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 HeiseUrsula K. Heise, Professor
Office: 460-419
Office Hours: Wed. & Fri: 2:30-4:00
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.
Image of Professor HoxbyBlair Hoxby, Associate Professor
Office: SHC-132
Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 1:00-2:30
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: Wed. 9:30-10:30 & Fri. 2:00-4:00
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. & Fri. 3:00-4:30
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 JonesGavin Jones, Professor
Office: 460-417
Office Hours: Wed. & Thurs. 11:00-12:30
Phone: 650-724-5626
Email: grjones@stanford.edu
Language politics; social issues in literature; African-American and ethnic literatures; representations of social class.
Image of Professor KarnesMichelle Karnes, Assistant Professor
Office: 460-311
Office Hours: Tues: 9:30-10:30 & Th: 1:00-3:00
Phone: 650-725-6485
Email: karnes@stanford.edu
Medieval religious literature; philosophy; theology; William Langland; Chaucer; mysticism; education; the Bible
Image of Professor LunsfordAndrea Lunsford, Professor
Office: 460-413
Office Hours: Tuesday 11:00-12:30 & by appt.
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
Image of Professor MajumdarSaikat Majumdar, Assistant Professor
Office: 460-415
Office Hours: T-Th 3-4 PM & by appt.
Phone: 723-2726
Email: majumdar@stanford.edu
Late 19th and 20th century British, Irish and World Anglophone literatures, postcolonial and globalization studies, critical theory
Image of Professor MorettiFranco Moretti, Professor
Office: 460-416
Office Hours: Friday 2:00-4:00 & by appt.
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: M 10:30-11:30 am; W 3:15-4:15 pm and by appointment. Email ahead to ensure availability.
Phone: 650-723-0034
Email: pmoya@stanford.edu
Writings by women of color; U.S. Latina/o literature, multicultural education, race and ethnicity
Image of Professor OrgelStephen Orgel, Professor
Office: 460-304
Office Hours: T/Th: 10:30-12:00
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: 460-324
Office Hours: On Leave
Phone: 650-723-1818
Email: parker@stanford.edu
Shakespeare; comparative early modern studies; feminism and race
Image of Professor PhelanPeggy Phelan, Professor
Office: Memorial Aud. 203
Office Hours: Tuesday 2:00-4:00 starting 9/29/09 & by appt. through Chris Hartung (hartung@stanford.edu)
Phone: 650-725-2396
Email: pphelan@stanford.edu
Twentieth-Century performance, dance and visual art. Beckett. Critical Theory. Performance and Politics
Image of Professor PolhemusRobert Polhemus, Professor
Office: 460-302
Office Hours: Mon. 3:15-4:15 & Tues. 1:00-3:00
Phone: 650-723-4226
Email: polhemus@stanford.edu
The psychology of literature and art; aesthetics; comedy; the literature of love and passion; fine arts; film; Dickens; Joyce; Thackeray; Austen; George Eliot; Trollope; Lawrence; the Brontes; Nabokov; Woody Allen.
Image of Professor RampersadArnold Rampersad, Professor Emeritus
Office: 460-421
Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 11:00-1:00
Phone: 650-723-4622
Email: rampersad@stanford.edu
Biography, autobiography; DuBois, Langston Hughes; literature of the South
Image of Professor RichardsonJudith Richardson, Assistant Professor
Office: 460-323
Office Hours: Mon. 12:30-2:00 & Thurs. 4:00-5:30
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 RiggsDavid Riggs, Professor
Office: 460-338
Office Hours: Tues. 2:00-3:00 & Thurs. 12:30-2:00
Phone: 650-723-4657
Email: riggs@stanford.edu
Shakespeare; Elizabethan and Jacobean drama; Jonson; Marlowe
Image of Professor RoveeChristopher Rovee, Senior Lecturer
Office: 460-305
Office Hours: T/Th: 1:00-2:00 & Thurs. 4:00-5:00
Phone: 650-723-4616
Email: ckr@stanford.edu
18th- & 19th-century British literature and culture; aesthetics and politics; photography and literature; theory of the museum; Keats; Wordsworth; Wilde
Image of Professor RuttenburgNancy Ruttenburg, Professor
Office: 460-418
Office Hours: Wed. 11:00-1:00 & Friday 2:30-3:30
Phone: 650-725-1644
Email: ruttenburg@stanford.edu
Literatures and cultures of colonial through antebellum America and of 19th-century Russia; 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: T/Th: 10:30-12:00 & 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: Mon. & Wed. 5:00-6:00 & by appt.
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 SullivanHannah Sullivan, Assistant Professor
Office: 460-326
Office Hours: Mon. 1:30-2:30 & Tues. 2:00-4:00
Phone: 723-9776
Email: hsullivan@stanford.edu
Modernism; textual studies; revision and the process of composition; autobiography and life writing; poetry
Image of Professor SummitJennifer Summit, Professor
Office: 460-201
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: 650-723-1560
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: W: 2:00-3:00 Th: 3:00-5:00 & 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 VermeuleBlakey Vermeule, Associate Professor
Office: 460-325
Office Hours: Mon. 2:00-4:00 & Th. 1:00-2:00
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. 10:00-11:30
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: Wed. 4:00-5:00 & Fri. 1:00-3:00
Phone: 650-723-4594
Email: woloch@stanford.edu
Literary theory and criticism; narrative theory; aesthetics of realism; politics and literature; Austen; Dickens