| 38 Academic Council Faculty | ||
|---|---|---|
![]() | John Bender, Professor Office: 460-341 Office Hours: T/Th: 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. 1:30-2:30, Thurs. 2-4 & 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 |
![]() | Simone Di Piero, Professor Office: 460-212 Office Hours: T/Th: 11:00-1:15 Phone: 650-723-0359 Email: dipiero@stanford.edu | Modern painting and photography; Basil Bunting; William Carlos Williams |
![]() | Michele Elam, Associate Professor Office: 460-319 Office Hours: W: 1:00-2:30 & by appt. (held in 360-362) 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: Wednesday 12:00-3:00 Phone: 650-723-2667 Email: evans@stanford.edu | Milton; travel literature; Renaissance literature; Intellectual history; History of critical theory |
![]() | John Felstiner, Professor Office: 460-327 Office Hours: M/W: 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. |
![]() | Ken Fields, Professor Office: 460-217 Office Hours: Wed. 10-12 & Thurs. 9:30-11:00 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: 3-5 & 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 |
![]() | Denise Gigante, Associate Professor Office: 460-329 Office Hours: By appointment 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: 260-109/460-303 Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00-4:00 & 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 |
![]() | Ursula K. Heise, Professor Office: 460-419 Office Hours: T/Th: 1:00-2:30 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: SHC-132 Office Hours: On Leave 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: M, F, 1:30-3:30 or by appointment. 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: M/F: 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 |
![]() | Gavin 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. |
![]() | Michelle Karnes, Assistant Professor Office: 460-311 Office Hours: Tu. 3-4:30, Th. 10:30-12 & by appt. Phone: 650-725-6485 Email: karnes@stanford.edu | Medieval religious literature; philosophy; theology; William Langland; Chaucer; mysticism; education; the Bible |
![]() | Andrea 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 |
![]() | Saikat Majumdar, Assistant Professor Office: 460-415 Office Hours: T/Th: 11-12 & 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 |
![]() | Franco 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 |
![]() | Paula Moya, Associate Professor Office: English 460-331 Office Hours: T: 4:30-5:30, F: 10-11 & by appt. (Please 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 |
![]() | Stephen Orgel, Professor Office: 460-304 Office Hours: T/Th: 1:30-3:00 Phone: 650-723-4597 Email: orgel@stanford.edu | Shakespeare, Renaissance theater, history of the book, mythology and iconology |
![]() | Patricia 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 |
![]() | Peggy 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 |
![]() | Robert Polhemus, Professor Office: 460-302 Office Hours: Friday 9:30-12:00 & by appt. 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. |
![]() | Arnold Rampersad, Professor Emeritus Office: 460-421 Office Hours: On Leave Phone: 650-723-4622 Email: rampersad@stanford.edu | Biography, autobiography; DuBois, Langston Hughes; literature of the South |
![]() | Judith Richardson, Senior Lecturer 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. |
![]() | David Riggs, Professor Office: 460-338 Office Hours: Wednesday 10:00-12:00 Phone: 650-723-4657 Email: riggs@stanford.edu | Shakespeare; Elizabethan and Jacobean drama; Jonson; Marlowe |
![]() | Christopher Rovee, Senior Lecturer Office: 460-305 Office Hours: M: 1-3, W: 1-11 & by appt. 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 |
![]() | Nancy Ruttenburg, Professor Office: 460-418 Office Hours: Tues: 11-12, Th: 3:30-5:00 & by appt. 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. |
![]() | Ramon Saldivar, Professor Office: 460-322 Office Hours: M/W: 1:30-3:00 & 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 |
![]() | Stephen Hong Sohn , Assistant Professor Office: 460-422 Office Hours: M/W: 7:15pm-8:15pm & 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 |
![]() | Hannah Sullivan, Assistant Professor Office: 460-326 Office Hours: M: 11-1 & W: 1:30-2:30 Phone: 723-9776 Email: hsullivan@stanford.edu | Modernism; textual studies; revision and the process of composition; autobiography and life writing; poetry |
![]() | Jennifer 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 |
![]() | Elizabeth Tallent, Professor Office: 460-214 Office Hours: Tu: 11-12, W: 1-3 & 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, 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 |
![]() | Tobias 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. |
![]() | Alex 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 |





































