Faculty

I love teaching because it takes us--beyond just making a living--to the real "ends" and "aims" of life: 'The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.' -W.E.B. Du Bois

— Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor

Aesthetics • British Literature • Digital Humanities • Literature and Philosophy

Literature 1850 to the Present • The Novel

British Literature • Gay/lesbian Studies/ LGBT • Literary Criticism/Theory • The Novel • Women's Studies/Gender and Sexuality

British Literature • Comparative Literature • Literary Criticism/Theory • Narrative Theory • The Novel

African American Literature & Culture • Artificial Intelligence & the Arts • Mixed Race & Comparative Race Studies

American Literature • American Studies • Literature and History • Transnational Studies

Book History/Bibliomania • Poetry/Poetic Form • Romanticism • The Essay Form • Transnational Studies

Poetry/Poetic Form

Poetry and poetics from 1500 to the present • Renaissance/Early Modern

American Literature • British Literature • Cultural studies • Literary Criticism/Theory • The Novel

Drama • Renaissance/Early Modern • Restoration/18th-century

American Literature • British Literature • Digital Humanities

Creative Writing • Fiction • Narrative Theory • The Novel

Creative Writing • Poetry/Poetic Form

American Literature

Creative Writing • Modern and Contemporary • Poetry/Poetic Form

Global • Modern and Contemporary • Postcolonial • Twentieth and Twenty-first century

Asian American Autobiography • Contemporary American Literature • Fiction writing

American • Contemporary • History of the Novel • Modern • Postmodern

Comparative Race Studies • Contemporary • Latinx and Chicanx literatures • Narrative Theory • Women's Studies/Gender and Sexuality

British Literature • Comparative Literature • Literary Criticism/Theory • Renaissance/Shakespeare/Milton • Women's Studies/Gender and Sexuality

American Literature • British Literature • Performance Studies

American Literature • British Literature • Creative Writing • Literary Criticism/Theory • Nonfiction

African Literature • Magical Realism • Postcolonial Literature • Shakespeare • Tragedy

African American • American Studies • Comparative Race Studies • Postcolonial/Third World

American Literature • American Studies

American Literature • Comparative Literature • Literary Criticism/Theory • The Novel

20th - 21st Century Contemporary Fiction • Critical Literary Studies in Race & Ethnicity • Literature of the Americas

British Literature • Canadian Literature • Cultural studies • Modern and Postmodern literature • Women's Studies/Gender and Sexuality

American Literature • Creative Writing • Fiction • The Short Story

British Literature • Comparative Literature • Digital Humanities • Literature and History • Postcolonial studies

American Literature • British Literature • Literary Criticism/Theory • Postcolonial/Third World • The Novel

British Literature • Literary Criticism/Theory • Narrative Theory • The Novel

Renaissance/Early Modern • Restoration/18th-century

Department Bookshelf

English remains a top-ranked department nationally because of the strength and variety of our faculty publications, both in scholarly research and creative writing. Browse the Bookshelf to explore our many interests.

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Meadowlands

2023
Louise Glück

Marigold & Rose

2022
Louise Glück

Kumano Kodo: Pilgrimage to Powerspots

2022
J. Christian Greer

Private Notebooks: 1914-1916

2022
Marjorie Perloff

Book Madness | A Story of Book Collectors in America

2022
Denise Gigante
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