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, William Robertson Coe Professor in the Humanities, and Senior Associate Vice Provost

Aesthetics • British Literature • Digital Humanities • Literature and Philosophy
Creative Writing
Asian American • Comparative Literature • Comparative Race Studies • Transnational Studies • Twentieth and Twenty-first century
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
Creative Writing
Poetry and poetics from 1500 to the present • Renaissance/Early Modern
American Literature • British Literature • Cultural studies • Literary Criticism/Theory • The Novel
British Literature • Ecocriticism • Literature and Science • Medieval literature
Drama • Renaissance/Early Modern • Restoration/18th-century
Drama • Performance Studies • Renaissance/Early Modern • Restoration/18th-century • Shakespeare
American Literature • British Literature • Digital Humanities
Creative Writing • Fiction • Narrative Theory • The Novel
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 • Postcolonial Literature • Shakespeare • Tragedy
African American • American Studies • Comparative Race Studies • Postcolonial/Third World
American Literature • American Studies
Creative Writing • Fiction
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
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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The Antidote

2025
Karen Russell

The Wayfinder

2025
Adam Johnson

Green of All Heads

2025
Aracelis Girmay

Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade

2025
Shelley Fisher Fishkin

The Cambridge History of the British Essay

2024
Denise Gigante and Jason Childs
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