Faculty and Staff

Aviva Briefel
Associate Professor of English
Victorian literature and culture, film

Tess E. Chakkalakal  (on leave for the 2011-12 academic year)
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and English

Brock Clarke
Associate Professor of English

David A. Collings
Professor of English, Director of Gay and Lesbian Studies Program

Megan L. Cook
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in English

Peter Coviello
Associate Professor of English, Chair of English Department
American Literature

Guy Mark Foster
Assistant Professor of English
20th century African American literature, lesbian and gay studies, interracial literature

Celeste Goodridge 
Professor of English

Ann L. Kibbie (on leave for the 2012-13 academic year)
Associate Professor of English
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature; Literature and Medicine

Aaron Kitch (on leave for the 2012-13 academic year)
Associate Professor of English
Renaissance literature and drama; literary history; aesthetics and politics

Belinda Kong
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and English

Elizabeth Muther
Associate Professor of English

Marilyn Reizbaum  (on leave for the 2011-12 academic year)
Harrison King McCann Professor of English
Modernisms, James Joyce, Scottish and Irish literatures and film, Jewish cultural studies

Hilary J. Thompson
Assistant Professor of English

Anthony E. Walton
Writer-in-Residence

William C. Watterson
Edward Little Professor of the English Language and Literature
Shakespeare, Elizabethan Drama, the literary pastoral, Hawthorne, sonnets, English Renaissance poetry and prose

Emeritus Faculty

Franklin G. Burroughs
Harrison King McCann Research Professor of the English Language Emeritus