Faculty and Staff

Aviva Briefel
Associate Professor of English, Director of Gay and Lesbian Studies Program
Victorian literature and culture, film

Jarrett Brown
Consortium for Faculty Diversity Pre-Dissertation Fellow & Lecturer

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

Tess E. Chakkalakal
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and English

David A. Collings
Professor of English

Peter Coviello on leave for the academic year 2008-09
Associate Professor of English, Acting Program Director of Africana Studies
American Literature

Mary Agnes Edsall
Assistant Professor of English
Medieval Literature and Culture; Medieval Devotional Literature; Tolkien

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
Associate Professor of English
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature; Literature and Medicine

Aaron Kitch
Assistant Professor of English
Renaissance literature and drama; literary history; aesthetics and politics

Belinda Kong on leave for the 2008-09 academic year
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and English

Margot Livesey on leave for fall 2008 semester
Writer-in-Residence

Elizabeth Muther
Associate Professor of English, Chair of English Department

Terri L Nickel
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Eighteenth-century British literature; nineteenth-century British literature; the novel; and cultural theory

Marilyn Reizbaum
Professor of English
Modernisms, James Joyce, Scottish and Irish literatures and film, Jewish cultural studies

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