STEPHANIE BATISTE, PhD, George Washington University, 2003
African American studies; race and gender; performance theory and film; national identities and culture; transnationalism and diaspora; cultural theory; culture and imperialism.

HEATHER BLURTON, PhD, Columbia University, 2003
Literature of the High Middle Ages; literary responses to the Norman Conquest; the intersections of romance, hagiography, and historiography; medieval antisemitisms.

MAURIZIA BOSCAGLI, PhD, Brown University, 1990
Gender studies and feminist theory; the body; theories of subjectivity; British and European Modernism; fin-de-siècle literature; critical and cultural theory; theories of mass culture.

JANIS CALDWELL, PhD, University of Washington, 1996
Victorian novel; non-fiction prose and poetry; history and philosophy of science; medicine, body and mind; literature and ethics.

JULIE CARLSON, PhD, University of Chicago, 1985
British Romanticism; feminist and queer theories; early nineteenth-century British theater.

ELIZABETH HECKENDORN COOK, PhD, Comparative Literature, Stanford University, 1990
Eighteenth-century British and French literature and cultural studies.

ENDA DUFFY PhD, Harvard University, 1990
Post-colonial literatures and cultures; modernism and postmodernism; Irish literature; cultural studies; Joyce.

L. ARANYE FRADENBURG, PhD, University of Virginia, 1982
Medieval English and Scottish literature; critical and historical theory.

PATRICIA FUMERTON, PhD, Stanford University, 1981
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century culture and literature; high and popular culture; vagrancy and lower-order mobility; broadside ballads; subjectivity; postmodernism.

BISHNUPRIYA GHOSH, PhD, Northwestern University, 1994
Postcolonial theory, literature, and film; gender and sexuality studies; 20th century novel; globalization and culture studies.

ANDREW GRIFFIN, PhD, McMaster University, 2008
Renaissance drama, literature, and historiography; philosophy of history; theatre and performance.

GILES B. GUNN, PhD, University of Chicago, 1967
American literature; literary theory and criticism; American cultural and religious studies; global literature and culture; literature and religion; literature and philosophy. Professor of English and of Global and International Studies.

CARL GUTIÉRREZ-JONES, PhD, Cornell University, 1990
American studies, Chicano studies; contemporary fiction; Pan-American studies; critical race studies.

KEN HILTNER, PhD Harvard University, 2006.
Renaissance literature; Milton and the metaphysical poets; ecological criticism; literary theory. Graduate Advisor, Department of English. 

YUNTE HUANG, PhD, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1999
American Modernism, Asian American literature; 20th Century American Poetry.

JAMES KEARNEY, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2001
Early modern drama, poetry, and prose; Reformation theology and hermeneutics; history of the book; colonial texts and postcolonial theory; bibliography and textual studies.

STEPHANIE LEMENAGER, PhD, Harvard University, 1999
Nineteenth and twentieth century American literature and cultural studies; imaginary geographies, space and setting, literature of the Old West, travel narrative, ethnographic fictions.

SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM, PhD, Brandeis University, 1973
Asian American literature; post-colonial literature; ethnic and feminist writing.

ALAN LIU, PhD, Stanford University, 1980
English Romanticism; literature and technology; cultural studies; literary theory. Chair, Department of English

DAVID MARSHALL, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1979
Eighteenth-century fiction and aesthetics; narrative theory; Shakespeare; lyric poetry; autobiography; philosophy and literature. Dean, College of Letters and Science.

MARK MASLAN, PhD, U.C. Berkeley, 1990
American literature; literary theory and theories of genders and sexualities.

CHRISTOPHER NEWFIELD, PhD, Cornell University, 1988
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature; literary and social theory; business culture, California culture, gender, sexuality, and race.

CAROL BRAUN PASTERNACK, PhD, U.C. Los Angeles, 1983
Old and Middle English literature; history of the English language; oral and textual theory; gender in the Middle Ages. Undergraduate Advisor, Department of English.

RITA RALEY, PhD, U.C. Santa Barbara, 1998
Literature and new media, especially hypertext fiction and digital art; globalization and global culture; language theory and history; institutional criticism, especially university culture. 

RUSSELL SAMOLSKY, PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2003
Postcolonial discourse; South African literature; modernism; Jewish studies.

TERESA SHEWRY, PhD, Duke University, 2008
Ecocriticism and environmental studies; Pacific and Asia Pacific literatures; indigenous literatures; theories of hope, possibility, and utopia.

CANDACE WAID, PhD, Yale University, 1986
American literature and culture; gender studies; African-American literature; southern literature; regional literature.

WILLIAM B. WARNER, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1977
Eighteenth century; the novel; literary and cultural theory; media studies; law and literature (free speech and censorship). 

KAY YOUNG, PhD, Harvard University, 1992
Victorian studies; the novel; Hollywood films of the 1930s and '40s; comedy; narrative theory (relations of narrative to philosophy, architecture, dance).

Affiliated Faculty
These faculty members from other departments are affiliated with the English Department. They occasionally teach courses of interest to English students as well as sit on their examination and dissertation committees.

SUSAN DERWIN, Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies Dept.
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1988
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American novel; holocaust studies; critical theory, film studies.

JODY ENDERS, Dept. of Theater and Dance
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1986
Medieval literature; theater history; history of rhetoric; performance theory; interpretations of law and literature.

JAMES LEE, Asian American Studies
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2000
Asian American literature and literary studies; comparative race studies; interdisciplinary approaches to Asian American Studies; modern social movements.

GEORGE LIPSITZ, Dept. of Black Studies
PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1987
Social movements; urban culture; inequality.

CONSTANCE PENLEY, Film Studies Dept.
PhD, U.C. Berkeley, 1983
Feminism; film theory; psychoanalytic theory; cultural studies; science and technology studies.

CHELA SANDOVAL, Chicano Studies Dept.
PhD, History of Consciousness, U.C. Santa Cruz, 1993
Critical and cultural theory; CyberCinema and semiotics; techno-science studies; the methodology of the oppressed: queer, feminist, ethnic, and post-colonial studies; women of color.

BARBARA TOMLINSON, Dept. of Feminist Studies
PhD, University of California, Riverside, 1980
Feminist theory; rhetoric and feminist politics, cultural studies.