The English department is served by a chair and a number of standing committees and department officers. Key committees seat graduate student representatives, elected annually by the graduate student body.

The following represent the Standing Committees, Working Groups, Center and Initiative Directors, and RAs for the academic year 2024-25.

Chair
Jim Kearney

Vice Chair
Jeannine DeLombard

Director of Graduate Studies
Andrew Griffin

Director of Undergraduate Studies
Jeremy Douglass

Administrative Committee
Stephanie Batiste
Julie Carlson (Fall)
Enda Duffy
Swati Rana
Daniel Reeve (Winter, Spring)
ex officio: Jeannine DeLombard, Andrew Griffin, Jeremy Douglass

Graduate Committee
Andrew Griffin, Chair
Heidi Amin-Hong
Heather Blurton
Maurizia Boscagli
Bishnu Ghosh (Winter, Spring)
Yunte Huang
Rachael Scarborough King
Mark Maslan

Undergraduate Committee
Jeremy Douglass, Chair
Brian Donnelly
Ken Hiltner (Fall, Winter)
Ben Olguin
Cathy Thomas (Fall, Spring)
Candace Waid (Fall, Spring)

Other Standing Committees & Positions

HFA Diversity Officer
Sowon Park

Job Placement Committee
Tess Shewry (Fall, Spring)
Amrah Salomón (Fall, Spring)
Bernadette Andrea (Winter)
Jim Kearney (Winter)

TA Advisory Panel
Bernadette Andrea, Lead TA Advisor
E Cook (Winter, Spring)
Jim Kearney
Rachael King

President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Committee
Julie Carlson, Chair (Fall)
Felice Blake, Chair (Winter, Spring)
Melody Jue (Winter, Spring)
Jim Kearney
Ben Olguin

Early Career Mentorship Coordinator
Melody Jue (Winter, Spring)

Technology Committee
Jeremy Douglass
Alan Liu

Library Liaison
Jim Kearney (Fall)
Melody Jue (Winter)
Paddy Fumerton (Spring)

EAP Representative
Maurizia Boscagli (W/S)

Faculty Legislature Representatives
Enda Duffy
Cathy Thomas

Literature & Mind Search Committee
Sowon Park, Chair
Julie Carlson
Dan Reeve
Russell Samolsky

Grad Program Revision Committee
Andrew Griffin, Chair
Heidi Amin-Hong
Heather Blurton
Bishnu Ghosh (Winter, Spring)

Critical Creative Writing Committee
Cathy Thomas, Chair (Fall, Spring)
Stephanie Batiste
Felice Blake (Winter, Spring)
Swati Rana
Amrah Salomón (Fall, Spring)

WASC
E Cook (Winter, Spring)
Ken Hiltner (Fall, Winter)
Yunte Huang

2024-2025 Directors and RAs

American Cultures and Global Contexts Center
Director: Jeannine DeLombard
RA: Carlee Montgomery

Catalyst
Director: Brian Donnelly
RA: Olivia Bievenue

Center on Modern Culture, Materialism, and Aesthetics
Director: Maurizia Boscagli
RA: Leila Stegemoeller

Critical Creative Writing
Director:  Cathy Thomas
RAs:  Taylor Holmes & Nirvana Shahriar

Early Modern Center
Director: Patricia Fumerton
RA: Stephanie Goldstein

Global Latinidades Center
Director: Ben Olguín

Hemispheric South/s
Director: Stephanie Batiste

Las Maestras Center
Director: Celia Herrera Rodríguez

Literature & Environment
Director: Bishnupriya Ghosh

Literature & Mind
Director: Julie Carlson
RA: Liv Henderson

Medieval Literature
Director: Daniel Reeve
RA: Alice Fulmer

Transcriptions
Director: Jeremy Douglass
RA: Maria Job

Forthcoming (watch this space)