Administration
- Administrative Leadership
- Additional Departmental Leadership
- Working Groups, 2024-2025
- Center, Initiative, and Project Leadership
- Graduate Leadership
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.
Administrative Leadership
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)
Additional Departmental Leadership
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
Working Groups, 2024-2025
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
Center, Initiative, and Project Leadership
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
Early Modern Center
Director: Patricia Fumerton
RA: Stephanie Goldstein
Global Latinidades Project
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
Graduate Leadership
Forthcoming (watch this space)