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Full & Part time Lecturers
Fields of Interest
Felisa Baynes-Ross's picture Felisa Baynes-Ross Lecturer in English Drama, Expository Writing, Literature & Theology, Middle English, Poetry
James Berger's picture James Berger Senior Lecturer in American Studies and in English American, Contemporary Literature, Environmental Writing, Literary Theory, Poetics, Poetry, Poetry Writing, Science Writing, Theory, Twentieth Century
Marie-Helene Bertino's picture Marie-Helene Bertino Ritvo-Slifka Writer-in-Residence and Lecturer in English Children's Literature, Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Film, Literary Theory, Literature & Music, Non-fiction Prose, Novel, Poetry, Science Fiction
Kate Bolick's picture Kate Bolick Lecturer in English Aesthetics, African-American, American, Asian-American, Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing, Early Modern, Expository Writing, Feminist Theory, Gender & Sexuality, History of Literary Criticism, Journalism, Nineteenth-Century, Non-fiction Prose, Twentieth Century, Victorian
Steven Brill's picture Steven Brill Lecturer in English, Lecturer in Journalism Journalism
Leslie Brisman's picture Leslie Brisman Karl Young Emeritus Professor of English & Senior Lecturer Early Modern, Poetry, Romanticism, Victorian
Alan Burdick's picture Alan Burdick Lecturer in English
Lincoln Caplan's picture Lincoln Caplan Lecturer in English, Tutor Writing Center Journalism
Danielle Chapman's picture Danielle Chapman Lecturer in English Creative Writing, Poetry, Poetry Writing
Peter Cole's picture Peter Cole Horace W. Goldsmith Senior Lecturer in Judaic Studies, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing, Literature & Music, Literature & Philosophy, Literature & Visual Arts, Middle English, Poetics, Poetry, Poetry Writing, Translation
Alison Coleman's picture Alison Coleman Director Special Projects, Lecturer in English Creative Writing, Expository Writing, Fiction Writing, Journalism, Pedagogy, Translation
Michael Cunningham's picture Michael Cunningham Professor in the Practice, Creative Writing Creative Writing
Richard Deming's picture Richard Deming Senior Lecturer in English, Director of Creative Writing Creative Writing
Natalie Diaz's picture Natalie Diaz Rosenkranz Writer-in-Residence Visiting Professor Creative Writing
Susan Dominus's picture Susan Dominus Lecturer in English Creative Writing, Journalism, Non-fiction Prose
Seamus Dwyer's picture Seamus Dwyer Lecturer in English
Andrew Ehrgood's picture Andrew Ehrgood Lecturer in English, Course Director English 121 [On Leave 24-25]
Craig Eklund's picture Craig Eklund Lecturer in English American, Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing, Early Modern, Expository Writing, Fiction Writing, Literary Theory, Literature & Philosophy, Novel, Twentieth Century
Greg Ellermann's picture Greg Ellermann Lecturer in English Literary Theory, Literature & Philosophy, Poetics, Romanticism
Randi Epstein's picture Randi Epstein Lecturer in English Environmental Writing, Gender & Sexuality, Journalism, Literature & Science, Medical Writing, Twentieth Century
Charles Euchner's picture Charles Euchner Lecturer in English American, Creative Writing, Expository Writing, Journalism, Non-fiction Prose
Amity Gaige's picture Amity Gaige Lecturer in English Creative Writing, Fiction Writing
Joseph Gordon's picture Joseph Gordon Lecturer in English - Retired American, Contemporary Literature, Expository Writing, Gender & Sexuality, Modern British, Novel, Twentieth Century, World Anglophone
Derek Green's picture Derek Green Lecturer in English, Creative Writing Creative Writing, Fiction Writing
Jake Halpern's picture Jake Halpern Lecturer in English, Creative Writing Drama, Journalism, Media Studies, Non-fiction Prose
Jack Hanson's picture Jack Hanson Lecturer in English History of Literary Criticism, Literature & Philosophy, Literature & Science, Literature & Theology, Non-fiction Prose
Christopher Hawthorne's picture Christopher Hawthorne Senior Critic & Lecturer in English Aesthetics, Creative Writing, Film, Journalism, Media Studies, Media Theory, Theory
Sam Huber's picture Sam Huber Lecturer in English African-American, American, Contemporary Literature, Feminist Theory, Gender & Sexuality, Poetry, Twentieth Century
Rona Johnston Gordon's picture Rona Johnston Gordon Lecturer in English
Rosemary Jones's picture Rosemary Jones Lecturer in English, Tutor Writing Center
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah's picture Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah Lecturer in English Creative Writing
Rachel Kauder Nalebuff's picture Rachel Kauder Nalebuff Lecturer in English Creative Writing, Drama, Expository Writing, Feminist Theory, Medical Writing, Non-fiction Prose, Performing Arts
Heather Klemann's picture Heather Klemann Senior Lecturer in English, Course Director English 114 Children's Literature, Eighteenth-Century, Expository Writing, Gender & Sexuality, Novel, Romanticism
Verlyn Klinkenborg's picture Verlyn Klinkenborg Lecturer in English, Lecturer in Forestry and Environmental Studies Creative Writing, Environmental Writing
Timothy Kreiner's picture Timothy Kreiner Lecturer in English, Course Director English 115 African-American, American, Contemporary Literature, Feminist Theory, Poetics, Poetry, Theory
Christopher McGowan's picture Christopher McGowan Lecturer in English & Humanities Colonial & Postcolonial, Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing, Modern British, Nineteenth-Century, Non-fiction Prose, Novel, Twentieth Century, Victorian, World Anglophone
Maggie Millner's picture Maggie Millner Lecturer in English, Lecturer in Journalism
Carol Tell Morse's picture Carol Tell Morse Lecturer in English Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Expository Writing, Non-fiction Prose, Poetry, Poetry Writing
Pamela Newton's picture Pamela Newton Lecturer in English African-American, Drama, Expository Writing, Journalism, Non-fiction Prose, Novel, Pedagogy
Meghan O'Rourke's picture Meghan O'Rourke Editor of the Yale Review, Professor in the Practice, English and Creative Writing Poetry, Poetry Writing
Brian Price's picture Brian Price Lecturer in English American, Creative Writing, Drama, Fiction Writing, Film, Literary Theory, Literature & Visual Arts, Media Studies, Media Theory, Performing Arts, Science Fiction
Barbara Riley's picture Barbara Riley Lecturer in English, Residential College Writing Tutor - Timothy Dwight College
Timothy Robinson's picture Timothy Robinson Lecturer in English, Lecturer in Classics Drama, Poetics, Poetry
Adam Sexton's picture Adam Sexton Lecturer in English; Course Director, English 121; Critic in the School of Art Creative Writing, Expository Writing, Fiction Writing, Non-fiction Prose
Kim Shirkhani's picture Kim Shirkhani Lecturer in English, Course Director 120 Creative Writing, Modern British, Non-fiction Prose, Novel, Theory
Steven Shoemaker's picture Steven Shoemaker Lecturer in English American, Contemporary Literature, Expository Writing, Film, Literary Theory, Literature & Ecology, Literature & Philosophy, Literature & Science, Pedagogy, Poetics, Poetry, Science Fiction, Twentieth Century
Emily Skillings's picture Emily Skillings Lecturer in English Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing, Drama, Environmental Writing, Fiction Writing, Literature & Visual Arts, Non-fiction Prose, Poetry, Poetry Writing
R Clifton Spargo's picture R Clifton Spargo Lecturer in English Aesthetics, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Literature & Music, Literature & Philosophy, Non-fiction Prose, Novel, Poetics
Margaret Spillane's picture Margaret Spillane Lecturer in English Creative Writing, Drama, Journalism, Literature & Visual Arts, Performing Arts, World Anglophone
Sarah Stillman's picture Sarah Stillman Lecturer in English Expository Writing, Journalism, Non-fiction Prose
Jennifer Stock's picture Jennifer Stock Lecturer in English Creative Writing, Non-fiction Prose
James Surowiecki's picture James Surowiecki Lecturer in English Journalism
Nafeesa Syeed's picture Nafeesa Syeed Lecturer in English & Associate Research Scholar Colonial & Postcolonial, Creative Writing, Gender & Sexuality, Journalism, Non-fiction Prose
Rasheed Tazudeen's picture Rasheed Tazudeen Lecturer in English Aesthetics, African-American, Colonial & Postcolonial, Expository Writing, Literary Theory, Literature & Ecology, Literature & Music, Modern British, Nineteenth-Century, Novel, Pedagogy, World Anglophone
Aaron Tracy's picture Aaron Tracy Lecturer in English Creative Writing, Digital Humanities, Drama, Film, Journalism, Literature & Visual Arts, Media Studies, Media Theory, Performing Arts, Twentieth Century
Sophia Veltfort's picture Sophia Veltfort Associate Research Scholar & Lecturer in English Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Literary Theory, Novel, Twentieth Century
Seth Walls's picture Seth Walls Lecturer in English Aesthetics, African-American, American, Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing, Drama, Early Modern, Expository Writing, Fiction Writing, Film, History of Literary Criticism, Journalism, Literature & Music, Media Studies, Non-fiction Prose, Novel, Performing Arts, Poetics, Science Fiction, Twentieth Century
Ryan Wepler's picture Ryan Wepler Lecturer in English American, Contemporary Literature, Pedagogy, Twentieth Century
Christian Wiman's picture Christian Wiman Lecturer in English
Cynthia Zarin's picture Cynthia Zarin Senior Lecturer in English, Writing Concentration Coordinator Children's Literature, Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing, Drama, Environmental Writing, Fiction Writing, Film, Journalism, Literature & Music, Literature & Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Poetics
Carl Zimmer's picture Carl Zimmer Professor (Adjunct) of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Lecturer in English Creative Writing, Environmental Writing, Expository Writing, Journalism, Medical Writing, Non-fiction Prose, Science Writing
Professors in the Practice
Fields of Interest
Alison Bechdel's picture Alison Bechdel Professor in the Practice, English and Film & Media Studies Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Feminist Theory, Gender & Sexuality, History of the Book, Non-fiction Prose
Michael Cunningham's picture Michael Cunningham Professor in the Practice, Creative Writing Creative Writing
Anne Fadiman's picture Anne Fadiman Francis Writer in Residence; Professor in the Practice, Creative Writing Creative Writing, Journalism, Non-fiction Prose
Donald Margulies's picture Donald Margulies Professor in the Practice, English and Theater Studies Creative Writing
Meghan O'Rourke's picture Meghan O'Rourke Editor of the Yale Review, Professor in the Practice, English and Creative Writing Poetry, Poetry Writing
Adjunct Professors and Senior Lecturers
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James Berger's picture James Berger Senior Lecturer in American Studies and in English American, Contemporary Literature, Environmental Writing, Literary Theory, Poetics, Poetry, Poetry Writing, Science Writing, Theory, Twentieth Century
Leslie Brisman's picture Leslie Brisman Karl Young Emeritus Professor of English & Senior Lecturer Early Modern, Poetry, Romanticism, Victorian
Peter Cole's picture Peter Cole Horace W. Goldsmith Senior Lecturer in Judaic Studies, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing, Literature & Music, Literature & Philosophy, Literature & Visual Arts, Middle English, Poetics, Poetry, Poetry Writing, Translation
Richard Deming's picture Richard Deming Senior Lecturer in English, Director of Creative Writing Creative Writing
Anne Fadiman's picture Anne Fadiman Francis Writer in Residence; Professor in the Practice, Creative Writing Creative Writing, Journalism, Non-fiction Prose
Peter Grund's picture Peter Grund Senior Lecturer American, Colonial & Postcolonial, Digital Humanities, Early Modern, History of the Book, Middle English, Nineteenth-Century, Old English, Pedagogy, Rhetorical Theory, Science Writing
Heather Klemann's picture Heather Klemann Senior Lecturer in English, Course Director English 114 Children's Literature, Eighteenth-Century, Expository Writing, Gender & Sexuality, Novel, Romanticism
Cynthia Zarin's picture Cynthia Zarin Senior Lecturer in English, Writing Concentration Coordinator Children's Literature, Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing, Drama, Environmental Writing, Fiction Writing, Film, Journalism, Literature & Music, Literature & Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Poetics
Carl Zimmer's picture Carl Zimmer Professor (Adjunct) of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Lecturer in English Creative Writing, Environmental Writing, Expository Writing, Journalism, Medical Writing, Non-fiction Prose, Science Writing
Creative Writers
Fields of Interest
Marie-Helene Bertino's picture Marie-Helene Bertino Ritvo-Slifka Writer-in-Residence and Lecturer in English Children's Literature, Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Film, Literary Theory, Literature & Music, Non-fiction Prose, Novel, Poetry, Science Fiction
Alan Burdick's picture Alan Burdick Lecturer in English
Danielle Chapman's picture Danielle Chapman Lecturer in English Creative Writing, Poetry, Poetry Writing
Peter Cole's picture Peter Cole Horace W. Goldsmith Senior Lecturer in Judaic Studies, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing, Literature & Music, Literature & Philosophy, Literature & Visual Arts, Middle English, Poetics, Poetry, Poetry Writing, Translation
Michael Cunningham's picture Michael Cunningham Professor in the Practice, Creative Writing Creative Writing
Richard Deming's picture Richard Deming Senior Lecturer in English, Director of Creative Writing Creative Writing
Natalie Diaz's picture Natalie Diaz Rosenkranz Writer-in-Residence Visiting Professor Creative Writing
Anne Fadiman's picture Anne Fadiman Francis Writer in Residence; Professor in the Practice, Creative Writing Creative Writing, Journalism, Non-fiction Prose
Amity Gaige's picture Amity Gaige Lecturer in English Creative Writing, Fiction Writing
Derek Green's picture Derek Green Lecturer in English, Creative Writing Creative Writing, Fiction Writing
Jake Halpern's picture Jake Halpern Lecturer in English, Creative Writing Drama, Journalism, Media Studies, Non-fiction Prose
Verlyn Klinkenborg's picture Verlyn Klinkenborg Lecturer in English, Lecturer in Forestry and Environmental Studies Creative Writing, Environmental Writing
Donald Margulies's picture Donald Margulies Professor in the Practice, English and Theater Studies Creative Writing
Maggie Millner's picture Maggie Millner Lecturer in English, Lecturer in Journalism
Meghan O'Rourke's picture Meghan O'Rourke Editor of the Yale Review, Professor in the Practice, English and Creative Writing Poetry, Poetry Writing
Caryl Phillips's picture Caryl Phillips Professor of English Colonial & Postcolonial, Creative Writing, Modern British, World Anglophone
Adam Sexton's picture Adam Sexton Lecturer in English; Course Director, English 121; Critic in the School of Art Creative Writing, Expository Writing, Fiction Writing, Non-fiction Prose
Emily Skillings's picture Emily Skillings Lecturer in English Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing, Drama, Environmental Writing, Fiction Writing, Literature & Visual Arts, Non-fiction Prose, Poetry, Poetry Writing
R Clifton Spargo's picture R Clifton Spargo Lecturer in English Aesthetics, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Literature & Music, Literature & Philosophy, Non-fiction Prose, Novel, Poetics
Margaret Spillane's picture Margaret Spillane Lecturer in English Creative Writing, Drama, Journalism, Literature & Visual Arts, Performing Arts, World Anglophone
Sarah Stillman's picture Sarah Stillman Lecturer in English Expository Writing, Journalism, Non-fiction Prose
James Surowiecki's picture James Surowiecki Lecturer in English Journalism
Aaron Tracy's picture Aaron Tracy Lecturer in English Creative Writing, Digital Humanities, Drama, Film, Journalism, Literature & Visual Arts, Media Studies, Media Theory, Performing Arts, Twentieth Century
Ryan Wepler's picture Ryan Wepler Lecturer in English American, Contemporary Literature, Pedagogy, Twentieth Century
Cynthia Zarin's picture Cynthia Zarin Senior Lecturer in English, Writing Concentration Coordinator Children's Literature, Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing, Drama, Environmental Writing, Fiction Writing, Film, Journalism, Literature & Music, Literature & Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Poetics
Carl Zimmer's picture Carl Zimmer Professor (Adjunct) of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Lecturer in English Creative Writing, Environmental Writing, Expository Writing, Journalism, Medical Writing, Non-fiction Prose, Science Writing
Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Fields of Interest
Jessica Brantley's picture Jessica Brantley Frederick W. Hilles Professor of English, Department Chair Drama, Gender & Sexuality, History of the Book, Literature & Theology, Literature & Visual Arts, Media Studies, Middle English, Poetry
David Bromwich's picture David Bromwich Sterling Professor of English Eighteenth-Century, History of Literary Criticism, Non-fiction Prose, Poetry, Romanticism, Theory
Ardis Butterfield's picture Ardis Butterfield Marie Borroff Professor of English, and (by courtesy) Professor of French and Music History of the Book, Literary Theory, Literature & Music, Middle English, Poetics, Poetry, Rhetorical Theory, Theory
Jill Campbell's picture Jill Campbell Professor of English Children's Literature, Drama, Eighteenth-Century, Novel, Romanticism
Joe Cleary's picture Joe Cleary John M. Schiff Professor of English Colonial & Postcolonial
Anastasia Eccles's picture Anastasia Eccles Assistant Professor of English Aesthetics, Digital Humanities, Eighteenth-Century, Literary Theory, Novel, Romanticism
Erica Edwards's picture Erica Edwards Professor of English and African American Studies African-American, Contemporary Literature, Feminist Theory, Gender & Sexuality, Media Studies, Novel
Marcel Elias's picture Marcel Elias Assistant Professor of English, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies Literature & Theology, Literature & Visual Arts, Middle English, Poetry, Translation, World Anglophone
Ben Glaser's picture Ben Glaser Associate Professor of English African-American, American, History of Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Literature & Music, Modern British, Nineteenth-Century, Poetics, Poetry, Twentieth Century
Jacqueline Goldsby's picture Jacqueline Goldsby Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of African American Studies and of English; and Professor of American Studies African-American, American, History of Literary Criticism, History of the Book, Theory
Langdon Hammer's picture Langdon Hammer Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English American, Contemporary Literature, Modern British, Poetry, Poetry Writing
Margaret Homans's picture Margaret Homans Bird White Housum Professor of English and Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies African-American, American, Feminist Theory, Gender & Sexuality, Modern British, Nineteenth-Century, Novel, Twentieth Century, Victorian
Jonathan Howard's picture Jonathan Howard Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies African-American, Environmental Writing, Literature & Ecology, Poetics
Cajetan Iheka's picture Cajetan Iheka Professor of English Colonial & Postcolonial, Contemporary Literature, Environmental Writing, Film, Literary Theory, Literature & Ecology, Literature & Visual Arts, Media Studies, Media Theory, Novel, Theory, Twentieth Century, World Anglophone
Elleza Kelley's picture Elleza Kelley Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies African-American, American, Literature & Visual Arts, Twentieth Century
Jonathan Kramnick's picture Jonathan Kramnick Maynard Mack Professor of English, Director of Graduate Studies Eighteenth-Century, Literature & Ecology, Literature & Philosophy, Literature & Science
Naomi Levine's picture Naomi Levine Assistant Professor of English History of Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century, Poetics, Poetry, Victorian
Stefanie Markovits's picture Stefanie Markovits Professor of English, Director of Undergraduate Studies Eighteenth-Century, Non-fiction Prose, Novel, Romanticism, Victorian
Joseph Miranda's picture Joseph Miranda Assistant Professor in English American, Colonial & Postcolonial, Contemporary Literature, Film, Gender & Sexuality, Media Studies, Novel, Twentieth Century
Ernest Mitchell's picture Ernest Mitchell Assistant Professor of English and Humanities African-American, American, History of Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Literature & Philosophy, Literature & Theology, Non-fiction Prose, Theory, Twentieth Century
Feisal Mohamed's picture Feisal Mohamed Professor of English
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay's picture Priyasha Mukhopadhyay Assistant Professor of English Colonial & Postcolonial, History of the Book, Media Studies, Nineteenth-Century, Twentieth Century, Victorian, World Anglophone
Stephanie Newell's picture Stephanie Newell George M. Bodman Professor of English Colonial & Postcolonial, Gender & Sexuality, History of the Book, Media Studies
Catherine Nicholson's picture Catherine Nicholson Professor of English Children's Literature, Drama, Early Modern, Gender & Sexuality, History of Literary Criticism, History of the Book, Literary Theory, Poetics, Poetry, Rhetorical Theory
Joseph North's picture Joseph North Associate Professor of English History of Literary Criticism, Theory
John Durham Peters's picture John Durham Peters Maria Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies American, Media Studies, Media Theory, Nineteenth-Century
Caryl Phillips's picture Caryl Phillips Professor of English Colonial & Postcolonial, Creative Writing, Modern British, World Anglophone
Juno Jill Richards's picture Juno Jill Richards Associate Professor of English Gender & Sexuality, Novel
Marc Robinson's picture Marc Robinson Malcolm G. Chace '56 Professor of Theater & Performance Studies and English American, Contemporary Literature, Drama, Performing Arts, Twentieth Century
Nicole Sheriko's picture Nicole Sheriko Assistant Professor of English Drama, Early Modern, History of the Book, Literature & Science, Literature & Theology, Literature & Visual Arts, Media Studies, Performing Arts
Caleb Smith's picture Caleb Smith Professor of English and of American Studies African-American, American, History of Literary Criticism, History of the Book, Theory
Lloyd Alimboyao Sy's picture Lloyd Alimboyao Sy Assistant Professor in English American, Colonial & Postcolonial, Digital Humanities, Environmental Writing, Film, Literature & Ecology, Nineteenth-Century, Twentieth Century
Emily Thornbury's picture Emily Thornbury Associate Professor of English Aesthetics, Latin literature, Literature & Visual Arts, Old English, Poetics, Poetry
Katie Trumpener's picture Katie Trumpener Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English Children's Literature, Colonial & Postcolonial, Drama, Eighteenth-Century, Film, History of the Book, Literature & Music, Literature & Visual Arts, Media Studies, Modern British, Nineteenth-Century, Novel, Translation, Twentieth Century, World Anglophone
Shane Vogel's picture Shane Vogel Professor of English and African American Studies; Chair of Theater and Performance Studies African-American, American, Drama, Gender & Sexuality, Performing Arts, Twentieth Century
Michael Warner's picture Michael Warner Seymour H. Knox Professor of English and Professor of American Studies Aesthetics, African-American, American, Colonial & Postcolonial, Eighteenth-Century, Environmental Writing, Feminist Theory, Gender & Sexuality, History of Literary Criticism, History of the Book, Literary Theory, Literature & Ecology, Literature & Philosophy, Literature & Science, Literature & Visual Arts, Media Studies, Theory
John Williams's picture John Williams Professor of English American, Asian-American, Digital Humanities, Film, History of Literary Criticism, History of the Book, Literary Theory, Literature & Ecology, Literature & Philosophy, Literature & Science, Literature & Theology, Literature & Visual Arts, Media Studies, Media Theory, Novel, Science Fiction, Theory, Translation, Twentieth Century
Sunny Xiang's picture Sunny Xiang Associate Professor of English Aesthetics, American, Asian-American, Colonial & Postcolonial, Contemporary Literature, Gender & Sexuality, Twentieth Century, World Anglophone
Ruth Yeazell's picture Ruth Yeazell Sterling Professor of English American, Eighteenth-Century, Gender & Sexuality, Literature & Visual Arts, Modern British, Novel, Victorian
Professors
Fields of Interest
Jessica Brantley's picture Jessica Brantley Frederick W. Hilles Professor of English, Department Chair Drama, Gender & Sexuality, History of the Book, Literature & Theology, Literature & Visual Arts, Media Studies, Middle English, Poetry
David Bromwich's picture David Bromwich Sterling Professor of English Eighteenth-Century, History of Literary Criticism, Non-fiction Prose, Poetry, Romanticism, Theory
Ardis Butterfield's picture Ardis Butterfield Marie Borroff Professor of English, and (by courtesy) Professor of French and Music History of the Book, Literary Theory, Literature & Music, Middle English, Poetics, Poetry, Rhetorical Theory, Theory
Jill Campbell's picture Jill Campbell Professor of English Children's Literature, Drama, Eighteenth-Century, Novel, Romanticism
Joe Cleary's picture Joe Cleary John M. Schiff Professor of English Colonial & Postcolonial
Erica Edwards's picture Erica Edwards Professor of English and African American Studies African-American, Contemporary Literature, Feminist Theory, Gender & Sexuality, Media Studies, Novel
Jacqueline Goldsby's picture Jacqueline Goldsby Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of African American Studies and of English; and Professor of American Studies African-American, American, History of Literary Criticism, History of the Book, Theory
Langdon Hammer's picture Langdon Hammer Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English American, Contemporary Literature, Modern British, Poetry, Poetry Writing
Margaret Homans's picture Margaret Homans Bird White Housum Professor of English and Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies African-American, American, Feminist Theory, Gender & Sexuality, Modern British, Nineteenth-Century, Novel, Twentieth Century, Victorian
Cajetan Iheka's picture Cajetan Iheka Professor of English Colonial & Postcolonial, Contemporary Literature, Environmental Writing, Film, Literary Theory, Literature & Ecology, Literature & Visual Arts, Media Studies, Media Theory, Novel, Theory, Twentieth Century, World Anglophone
Jonathan Kramnick's picture Jonathan Kramnick Maynard Mack Professor of English, Director of Graduate Studies Eighteenth-Century, Literature & Ecology, Literature & Philosophy, Literature & Science
Pericles Lewis's picture Pericles Lewis Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English, Dean of Yale College Colonial & Postcolonial, Contemporary Literature, History of Literary Criticism, Literature & Philosophy, Literature & Theology, Modern British, Nineteenth-Century, Novel, Twentieth Century, Victorian, World Anglophone
Stefanie Markovits's picture Stefanie Markovits Professor of English, Director of Undergraduate Studies Eighteenth-Century, Non-fiction Prose, Novel, Romanticism, Victorian
Feisal Mohamed's picture Feisal Mohamed Professor of English
Stephanie Newell's picture Stephanie Newell George M. Bodman Professor of English Colonial & Postcolonial, Gender & Sexuality, History of the Book, Media Studies
Catherine Nicholson's picture Catherine Nicholson Professor of English Children's Literature, Drama, Early Modern, Gender & Sexuality, History of Literary Criticism, History of the Book, Literary Theory, Poetics, Poetry, Rhetorical Theory
John Durham Peters's picture John Durham Peters Maria Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies American, Media Studies, Media Theory, Nineteenth-Century
Caryl Phillips's picture Caryl Phillips Professor of English Colonial & Postcolonial, Creative Writing, Modern British, World Anglophone
Marc Robinson's picture Marc Robinson Malcolm G. Chace '56 Professor of Theater & Performance Studies and English American, Contemporary Literature, Drama, Performing Arts, Twentieth Century
Caleb Smith's picture Caleb Smith Professor of English and of American Studies African-American, American, History of Literary Criticism, History of the Book, Theory
Katie Trumpener's picture Katie Trumpener Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English Children's Literature, Colonial & Postcolonial, Drama, Eighteenth-Century, Film, History of the Book, Literature & Music, Literature & Visual Arts, Media Studies, Modern British, Nineteenth-Century, Novel, Translation, Twentieth Century, World Anglophone
Shane Vogel's picture Shane Vogel Professor of English and African American Studies; Chair of Theater and Performance Studies African-American, American, Drama, Gender & Sexuality, Performing Arts, Twentieth Century
Michael Warner's picture Michael Warner Seymour H. Knox Professor of English and Professor of American Studies Aesthetics, African-American, American, Colonial & Postcolonial, Eighteenth-Century, Environmental Writing, Feminist Theory, Gender & Sexuality, History of Literary Criticism, History of the Book, Literary Theory, Literature & Ecology, Literature & Philosophy, Literature & Science, Literature & Visual Arts, Media Studies, Theory
John Williams's picture John Williams Professor of English American, Asian-American, Digital Humanities, Film, History of Literary Criticism, History of the Book, Literary Theory, Literature & Ecology, Literature & Philosophy, Literature & Science, Literature & Theology, Literature & Visual Arts, Media Studies, Media Theory, Novel, Science Fiction, Theory, Translation, Twentieth Century
Ruth Yeazell's picture Ruth Yeazell Sterling Professor of English American, Eighteenth-Century, Gender & Sexuality, Literature & Visual Arts, Modern British, Novel, Victorian
Professors Emeritus
Fields of Interest
Leslie Brisman's picture Leslie Brisman Karl Young Emeritus Professor of English & Senior Lecturer Early Modern, Poetry, Romanticism, Victorian
Richard Brodhead's picture Richard Brodhead A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor Emeritus of English American, Nineteenth-Century
Janice Carlisle's picture Janice Carlisle Professor Emeritus of English Literature & Visual Arts, Nineteenth-Century, Non-fiction Prose, Novel, Victorian
Wai Chee Dimock's picture Wai Chee Dimock African-American, American, Contemporary Literature, History of Literary Criticism, Media Studies, Novel, Poetry, Theory, World Anglophone
Roberta Frank's picture Roberta Frank Marie Borroff Professor Emeritus of English Old English, Poetics, Poetry
Paul Fry's picture Paul Fry William Lampson Professor Emeritus of English Aesthetics, Children's Literature, Eighteenth-Century, History of Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Literature & Philosophy, Literature & Visual Arts, Nineteenth-Century, Poetics, Poetry, Romanticism, Theory
David Kastan's picture David Kastan George M. Bodman Professor Emeritus of English Drama, Early Modern, History of Literary Criticism, History of the Book, Literary Theory, Literature & Theology, Literature & Visual Arts
Traugott Lawler's picture Traugott Lawler Professor Emeritus of English Middle English, Old English
Lawrence Manley's picture Lawrence Manley William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of English Drama, Early Modern, History of Literary Criticism, World Anglophone
Alastair Minnis's picture Alastair Minnis Douglas Tracy Smith Professor Emeritus of English History of Literary Criticism, History of the Book, Literature & Philosophy, Literature & Theology, Middle English, Poetry
Annabel Patterson's picture Annabel Patterson Sterling Professor Emeritus of English Early Modern
David Quint's picture David Quint Sterling Professor Emeritus of English, Professor of Comparative Literature Drama, Early Modern, World Anglophone
Claude Rawson's picture Claude Rawson Maynard Mack Professor Emeritus of English Eighteenth-Century, Modern British, Non-fiction Prose, Novel, Poetry
Joseph Roach's picture Joseph Roach Sterling Professor Emeritus of Theater, Professor Emeritus of English Drama, Eighteenth-Century
John Rogers's picture John Rogers Professor Emeritus of English - Retired Early Modern
Robert Stepto's picture Robert Stepto John M. Schiff Professor Emeritus of English, Professor Emeritus of African American Studies, Professor Emeritus of American Studies African-American, American, Non-fiction Prose
Fred Strebeigh's picture Fred Strebeigh Senior Lecturer Emeritus in English and in Forestry and Environmental Studies Creative Writing, Environmental Writing, Non-fiction Prose
Assistant Professors
Fields of Interest
Anastasia Eccles's picture Anastasia Eccles Assistant Professor of English Aesthetics, Digital Humanities, Eighteenth-Century, Literary Theory, Novel, Romanticism
Marcel Elias's picture Marcel Elias Assistant Professor of English, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies Literature & Theology, Literature & Visual Arts, Middle English, Poetry, Translation, World Anglophone
Jonathan Howard's picture Jonathan Howard Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies African-American, Environmental Writing, Literature & Ecology, Poetics
Elleza Kelley's picture Elleza Kelley Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies African-American, American, Literature & Visual Arts, Twentieth Century
Naomi Levine's picture Naomi Levine Assistant Professor of English History of Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century, Poetics, Poetry, Victorian
Joseph Miranda's picture Joseph Miranda Assistant Professor in English American, Colonial & Postcolonial, Contemporary Literature, Film, Gender & Sexuality, Media Studies, Novel, Twentieth Century
Ernest Mitchell's picture Ernest Mitchell Assistant Professor of English and Humanities African-American, American, History of Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Literature & Philosophy, Literature & Theology, Non-fiction Prose, Theory, Twentieth Century
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay's picture Priyasha Mukhopadhyay Assistant Professor of English Colonial & Postcolonial, History of the Book, Media Studies, Nineteenth-Century, Twentieth Century, Victorian, World Anglophone
Nicole Sheriko's picture Nicole Sheriko Assistant Professor of English Drama, Early Modern, History of the Book, Literature & Science, Literature & Theology, Literature & Visual Arts, Media Studies, Performing Arts
Lloyd Alimboyao Sy's picture Lloyd Alimboyao Sy Assistant Professor in English American, Colonial & Postcolonial, Digital Humanities, Environmental Writing, Film, Literature & Ecology, Nineteenth-Century, Twentieth Century
Associate Professors
Fields of Interest
Ben Glaser's picture Ben Glaser Associate Professor of English African-American, American, History of Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Literature & Music, Modern British, Nineteenth-Century, Poetics, Poetry, Twentieth Century
Joseph North's picture Joseph North Associate Professor of English History of Literary Criticism, Theory
Juno Jill Richards's picture Juno Jill Richards Associate Professor of English Gender & Sexuality, Novel
Emily Thornbury's picture Emily Thornbury Associate Professor of English Aesthetics, Latin literature, Literature & Visual Arts, Old English, Poetics, Poetry
Sunny Xiang's picture Sunny Xiang Associate Professor of English Aesthetics, American, Asian-American, Colonial & Postcolonial, Contemporary Literature, Gender & Sexuality, Twentieth Century, World Anglophone
Research Scholars
Fields of Interest
Nafeesa Syeed's picture Nafeesa Syeed Lecturer in English & Associate Research Scholar Colonial & Postcolonial, Creative Writing, Gender & Sexuality, Journalism, Non-fiction Prose
Sophia Veltfort's picture Sophia Veltfort Associate Research Scholar & Lecturer in English Contemporary Literature, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Literary Theory, Novel, Twentieth Century