Faculty

Click on a faculty member's name to view his or her departmental profile page. Each page includes information of current work, contact information, and links to individual web pages and C. V. when available.

Branka Arsić, Associate Professor (Fall 2006). American 19th Century Literature and Philosophy, 16th-18th Century Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Literature and Contemporary Theory.

Judith Barlow, Professor. (Ph.D., Pennsylvania) American Drama, Women Playwrights, Expository Writing.

Sylvia Barnard,  Associate Professor. joint appointment: English; Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.  (Ph. D. Yale).  Classics, Greek & Roman Studies, Feminist Literature.

Richard Barney, Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies (Ph.D. University of Virginia) Early Modern British Philosophy and Literature, History of the Sublime, Critical Theory, Film.

Thomas Bass, Professor. (Ph.D. University of California at Santa Cruz)

Kevin Bell, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., New York University, 2000). British and American literary modernisms, 20th- and 21st-century African American literature and film, Continental philosophy.

Bret Benjamin, Associate Professor & Undergraduate Director. (Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin) Transnational Studies, Cultural approaches to Science and Technology, the Rhetoric of Development.

Jeffrey Berman, Distinguished Teaching Professor. (Ph.D., Cornell) 19th- and 20th- Century British Literature, the Novel, Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism.

Ronald A. Bosco, Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature, Collins Fellow, and Grand Marshal of the University. (Ph.D., Maryland). General Editor, The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harvard University Press. 17th through 19th century American literary and intellectual history.

Langdon Brown, Associate Professor; Fellow, NYS Writers Institute. (Ph.D., Cornell University) Theater History, Dramatic Literature.

Donald Byrd, Professor. (Ph.D., Kansas) Nineteenth-century American literature and philosophy, Modernism, Postmodernism, Literature and Technology, Hyper/Multimedia.

Lana Cable, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins) 16th and 17th century English Literature and Culture, Augustan Satire, Shakespeare and Milton.

Patricia Chu, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1997) 19th- and 20th-century American literature, Anglo-American modernism, race and gender theory, Asian American literature, anime.

Tom Cohen, Professor. (Ph.D., Yale) Literary, Cultural and Media Studies.

Randall Craig, Professor.  (Ph.D., Wisconsin) British Fiction and Narrative Theory.

Lydia Davis, Associate Professor and Writer-in-Residence.  (B.A., Barnard College) Fiction.

Teresa Ebert, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., Minnesota) Critical and Cultural Theory, Marxist Theory, Feminist Critique, International Cultural Studies.

Helen Regueiro Elam, Associate Professor. (Ph.D., Brown) Literary Theory, 19th- and 20th-Century Poetry.

Donald Faulkner, Associate Professor. (M. Phil., Yale) Associate Director of the NYS Writers Institute. Philosophy and Modern Studies.

Jennifer Greiman, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley). 18th- and 19th-century American and transatlantic literature.

Glyne Griffith, Associate Professor. Joint appointment: English and Latin American, Caribbean & US Latino Studies. (Ph.D. University of the West Indies).

jil hanifan, Full-time Lecturer and Director of the Writing Center. (D.A., University at Albany, SUNY) Composition, Pedagogy and Poetics.

Mike Hill, Associate Professor & Department Chair, English, Affiliate Faculty Member, Women's Studies (Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook). Critical Race Studies, Eighteenth-Century Writing and the Public Sphere; Materialist Cultural Theory.

Judith Johnson, Professor. (B.A., Barnard) Poetry Writing, Poetic Theory, Fiction Writing, Myth and Popular Culture, Women's Studies, Performance Art.

Pierre Joris, Professor. (Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton) Poetry & Poetics, Critical Theory, Comparative Literature, Translation Studies, New Media & Performance Studies, Creative Writing.

Eric Keenaghan, Assistant Professor.  (Ph.D. Temple University) Literatures of the Americas, Modernist Studies, Queer and Gender Theory.

William Kennedy, Professor and Director of the NYS Writers Institute. (B.A., Siena) Creative Writing.

James Lilley, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Princeton, 2007). 18th- and 19th-century American and British Literature, Political Theory, Literature and Philosophy.

Stephen North, Distinguished Teaching Professor  (D.A., University at Albany, SUNY) History of English Studies, Image of the Writer in Culture, Mystery and Detective Fiction.

Marjorie Pryse, Professor. (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz) American Literature and Feminist Theory.

William Rainbolt, Associate Professor and Director of Journalism Program (Ph. D., University at Albany) Media History, Writing and Reporting, Media Law and Ethics, Images of Journalism in Culture.

Martha Rozett, Professor. (Ph.D., Michigan) Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare Studies.

Helene Scheck, Assistant Professor and Director of Honors Program  (Ph.D., Binghamton University, SUNY) Medieval Literature.

Le Anne Schreiber, Associate Professor/Writer in Residence (MA, Harvard University)

Charles Shepherdson, Professor.  (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) Romantic and Modern Lyric Poetry, Literary Theory, Psychoanalysis, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, 19th-Century Intellectual History.

Edward Schwarzschild, Associate Professor.  (Ph.D., Washington University) Fiction Writing, American Literature, Film Studies.

Paul Stasi, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) Modernism, 20th-century Anglophone writing, Marxist, aesthetic, and postcolonial theory, silent film.

Lisa Thompson, Assistant Professor.  (Ph.D., Stanford University) Cultural Studies, African-American Literature, Drama.

Kathleen Thornton, Full-time Lecturer and Director of English Undergraduate Advisement. (D.A., University at Albany) Shakespeare, 19th Century American Literature, 20th Century American Drama, Film Studies.

Lynne Tillman, Associate Professor and Writer-in-Residence.  (B.A., Hunter College) Fiction.

Mary Valentis, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Humanities, Arts, and Technoscience (CHATS). Literary Theory, Psychoanalysis and Culture, Interdisciplinary Humanities.

Laura Wilder, Assistant Professor.  (MFA University of Iowa, Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin). Rhetoric and composition, rhetoric of academic disciplines, history of rhetoric and literary instruction, Classical rhetoric, composition studies research methodologies, writing processes.

David Wills, Professor, joint appointment: English; Languages, Literatures and Cultures . (Doctorat du troisieme cycle, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris) Joint Appointment, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Literary Theory, Film and Film Theory, 20th century French Literature, Comparative Literature.

Carolyn Yalkut, Associate Professor and Internship Director . (Ph.D., University of Denver) Creative Writing, Journalism, Contemporary American Literature.