Faculty Experts
Call the Office of Media Relations at (518) 956-8150Literature

Susanna Fessler
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: East Asian Studies
Expert in the following:
Japanese literature and culture of the modern era
Campus phone: (518) 442-4119
Campus email: [email protected]

Michael K. Hill
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: English
Expert in the following:
Race studies; "whiteness"; U.S. minority relations; civil society; multiracialism; U.S. demographic change; racial passing; history of democracy; relation between "print culture" (the novel) and politics; 18th-century political economy and culture
Campus phone: (518) 442-4046
Campus email: [email protected]

Olimpia Pelosi
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Expert in the following:
Italian and comparative literature; women mystic writers of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque period; Italian theatre of the Renaissance and Baroque period
Campus phone: (518) 442-4100
Campus email: [email protected]

William Rainbolt
College of Arts and Sciences
Lecturer Emeritus
Department: English
Expert in the following:
Journalism; media ethics; media history; film; documentary studies; historical fiction
Campus phone: 442-4056
Campus email: [email protected]

Edward Schwarzschild
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: English
Expert in the following:
Fiction writing; creative writing; novels; short stories; American literature; contemporary American literature; literature and the visual arts
Campus phone: (518) 442-4075
Campus email: [email protected]

Timothy Sergay
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Expert in the following:
Russian language; Russian-English translation; 20th century Russian literature
Campus phone: 614-599-3061
Campus email: [email protected]

Leonard A. Slade Jr.
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Africana Studies
Expert in the following:
Black literature; black history; black poetry; and 19th century American literature, particularly author Herman Melville; American literary bibliography
Campus phone: (518) 442-4726
Campus email: [email protected]

Mary Valentis
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: English
Expert in the following:
Popular Culture and Mass Media, Relationships, Film, Cinema and Psychoanalysis, Gender Issues
Campus phone: (518) 442-4082
Campus email: [email protected]

Oscar Williams
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Africana Studies
Expert in the following:
African American history and literature; American slavery; black nationalism; black conservatism; slavery in New York
Campus phone: (518) 442-4730
Campus email: [email protected]