Faculty and Staff

Aviva Briefel
Associate Professor of English, Director of Gay and Lesbian Studies Program
Victorian literature and culture, film

Jane M Brox
Coastal Studies Scholar and Lecturer in English

Franklin G. Burroughs
Harrison King McCann Research Professor of the English Language Emeritus

Tess E. Chakkalakal
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and English

David A. Collings
Professor of English

Peter Coviello on leave for the fall 2009 semester
Associate Professor of English, Chair of English Department (spring semester)
American Literature

Mary Agnes Edsall
Assistant Professor of English
Medieval Literature and Culture; Medieval Devotional Literature; Tolkien

Guy Mark Foster On leave for the 2009-10 academic year
Assistant Professor of English
20th century African American literature, lesbian and gay studies, interracial literature

Celeste Goodridge
Professor of English

Ann L. Kibbie
Associate Professor of English
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature; Literature and Medicine

Aaron Kitch
Associate Professor of English
Renaissance literature and drama; literary history; aesthetics and politics

Belinda Kong
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and English

Elizabeth Muther
Associate Professor of English, Chair of English Department (fall semester)

Terri L Nickel
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English (spring semester)
Eighteenth-century British literature; nineteenth-century British literature; the novel; and cultural theory

Marilyn Reizbaum
Professor of English
Modernisms, James Joyce, Scottish and Irish literatures and film, Jewish cultural studies

Hilary J Thompson
Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Anthony E. Walton
Writer-in-Residence

William C. Watterson On leave for the spring 2010 semester
Edward Little Professor of the English Language and Literature
Shakespeare, Elizabethan Drama, the literary pastoral, Hawthorne, sonnets, English Renaissance poetry and prose