Our Faculty and Staff

Faculty

Aviva Briefel

Edward Little Professor of the English Language and Literature and Cinema Studies

Tess Chakkalakal

Professor of Africana Studies and English

Brock Clarke

A. Leroy Greason Professor of English

Guy Mark Foster

Associate Professor of English

Morten Hansen

Assistant Professor of English

Zahir Janmohamed

Assistant Professor of English and Director of the MMUF Program

Jordan Kisner

Assistant Professor of English

Ann Louise Kibbie

Associate Professor of English

Aaron W. Kitch

Professor of English

Belinda Kong

Professor of Asian Studies and English, on leave for the 2025–2026 academic year

Elizabeth Muther

Associate Professor of English

Samia Rahimtoola

Assistant Professor of English

Marilyn Reizbaum

Harrison King McCann Professor of English

Danez Smith

Visiting Tallman Scholar in Poetry

Emma Maggie Solberg

Associate Professor of English, Chair of English Department

Hilary J. Thompson

Professor of English, on leave for the 2025–2026 academic year

Anthony E. Walton

Senior Writer-in-Residence, on leave for the 2025 fall semester

Staff

Becca Gracey

Academic Department Coordinator

Faculty Emeriti

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

David Collings
Professor of English Emeritus