Faculty
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Frank L. Bidart
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities; Professor of English
B.A., University of California (Riverside); A.M., Harvard University
An award-winning poet, Bidart was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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Kathleen Brogan
Associate Professor of English
B.A., Queens College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Teaches modernism, contemporary American fiction and poetry, ethnic literature, and urban literature and photography.
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William E. Cain
Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English
B.A., Tufts University; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Expert in nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature; Shakespeare; and modernism in the arts.
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Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Senior Lecturer in English
B.A., Barnard College; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., City University of New York
Author of two novels and a screenplay. Fields: fiction-writing, screenwriting, postcolonial studies and modern British literature.
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Dan Chiasson
Associate Professor of English
B.A., Amherst College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Poet and essayist.
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Paul Fisher
Associate Professor of American Studies
A.B., Harvard College; B.A., M.A., Trinity College (Cambridge); M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Interdisciplinary scholar with focus on American literature; biographer of the James family; historian of the Belle Époque.
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Alison Hickey
Associate Professor of English
A.B., Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Main field of research is Romanticism; teaching interests center on English Romantic-period poetry.
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Yu Jin Ko
Professor of English
B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Cambridge University (Clare College); Ph.D., Yale University
Shakespearean engaged in bringing theatre and academia into greater dialogue; can also be found at home with kids or on soccer field.
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Yoon Sun Lee
Professor of Engish
A.B., Harvard College; Ph.D., Yale University
My research and teaching span two areas, British eighteenth and nineteenth century prose fiction, and Asian American literature.
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Kathryn L. Lynch
Katharine Lee Bates and Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English; Dean of Faculty Affairs
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
Teacher and scholar of Chaucer, medieval dream vision, food in Chaucer's poetry, medieval period boundaries
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Susan L. Meyer
Professor of English
B.A., Johns Hopkins University; M.A., University of California (Los Angeles); M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Literary critic specializing in Victorian and American literature. Author of books for children.
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James William Noggle
Professor of English
B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Interested in 18th-century British literature and culture, literary theory, and Milton.
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Timothy Walter Hopkins Peltason
Professor of English
A.B., Harvard College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Tim Peltason teaches and writes about nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature and about Shakespeare.
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Lisa Rodensky
Barbara Morris Caspersen Associate Professor in the Humanities; Associate Professor of English
B.A., Wellesley College; J.D., Harvard Law School; Ph.D., Boston University
Research and teaching focuses on the 19th-and 20th-century British novel.
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Lawrence A. Rosenwald
Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of American Literature; Professor of English
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
Americanist, translator, performer (music, theater), verse-writer, pacifist
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Margery M. Sabin
Lorraine C. Wang Professor of English
B.A., Radcliffe College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Teacher and scholar of English and comparative literature.
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Vernon L. Shetley
Professor of English
A.B., Princeton University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Studies and teaches American poetry and film, focusing particularly on contemporary poetry and classic Hollywood cinema.
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Marilyn Sides
Senior Lecturer in English
B.A., M.A., University of Utah; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Teaching focuses on creative writing, mainly fiction and travel writing.
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L. Terrell Tyler, Jr.
Associate Professor of English
B.A., Southwestern University (Memphis); M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Teaching interests include Southern literature, British cinema, and lyric traditions in gospel music.
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Sarah Wall-Randell
Assistant Professor of English
B.A., Wellesley College; M.Phil, St. John’s College (Oxford University); Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests include Renaissance literature, book history, and the history and theory of literary genre.
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James Wallenstein
Newhouse Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
