Verna Foster
Professor
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
- Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory
Research Interests
- Modern Drama
- Contemporary Dramatic Adaptations
- Contemporary Women Dramatists
Browse Faculty
Sherrie Weller
Advanced Lecturer and Writing Program Director
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
- Philosophy of Language
Research Interests
- Rhetoric and Composition
- Women in Literature: Contemporary Memoir
- Creative Non-Fiction
Nadine Johnstone
Instructor
Disciplines
- Creative Writing
- English Language and Literature
- Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Research Interests
- Creative Writing (Non-fiction and Fiction),
- Rhetoric and Composition
- English as a Second or Other Language
Melissa Bradshaw
Advanced Lecturer and Writing Across the Curriculum Coordinator
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
- Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Research Interests
- Feminist, queer, and gender studies
- modernism
- 20th century American poetry
Marta Werner
Professor, Martin J. Svaglic Chair in Textual Studies
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
Laura Goldstein
Senior Lecturer
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
Julie Fiorelli
Lecturer
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
- Literature in English, North America
- Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority
Research Interests
- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, race, utopia, genre, speculative literature
Joyce Wexler
Professor and Chair of the English Department
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
Research Interests
- Twentieth-century aesthetic movements
- cultural studies
- publishing history
John Kerkering
Associate Professor
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
Research Interests
- Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and culture
- poetry and poetics
- national and racial identity
Jeffrey Glover
Associate Professor
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
Research Interests
- Early American Literature
J. Brooks Bouson
Professor and Assistant Chair of the English Department
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
Research Interests
- Modern British literature
- psychoanalysis and literature
- women's literature
Ian Cornelius
Edward L. Surtz, S. J., Professor of Medieval Literature and Culture Associate Professor
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
- Medieval Studies
Research Interests
- Alliterative poetry
- Piers Plowman
- Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy
Howard Axelrod
Lecturer
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
Research Interests
- Creative nonfiction
- Fiction
- Poetry
Harveen Mann
Professor
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
- South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
Research Interests
- Postcolonial studies
- South Asian studies
- Third World feminism
Edward Wheatley
Professor
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
- Medieval Studies
Research Interests
- Medieval English and continental literature
- paleography and manuscript studies
- history of the English language
David Chinitz
Professor
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
Research Interests
- Poetry, Modernism, T. S. Eliot, Harlem Renaissance, Popular Culture
Christopher Kendrick
Professor Emeritus
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
- Literature in English, British Isles
Research Interests
- Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century British Literature
- Milton
- Utopia and science fiction
Badia Ahad
Associate Professor
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
- Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority
Research Interests
- Contemporary American and African-American literature
- history of psychoanalysis
- Diaspora Studies
Aidan Forth
Assistant Professor
Disciplines
- History
- European History
Research Interests
- Modern Britain
- imperialism and colonialism
- violence and humanitarianism in liberal empires