Meet the Department Chair
Jennifer Spitzer
Associate Professor and Chair, Literatures in English
Specialty: Late 19th and 20th-Century Literature; Transatlantic Modernism; Gender and Sexuality
Meet our Faculty and Staff
Derek Adams
Associate Professor, Literatures in English
Specialty: 20th-21st Century African American Literature, Blackness, Feminism, and Intersectionality
Kasia Bartoszynska
Associate Professor and Women's Gender Sexuality Studies Coordinator, Literatures in English
Specialty: Theories of the Novel; 18th Century Literature; Gender and Sexuality
Alexis Becker
Associate Professor, Literatures in English
Specialty: Old and Middle English literature; medieval British multilingualism; political ecology; climate and literature; labor; history of reading and the book; literacy; history of English
Dan Breen
Professor and Global Premodern Studies Coordinator, Literatures in English
Specialty: Late Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Hugh Egan
Professor, Literatures in English
Specialty: American literature, especially 19th century prose and poetry
Julie Fromer
Lecturer, Literatures in English
Specialty: Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Paul Hansom
Assistant Professor, Literatures in English
Chris Holmes
Professor, Literatures in English
Specialty: Postcolonial and Anglophone Literature; Theories of Translation and World Literature
Katharine Kittredge
Professor, Literatures in English
Christopher Matusiak
Associate Professor, Literatures in English
Specialty: Shakespeare, Early English Theater History, Renaissance Literature
Jeong Yeon Lee
Assistant Professor, Literatures in English
Specialty: 19th and 20th Century African American Literature; Apocalypse; Black Religion
Robert Sullivan
Professor, Literatures in English
Specialty: Rhetoric, Argumentation, Communication Ethics
Kenesha Chatman
Administrative Assistant, English
Specialty: The Departments of Literatures in English, Politics, and Sociology