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