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 ALBRIGHT, DANIEL, Professor of English
Education: B.A. 1967 Rice University; M.Phil. 1969, Ph.D. 1970 Yale University.
Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature, Music, and Painting; Theory of Comparative Arts; Lyric Poetry; Drama; Science and Literature.
Selected Works:
Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources. University of Chicago Press (2004); Beckett and Aesthetics. Cambridge University Press (2003); Berlioz's Semi-Operas (2001); Untwisting the Serpent (2000); Quantum Poetics (1997); W. B. Yeats: The Poems, ed. (1990); Stravinsky: The Music-Box and the Nightingale (1989); Tennyson: The Muses' Tug-of-War (1986); Lyricality in English Literature (1985); Representation and the Imagination: Beckett, Kafka, Nabokov, Schoenberg (1981); Personality and Impersonality: Lawrence, Woolf, Mann (1978).
Office Hours:
M 1-2
Office: Barker Center 152
Phone: 617 384-9395
Email: albright@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

BHABHA, HOMI K., Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities
Education: BA 1970, University of Bombay; MPhil, MA, DPhil 1990, Christ Church, Oxford.
Interests: Colonial and Post-Colonial Theory; Cosmopolitanism; 19th and 20th-Century British and other English-Language Literatures.
Selected Works:
Measure of Dwelling (forthcoming, Harvard University Press); The Right to Narrate (forthcoming, Columbia University Press); The Black Savant and the Dark Princess (2006); Framing Fanon (2005); The Location of Culture (2004, Routledge Classics); Still Life (2004); Adagio (2004); On Writing Rights (2003); Making Difference: The Legacy of the Culture Wars(2003); Democracy De-Realized (2002), V.S. Naipaul (2001), On Cultural Choice (2000).
Office Hours:
M 12-2
Office: Barker Center 134
Phone: 617 495-0739
Email: hbhabha@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

BUELL, LAWRENCE, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature and Harvard College Professor
Education: B.A. 1961 Princeton; M.A. 1962, Ph.D. 1966 Cornell
Interests: American Literature (especially the 19th Century); Literature and the Environment; Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures.
Selected Works:
Emerson (2003); Writing for an Endangered World (2001); The Environmental Imagination (1995); New England Literary Culture (1986); Literary Transcendentalism (1973).
Office Hours:
T 10-12, and by appointment
Office: Barker Center 272
Phone: 617 495-8444
Email: lbuell@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

BURT, STEPHEN, Associate Professor of English
Education: B.A., Harvard 1994; Ph. D., Yale 2000.
Interests: Poetry, especially 20th and 21st centuries; science fiction; literature and geography; contemporary writing; comics and graphic novels; literature alongside other arts.
Selected Works:
Close Calls With Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (forthcoming, 2008); The Forms of Youth: Adolescence and 20th-Century Poetry (2007); Parallel Play (2006); editor, Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden (2005); "'September 1, 1939 Revisited' or, Poetry, Politics, and the Idea of the Public" (2003); Randall Jarrell and His Age (2002); Popular Music (1999)
Office Hours:
W 2:30-4:30
Office: Barker Center 014
Phone: 617 496-0285
Email: burt@fas.harvard.edu
Website: http://www.accommodatingly.com/

CARPIO, GLENDA, Professor
Education: B.A. 1991 Vassar; Ph.D. 2002 University of California at Berkeley.
Interests: The Literature, History and Culture of New World Slavery; African-American Visual Art; Anglophone Caribbean Literature; Theories on Memory and Textuality; Gender and Cultural Studies; native American and Latino/a US Literature.
Selected Works:
Laughing Fit to Kill; Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery (Oxford UP. 2008); "Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Voodoo, Fetishism and Stereotype in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada" (American Literature, 2005); "Junot's Prize: A Pulitzer First for Afro-Latino Literature" (http://vidaafrolatina.com/Junots_Prize_A_Pulitze.html) (April 29, 2008); " 'Any Gum, Chum?': Thomas Pynchon and the Culture of Modern War," New Literary History of American Literature, Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, eds. (Harvard University Press, forthcoming ).
Office Hours:
T,W 3-4
Office: Barker Center 234 (AAAS)
Phone: 617 495-7868
Email: carpio@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

DAMROSCH, LEO, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature and Harvard College Professor
Education: A.B. 1963 Yale; A.B./A.M. 1966 Cambridge; Ph.D. 1968 Princeton.
Interests: Restoration and 18th-Century Literature; Romanticism; Puritan Imagination; Enlightenment.
Selected Works:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (2005); The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit (1996); Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson (1989); The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope (1987);God's Plot and Man's Stories: Studies in the Fictional Imagination from Milton to Fielding (1985); Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth (1980); The Uses of Johnson's Criticism (1976); Samuel Johnson and the Tragic Sense (1972).
Office Hours:
W 3-5
Office: Widener 772
Phone: 617 495-7885
Email: damrosch@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

DE LA DURANTAYE, LELAND, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English
Education: B.A. 1994 Michigan State University; M.A. 1998, Ph.D. 2002 Cornell University.
Interests: 19th and 20th Century English, American, French and German Literature; Aesthetics.
Selected Works:
Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction (2009); Style is Matter: The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov (2007).
Office Hours:
T,W 2:30-4, and by appointment
Office: Barker Center 143
Phone: 617 496-4904
Email: deladur@fas.harvard.edu
Website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~deladur/

DONOGHUE, DANIEL, Professor of English
Education: B.A. 1978 University of Dallas; M.Phil. 1981 University College Dublin; Ph.D. 1986 Yale.
Interests: Old English; Middle English; History of the Language, Medievalism.
Selected Works:
Old English: A Short Introduction (2004); Lady Godiva:The History of a Legend (2003); Beowulf: A Verse Translation, ed. (2002); Style in Old English Poetry (1987).
Office Hours:
M, Th 3:15-5:00, and by appointment
Office: Barker Center 208
Phone: 617 495-2505
Email: dgd@wjh.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

ENGELL, JAMES, Guerney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature
Education: B.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1978 Harvard.
Interests: Eighteenth Century and Restoration; Romanticism; Criticism and Critical Theory; Rhetoric.
Selected Works:
Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money (2005, with Anthony Dangerfield); The Committed Word: Literature and Public Values (1999); Coleridge: The Early Family Letters (1994); Forming the Critical Mind (1989); ed. and contributor, Johnson and His Age (1984); ed. (with W. J. Bate) Biographia Literaria for the Collected Coleridge (1983); The Creative Imagination (1981).
Office Hours:
M 1:30-3:30
Office: Barker Center 162
Phone: 617 495-5055
Email: jengell@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

EVANS, CHRISTINE, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English
Education: B.A. 1994 University of Technology, Sydney; MA. 1997 University of Western Sydney, Nepean; MFA. 2002 Brown University; Ph.D. 2008 Brown University.
Interests: Playwriting, screenwriting, post-dramatic theatre, Latino/a drama, contemporary British and American plays and playwrights.
Selected Works:
My Vicious Angel (1998); Mothergun (2002); Pussy Boy (2003); Slow Falling Bird (2005); Weightless (2007) Trojan Barbie, (2009).
Office Hours:
By appointment.
Office: Barker Center 073
Phone: 617 496-5366
Email: cmevans@fas.harvard.edu
Website: http://www.christine-evans-playwright.com

FISHER, PHILIP, Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English
Education: A.B. 1963 University of Pittsburgh; M.A. 1966; Ph.D. 1971 Harvard.
Interests: American Novel; English Novel; Cultural Theory; Modernism; American Art and its Cultural Institutions; The Philosophy and Literature of the Passions; Narrative Theory; Game Theory and the Novel.
Selected Works:
The Vehement Passions (2002); Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction (1998-99); Wonder, the Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences (1998); Making and Effacing Art (1991); (ed.) New American Studies (1991); Hard Facts (1986); Making Up Society (1981).
Office Hours:
W 2-4
Office: Barker Center 153
Phone: 617 496-4961
Email: pjfisher@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

FREY, DARCY, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English
Education: BA 1984, Oberlin College.
Interests: Narrative journalism; essay; memoir; travel writing; literary science writing.
Selected Works:
*George Divoky’s Planet* (forthcoming, Pantheon). *The Last Shot* (1994).
Office Hours:
W,Th 3-4
Office: Barker Center 064
Phone: 617 495-2103
Email: frey@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

GARBER, MARJORIE, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies; Chair, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies; Director, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Education: B.A. 1966 Swarthmore College; Ph.D. 1969 Yale University.
Interests: Shakespeare; Modern Drama, Dramatic Theory, and Performance; Cultural Studies; Psychoanalysis and Literature; Renaissance Drama; Gender Theory; Visual Studies; Media Studies; Detective Fiction; the History and Theory of the Profession.
Selected Works:
Shakespeare After All (2004); Quotation Marks (2002); Academic Instincts (2001); Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses (2000); Symptoms of Culture (1998); Dog Love (1996); Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life (1995); Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety (1992); Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality (1987); Coming of Age in Shakespeare (1981); Dream in Shakespeare: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis (1974); ed., The Medusa Reader (2003); ed., The Turn to Ethics (2000); ed., Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America (1995); ed., Media Spectacles (1993).
Office Hours:
By appointment, contact Sara Bartel (bartel@fas.harvard.edu).
Office: Department of Visual and Environmental Studies
Phone: 617 384-7891
Email: garber@fas.harvard.edu
Website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~garber/

GATES, HENRY LOUIS, JR., W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities; Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor
Education: B.A. 1973 Yale; M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1979 University of Cambridge.
Interests: African and African-American Literature; Cultural Theory.
Selected Works:
America Behind the Color Line (2004); The Trials of Phillis Wheatley (2003); The Bondswoman's Narrative, ed. (2002); The African American Century (2000);Wonders of the African World (1999); Co-editor, Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999); Co-editor, Encarta Africana (1999);Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (1997); co-gen. ed., The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (1996); co-ed., The Dictionary of Global Culture (1996); The Future of the Race (with Cornel West) (1996); Colored People: A Memoir (1994); Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992); The Signifying Monkey (1988); Figures in Black (1987).
Office Hours:
By appointment.
Office: W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Studies
Phone: 617 496-5468
Email: hgates@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

GRAHAM, JORIE, Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric
Education: B.A. New York University 1973; M.F.A. University of Iowa 1978.
Interests: English Poetry; American Poetry; Contemporary Poetics; Film Theory; Painting.
Selected Works:
All poetry: Overlord (2005); Never (2002); Speaking Subject (2002); Swarm (2000); The Errancy (1997); The Dream of The Unified Field (1996); Materialism (1993); Region of Unlikeness (1991); The End of Beauty (1987); Erosion (1983); Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts (1980).
Office Hours:
By appointment.
Office: Barker Center 263
Phone: 617 495-2533
Email: n/a
Website: http://www.joriegraham.com/

GREENBLATT, STEPHEN, John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities
Education: B.A. Yale 1964; M.Phil. Cambridge 1966; Ph.D. Yale 1969.
Interests: Shakespeare; Early Modern Literature and Culture; Literature of Travel and Exploration; Religion and Literature; Literature and Anthropology; Literary and Cultural Theory.
Selected Works:
Will in the World (2004); Hamlet in Purgatory (2001); Co-gen. ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature (2000); Practicing New Historicism (with Catherine Gallagher, 2000); Gen. ed. Norton Shakespeare (1997); ed. New World Encounters (1993); ed. Redrawing the Boundaries (1992); Marvelous Possessions (1991); Learning to Curse (1990); Shakespearean Negotiations (1988); Renaissance Self-Fashioning (1980).
Office Hours:
On Leave.
Office: Barker Center 154
Phone: 617 495-2101
Email: greenbl@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

HARRIS, JOSEPH C., Francis Lee Higginson Professor English and Professor of Folklore
Education: B.A. 1961 University of Georgia; B.A. 1967 Cambridge; M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1969 Harvard.
Interests: Old English; Old Norse-Icelandic; Folklore and Mythology.
Selected Works:
"Beowulf ’s Name" (2002); "Beowulf as Epic" (2001); "‘Double scene’ and ‘mise en abyme’ in Beowulfian Narrative" (2000); ‘Go sögn sem hjálp til a lifa af ’ í Sonatorreki (1999); Prosimetrum: Crosscultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Verse (ed. with K. Reichl, 1997);"Guilt and Sacrifice in Sonatorrek" (1994); "A Nativist Approach to Beowulf" (1994); "Love and Death in the Männerbund" (1993); "Beowulf's Last Words" (1992); "Gender and Genre: Short and Long Forms of the Saga Literature" (1991).
Office Hours:
M 11-12, F 2-3
Office: Barker Center 221
Phone: 617 495-9567
Email: harris@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

HASHHOZHEVA, GALENA, College Fellow in the Department of English
Education: B.A. 2001 Sofia University; M.A. 2003 Sofia University, Ph.D. 2009 Harvard University.
Interests: Renaissance literature; classical philosophy; linguistics and philosophy of language; German literature and philosophy; Modernism.
Selected Works:
"The Mittelwerke: Site, Parasite, Non-site" (2008).
Office Hours:
Th 1-2, and by appointment
Office: Office: Barker Center 142
Phone: 617 495-2533
Email: hashhozh@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

HEMPEL, AMY, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English
Education: Whittier College, California State University, Columbia University
Interests: Fiction
Selected Works:
Reasons to Live (1985), At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom (1990), Tumble Home (1997), The Dog of the Marriage (2005), The Collected Stories (2006).
Office Hours:
Th 4:30-6:30
Office: Barker Center 062
Phone: 617 495-2098
Email: ahempel@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

HSU, HUA, Visiting Assistant Professor of English (Vassar College)
Education: B.A. 1999 University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. 2008 Harvard University.
Interests: Asian American/transpacific literary history; comparative ethnic studies; geography; American intellectual history; cultural studies; criticism.
Selected Works:
“Wild Style” and “The First Asian Americans,” New Literary History of America, Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, eds. (HUP, 2009); forthcoming essays in Bookforum, the Boston Review, Criticism and Daedalus.
Office Hours:
T 1-2:30, and by appointment
Office: Barker Center 069
Phone: 617 495-8441
Email: huahsu@fas.harv ard.edu
Website: http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/hua_hsu/

JOHNSTON, BRET, Senior Lecturer on English
Education: BA 1996, Texas A&M University; MA 2000, Miami University; MFA 2002, University of Iowa.
Interests: Fiction writing.
Selected Works:
Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer (2008); Corpus Christi: Stories (Random House, 2004).
Office Hours:
W,Th 3-4
Office: Barker Center 067
Phone: 617 495-5921
Email: bajohnst@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

JOSE, NICHOLAS, Professor. Visiting Chair of Australian Studies; Chair in Writing, Writing and Society Research Group, University of Western Sydney.
Education: B.A. Australian National University 1973; D.Phil. Magdalen College, Oxford 1978.
Interests: Contemporary Asia-Pacific Writing; Australian Literature; Creative Writing; Contemporary Chinese Art.
Selected Works:
Fiction: Original Face (2005); The Red Thread (2000); The Custodians (1997); The Rose Crossing (1994); Avenue of Eternal Peace (1989); Paper Nautilus (1987). Non-fiction: Black Sheep: Journey to Borroloola (2002); Chinese Whispers, Cultural Essays (1995). As general editor, The Literature of Australia: An Anthology (2009).
Office Hours:
Th 10-12
Office: Barker Center 066
Phone: 617 496-2211
Email: njose@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

KAISER, MATTHEW, Assistant Professor of English
Education: B.A. 1995 University of Oregon; M.A. 1998, Ph.D. 2004 Rutgers University.
Interests: Victorian Literature and Culture; Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Selected Works:
Editor, Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture: Volumes I & II (2010); "Pater's Mouth" (forthcoming); "The World in Play: A Portrait of a Victorian Concept" (2009); "Mapping Stevenson's Rhetorics of Play" (2009); "Facing a Mirror: Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug and the Politics of Imperial Self-Incrimination" (2009); "A History of "Ludicrous'" (2004); "Marius at Oxford: Paterian Pedagogy and the Ethics of Seduction" (2002).
Office Hours:
Th 1:30-3:00
Office: Barker Center 065
Phone: 617 495-9862 (no voicemail)
Email: mkaiser@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

KLINK, JOANNA, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English
Education: B.A. 1991 Carleton College; M.F.A 1998 University of Iowa; Ph.D. 2001 Johns Hopkins.
Interests: Poetry, Poetics, Creative Writing, Modernism.
Selected Works:
They Are Sleeping (2000); Circadian (2007); Raptus (forthcoming 2010).
Office Hours:
By appointment.
Office: Barker Center 016
Phone: 617 384-9336
Email: jklink@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

LEWALSKI, BARBARA, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History and Literature and of English
Education: B.S.E. 1950 Emporia State University; A.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1956 University of Chicago.
Interests: Renaissance; Milton; Genre Theory and Criticism; Women in the Renaissance.
Selected Works:
The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography (2000); Writing Women in Jacobean England (1993); Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms (1985); Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century English Lyric (1979); Milton's Brief Epic (1966).
Office Hours:
On leave.
Office: Barker Center 215
Phone: 617 495-4720
Email: lewalski@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

LYMAN, ELIZABETH DYRUD, Assistant Professor of English
Education: A.B. 1979 Stanford; M.A. 1999, Ph.D. 2003 University of Virginia
Interests: Drama of all periods; 20th-Century Literature; Opera and Music-Theater; Modernism; the Avant-Garde; Performance Art; Comic Art and the Graphic Novel; The Material Book; Artists’ Books; Textual Editing and Theory; Theories of Notation.
Selected Works:
"The Page Refigured: The Visual and Verbal Languages of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus" (2002).
Office Hours:
M,T 4-5, and by appointment.
Office: Barker Center 071
Phone: 617 495-9242
Email: elyman@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

MENAND, LOUIS, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English
Education: B.A. 1973 Pomona; M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1980 Columbia.
Interests: 19th and 20th Century Cultural History.
Selected Works:
The Marketplace of Ideas (2010); American Studies (2002); The Metaphysical Club (2001); The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 7: Modernism and the New Criticism, co-ed. (2000); The Future of Academic Freedom, ed. (1997); Pragmatism: A Reader, ed. (1996); Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context (1987).
Office Hours:
M 3-5.
Office: Barker Center 155
Phone: 617 495-8780
Email: menand@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

NEW, ELISA, Professor of English
Education: B.A. Brandeis University 1980; M.A. Columbia University 1982; Ph.D Columbia University 1988.
Interests: American poetry; American Literature-1900; Religion and Literature; Jewish Literature.
Selected Works:
The Line's Eye: Poetic Experience, American Sight (1999); The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry (1993)
Office Hours:
M, T 3-4:30.
Office: Barker Center 148
Phone: 617 496-2552
Email: enew@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

NOHRNBERG, PETER, Assistant Professor
Education: B.A. Harvard 1993; M.Phil. Magdalen College, Oxford 1995; M.A., M.Phil. 1998, Ph.D. Yale 2003.
Interests: British and American Modernism; History of the Novel; Satire; Irish Literature; Post-Colonial Theory; Poetics and Theories of Lyric; Post-War American Poetry; Twentieth-Century Visual Culture; Nature Writing.
Selected Works:
"'I Wish He'd Never Been to School': Stevie, Newspapers and the Reader in The Secret Agent" (2003); The Book the Poet Makes: Collection and Re-Collection in W. B. Yeats's The Tower and Robert Lowell's Life Studies (1994).
Office Hours:
M 3-4:30.
Office: Barker Center 015
Phone: 617 495-1139
Email: nohrnber@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

PETERS, JULIE, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature
Education: B.A. Yale University 1981; PhD Princeton University 1987; JD Columbia University 1997.
Interests: Comparative drama, early modern to contemporary, literary and cultural dimensions of the law.
Selected Works:
“Legal Performance Good and Bad" (2008); “Drama, Primitive Ritual, Ethnographic Spectacle: Genealogies of World Performance (ca. 1890-1910)" (2009); Theatre of the Book: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe 1480-1880 (2000, reprint 2003); Women's Rights, Human Rights: International Feminist Perspectives (1995); Congreve, the Drama, and the Printed Word (1990).
Office Hours:
T, Th 11-12, and by appointment.
Office: Barker Center 271
Phone: 617 496-2235
Email: peters@harvard.edu
Website: n/a

PRICE, LEAH, Professor of English
Education: A.B. Harvard 1991; M. Phil. 1995, Ph.D. Yale 1998
Interests: The novel; narrative theory; history of the book; theories of reading; old and new media; 18th- & 19th-century British and French Culture.
Selected Works:
The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel (2000, reprint 2003); Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture (co-ed. 2005); The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature (special issue of _PMLA_, co-ed. 2006).
Office Hours:
On leave.
Office: Barker Center 145
Phone: 617 496-0573
Email: lprice@fas.harvard.edu
Website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~lprice/

RUBIN, DANIEL, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English
Education: B.A. 1979, Brown; MA 1981, Northwestern.
Interests: Writing; Not writing; The Writer and the Written; Originality and Meaning.
Selected Works:
(screenplays): Busted True (2008); DoorJam (2004); The Hanging Tale (2002); Spywheel (2000); Myth New York (1998); Martian Time (1996); The Magic Butler (1995); Small Soldiers (1994); Brush With Love (1994); SFW (1991); Groundhog Day (1990); Hear No Evil (1987).
Office Hours:
W 10-12.
Office: Barker Center 063
Phone: 617 495-8959
Email: djrubin@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

SACKS, PETER, John P. Marquand Professor of English
Education: B.A. 1973 Princeton; M. Phil. 1976 Oxford; Ph.D. 1980 Yale.
Interests: English Language Lyric Poetry; Writing of Poetry; Art and Literature.
Selected Works:
Necessity (2002); O Wheel (poems, 2000);Natal Command (poems, 1997); Woody Gwyn: an Approach to the Landscape (1995); Promised Lands (poems, 1990); The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats (1986); In These Mountains (poems, 1986).
Office Hours:
T 4-6.
Office: Barker Center 268
Phone: 617 495-2533
Email: n/a
Website: n/a

SCANLAN, ROBERT, Professor of the Practice of Theater
Education: BS 1971, M.I.T.; MA 1974, Rutgers University ; PhD 1976, Rutgers University.
Interests: Theatre Directing; Formal Theory; Development of New Work for the Stage; Contemporary Plays and Performance; Playwriting; Dramaturgy, Samuel Beckett.
Selected Works:
Principles of Dramaturgy (forthcoming) Recent Directing: Whatever Happened to Toby Wing? by Karl Kirchway (2001); A Chapter of Thanatos by Karl Kirchway (2000); The Philosopher's Stone by Mozart (1998); The Inferno of Dante translation by Robert Pinsky (1998); In Her Sight by Carol Mack (world premiere, 1997).
Office Hours:
W 10-12.
Office: Barker Center 266
Phone: 617 496-5148
Email: scanlan@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

SCARRY, ELAINE, Walter M. Cabot Professor Aesthetics and General Theory of Value
Education: A.B. 1968 Chatham College; A.M., Ph.D. 1974 University of Connecticut.
Interests: 19th-Century British Novel; 20th-Century Drama; Theory of Representation; Language of Physical Pain; Structure of Verbal and Material Making in Art, Science, and the Law.
Selected Works:
On Beauty and Being Just (1999); Dreaming by the Book (1999); ed. Fins de Siècle (1995);Resisting Representation (1994); ed., Literature and the Body (1988); The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (1985).
Office Hours:
W 3-4.
Office: Barker Center 273
Phone: 617 496-6023
Email: n/a
Website: n/a

SHELL, MARC, Irving Babbit Professor of Comperative Literature and Professor of English
Education: B.A. 1968 Stanford, Ph.D. 1975 Yale.
Interests: Economics & Aesthetics; Nationhood & Language Difference; Kinship Studies; Non-English Languages & Literatures of the United States; Disability & Medical Studies; Renaissance; Comparative Literature; Theory
Selected Works:
The Economy of Literature (1978); Money, Language and Thought: Literary and Philosophical Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era (1982); The End of Kinship: "Measure for Measure," Incest, and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood (1988); Children of the Earth: Literature, Politics, and Nationhood (1994); Elizabeth's Glass: with "The Glass of the Sinful Soul" (1544) by Elizabeth I and "Epistle Dedicatory" and "Conclusion" (1548) by John Bale (1994); Art & Money (1995); American Babel (2002); Polio and Its Aftermath (2005); Stutter (2006).
Office Hours:
W 10-12.
Office: Barker Center 265
Phone: 617 496-6538
Email: mshell@fas.harvard.edu
Website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~mshell/

SHINAGEL, MICHAEL, Senior Lecturer on English, Dean of Continuing Education and University Extension School
Education: A.B. 1957 Oberlin; A.M. 1959, Ph.D. 1964 Harvard.
Interests: 18th Century English Literature; Rise of the Novel; Satire.
Selected Works:
Norton Critical Edition of Robinson Crusoe (1975, revised 1993); Concordance to the Poems of Jonathan Swift (1972); Daniel Defoe and Middle-Class Gentility (1968).
Office Hours:
By appointment.
Office: 51 Brattle St., 723
Phone: 617 495-2930
Email: shinagel@hudce.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

SIMPSON, JAMES, Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English
Education: B.A. 1976 University of Melbourne, M. Phil. 1980 University of Oxford, Ph.D. 1996 University of Cambridge.
Interests: Late medieval Western European Literature, 1150-1550; images and idolatry; hermeneutics and the history of reading.
Selected Works:
Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents (2007) (winner, Silver Medal (religion), Independent Publishers Awards, 2008); Reform and Cultural Revolution , 1350-1547 (2002) (winner, British Academy Sir Israel Gollancz Prize, 2007); (co-ed.) Norton Anthology of English Literature (2004); (co- ed.) Images, Idolatry and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England (2002); Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry: Alan of Lille's ‘Anticlaudianus' and John Gower's ‘Confessio amantis' (1995); Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text (1990; second, revised edition 2007).
Office Hours:
T 2-4, Th 2-3.
Office: Barker Center 270
Phone: 617 495-2983
Email: jsimpson@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

SOLLORS, WERNER, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies
Education: Dr. phil. 1975 Freie Universität Berlin.
Interests: American Literature; American Studies; Ethnicity; Comparative Literature; Themes and Motifs.
Selected Works:
"Ethnic Modernism" (2003); An Anthology of Interracial Literature: Black-White Contacts in the Old World and the New, ed. (2003); Co-ed. The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature (2000); Neither Black Nor White and Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature (1997); ed. Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of America (1998); Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture (1986)
Office Hours:
Th 3-4:30.
Office: Barker Center 240
Phone: 617 495-4146
Email: sollors@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

STAUFFER, JOHN, Professor of English and of African and African American Studies
Education: B.S.E. Duke; M.A.L.S. 1991 Wesleyan; M.A. 1993 Purdue; M.Phil. 1996, Ph.D. 1998 Yale.
Interests: American Literature and Culture (especially the 19th Century); American Studies; Civil War; Slavery and Abolitionism; Protest Literature; Religion and Literature;American Novel; Autobiography.
Selected Works:
State of Jones (with Sally Jenkins, 2009) (New York Times bestseller, Pulitzer Prize nomination); GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln (2008) (winner of Iowa Author Award for best book in 2009, Boston Authors Club award in 2009, Boston Globe bestseller); The Problem of Evil (with Steven Mintz, 2007)(Association of American University Presses award in 2008); The Works of James McCune Smith (2006); Prophets of Protest (with Tim McCarthy, 2006); Meteor of War: The John Brown Story (with Zoe Trodd, 2004); The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (2002)(winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize in 2002, winner of the Avery Craven award in 2003, Lincoln Prize runner-up in 2003, Magill's Literary Annual award in 2003).
Office Hours:
M 1-2:30, T 2-3, and by appointment, contact Arthur Patton-Hock (apattonh@fas.harvard.edu).
Office: Barker Center 267
Phone: 617 495-8440
Email: stauffer@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

STEVENS, JASON, Assistant Professor of English
Education: BA Haverford College 1997; Ph.D. Columbia University 2005.
Interests: Twentieth Century American Literature; Religious Studies; American Intellectual History; Film and Mass Culture Studies; Native American Literature; Crime Fiction.
Selected Works:
: "Bear, Outlaw, and Storyteller: American Frontier Mythology and the Ethnic Subjectivity of N. Scott Momaday" (2001).
Office Hours:
W 2-4, and by appointment.
Office: Barker Center 070
Phone: 617 495-9836
Email: stevens@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

TESKEY, GORDON, Professor of English
Education: BA 1976 Trent University; MA 1977, PhD 1981 University of Toronto.
Interests: English Renaissance Poetry, especially Spenser and Milton; Poetry and Prophecy; History and Theory of Allegory; Critical Theory; Continental Philosophy and Its Relation to Poetry
Selected Works:
Delirious Milton (2006); Allegory and Violence (1996).
Office Hours:
M,T,W 3-4, and W by appointment
Office: Barker Center 206
Phone: 617 495-3167
Email: gteskey@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

VAN DER WOUDE, JOANNE, Assistant Professor of English and of History and Literature
Education: B.A. (drs.) 2001, Universiteit van Amsterdam; Ph.D. 2007, University of Virginia
Interests: American Literature and Culture to 1800; Comparative Colonialisms; Immigrant Writings; Native American Studies; Theories of Memory and Performance.
Selected Works:
"How Shall We Sing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land: A Transatlantic Study of the *Bay Psalm Book*" (forthcoming); "Most were Much Affected & Many in Much Distress: The Great Awakening" (2009); "Why Maps Matter" (2008); "Rewriting the Myth of Black Mortality: W.E.B. Du Bois and Charles Chesnutt" (2007).
Office Hours:
M,W 9-11.
Office: Barker Center 275
Phone: 617 496-0291
Email: jwoude@fas.harvard.edu
Website: http://web.me.com/jwoude/html/Home.html

VENDLER, HELEN, Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor
Education: A.B. 1954 Emmanuel College; Ph.D. 1960 Harvard.
Interests: English and American Lyric Poetry.
Selected Works:
Seamus Heaney (1998);The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (1997); Soul Says (1995); The Odes of John Keats (1983).
Office Hours:
Wed 3-4, and by appointment.
Office: Barker Center 205
Phone: 617 496-6028
Email: klambert@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

WATSON, NICHOLAS, Professor of English
Education: B.A., M.A. Cambridge 1980; M. Phil. Oxford 1984; Ph.D. Toronto 1987.
Interests: Medieval English Literature, Theology, and Intellectual History; Poetry; Hagiography; Medieval Latin; Mysticism, Visionary Writing, Magic, Medieval Women's Writing and Literary Culture.
Selected Works:
Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love (co-ed., 2005); The Vulgar Tonuue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularities, co-ed (2003); "Desire for the Past" (2000); The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280-1520 (coauthor, 1999); "Censorship and Cultural Change: Vernacular Theology, the Oxford Translation Debate, and Arundel's Constitutions of 1409" (1995); Richard Rolle's "Emendatio Vitae" (edition, 1994); "The Composition of Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Love" (1993); Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority (1991); Anchoritic Spirituality: "Ancrene Wisse" and Associated Works (translation, coauthor, 1991).
Office Hours:
M 3-4, W by appointment.
Office: Barker Center 214
Phone: 617 495-0969
Email: nwatson@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

WOOD, JAMES, Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism
Education: MA 1988, Jesus College, Cambridge
Interests: 20th Century Literature; Religion and Literature
Selected Works:
The Broken Estate: Essays in Literature and Belief (Modern Library, 1999); Selected Shorter Fiction of D.H. Lawrence (Modern Library, 1999); The Book Against God (Farrar, Straus, 2003); The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel (Farrar, Straus, 2004).
Office Hours:
Th 2-4.
Office: Barker Center 262
Phone: 617 496-8484
Email: wood2@fas.harvard.edu
Website: n/a

ZAREFSKY, DAVID, Visiting Professor of English (Spring Term 2010)
Education: B.S. 1968; M.A. 1969; Ph.D. 1974 Northwestern University.
Interests: Rhetoric; U.S. Public Discourse; Argumentation; Works of Abraham Lincoln
Selected Works:
Sizing Up Rhetoric (ed.)(2008); Public Speaking: Strategies for Success (2008 and earlier editions); Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory (ed.)(1996); Rhetorical Movement (1993); Contemporary American Voices (ed.)(1992); Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate (1990); American Voices (ed.)(1989); President Johnson's War on Poverty: Rhetoric and History (1986).
Office Hours:
W 2-5.
Office: Barker Center
Phone: 617 495-2533
Email: d-zarefsky@northwestern.edu
Website: n/a