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Emma Adler

PhD Candidate

Field: 19th C. British

Interests: 19th Century British/Romantics/Victorian; Drama and Performance

Office: Barker 075

eadler@g.harvard.edu

Michael Allen

PhD Candidate
Departmental Writing Fellow
Pedagogy Fellow

Field: 20th C. British

Interests: 20th C. British

Office: Barker 142

michaelpatrickallen@g.harvard.edu

Nicholas Belmore

PhD Candidate

Field: Renaissance

Interests: Medieval; Criticism and Theory; Multiethnic Literature of the US; Drama and Performance; Poetry

nicholasbelmore@g.harvard.edu

Sam Bozoukov

PhD Candidate

Field: Renaissance

Interests: John Milton, early modern music and audition theory, the Scientific Revolution and early modern...

Vanessa Braganza

PhD Candidate

Field: Renaissance

Interests: Book History; early modern women writers; the Sidneys; race/...

Phoebe Braithwaite

PhD Candidate

Field: 19th, 20th C. British

Interests: Poetry; critical theory; global anglophone literature

Office: Barker 105

phoebebraithwaite@g.harvard.edu

Donald (Field) Brown

PhD Candidate

Field: 20th C. American

Interests: African American Literature; Multiethnic Literature of the U.S.; 20th C. American; ...

Rob Brown

PhD Candidate

Field: Medieval

Interests: Medieval

Office: 1 Bow Street, 337

robertbrown@g.harvard.edu

Jeffrey Careyva

PhD Candidate

Field: 20th Century American

Interests: Poetry & Poetics, World Literature, Disabilities Studies, Animal Studies,...

Thomas Casalaspi

PhD Candidate

Field: Poetry

Interests: Poetry from Chaucer to Bishop; Milton; British and American Romanticism; High Modernism

Office: Barker 029

casalaspi@g.harvard.edu

Yoojung Chun

PhD Candidate

Field: Renaissance

Interests: Renaissance/Early Modern, 19th Century British/Romantics, Medieval, History of the Book, 20th Century...

Samuel Diener

PhD Candidate

Field: 18th C. British

Interests: 18th Century British and American; Postcolonial Theory; Gender Studies; Travel/Exploration Narrative...

Thomas Dolinger

PhD Candidate

Field: Poetry

Interests: Poetry; 20th Century American; Literature and Medicine

dolinger@g.harvard.edu

Joani Etskovitz

PhD Candidate

Field: 18th and 19th C. British Literature

Interests: The Long 19th...

Mary Galli

PhD Candidate

Field: 20th C. British

Interests: Transnational Anglophone/Postcolonial and African American Literature; 19th C. British/Victorians;...

Sophia Gatzionis

PhD Candidate

Field: 20th C. American

Interests: Literature and Visual Art, 21st Century/Contemporary, 19th Century American, Comparative Literature,...

Amanda Gunn

PhD Candidate

Field: African American Literature

Interests: African American Literature; Poetry

Office: Barker 029

amandagunn@g.harvard.edu

Elinor Hitt

PhD Candidate

Field: 20th C. British and American

Interests: Drama and Performance; Irish Modernism; Dance Studies

elinor_hitt@g.harvard.edu

Katherine Horgan

PhD Candidate

Field: Renaissance

Interests: Renaissance; Early Modern 20th C. American; 20th C. British; Music and Literature; Digital Humanities...

Shalisa James

PhD Candidate

Field: 19th C. British

Interests: 19th Century British Romantics/Victorian

shalisajames@g.harvard.edu

Geoffrey Kirsch

PhD Candidate

Field: 19th & 20th C. American and British

Interests: 19th Century American; 19th Century British; American Modernism; Law and...

Andrew Koenig

PhD Candidate

Field: 20th C. British

Interests: 20th C. British

andrewkoenig@g.harvard.edu

Eunice Lee

PhD Candidate

Field: 20th C. American

Interests: Modernist Poetry; Orientalism; Translation; Gender Studies

eunicelee@g.harvard.edu

Thomas Leonard-Roy

PhD Candidate

Field: 18th C. British

Interests: Restoration and 18th-century British literature; satire; life writing; social history...

Sarah Jingyu Liu

PhD Candidate

Field: Modern American (1900-present)

Interests: Global modernism; aesthetics; translation theory; new media/videogames

sarahliu@g.harvard.edu

Alexander Lugo

PhD Candidate

Field: Medieval

Interests: Old and Middle English poetry and prose; Medieval Latin; Old Norse sagas; Medieval theology...

Sophia Mao

PhD Candidate

Field: British Transnational

Interests: British Modernism; Transnational Anglophone/Postcolonial Literature; Asian American Literature...

Maria Marchinkoski

PhD Candidate

Field: 20th C. American & 21st C./Contemporary American

Interests: The Novel; Modernism and Postmodernism; Periodization; Criticism &...

William Martin

PhD Candidate

Field: African American Literature

Interests: Neo-slave narrative; Diaspora and Migration; Law and Literature; Thing Theory

williammartin@g.harvard.edu

Karina Mathew

PhD Candidate

Field: 20th- and 21st-century American

Interests: Literature and Science; Posthumanism; Environmental Humanities; Science Fiction; Film;...

Robert Brustein

Professor of English, Emeritus

Education: B.A. 1948 Amherst College; M.A. 1950, Ph. D. 1957 Columbia University.

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Lawrence Buell

Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature, Emeritus

Interests: American Literature

Selected Works: Literary...

Leo Damrosch

Ernest Bernbaum Research Professor of Literature, Emeritus

Education: A.B. 1963 Yale; A.B./A.M. 1966 Cambridge; Ph.D. 1968 Princeton.

Interests:...

Marjorie Garber

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, Emerita

Education: B.A., Swarthmore College (1966)
Ph.D., Yale University (1969)

Interests: Shakespeare; Modern Drama, Dramatic Theory, and...

Joseph C Harris

Francis Lee Higginson Research Professor of English and Research Professor of Folklore

Education: B.A. 1961 University of Georgia; B.A. 1967 Cambridge; M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1969 Harvard.
Interests: Old English;... Read more about Joseph C Harris

Office: Barker 016

harris@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-9767

Robert Kiely

Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English, Emeritus

Education: B.A. 1953 Amherst College; Ph.D 1962 Harvard University.

Selected Works: ...

Derek Pearsall

Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus

Education: B.A. 1951, MA 1952 University of Birmingham (UK).

Interests: ...

David Perkins

James P. Marquand Professor of English and American Literature, Emeritus

Education: B.A. 1951 Harvard University; A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1957 Harvard University.

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Werner Sollors

Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Research Professor of English Literature, Emeritus

Education: D. Phil. 1975 Freie Universität Berlin
Interests: American Literature; American Studies; Ethnicity;... Read more about Werner Sollors

sollors@fas.harvard.edu

Helen Vendler

Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor, Emerita

Education: A.B., Emmanuel College (1954)
Ph.D., Harvard University (1960)

Interests: English and American Lyric Poetry.

Selected...

Glenda Carpio

Chair of the Department of English
Harvard College Professor
Professor of English and of African and African American Studies

Education: B.A., Vassar (1991)
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley (2002)

Interests: The Literature, History and Culture of...

Kailey Bennett

Faculty Assistant

Barker 161

kaileybennett@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-4110

Lauren Bimmler

Undergraduate Program Administrator

she/her/hers
Office: Barker 159

lbimmler@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-4252

Aubrey Everett

Assistant to Stephen Greenblatt

Office: Barker 160

aeverett@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-0491

Odile Harter

Research Librarian
Harvard College Library

Office: Widener Library 220

oharter@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-8028

Case Q. Kerns

Staff Assistant: Front Desk

he/him/his
Office: Barker Center, Department of English

cqkerns@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-2533

Sol Kim-Bentley

Financial Associate

Office: Barker 163

svkim@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-0253

Lee Marmor

Administrative Coordinator

Office: Barker 160

lee_marmor@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-6031

Anna McDonald

Department Administrator

Office: Barker 164

acmcdon@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-7861

Matthew Ocheltree

Lecturer on English
Director of Junior Tutorial Program

Website

He/him/his
Office: Barker 065

ocheltr@fas.harvard.edu

Wednesday 2-4pm (in Barker 065), & by appointment

Gwen Urdang-Brown

Graduate Program Administrator

Office: Barker 157

urdangbr@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-8693

Henry Vega Ortiz

Undergraduate Program Assistant

He/him/his
Office: Barker 158

henryvegaortiz@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-8443

Glenda Carpio

Chair of the Department of English
Harvard College Professor
Professor of English and of African and African American Studies

Education: B.A., Vassar (1991)
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley (2002)

Interests: The Literature, History and Culture of...

Jill Abramson

Senior Lecturer

Education: A.B., Harvard University (1976)

Jill Abramson is a journalist who spent the last 17 years in the most senior editorial positions at...

Molly Antopol

Visiting Lecturer in English

Education: B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz
M.F.A., Columbia University

Interests: Fiction Writing, Nonfiction Writing...

Josh Bell

Senior Lecturer

Education: B.A., Indiana State University (1994)
M.A., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (1997)
M.F.A., University of Iowa Writers’...

Homi Bhabha

Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities

Education: B.A., University of Bombay (1970)
MPhil., M.A., D.Phil, Christ Church, Oxford (1990)

Interests: Cosmopolitanism; human rights in...

Beth Blum

Assistant Professor of English

Education: B.A., Concordia University, Montreal QC (2005)
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2014)

Interests: Modern and contemporary...

Stephanie Burt

Professor of English

... Read more about Stephanie Burt

Office: Barker 270

burt@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-0285

Office Hours: Wednesdays, 5-6pm and Fridays, 10:30am-noon EDT and by appointment. Schedule via email.

Kristen Carella

Visiting Professor in English

Education: B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1993)

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Amanda Claybaugh

Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of English
Dean of Undergraduate Education

Education: B.A., Yale (1993)
Ph.D., Harvard (2001)

Interests: Nineteenth-century American literature; Victorian literature; trans-...

Teju Cole

Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing

Education: B.A. 1996 Kalamazoo College
M.A. 2000 SOAS, University of London
M. Phil. 2006 Columbia University

Interests: Fiction writing...

Katie Daily

Lecturer on English
Allston Burr Resident Dean of Harvard College, Leverett House

Education: B.A., Columbia University (2003)
M.A., Columbia University Teachers College (2005)
Ph.D., Boston College (2015)

Interests...

Sarah Dimick

Assistant Professor of English

Education: BA: Carleton College (2006)
MFA: New York University (2010)
PhD: University of Wisconsin-Madison (2017)

Interests:...

Daniel Donoghue

John P. Marquand Professor of English
Director of Graduate Studies, Fall Term

Education: B.A., University of Dallas (1978)
M.Phil., University College Dublin (1981)
Ph.D., Yale (1986)

Interests: Old English; Middle...

James Engell

Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature

Education: B.A., Harvard University (1973)
Ph.D., Harvard University (1978)

Interests: Eighteenth Century and Restoration; Romanticism;...

Susan Faludi

Visiting Lecturer on English

Education: B.A.,...

Philip Fisher

Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English

Education: A.B., University Pittsburgh (1963)
M.A., Harvard University (1966)
Ph.D., Harvard University (1971)

Interests: American Novel...

Darcy Frey

Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser Director of Creative Writing

Education: B.A., Oberlin College (1984)

Interests: Narrative journalism; essay; memoir; travel writing; literary science writing.

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Alphonse Fletcher University Professor

Education: B.A., Yale University (1973)
M.A., University of Cambridge (1974)
Ph.D., University of Cambridge (1979)

Interests: African and...

Jorie Graham

Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric
(on leave 2021-22)

Education: B.A., New York University (1973)
M.F.A., University of Iowa (1978)

Interests:
English Poetry; American Poetry; Contemporary...

Stephen Greenblatt

John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities
(On leave 2021-22)

Education: B.A., Yale (1964)
M.Phil., Cambridge (1966)
Ph.D., Yale (1969)

Interests: Shakespeare; Early Modern Literature and Culture;...

Gish Jen

Visiting Professor in English

Education: B.A., Harvard University (1977...

Meng Jin

Visiting Lecturer in English

TBD

gjin@fas.harvard.edu

Joan Naviyuk Kane

Visiting Lecturer on English

Education: B.A., Harvard College (2000)
M.F.A., Columbia University (2006)

Interests: creative nonfiction; poetry; creative...

Ju Yon Kim

Professor of English

Education: B.A., Yale University (2002)
Ph.D., Stanford University (2011)

Interests: Asian American literature; modern and contemporary...

Jamaica Kincaid

Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence

Selected Works:
See Now Then (2013); Best American Travel Essays (2005, Editor); Among Flowers, A Walk In The... Read more about Jamaica Kincaid

Office: Barker 233

jkincaid@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-8543

Office Hours: TBA

David Levine

Professor of the Practice

Education: B.A., Cornell University (1992)
M.A., Harvard University (1996)

David Levine's work encompasses theater,...

Deidre Shauna Lynch

Harvard College Professor
Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Education: B.A. Hons., University of British Columbia (1983)
A.M., Ph.D., Stanford University (1992)

Interests: Eighteenth-century and Romantic-...

Sam Marks

Senior Lecturer on Playwriting

Education: B.F.A., NYU Tisch School of the Arts
M.F.A., Brown University

Sam Marks, playwright: World Premieres include THE...

Jesse McCarthy

Assistant Professor of English and of African and African American Studies

Education: B.A., Amherst College (2006)
Ph.D., Princeton University (2018)

Interests: African American Literature; Modernism; Feminist,...

Louis Menand

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English
(On leave 2021-22)

Education: B.A., Pomona College (1973)
M.A., Columbia University (1975)
Ph.D., Columbia University (1980)

Interests: 19th and 20th Century...