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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,...

Olivia Carpenter

PhD Candidate

Field: 18th C. British

Interests: 18th C. British/Enlightenment; Transnational Anglophone/Postcolonial; History of the Book; Gender...

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

Isabel Duarte-Gray

PhD Candidate

Field: 20th C. American

Interests: 20th C. American

Office: Barker 030

iduartegray@fas.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

Holst Katsma

PhD Candidate

Field: Criticism & Theory

Interests: the novel, digital humanities, literary theory, Bakhtin

Office: 1 Bow Street, 331

holstkatsma@g.harvard.edu

Anna Kelner

PhD Candidate

Field: Medieval

Interests: Middle English literature; medieval theology & religious culture; ethics; affect theory and the history of...

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...

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

Daniel Hegarty

Graduate Program Assistant

Office: Barker 161

dhegarty@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-6022

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

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
(On leave Fall 2021)

... 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
(On leave Fall 2021)

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...

Allegra Goodman

Visiting Lecturer in English

Allegra Goodman’s novels include The Chalk Artist, Intuition, The Cookbook Collector, Paradise Park, andKaaterskill...

Jorie Graham

Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric
(on leave Fall 2021)

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

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