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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: Renaissance

Interests: 17th-century Space Travel Literature; History of Science;...

Andrew Maxwell

PhD Candidate

Field: Medieval

Interests: Old English Poetry; Mysticism; Criticism and Theory; Ecocriticism; Literature and Philosophy

andrewmaxwell@g.harvard.edu

Jordan Taliha McDonald

PhD Candidate

Field: African American Literature

Interests: Literature and Visual Art and Comparative Literature, Transnational Anglophone/Postcolonial...

Tess McNulty

PhD Candidate

Field: 20th-21st C. American

Interests: 20th Century British; 20th Century American; 21st Century/Contemporary; Criticism and Theory;...

Kathryn Mogk Wagner

PhD Candidate

Field: Medieval

Interests: Medieval

Office: 1 Bow Street, 331

kmogk@g.harvard.edu

Victoria Florio Pipas

PhD Candidate

Field: Renaissance

Interests: Renaissance/Early Modern, Literature and Visual Art and Comparative Literature, Medieval, Ecocriticism,...

William Porter

PhD Candidate

Field: Renaissance

Interests: Shakespeare; Travel Literature and Ethnography; Environmental Humanities; History of Science

Office: Barker 030

wporter@fas.harvard.edu

Martin Quinn

PhD Candidate

Field: 18th & 20th C. Drama, Literature

Interests: 18th century, Modern, and contemporary fiction; literature and philosophy; 20th...

Josephine Reece

PhD Candidate

Field: 18th C. Poetry

Interests: Poetry

Office: 1 Bow Street, 340

jreece@g.harvard.edu

Hannah Rosefield

PhD Candidate

Field: 19th C British, 20th C British and American

Interests: 19th C British, 20th C British and American

Office: 1 Bow Street, 341

rosefield@g.harvard.edu

Erin Saladin

PhD Candidate

Field: Early American

Interests: Early American (to 1900)

Office: Barker 029

esaladin@g.harvard.edu

Ericka Sanchez

PhD Candidate

Field: 20th, 21st C. American

Interests: Drama, Latinx-American, African American, Diaspora/Migration

esanchez@g.harvard.edu

Wyatt Sarafin

PhD Candidate

Field: 20th C. American

Interests: Modernism and modernity; post-1960s visual, media, and performance art; twentieth-century American...

Jocelyn Sears

PhD Candidate

Field: 20th/21st C. American

Interests: The Novel; Narratology; 20th-Century American; 20th-Century British; 21st-...

Ahmed Seif

PhD Candidate

Field: Medieval

Interests: Medieval

Office: Barker 421

seif@g.harvard.edu

Bailey Sincox

PhD Candidate

Field: Renaissance

Interests: Renaissance; Drama & Performance; History of the Book; Gender Studies

https://scholar.harvard.edu/baileysincox/home

Office: Barker 075

bsincox@g.harvard.edu

Emily Sun

PhD Candidate

Field: Medieval

Interests: Old English literature, Poetry, Manuscript studies

emilysun@g.harvard.edu

Talin Tahajian

PhD Candidate

Field: Medieval

Interests: Ecocriticism, Criticism and Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Lyric Theory, Classical Reception Studies

ttahajian@fas.harvard.edu

Michelle Taylor

PhD Candidate

Interests: 20th C. British, Modernism, Poetry

Office: 1 Bow Street, 337

michellealexistaylor@g.harvard.edu

Jason Thames

PhD Candidate

Field: Medieval

Interests: Old English literature; Representations of the Medieval in Modern Media; Queer Theory; Race Theory;...

Charles Tyson

PhD Candidate

Interests: 20th C. British, 19th C. British/ Victorian, 20th C. American, 21st C. Contemporary, Criticism & Theory, Cognitive Psychology & Literature,... Read more about Charles Tyson

Office: 1 Bow Street, 331

ctyson@g.harvard.edu

Sezen Unluonen

PhD Candidate

Interests: 19th C British

unluonen@g.harvard.edu

Nicholas Utzig

PhD Candidate

Field: Renaissance

Interests: Drama & Performance, History of the Book

Office: Barker 029

nicholas_utzig@g.harvard.edu

Adam Walker

PhD Candidate

Field: 19thC. British

Interests: Theology and Literature, Victorian Fantasy, German and...

Carly Yingst

PhD Candidate

Interests: 18th- & 19th-Century British Literature... Read more about Carly Yingst

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Office: Barker 075

ceyingst@g.harvard.edu

Andrew Zanelli

PhD Candidate

Field: Renaissance/Early Modern

Interests: Classical literature and reception (Ancient Greek...

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

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

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

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

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