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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

Erin Saladin

PhD Candidate

Field: Early American

Interests: Early American (to 1900)

Office: Barker 029

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...

Margaret Schnabel

PhD Candidate

Field: Poetry

Interests: Multiethnic Literature of the US / Drama and Performance / Poetry 21st Century / Contemporary Transnational Anglophone...

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

Celine Shanosky

PhD Candidate

Field: 20th Century American

Interests: History/Future of English Studies

celineshanosky@g.harvard.edu

Emily Sun

PhD Candidate

Field: Medieval

Interests: Old English literature, Poetry, Manuscript studies

emilysun@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

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

ceyingst.com

Office: Barker 075

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

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

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

Wednesdays 2-4pm

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...

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
(On leave Fall 2022)

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

Interests: Cosmopolitanism; human rights in...

Beth Blum

Harry K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities
(On leave Fall 2022)

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: Wednedays 4-5pm, Fridays 10:30-11:30am. On Zoom (email me for the link). Also by appointment (both in person and on Zoom).

Amanda Claybaugh

Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of English
Dean of Undergraduate Education
(On leave AY 2022-23)

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...

Maria Dikcis

Harvard College Fellow

Education: B.A., Loyola University Chicago (2012).
B.S., Loyola University Chicago (2012).
M.A., University of Chicago (2013).
Ph.D.,...

Sarah Dimick

Assistant Professor of English
(On leave AY 2022-23)

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

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 Spring 2023)

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

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

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

Senior Lecturer on English

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 Fall 2022)

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

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

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

Meng Jin

Visiting Lecturer in English

Education: BA Harvard College (2011) ...

Ju Yon Kim

Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English, Harvard College Professor

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: By appointment

Pamela Klassen

William Lyon MacKenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies

By appointment

David Levine

Professor of the Practice

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

David Levine's work encompasses theater,...

Valeria Luiselli

Harvard College Visiting Professor of Ethnicity, Indigeneity, and Migration

Education: B.A., National Autonomous University of Mexico (2007) ...

Deidre Shauna Lynch

Harvard College Professor. Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature.
Director of Undergraduate Studies (Fall 2022)
(On leave Spring 2023)

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
Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser Director of Creative Writing

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

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

Interests: 19th and 20th Century...

Tara K. Menon

Assistant Professor of English
(On leave AY 2022-23)

Education: B.A., Columbia University (2011)
M.A., New York University (2014)
Ph.D., New York University (2019)

Interests...

Claire Messud

Joseph Y. Bae and Janice Lee Senior Lecturer on Fiction

Education: B.A., Yale University (1987)
M.A., University of Cambridge (1989)

Interests: Fiction writing

Selected Works:
Kant's...

Derek Miller

Professor of English

Education: B.A., Yale University (2004)
Ph.D., Stanford University (2013)

Interests: Theater History; Copyright; Law and Performance; Economics...