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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...

Victoria Florio Pipas

PhD Candidate

Field: Renaissance

Interests: Renaissance/Early Modern, Poetics, Edmund Spenser, Classical Reception, Continental Humanism, Visual Art and...

Martin Quinn

PhD Candidate

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

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

Jack Rodgers

PhD Candidate

Field: 20th Century British

Interests: 19th Century British/Romantics, Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies

jrodgers@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 / Poetry 21st Century / Contemporary Transnational Anglophone / Postcolonial and...

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

Adam Walker

PhD Candidate

Field: 19thC. British

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

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: ...

Elisa New

Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Emerita

Education: B.A., Brandeis University (1980)
M.A., Columbia University (1982)
Ph.D., Columbia University (1988)

Interests: American poetry...

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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James Simpson

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

Education: B.A., University of Melbourne (1976)
M.Phil., University of Oxford (1980)
Ph.D., University of Cambridge (1996)

Interests:...

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
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature

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

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

Stephanie Balakrishnan

Communications / Graduate Program Assistant

Barker Center 161

sbalakrishnan@fas.harvard.edu

Lauren Bimmler

Undergraduate Program Administrator

Lauren oversees the administration of the undergraduate concentration, and is a resource to concentrators and prospective concentrators on matters of...

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

Interim Assistant Department Administrator
Financial Associate

Sol helps department affiliates with anything related to money, hiring research assistants and the related processes, paying invoices or getting reimbursed,... Read more about Sol Kim-Bentley

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 [on leave]

Office: Barker 164

acmcdon@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-7861

Emily Miller

Undergraduate Program Assistant

Barker Center 161

emily_miller@fas.harvard.edu

Daniela Nieva

Faculty Assistant to Stephen Greenblatt

Office: Barker 160

dnieva@fas.harvard.edu

Gwen Urdang-Brown

Graduate Program Administrator

Office: Barker 157

urdangbr@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-8693

Glenda Carpio

Chair of the Department of English
Harvard College Professor
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature

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

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

Josh Bell

Senior Lecturer on Poetry
(On leave Spring 2024)

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

Reginald Dwayne Betts

Visiting Lecturer on English

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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

Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities
(On leave Fall 2023)

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

Interests: Modern and contemporary...

Stephanie Burt

Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English

... Read more about Stephanie Burt

Office: Barker 270

burt@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-0285

Office Hours: M 11am-noon, W 3-4pm, and F noon-1:30pm as well as by appointment.

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...

Melissa Cundieff

Lecturer on English

Education: B.A. 2009 Arizona State University
M.F.A. 2012 Vanderbilt University

Interests: Poetry and Creative Nonfiction writing; visual...

Maria De Simone

Visiting Assistant Professor of English

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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
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies

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

Interests:...

Maggie Doherty

Visiting Lecturer on English

Education: BA Yale (2007) ...

Daniel Donoghue

John P. Marquand Professor of English
Director of Undergraduate Studies

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;...

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
(On leave Fall 2023)

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...

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah

Visiting Lecturer on English

Lamont 402

rachelkaadzighansah@fas.harvard.edu

Jorie Graham

Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric
(On leave Fall 2023)

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;...

Daniel Heath Justice

Harvard College Visiting Professor of Ethnicity, Indigeneity, and Migration

Education: B.A., University of Northern Colorado ...

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

Andrew Krivak

Visiting Lecturer on English

Education: B.A., St. John's College, Annapolis (1986)

M.F.A., Columbia University (1990) ...

Raven Leilani

Visiting Lecturer on English

Raven Leilani is the author of Luster. Leilani is a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree, the recipient of the 2020 Kirkus Prize,... Read more about Raven Leilani

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

Visiting Professor of English

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

Deidre Shauna Lynch

Harvard College Professor. Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature.
(On leave Fall 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
(On leave Spring 2024)

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

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

David Alworth

Associate of the Department of English

David Alworth is a Research Associate at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government in the Harvard Kennedy School and a Visiting Full...

Emrah Atasoy

Associate of the Department of English
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow

Emrah Atasoy, an Associate Professor of English, is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND) of the Institute of...

Hannah Doherty Hudson

Associate of the Department of English

hannahdohertyhudson@fas.harvard.edu

Pamela Klassen

Associate of the Department of English

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Matthew Ocheltree

Associate of the Department of English

Website

ocheltr@fas.harvard.edu

Stephan Osadetz

Associate of the Department of English

Education: B.A. Hons., University of Alberta (2004)
M.A., University of Toronto (2005)
Ph.D., Stanford University (2014)

Interests:...

Leah Price

Associate of the Department of English

Education: A.B., Harvard (1991)
M.Phil., Yale University (1995)
Ph.D., Yale University (1998)

Interests: The novel; history of the book;...

Robert Scanlan

Associate of the Department of English

scanlan@fas.harvard.edu

Michael Shinagel

Associate of the Department of English

Education: A.B. 1957 Oberlin; A.M. 1959, Ph.D. 1964 Harvard
Interests: 18th Century English Literature; Rise of...

Roger Stoddard

Associate of the Department of English

Education: A.B. 1957 Brown
Interests: Rare books; Bibliography
Selected Works: A...

Andrew Warren

Associate of the Department of English

Education: B.A., Dartmouth College (2001)
Ph.D., University of California at Irvine (2009)

Interests: Romantic Poetry; 18th- & 19th-...

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