Graduate Faculty

Donna LeCourt, Professor and Chair, B.S., Fitchburg State, 1985; M.A., Washington State, 1987; Ph.D., Ohio State, 1993.

Joseph Black, Professor and Associate Chair of the Department, B.A., Toronto, 1985; M.A., Carleton, Ottawa, 1986; Ph.D., Toronto, 1996.

Jeff Parker, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director of the MFA Program, B.A., Florida, 1996, M.F.A., Syracuse, 1999.

Jane Hwang Degenhardt, Professor and Graduate Program Director of the MA/PhD Programs, B.A., Hamilton College, 1993; M.A., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999; Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 2005.

Laura Furlan, Associate Professor and Director of American Studies, B.A., Iowa, 1992; M.A., San Diego State, 2000; Ph.D., South Dakota, 2009.

David Fleming, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, A.B., Davidson, 1983; M.A., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 1996.

Jenny Adams, Associate Professor, California at Los Angeles, 1992; A.M., Chicago, 1994; Ph.D., 2000.

Joseph Bartolomeo, Professor, A.B., Georgetown, 1980; M.A., Harvard, 1982; Ph.D., 1986.

Abby Chabitnoy, Assistant Professor, B.A., Saint Vincent College, 2009; M.F.A., Colorado State University, 2016

Stephen Clingman, Distinguished Professor, B.A., Witwatersrand, South Africa, 1976; (Hons), 1977; D.Phil., Oxford, England, 1983.

Suzanne Daly, Associate Professor, B.A., Pennsylvania, 1993; M.A., Columbia, 1995; Ph.D., 2002.

Rebecca Dingo, Professor, B.Ph., Miami University, Ohio, 1997; M.A., 2000; Ph.D, Ohio State, 2005.

Laura Doyle, Professor, B.A., Beloit, 1979; M.A., Illinois, 1981; Ph.D., Brandeis, 1987.

Martín Espada, Professor, B.A., Wisconsin at Madison, 1981; J.D., Northeastern, 1985.

Gretchen Gerzina, Professor, B.A., Marlboro College, VT; M.A., Simmons College; Ph.D, Stanford University.

Peter Gizzi, Professor, B.A., New York University, 1986; M.F.A., Brown, 1991; Ph.D., New York at Buffalo, 1997.

Stephen J. Harris, Professor, B.A., Bishop’s, Quebec, 1988; M.A., Ottawa, 1991; Ph.D., Loyola, 1998.

John Hennessy, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Princeton, 1987; M.A., Texas at Austin, 1993; M.F.A., Arkansas, 1996.

Haivan Hoang, Associate Professor, B.A., California at Berkeley, 1996; M.A., California State at Hayward, 1999; Ph.D., Ohio State, 2004.

Noy Holland, Professor, B.A., Middlebury, 1984; M.F.A., Florida, 1994.

Ruth Jennison, Associate Professor, B.A., Bryn Mawr, 1996; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 2004.

Randall Knoper, Associate Professor, B.A., Iowa, 1977; M.A., Indiana, 1981; Ph.D., 1986.

Edie Meidav, Professor, B.A., Yale, 1988; M.F.A., Mills College, 1993.

Rachel Mordecai, Associate Professor, B.A., Brandeis, 1990; M.A., University of West Indies, Jamaica, 1997; Ph.D., Minnesota, 2007.

Sabina Murray, Professor, B.A., Mount Holyoke, 1989; M.A., Texas, 1994.

Asha Nadkarni, Associate Professor, B.A., Connecticut College, 1996; M.A., Brown, 2001; Ph.D., 2006.

Mazen Naous, Associate Professor, B.F.A., The Boston Conservatory, 1996; M.A., Massachusetts at Boston, 2001; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2007.

Sarah Patterson, Assistant Professor, B.A., Tennessee at Knoxville, 2010; M.A., Delaware, 2012; Ph.D., 2018.

Hoang Phan, Associate Professor, B.A., Chicago, 1998; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 2004.

Jordy Rosenberg, Professor, B.A., Wesleyan, 1994; M.A., Cornell, 1998; Ph.D., 2003.

TreaAndrea Russworm, Associate Professor, B.A., Brown, 1998; M.A., Chicago, 2002; Ph.D., 2008.

Daniel Sack, Associate Professor, B.A. Brandeis, 2002; M.A., 2005; Ph.D., Stanford, 2010.

Malcolm Sen, Assistant Professor, B.A., 2000; M.A., 2002; Ph.D, University College Dublin, Ireland, 2007.

Janine Solberg, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Moorhead State, 1998; M.A., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001; Ph.D., 2007.

David Toomey, Professor, A.B., Hamilton College, 1978; M.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1986; Ph.D., Virginia, 1998.

Ocean Vuong, Associate Professor, B.A. Brooklyn College, CUNY, 2012; MFA, New York University, 2016.

Caroline Yang, Associate Professor, B.A., California at Berkeley, 1998; M.A., Boston College, 2001; Ph.D., Washington at Seattle, 2007.

Adam Zucker, Associate Professor, B.A., Brown, 1994; M.A., Columbia, 1997; Ph.D., 2004.

Faculty Emeriti

Robert E. Bagg, Professor Emeritus (1997).

Nicholas Knowles Bromell, Professor Emeritus (2021).

Margo Culley, Professor Emerita (2004).

Vincent DiMarco, Professor Emeritus (2004).

Joseph W. Donohue Jr., Professor Emeritus (2005).

Lee Edwards, Professor Emerita (2006).

Peter Elbow, Professor Emeritus (2000).

Kirby Farrell, Prosessor Emeritus (2019).

Anne Herrington, Professor Emerita (2012).

Robert Keefe, Professor Emeritus (2005).

James Leheny, Professor Emeritus (2006).

Mason I. Lowance, Jr., Professor Emeritus (2017).

Paul L. Mariani, Professor Emeritus (2000).

Margaret O’Brien, Professor Emerita (2015).

Kathleen M. Swaim, Professor Emerita (1999).

Jenny Spencer, Professor Emerita (2016).

Ron Welburn, Professor Emeritus (2019).

Dara Wier, Professor Emerita (2021).

James E. Young, Professor Emeritus (2016).