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, B.A., Florida, 1996, M.F.A., Syracuse, 1999.

Jane Hwang Degenhardt, Professor, 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, A.B., Davidson, 1983; M.A., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon, 1996.

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

Joseph Bartolomeo, Professor and Associate Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, 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 Holbrook Gerzina, Paul Murray Kendall Chair in Biography and Professor of English, 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 II, 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.

Edie Meidav, Graduate Program Director, MFA and 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, 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.

Daniel Sack, Graduate Program Director, PhD/MA and Professor, B.A. Brandeis, 2002; M.A., 2005; Ph.D., Stanford, 2010.

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

Janine Solberg, Senior Lecturer II, 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.

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

Adam Zucker, Undergraduate Program Director and 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).

Randall Knoper, Professor Emeritus (2022).

James Leheny, Professor Emeritus (2006).

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).