Graduate Faculty

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

Mazen Naous, Graduate Program Director, M.A./Ph.D., and Professor, B.F.A., The Boston Conservatory, 1996; M.A., Massachusetts at Boston, 2001; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2007.

Sabina Murray, Graduate Program Director, M.F.A. and Professor, B.A., Mount Holyoke, 1989; M.A., Texas at Austin, 1994.

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

Desiree C. Bailey, Assistant Professor, B.A., Georgetown, 2011; M.F.A. Fiction, Brown, 2015; M.F.A. Poetry, New York University, 2021.

Joseph Black, Professor, B.A., Toronto, Canada, 1985; M.A., Carleton, Ottawa, Canada, 1986; Ph.D., Toronto, Canada, 1996.

Gabriel Bump , Assistant Professor, B.F.A Writing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014; M.F.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2017.

Brenna Casey, Assistant Professor, B.A., Boston College, 2005; M.F.A., Notre Dame, 2008; M.A., Duke, 2014; Ph.D., 2017.

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

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

Jane Hwang Degenhardt, Professor, B.A., Hamilton College, 1993; M.A., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999; Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 2005.

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

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

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

Laura Furlan, American Studies Director and Associate Professor, B.A., Iowa, 1992; M.A., San Diego State, 2000; Ph.D., California at Santa Barbara, 2009.

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Paul Murray Kendall Chair in Biography and Professor, B.A., Marlboro College, VT; M.A., Simmons College; Ph.D., Stanford.

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 University, Quebec, Canada, 1988; M.A., Ottawa, Canada, 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.

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

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

Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, Professor, B.A., Southern California, 2002; M.A., San Francisco State, 2005; Ph.D., Wisconsin at Madison, 2012.

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

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

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

Katherine O'Callaghan, Senior Lecturer, B.A., University College Dublin, Ireland, 1997; M.A., 1998; M.A., National University of Ireland, Galway, 2002; Ph.D., University College Dublin, Ireland, 2007.

Jeff Parker, Professor, B.S., Florida, 1996; M.F.A., Syracuse, 1999.

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.

Marjorie Rubright, Associate Professor and Director of Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, B.A., Vassar, 1995; M.A., Missouri at Columbia, 2000; Ph.D., Michigan, 2007.

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

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

Janine Solberg, Senior Lecturer II and Professional Writing and Technical Communication Program Co-Director, B.A., Moorhead State, 1998; M.A., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001; Ph.D., 2007.

David Toomey, Professor and Professional Writing and Technical Communication Program Co-Director, A.B., Hamilton College, 1978; M.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1986; Ph.D., Virginia, 1998.

Jimmy Worthy, Assistant Professor, B.A., West Georgia, 2010; M.A., 2012; Ph.D., Emory, 2018.

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 Associate Professor, B.A., Brown, 1994; M.A., Columbia, 1997; M.Phil., 2000; Ph.D., 2004.

Associated Faculty

Anne Bello, Writing Program Deputy Director and Senior Lecturer, B.A., Smith, 2003; M.Phil., Cambridge, England, 2004; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2013.

Anna Rita Napoleone, Writing Center Director and Senior Lecturer, B.A., Hunter College, 1995; M.A., Long Island University-Brooklyn, 2002; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2016.

Tara Pauliny, Writing Program Interim Director and Senior Lecturer, B.A., Siena College, 1994; M.A., Ohio State, 1998; Ph.D., 2002.

Aaron Tillman, Writing Program Interim Associate Director and Senior Lecturer, B.A., Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1995; M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence, 1998; Ph.D., Rhode Island, 2009.

Faculty Emeriti

Robert E. Bagg, Professor Emeritus (1997).

Joseph Bartolomeo, Professor Emeritus (2024).

Nicholas Knowles Bromell, Professor Emeritus (2021).

Stephen Clingman, Distinguished Professor Emeritus (2023).

Margo Culley, Professor Emerita (2004).

Vincent DiMarco, Professor Emeritus (2004).

Laura Doyle, Professor Emerita (2024).

Lee Edwards, Professor Emerita (2006).

Anne Herrington, Professor Emerita (2012).

Noy Holland, Professor Emerita (2023).

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).

Jenny Spencer, Professor Emerita (2016).

Kathleen M. Swaim, Professor Emerita (1999).

Ron Welburn, Professor Emeritus (2019).

Dara Wier, Professor Emerita (2021).

James E. Young, Professor Emeritus (2016).

In Memoriam

Margo Culley, Professor Emerita (2004).

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

Peter Elbow, Professor Emerita (2000).

Kirby Farrell, Professor Emeritus (2019).