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John Bender, Professor
Office: 460-341
Office Hours: Wed. 1:45-3:00 & Thurs. 1:45-3:30
Phone: 723-3817
Email: [email protected]
Literature and society in the 18th-century; comparative study of literature and the visual arts: sociology of literature; literary theory; science and literature
Eavan Boland, Professor
Office: 460-223C
Office Hours:
Phone: 650-725-1207
Email: [email protected]
The writing and continuance of poetry; women and poetry; Irish literature; computer technology.
Terry Castle, Professor
Office: 460-313
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00-5:00 & by appt.
Phone: 650-725-1217
Email: [email protected]
The English novel; Richardson; Defoe; Fielding; 18th-century women authors; 20th-century British women's writing; the First World War; feminist theory; Freud; gay and lesbian literature
Michele Elam, Professor
Office: 460-319
Office Hours: Thursday 1:00-3:00 & by appt.
Phone: 650-723-0043
Email: [email protected]
19th-21st Century African American literature, history & theory; Mixed Race Studies; Black Feminist Theory; Black Cultural Performance
Ken Fields, Professor
Office: 460-217
Office Hours: Tues. 10-11, 3-4 & Wed. 3-4
Phone: 650-723-1201
Email: [email protected]
Creative writing; American literature; French symbolist poetry; American Indian literature; film
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Professor
Office: 460-420
Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00-4:30 & by appt.
Phone: 650-723-1804
Email: [email protected]
19th- and 20th-century American literature and cultural history; Issues of race, gender and ethnicity; Mark Twain; transnational American Studies; journalism history and nonfiction narrative; feminism; theatre history; literature and the animal rights movement
Denise Gigante, Professor
Office: 460-329
Office Hours: On Leave 2012-13
Phone: 650-725-7080
Email: [email protected]
18th and 19th-century British; Romanticism; poetry and poetics; the essay tradition; taste, gastronomy, and aesthetic theory; transatlantic book history; life writing and life science
Roland Greene, Professor
Office: 460-302
Office Hours: Tuesday 12 noon to 2:00 & by appt.
Phone: 650-725-1214
Email: [email protected]
Early modern literature; transatlantic culture and society; poetry and the history of how it is read; literary and cultural theory, especially lyric theory; Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton
Gavin Jones, Professor and Department Chair
Office: 460-201C
Office Hours: Wed. 3:00-4:00 & Fri. 11:00-12:00
Phone: 650-723-1560
Email: [email protected]
Nineteenth-century American literature; American modernism; language politics; social issues in literature; African-American and ethnic writing; representations of social class; failure.
Mark McGurl, Professor
Office: 460-419
Office Hours: Tuesday 3:15-5:00 & by appt.
Phone: 723-4722
Email: [email protected]
Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture. The Novel. Sociology and Literature. Classical Hollywood Cinema.
Image of Professor MorettiFranco Moretti, Professor
Office: 460-416
Office Hours: On Leave 2012-13
Phone: 650-723-4590
Email: [email protected]
Cultural geography; theory of the novel and of tragedy; interdisciplinary models
Sianne Ngai, Professor
Office: 460-417
Office Hours: Monday 1:00-3:00 & by appt.
Phone: 723-4622
Email: [email protected]
19th-21st Century American Literature, Aesthetic Theory and Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies.
Stephen Orgel, Professor
Office: 460-304
Office Hours: Mon. 1:30-2:30 & Thurs. 10-12
Phone: 650-723-4597
Email: [email protected]
Shakespeare, Renaissance theater, history of the book, mythology and iconology
Patricia Parker, Professor
Office: 460-338
Office Hours:
Phone: 650-723-1818
Email: [email protected]
Shakespeare; comparative early modern studies; feminism and race
Peggy Phelan, Professor
Office: 460-339
Office Hours:
Phone: 723-2723
Email: [email protected]
Twentieth-Century performance, dance and visual art. Beckett. Critical Theory. Performance and Politics
Nancy Ruttenburg, Professor
Office: 460-418
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: 650-725-1644
Email: [email protected]
Literatures and cultures of colonial through antebellum America and of 19th-century Russia; North American literature in comparative context; democratic theory and history of modern democratic forms; novel history and theory; philosophies of religion and ethics.
Ramon Saldivar, Professor
Office: 460-322
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:00-3:30 & by appt.
Phone: 650-725-1213
Email: [email protected]
20th Century American, British, and postcolonial cultural history and theory; modernity and postmodernity; literary theory; theory of the novel; US Latino writings
Jennifer Summit, Professor
Office: 460-318
Office Hours: On Leave 2012-13
Phone: 650-723-2634
Email: [email protected]
Histories of reading, writing and knowledge, late medieval through early modern England; literary history and periodization; English and the disciplines
Elizabeth Tallent, Professor
Office: 460-214
Office Hours:
Phone: 650-723-0031
Email: [email protected]
The short story and novel form, feminist literary tradition, gay and lesbian literature.
Image of Professor TreharneElaine Treharne, Professor
Office: 460-327
Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 9:45-10:45
Phone: 723-4609
Email: [email protected]
Medieval Studies: the cultural contexts, contents, and languages of Early English manuscripts from c. 700 to 1500
Blakey Vermeule, Professor
Office: 460-325
Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 1:30-3:00 & by appt.
Phone: 650-723-2905
Email: [email protected]
18th-century British literature; Romanticism; critical theory; cognitive approaches to literature; the history of the novel
Tobias Wolff, Professor
Office: 460-218
Office Hours: Mon. 1:00-2:30 & Tues. 10:00-11:00 & by appt.
Phone: 650-723-0504
Email: [email protected]
American literature; development of the short story; autobiography; Chekhov.