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Walter Cohen
Professor

cowa@umich.edu 3259 Angell Hall

Jewish American; Graduate Faculty; Novel and Narrative; Comparative Literature; Drama and Performance; English; Early Modern; British; Global and Transnational

Gregg Crane
Professor

gdcrane@umich.edu 3151 Angell Hall

Graduate Faculty; Novel and Narrative; Twentieth Century American; Ecocriticism; Romanticism American and British; American; Colonial and Early American; Poetry and Poetics; Law and Literature; English; Nineteenth Century America; Theory; African American

Peter Ho Davies
Charles Baxter Collegiate Professor

phdavies@umich.edu 3139 Angell Hall

Writing of Fiction; Graduate Faculty; Novel and Narrative; English; MFA Faculty; Twentieth Century American; Twentieth Century British; American; Creative Writing; British

Gaurav Desai
Professor and Chair of the Department

desaig@umich.edu 3219C Angell Hall

Womens Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Graduate Faculty; Novel and Narrative; Ecocriticism; Law and Literature; Global and Transnational; Travel; Autobiography Studies; Comparative Literature; English; Theory; Professor

Jonathan Freedman
Professor Emeritus

zoid@umich.edu

Postcolonial Studies; Modernism; Nineteenth Century British; Novel and Narrative; Twentieth Century American; Twentieth Century British; American; British; Jewish American; English; Nineteenth Century America; Transatlantic; Emeriti

Daniel Hack
Professor

dhack@umich.edu 3068 Tisch Hall

Graduate Faculty; Nineteenth Century British; Novel and Narrative; English; Material Culture; British; Transatlantic; Global and Transnational; African American

Clement Hawes
Professor

cchawes@umich.edu 3172 Angell Hall

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century British; Travel; Graduate Faculty; Geography and Literature; Novel and Narrative; English; Visual Culture; Gender and Sexuality; British

June Howard
Professor Emeritus

jmhoward@umich.edu 4202 Angell Hall

Womens Literature; Novel and Narrative; English; Twentieth Century American; Nineteenth Century America; Theory; American; Emeriti

Laura Kasischke
Theodore Roethke Distinguished University Professor: Residential College/Department of English Language and Literature

laurakk@umich.edu

Writing of Fiction; Graduate Faculty; Novel and Narrative; English; Creative Writing; Poetry and Poetics

Kerry Larson
Professor

klarson@umich.edu 3263 Angell Hall

Graduate Faculty; Novel and Narrative; English; Twentieth Century American; Nineteenth Century America; Romanticism American and British; American; Colonial and Early American; Poetry and Poetics

Aida Levy-Hussen
Associate Professor

aidalh@umich.edu 3232 Angell Hall

African American; American; Disability and Trauma Studies; Gender and Sexuality; Novel and Narrative; Twentieth Century American; Womens Literature; English; Graduate Faculty

Supriya Nair
Professor

smnair@umich.edu 3143 Angell Hall

Womens Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Caribbean; Graduate Faculty; Novel and Narrative; Comparative Literature; English; Ecocriticism; Theory; Gender and Sexuality; Global and Transnational

Susan Najita
Associate Professor

najita@umich.edu 3176 Angell Hall

Postcolonial Studies; Asian American and Pacific Islander; Disability and Trauma Studies; Graduate Faculty; Novel and Narrative; Twentieth Century American; Ecocriticism; American; Visual Culture; Law and Literature; Language Studies; English; Theory; Gender and Sexuality

Adela Pinch
Professor

apinch@umich.edu 3268 ANGELL HALL

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century British; Womens Literature; Graduate Faculty; Nineteenth Century British; Novel and Narrative; English; Theory; Romanticism American and British; Poetry and Poetics; British

David Porter
Professor of English and Comparative Literature

dporter@umich.edu Angell Hall 3135

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century British; Travel; Technology and the Humanities; Postcolonial Studies; Graduate Faculty; Novel and Narrative; Comparative Literature; English; Material Culture; British

Xiomara Santamarina
Associate Professor

xiomara@umich.edu 4177 Haven Hall

Womens Literature; Graduate Faculty; Novel and Narrative; Twentieth Century American; American; Global and Transnational; Caribbean; Autobiography Studies; English; Nineteenth Century America; Theory; Gender and Sexuality; African American

Niloofar Sarlati
Assistant Professor of English; Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

nsarlati@umich.edu Angell Hall 3128

Assistant Professor; English Language and Literature; Comparative Literature; Global and Transnational; Nineteenth Century British; Novel and Narrative; Postcolonial Studies; Travel; Theory; Visual Culture; Graduate Faculty

Megan Sweeney
Arthur F. Thurnau Associate Professor of English; Afroamerican and African Studies; and Women's and Gender Studies; and Director of Graduate Studies

meganls@umich.edu 3032 Tisch Hall

Womens Literature; Latino Literature; Graduate Faculty; Novel and Narrative; Twentieth Century American; Pedagogy; American; Law and Literature; English; Theory; Gender and Sexuality; African American

Antoine Traisnel
Associate Professor

traisnel@umich.edu 3132 Angell Hall

Science and Literature; Novel and Narrative; Comparative Literature; English; Nineteenth Century America; Ecocriticism; Theory; Romanticism American and British; American; Visual Culture; Transatlantic

Douglas Trevor
Professor

dtrevor@umich.edu 3056 Tisch Hall

Writing of Fiction; Graduate Faculty; Novel and Narrative; English; Early Modern; Creative Writing; British

Daniel Valella
Assistant Professor

dvalella@umich.edu 3140 Angell Hall

English; Faculty Fellows; African American; American; Asian American and Pacific Islander; Gender and Sexuality; Latino Literature; Law and Literature; Native American; Novel and Narrative; Rhetoric and Composition; Theory; Twentieth Century American; Graduate Faculty

Alan Wald
Professor Emeritus

awald@umich.edu 4185 Angell Hall

Womens Literature; Emeriti; Jewish American; Novel and Narrative; English; Twentieth Century American; Theory; American; African American

Cody Walker
Teaching Professor; Director, Undergraduate Program in Creative Writing; Director, Bear River Writers' Conference

jcodyw@umich.edu 5216 Angell Hall

Novel and Narrative; English; American; Lecturer; Writing of Poetry; Creative Writing; Poetry and Poetics

John Whittier-Ferguson
Professor

johnaw@umich.edu 3271 Angell Hall

Womens Literature; Graduate Faculty; Modernism; Novel and Narrative; Twentieth Century American; Pedagogy; Twentieth Century British; American; Editorial Theory and Textual Studies; Poetry and Poetics; British; English

Andrea Zemgulys
Associate Professor

zemgulys@umich.edu 3026 Tisch Hall

Travel; Graduate Faculty; Modernism; Nineteenth Century British; Geography and Literature; Novel and Narrative; English; Twentieth Century British; British; Transatlantic