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English Language and Literature: Faculty

Anne Curzan
Dean; Geneva Smitherman Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor

acurzan@umich.edu 2205 LSA Building 734.764.0322

British; Gender and Sexuality; History of English Language; Language Studies; Pedagogy; Rhetoric and Composition; Technology and the Humanities; Medieval; English

Anne Ruggles Gere
Professor/Chair Prg in Engl&Edu

argere@umich.edu 1354 North Quadrangle Academic/2018 SAB 936-3144 / 647-2529

Graduate Faculty; Pedagogy; Rhetoric and Composition; Womens Literature; English

David Gold
Associate Professor of English, Women's Studies, and Education

dpg@umich.edu 3160 Angell Hall 764-9139

Graduate Faculty; African American; Language Studies; Pedagogy; Rhetoric and Composition; Technology and the Humanities; Womens Literature; English

Aric Knuth
Lecturer IV; NELP Director; English Advisor

aknuth@umich.edu 4172 Angell Hall 936-6480

Womens Literature; Regionalism; Twentieth Century American; Pedagogy; Ecocriticism; American; Poetry and Poetics; Rhetoric and Composition; English & Women's Studies; English; Nineteenth Century America; Lecturer; Creative Writing

Dana Nichols
Lecturer IV / SWC

denich@umich.edu 1343 Sweetland, North Quadrangle Academic

English; Nineteenth Century America; Pedagogy; Lecturer; Visual Culture; Race; Rhetoric and Composition

Eileen Pollack
Professor

epollack@umich.edu 3239 Angell Hall 764-6574

MFA Faculty; Graduate Faculty; American; Jewish American; Pedagogy; Rhetoric and Composition; Science and Literature; Womens Literature; Creative Writing; Writing of Fiction; Twentieth Century American; English

Alisse Portnoy
Associate Professor

alisse@umich.edu 3236 Angell Hall 763-4279

Language Studies; Graduate Faculty; English; Twentieth Century American; Nineteenth Century America; Pedagogy; American; Rhetoric and Composition

Megan Sweeney
Arthur F. Thurnau Associate Professor

meganls@umich.edu 3032 Tisch Hall 647-6761

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

Theresa Tinkle
Interim Director, Sweetland Center for Writing Professor of English and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor

tinkle@umich.edu 1354 North Quad, Sweetland Center for Writing 734 936-3144

Womens Literature; Graduate Faculty; Comparative Literature; Drama and Performance; English; Material Culture; Medieval; Pedagogy; Gender and Sexuality; Editorial Theory and Textual Studies; British

John Whittier-Ferguson
Professor

johnaw@umich.edu 3020 Tisch Hall (fall term 2019) NA

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

Melanie Yergeau
Associate Professor

myergeau@umich.edu 3224 Angell Hall 734-647-2856

Science and Literature; Technology and the Humanities; Disability and Trauma Studies; Graduate Faculty; English; Pedagogy; Gender and Sexuality; Rhetoric and Composition