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English Language and Literature: Faculty

Sumita Chakraborty
Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry

schak@umich.edu 4179 Angell Hall 647-7693

English; Helen Zell Writers' Program; Poetry; Creative Writing; Ecocriticism; English MFA ; Gender and Sexuality; Twentieth Century American; Twentieth Century British; Poetry and Poetics; Race; Theory; Writing of Poetry

Gregg Crane
Professor

gdcrane@umich.edu 3151 Angell Hall 647-7678

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

Richard Cureton
Associate Professor Emeritus

rcureton@umich.edu

Emeriti; Language Studies; Poetry and Poetics; Twentieth Century American; Modernism; Theory; Science and Literature; English & Education; English

Gaurav Desai
Professor and Chair of the Department

desaig@umich.edu 3219C Angell Hall 647-7477

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

David Halperin
W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality

halperin@umich.edu 3124 Angell Hall 647-5884

Graduate Faculty; Comparative Literature; English; Material Culture; Theory; Visual Culture; Gender and Sexuality

Lucy Hartley
Professor

lhartl@umich.edu 3119 Angell Hall 764-7305

Science and Literature; Graduate Faculty; Nineteenth Century British; English; Theory; Visual Culture; British

June Howard
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor

jmhoward@umich.edu 3058 Tisch Hall office phone: 734-763-5957

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

Aliyah Khan
Assistant Professor

aliyrhan@umich.edu 3164 Angell Hall

Womens Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Asian American and Pacific Islander; Caribbean; Science Fiction and Fantasy; English; Ecocriticism; Theory; Gender and Sexuality; Creative Writing; African American

Petra Kuppers
Professor

petra@umich.edu 3216 Angell Hall

Disability and Trauma Studies; Graduate Faculty; Science Fiction and Fantasy; Drama and Performance; English; Ecocriticism; Theory; Visual Culture; Gender and Sexuality; Creative Writing; Poetry and Poetics

Madhumita Lahiri
Assistant Professor

mlahiri@umich.edu 3264 Angell Hall 764-6359

Womens Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Graduate Faculty; Modernism; Twentieth Century British; Assistant Professor; British; Global and Transnational; Comparative Literature; English; Theory; Gender and Sexuality

Marjorie Levinson
F.L. Huetwell Professor

cecily@umich.edu 3076 Tisch Hall 7346451615

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

Scott Richard Lyons
Associate Professor

lyonssr@umich.edu 3052 Tisch Hall

Graduate Faculty; English; Native American; Theory; American

Victor Mendoza
Associate Professor

vmendoza@umich.edu 2138 Lane Hall 647-0772

Womens Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Asian American and Pacific Islander; Graduate Faculty; Modernism; Twentieth Century American; American; Visual Culture; English; Theory; Gender and Sexuality; African American

Steven Mullaney
Professor Emeritus

mullaney@umich.edu 3131 Angell Hall 764-2274

Postcolonial Studies; Emeriti; Geography and Literature; Drama and Performance; English; Material Culture; Theory; Visual Culture; Early Modern; British; Transatlantic

Supriya Nair
Professor

smnair@umich.edu 3143 Angell Hall 7346045322

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 764-6345

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 647-7669

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

Yopie Prins
Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

yprins@umich.edu 2021 Tisch (Chair, Department of Comparative Literature)

Womens Literature; Graduate Faculty; Nineteenth Century British; Comparative Literature; English; Theory; Romanticism American and British; Gender and Sexuality; Poetry and Poetics; British; Transatlantic

Xiomara Santamarina
Associate Professor

xiomara@umich.edu 4177 Haven Hall 764-6368

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

Taylor Schey
Lecturer

tschey@umich.edu 4201 Angell Hall

English; Lecturer; British; Comparative Literature; Romanticism American and British; Theory; Poetry and Poetics; Transatlantic; Ecocriticism; Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century British; Nineteenth Century British

Sidonie Smith
Professor Emeritus

sidsmith@umich.edu 3187 Angell Hall 734-647-6741

Womens Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Emeriti; Twentieth Century American; American; Visual Culture; Law and Literature; Global and Transnational; Travel; Autobiography Studies; English; Theory; Gender and Sexuality; African American

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

Ruby Tapia
Associate Professor

rtapia@umich.edu 2110 Lane Hall 764-0327

Latino Literature; Graduate Faculty; English; Twentieth Century American; Theory; American; Visual Culture; Gender and Sexuality; African American

Antoine Traisnel
Assistant 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

Valerie Traub
Adrienne Rich Distinguished University Professor of English & Women's Studies; Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies

traubv@umich.edu 3064 Tisch Hall

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century British; Womens Literature; Science and Literature; Graduate Faculty; Drama and Performance; English; Theory; Visual Culture; Gender and Sexuality; Early Modern; British

Martha Vicinus
Professor Emeritus

vicinus@umich.edu

Womens Literature; Emeriti; Modernism; Nineteenth Century British; English; Theory; Gender and Sexuality; British

Alan Wald
Emeritus H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor

awald@umich.edu 4185 Angell Hall

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

EJ Westlake
Professor of English Language and Literature, Professor of Theatre & Drama

jewestla@umich.edu 2408 Walgreen Drama Center 764-3118

Postcolonial Studies; Drama and Performance; English; Material Culture; Theory; American

Gillian White
Associate Professor

gcwhite@umich.edu 3243 Angell Hall 764-7306

Graduate Faculty; Modernism; English; Twentieth Century American; Theory; Twentieth Century British; American; Poetry and Poetics; British