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English Language and Literature: Faculty

Michael Awkward
Gayl A. Jones Collegiate Professor of Afro-American Literature and Culture

michawk@umich.edu 3062 Tisch Hall

Graduate Faculty; Autobiography Studies; English; Twentieth Century American; American; Gender and Sexuality; African American

Hadji Bakara
Assistant Professor

hbakara@umich.edu 3156 Angell Hall

English; Global and Transnational; Twentieth Century American; Twentieth Century British; Postcolonial Studies; Poetry and Poetics; Law and Literature; African American; Geography and Literature

Sara Blair
Patricia S. Yaeger Collegiate Professor

sbblair@umich.edu 3251 Angell Hall

Jewish American; Graduate Faculty; Modernism; English; Twentieth Century American; Material Culture; American; Visual Culture; African American

Enoch Brater
Kenneth T. Rowe Collegiate Professor of Dramatic Literature & Professor of English and Theater

enochb@umich.edu 3255 Angell Hall

Graduate Faculty; Modernism; Comparative Literature; Drama and Performance; English; Twentieth Century American; Twentieth Century British; American; British

Michael Byers
Associate Professor

mbyers@umich.edu 3163 Angell Hall

Writing of Fiction; Graduate Faculty; English; MFA Faculty; Twentieth Century American; Twentieth Century British; American; British

Sumita Chakraborty
Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry

schak@umich.edu 4179 Angell Hall

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

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

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

Jason Fitzgerald
Assistant Professor

jfitzt@umich.edu 3024 Tisch Hall

English; Drama and Performance; Theory; Ecocriticism; Gender and Sexuality; African American; American; Twentieth Century American; Modernism; Dramaturgy & Theatre Criticism; Writing of Drama

Jonathan Freedman
Professor

zoid@umich.edu 3036 Tisch Hall

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

Laurence Goldstein
Professor Emeritus

lgoldste@umich.edu 4185 Angell Hall

Academics; Emeriti; Graduate Faculty; Modernism; Nineteenth Century British; English; Twentieth Century American; American; Poetry and Poetics; British

Linda Gregerson
Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English and MFA Director

gregerso@umich.edu 3147 Angell Hall

Womens Literature; Graduate Faculty; MFA Faculty; Twentieth Century American; American; Early Modern; Poetry and Poetics; British; Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century British; Drama and Performance; English; Creative Writing; Professor; Transatlantic

June Howard
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor

jmhoward@umich.edu 3058 Tisch Hall

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

Tung-Hui Hu
Associate Professor

hhui@umich.edu 3078 Tisch Hall

Technology and the Humanities; Graduate Faculty; Geography and Literature; English; MFA Faculty; Twentieth Century American; American; Visual Culture; Creative Writing; Poetry and Poetics

A. Van Jordan
Robert Hayden Collegiate Professor

avjordan@umich.edu 3155 AH

Creative Writing; Novel and Narrative; Poetry and Poetics; Visual Culture; Writing of Poetry; African American; Twentieth Century American; English

John Knott
Professor Emeritus

jknott@umich.edu 4198 Angell Hall

Emeriti; English; Twentieth Century American; Nineteenth Century America; Ecocriticism; American; Early Modern; British

Aric Knuth
Lecturer IV; NELP Director; English Advisor

aknuth@umich.edu 4172 Angell Hall

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

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

Julian Levinson
Associate Professor

jlevinso@umich.edu 5215 Angell Hall

Jewish American; Graduate Faculty; English; Twentieth Century American; American

Aida Levy-Hussen
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

aidalh@umich.edu 7191 Angell Hall

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

Khaled Mattawa
Professor

kmattawa@umich.edu 3240 Angell Hall

Postcolonial Studies; Graduate Faculty; English; MFA Faculty; Twentieth Century American; American; Creative Writing; Poetry and Poetics

Victor Mendoza
Associate Professor

vmendoza@umich.edu 2138 Lane Hall

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

Joshua Miller
Associate Professor of English and Judaic Studies; Faculty Associate in American Culture and Comparative Literature

joshualm@umich.edu 3247 Angell Hall

Latino Literature; Graduate Faculty; Modernism; Novel and Narrative; Twentieth Century American; American; Visual Culture; Technology and the Humanities; Language Studies; Jewish American; English; African American

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

Anita Norich
Professor Emeritus, Tikva Frymer-Kensky Collegiate Professor

norich@umich.edu

Language Studies; Academics; Emeriti; Jewish American; Graduate Faculty; Comparative Literature; English; Twentieth Century American; American

Susan (Scotti) Parrish
Professor

sparrish@umich.edu 3119 Angell Hall

Graduate Faculty; Twentieth Century American; Ecocriticism; American; Visual Culture; Colonial and Early American; Science and Literature; Travel; Caribbean; Drama and Performance; English; Transatlantic; African American

Eileen Pollack
Professor Emeritus

epollack@umich.edu 3239 Angell Hall

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

Alisse Portnoy
Associate Professor

alisse@umich.edu 3236 Angell Hall
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Language Studies; Graduate Faculty; English; Twentieth Century American; Nineteenth Century America; Pedagogy; American; Rhetoric and Composition

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

Sidonie Smith
Professor Emeritus

sidsmith@umich.edu 3187 Angell Hall

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 of English; Afroamerican and African Studies; and Women's and Gender Studies; and Undergraduate Director

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

Ruby Tapia
Associate Professor

rtapia@umich.edu 2110 Lane Hall

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

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

Gillian White
Associate Professor

gcwhite@umich.edu 3243 Angell Hall

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

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