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Graduate Faculty
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Anne Boyle, Ph.D. University of Rochester

• 19th and 20th Century American Literature, Women's Studies

Mary K. DeShazer, Ph.D. University of Oregon

• Contemporary Women's Literature, Women's Studies, Modern Poetry

Andrew V. Ettin, Ph.D. Washington University

• Seventeenth-century, British Literature, American Jewish Literature

Dean Franco, Ph.D. University of Southern California

• 19th & 20th Century American Literature Ethnic American Literature

James S. Hans, Ph.D. Washington University

• Literary Criticism and Theory, Contemporary American Literature

Jefferson Holdridge, Ph.D. University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

• Irish Literature, Late Victorian and Modernist poetry Aesthetics.

Miriam Jacobson, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

• Early Modern Poetry and Prose, History of the Book

Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Ph.D. Brandeis University

• Eighteenth-century Literature

Scott Klein, Ph.D. Yale University

• Twentieth-century English Literature

Philip Kuberski, Ph.D. University of California at Irvine

• Modern Poetry

Barry G. Maine, Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• American Fiction
  

John McNally, Ph.D. University of Nebraska - Lincoln (Ph.D.), University of Iowa (M.F.A)

• Creative Writing (Fiction), Contemporary American fiction

William M. Moss, Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• The American Renaissance, Literature of the South

Gillian R. Overing, Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo

• Old English Literature, Linguistics, Women's Studies

Herman Rapaport, Ph. D. University of California at Irvine
Reynolds Professor of English

• Milton, theory, psychoanalysis, relationships between the arts

Jessica Richard, Ph.D. Princeton

• 18 th c. British fiction, Gambling in 18 th c. Britain, British exploration narratives

Gale Sigal, Ph.D. The City University of New York Graduate Center

• Medieval Literature, Medievalism

Erica Still, Ph.D. The University of Iowa

• African American Literature, Trauma Studies, Religion and Literature

Olga Valbuena Hanson, Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo

• Shakespeare, Early Modern Literature

 Eric Wilson, Ph.D. The City University of New York Graduate Center

• Nineteenth-century American Literature, Literature and Science, Romanticism