Stephen Sicari
Department Chair
Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Literary Modernism; the Epic, the
Allegory, and the History of the Novel; Theory and Criticism
Robert Fanuzzi
Assistant Chair
Associate Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., 18th and 19th Century
American Literature; African-American Literature
Dohra Ahmad, Assistant Professor, B.A., M.A., M.Phil.,
Ph. D., Postcolonial Literature; American and Ethnic American
Literature; Utopian Fiction
Angela Belli, Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Modern
Comparative Drama; Literature and Medicine
Gabriel Brownstein, Asst. Professor, B.A., M.F.A.,
Fiction
Lee Ann Brown, Assistant Professor, M.F.A., 20th Century
Poetry and Poetics
Scott Combs, Assistant Professor, B.A., The University
of Chicago, M.A, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley,
Rhetoric and Film
Harry Denny, Director, Staten Island and Queens Writing
Centers, Assistant Professor
Granville Ganter, Associate Professor, B.A., M.A.,
M.Phil., Ph.D., 18th and 19th Century U.S. Literature;
Northeast Native American Studies; and African American
literature
Anne Geller, Assistant Professor and Director of Writing
Across the Curriculum, B.A., Mount Holyoke College, M.A., New York
University, Ph.D., New York University
Rachel Hollander, Assistant
Professor English, Ph.D., M.A., B.A., Nineteenth-and
Early Twentieth-Century British literature
Amy M. King, Assistant Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.,
Victorian Studies
Brian Lockey, Asst. Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.,
Early Modern Literature
John Lowney, Associate Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.,
Modern and Post-modern American literature, American poetry,
African American Literature
Kathleen Lubey, Asst. Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph. D.,
Eighteenth-Century Novel
Gregory Maertz, Professor, B.A., A.M., A.M., Ph.D.,
Romanticism; Romanticism and its legacy in literature, art, and
cultural politics; the afterlife of Nazi art and culture; art and
propaganda; kitsch and camp; history of the profession; criticism
and theory
Steven Mentz, Assistant Professor, B.A., M.A., M.Phil.
Ph.D., Shakespeare, 16th and 17th-Century English Literature
Stephen Paul Miller, Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.,
Contemporary American literature, Cultural Studies, Poetry
Melissa Mowry, Associate Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.,
18th-Century English Literature, Gender and
Sexuality Studies
Lisa Outar, Assistant Professor, B.A., Princeton
University, M.A., The University of Chicago, Ph.D., The University
of Chicago; Caribbean Literature; Postcolonial Theory
Derek Owens, Associate Professor and Director of the
Writing Center, B.A., M.A., D.A., Composition Theory,
Sustainability and Curricular Reform, Experimental Writing,
Contemporary Poetry, Visual Poetics
Jennifer Travis, Assistant Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.,
American literature to 1900, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies
Elda Tsou, Assistant Professor, B.A., University of
California, Berkeley, M.A., University of Chicago, Ph.D., Columbia
University, English and Comparative Literature