Faculty

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, Associate 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

Lee Ann Brown, Associate Professor, M.F.A., 20th Century Poetry and Poetics

Gabriel Brownstein, Associate Professor, B.A., M.F.A., Fiction

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, Associate Professor

Robert Forman, Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Classics; Director, Honors Program

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 Ellen Geller, Associate 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, Associate Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Carmen Kynard, Associate Professor; Director, First-Year Writing Program; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Critical Race Theory, Composition Studies, New Literacies Studies, and Urban Education.

Brian Lockey, Associate Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph. D., Early Modern Literature

John Lowney, Professor, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Modern and Post-modern American literature, American poetry, American ethnic literatures

Kathleen Lubey, Associate 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, 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

Derek Owens, Professor; Executive Director, Institute for Writing Studies; B.A., M.A., D.A., Composition Pedagogy, Writing Program Administration, Ecocomposition and Sustainability, Experimental Writing

Nicole Rice, Associate Professor, B.A., Yale University, MPhil, University of Cambridge, PhD, Columbia University; Medieval Religious Culture

Jennifer Travis, Associate 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