Tenure-Line Faculty

Michael Anesko

Robin Becker

Bernard Bell

• Liberal Arts Research Professor Emeritus

Kevin Bell

Michael Berube

• Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities
• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature

Hester Blum

• Associate Professor of English
• Associate Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities

Bob Burkholder

• Associate Head

Suresh Canagarajah

• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor;
• Director, Migration Studies Project.

Robert Lawrence Caserio

• Professor of English

Christopher Castiglia

Tina Chen

• Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies

Patrick Cheney

• Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature

William J. Cobb

• Professor

Claire Mary Colebrook

• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English

Richard Doyle

• Professor of English
• Affiliate Faculty, Information Science and Technology
• Convenor, Penn State Center for Nano Futures
• Digital Director, Zebrapedia.org

Rosa Eberly

Jonathan P. Eburne

• Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English

Caroline Eckhardt

Robert R. Edwards

• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Keith Gilyard

• Distinguished Professor

Cheryl Glenn

• Liberal Arts Research Professor of English and Women's Studies
• Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric (Awarded a 2013 CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence)

Sean X. Goudie

• Director, Center for American Literary Studies
• Associate Professor of English

Emily Grosholz, (Affiliated Faculty)

Emily Harrington

• Assistant Professor of English

Debra Hawhee

• Professor of English and Communication Arts and Sciences

Charlotte Holmes

• Associate Professor of English & Women's Studies

Kit Hume

• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English

Robert Hume

Toni Jensen

• Assistant Professor

Leisha Jones

Nicholas Joukovsky

Elizabeth Kadetsky

• Director of Creative Writing / Visiting Assistant Professor of creative writing in nonfiction and fiction in the Emerging Writer Series

Julia Spicher Kasdorf

• Professor of English and Women's Studies

Laura Knoppers

• Liberal Arts Research Professor of English

Brian Lennon

• Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Robert Lougy

• Professor of English

Janet Lyon

• Faculty-in-charge, Disability Studies Minor

John Marsh

Anne McCarthy

• Assistant Professor of English

Shirley Moody-Turner

• Assistant Professor of English

John Warner Moore Jr

• Associate Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature

Mark Morrisson

• Department Head
• Professor of English and STS

Carla J. Mulford

• Founding President, Society of Early Americanists

Kimberly Myers, (Affiliated Faculty)

Jeffrey T. Nealon

• Liberal Arts Research Professor of English and Philosophy

Aldon Lynn Nielsen

• The George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature

Marcy North

• Associate Professor of English
• Penn State Representative to the Folger Shakespeare Library

Iyunolu Osagie

Mya Poe

• Assistant Professor of English

Christopher Reed

• Professor of English and Visual Culture

Benjamin Schreier

• Malvin and Lea Bank Assistant Professor of English and Jewish Studies
• Editor, /Studies in American Jewish Literature/

Sanford Schwartz

Stuart Selber

• Associate Professor of English
• Director of Digital Education
• Director of The Penn State Digital English Studio

John "Jack" Selzer

• Barry Director of the Paterno Fellows Program

Linda Furgerson Selzer

• Associate Professor of English

Chloe Silverman

Scott Thompson Smith

• Assistant Professor

Sandra Spanier

• Professor of English and
• General Editor, Hemingway Letters Project

Susan Merrill Squier, Ph.D.

• Brill Professor of Women's Studies, English, and STS

Lisa Sternlieb

• English Honors Adviser

Garrett Sullivan

• Professor of English
• Director of Graduate Studies, English

Toby Thompson

• Associate Professor of English, emphasis Creative Nonfiction.

Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor

Daniel Walden

• Professor Emeritus of American Studies, English and Comparative Literature

James L. W. West III

• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English
• Director, Penn State Center for the History of the Book

Xiaoye You

• Associate Professor of English and Asian Studies