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Graduate Faculty

University Park Faculty
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Michael Anesko, Ph.D. (Harvard) Associate Professor of English and American Studies

Robin Becker, M.A. (Boston) Professor of English and Women's Studies

Bernard W. Bell, Ph.D. (Massachusetts) Professor of English

Michael Berube, Ph.D. (Virginia) Paterno Family Professor of Literature and Comparative Literature

Robert E. Burkholder, Ph.D. (South Carolina) Associate Professor of English

Robert L. Caserio, Ph.D. (Yale) Professor of English; Head, English

Patrick G. Cheney, Ph.D. (Toronto) Professor of English

Deborah Clarke, Ph.D. (Yale) Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies

Christopher Clausen, Ph.D. (Queen's University, Canada) Professor of English

William J. Cobb, Ph.D. (Houston) Associate Professor of English

Richard M. Doyle, Ph.D. (California, Berkeley) Professor of English

Caroline D. Eckhardt, Ph.D. (Michigan) Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Head, Comparative Literature

Jennifer Edbauer, Ph.D. (University of Texas @ Austin) Assistant Professor of English

Robert R. Edwards, Ph.D. (California, Riverside) Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Keith Gilyard, Ph.D. (NYU) Professor of English

Cecil L. Giscombe, M.F.A. (Cornell) Professor of English

Cheryl Glenn, Ph.D. (Ohio State) Professor of English

John T. Harwood, Ph.D. (Nebraska) Associate Professor of English; Senior Director of Teaching and Learning with Technology, Information Technology Services

Clement Hawes, Ph.D. (Yale) Associate Professor of English

T. Scott Herring. Ph.D. (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies

Charlotte Holmes, M.F.A. (Columbia) Associate Professor of English

Kathryn Hume, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania) Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English

Robert D. Hume, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania) Evan Pugh Professor of English

Nicholas A. Joukovsky, D.Phil. (Oxford) Professor of English

Jane Juffer, Ph.D. (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies

Julia Kasdorf, Ph.D. (NYU) Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies

Michael Kiernan, Ph.D. (Harvard) Associate Professor of English

Laura L. Knoppers, Ph.D. (Harvard) Professor of English

Richard Kopley, Ph.D. (SUNY) Professor of English

Brian Lennon, Ph.D. (Columbia University) Assistant Professor of English

Robert E. Lougy, Ph.D. (California, Davis) Professor of English

Janet Lyon, Ph.D. (Virginia) Associate Professor of English

John W. Moore, Jr., Ph.D. (Stanford) Associate Professor of English

Mark Morrisson, Ph.D. (Chicago) Associate Professor of English

Carla J. Mulford, Ph.D. (Delaware) Associate Professor of English

Jeffrey Nealon, Ph.D. (Loyola) Professor of English

Aldon Nielsen, Ph.D. (George Washington) George and Barbara Kelly Professor of English

Josip Novakovich, M.A. (Texas at Austin) Professor of English

Jon Olson, Ph.D. (USC) Assistant Professor of Writing

Iyunolu F. Osagie, Ph.D. (Cornell) Associate Professor of English

Elaine Richardson, Ph.D. (Michigan State) Associate Professor of English

Robin G. Schulze, Ph.D. (Michigan) Professor of English

Sanford Schwartz, Ph.D. (Princeton) Associate Professor of English

Stuart Selber, Ph.D. (Michigan Tech U) Associate Professor of English

John L. Selzer, Ph.D. (Miami) Professor of English

Sandra Spanier, Ph.D. (Penn State) Professor of English and Women's Studies

Susan Squier, Ph.D. (Stanford) Julia Gregg Brill Professor of English and Women's Studies

Garrett Sullivan, Ph.D. (Brown) Associate Professor of English

Rachel Teukolsky. Ph.D. (U C Berkeley) Assistant Professor of English

Toby Thompson, M.A. (Virginia) Associate Professor of English

James L. W. West III, Ph.D. (South Carolina) Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English

Linda Woodbridge, Ph.D. (UCLA) Distinguished Professor of English

Xiaoye You, Ph.D. (Purdue University) Assistant Professor of English

Paul Youngquist, Ph.D. (Virginia) Professor of English

University Park Faculty at Commonwealth Colleges

Kevin J. H. Berland, Ph.D. (McMaster) Associate Professor of English

Barbara Cantalupo, A.B. (Rochester) Associate Professor of English

Charles Cantalupo, Ph.D. (Rutgers) Professor of English, Comparative Literature and African Studies

Margaret Christian, Ph.D. (California, Los Angeles) Associate Professor of English

Phyllis B. Cole, Ph.D. (Harvard) Professor of English, Women's Studies and American Studies

Mary G. DeJong, Ph.D. (South Carolina) Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies

William Ellis, Ph.D. (Ohio State) Professor of English

Richard C. Frushell, Ph.D. (Duquesne ) Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Caroline K. B. Hall, Ph.D. (Brown) Associate Professor of English and American Studies

Evelyn Hovanec, Ph.D. (Pittsburgh) Associate Professor of English

Jeanne E. Krochalis, Ph.D. (Harvard) Associate Professor of English

Ian Marshall, Ph.D. (Delaware) Professor of English

James E. May, Ph.D. (Maryland) Associate Professor of English

William B. McCarthy, Ph.D. (Indiana) Professor of English

Linda Patterson Miller, Ph.D. (Delaware) Professor of English

Dinty Moore, M.F.A. (Louisana State) Associate Professor of English

J. Philip Mosley, Ph.D. (East Anglia) Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Leonard Mustazza, Ph.D. (SUNY) D istinguished Professor of English

Paul Orlov, Ph.D. (Toronto) Associate Professor of English

Beverly Peterson, Ph.D. (William and Mary) Associate Professor of English

R. Alan Price, Ph.D. (Rochester) Professor of English

Steven D. Putzel, Ph.D. (Toronto) Associate Professor of English

Mike Riley, Ph.D. (Ohio) Professor of English

Gayle L. Smith, Ph.D. (Massachusetts) Associate Professor of English

James F. Smith, Ph.D. (Penn State) Professor of English

Thomas Smith, Ph.D. (Rutgers) Assistant Professor of English

Adam J. Sorkin, Ph.D. (North Carolina) Distinguished Professor of English

Suzanne Stutman, Ph.D. (Temple) Professor of English, American Studies and Women's Studies

Tramble Turner, Ph.D. (North Carolina) Associate Professor of English

Anthony Vallone, M.F.A. (Indiana) Associate Professor of English