Faculty
Faculty in the Ph.D. Program in English are either centrally appointed to the Graduate Center or tenured at one of the CUNY colleges. Centrally appointed faculty teach almost exclusively at the Graduate Center, both in the English Program and in affiliated Programs and Certificate Programs. College-appointed faculty generally teach one course a year in the English Program. Currently, there are over 50 active faculty members, including 12 Distinguished Professors. In addition to scholarship on English literature, our faculty has produced notable work in poetry and fiction, creative non-fiction, critical theory, art history, autobiography, biography, film studies, composition theory, and digital humanities.
Faculty by Field
Faculty Specializations by Theory Group Field
African American Writings and Poetics:
Ammiel Alcalay, Meena Alexander, Barbara Bowen, Kandice Chuh, James L. de Jongh, Hildegard Hoeller, Robert Reid-Pharr, Elizabeth Tenenbaum, Neal Tolchin, Michele Wallace, Jerry Gafio Watts, Barbara Webb
Bibliographical Studies and Textual Theory:
David Greetham, Michael Sargent, E. Gordon Whatley
Composition Theory and Rhetoric:
Mark McBeth, Rebecca Mlynarczyk, George Otte, Sondra Perl, Ira Shor, Jessica Yood
Feminist Theory and Women's Writings:
Meena Alexander, Barbara Bowen, Rachel Brownstein, Mary Ann Caws, Kandice Chuh, Carrie Hintz, Hildegard Hoeller, Jane Marcus, Nancy K. Miller, Tanya Pollard, Talia Schaffer, Michele Wallace, Nancy Yousef
Gay/Lesbian/Queer Literature and Theory:
Glenn Burger, Kandice Chuh, Mario DiGangi, William Fisher, Richard Kaye, Wayne Koestenbaum, Steven Kruger, Jane Marcus, Mark McBeth, David Savran, Michele Wallace, Joseph Wittreich
Literary History, Criticism, and Theory:
Ammiel Alcalay, Meena Alexander, John Brenkman, Glenn Burger, Mary Ann Caws, Kandice Chuh, Ashley Dawson, Marc Dolan, David Greetham, Peter Hitchcock, Anne Humpherys, Nico Israel, Gerhard Joseph, Wayne Koestenbaum, Steven Kruger, Jane Marcus, Nancy K. Miller, George Otte, Tanya Pollard, Robert Reid-Pharr, David S. Reynolds, Joan Richardson, David Richter, Alexander Schlutz, Neal Tolchin, Joshua Wilner, Jessica Yood, Nancy Yousef
Postcolonial Literature and Theory:
Ammiel Alcalay, Meena Alexander, John Brenkman, Glenn Burger, Kandice Chuh, Ashley Dawson, Lyn Di Iorio, Peter Hitchcock, Nico Israel
Faculty by Chronological Period
Faculty Specializations by Chronological Period
Medieval Literature:
Ammiel Alcalay, Glenn Burger, David Greetham, Steven Kruger, Michael Sargent, E. Gordon Whatley
Renaissance/Early Modern Literature:
Barbara Bowen, Mario DiGangi, Martin Elsky, William Fisher, Carrie Hintz, Richard McCoy, Tanya Pollard, Joseph Wittreich
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
Rachel Brownstein, Carrie Hintz, Richard McCoy, Judith Milhous, Nancy K. Miller, David Richter, Joseph Wittreich, Nancy Yousef
The Romantic Movement:
Meena Alexander, Rachel Brownstein, David Richter, Alexander Schlutz, Alan Vardy, Joshua Wilner, Joseph Wittreich, Nancy Yousef
The Victorian Period:
Felicia Bonaparte, Rachel Brownstein, N. John Hall, Anne Humpherys, Gerhard Joseph, Richard Kaye, Talia Schaffer
American Literature to 1900:
Ammiel Alcalay, James L. de Jongh, Lyn Di Iorio, Marc Dolan, Duncan Faherty, Hildegard Hoeller, William Kelly, Robert Reid-Pharr, David S. Reynolds, Joan Richardson, Neal Tolchin, Michele Wallace
Twentieth-Century Literature:
Ammiel Alcalay, Meena Alexander, John Brenkman, Mary Ann Caws, Kandice Chuh, Ashley Dawson, James L. de Jongh, Lyn Di Iorio, Morris Dickstein, Marc Dolan, Peter Hitchcock, Hildegard Hoeller, Nico Israel, Richard Kaye, Norman Kelvin, Wayne Koestenbaum, Jane Marcus, Nancy K. Miller, Robert Reid-Pharr, Joan Richardson, David Savran, Talia Schaffer, Michele Wallace, Jerry Gafio Watts, Barbara Webb