The College of Arts and Sciences

English

--------------------------------------- Crystal Bartolovich Associate Professor 412 Hall of Languages clbartol@syr.edu 315-443-9470 Areas of Supervision: Early Modern literature, Utopianism, Globalization, Primitive Accumulation, and the Politics of Space, Cultural Studies or Marxist methodology. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Michael Burkard Associate Professor 209 Tolley Humanities Building mburkard@syr.edu 315-443-3906 Research and Teaching Interests: poetry, short fiction, drawing/collaborations. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Dympna Callaghan William Safire Professor of Modern Letters 435 Hall of Languages dccallag@syr.edu 315-443-9469 Areas of Supervision: 18th Century depictions of Ireland and the Irish; women, theatre, and nascent capitalism in the interregnum; race and colonialism in early modern drama; illiteracy and the early modern stage; and women and magic. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Steven Cohan Professor 416 Hall of Languages smcohan@syr.edu 315-443-9476 Areas of supervision: Hollywood cinema, Popular Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Reception Studies, and Film & Narrative Theory. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Manan Desai Assistant Professor 428 Hall of Languages mdesai01@syr.edu 315-443-9468 View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Susan Edmunds Director of Graduate Studies, Professor 407 Hall of Languages sledmund@syr.edu 315-443-4873 Areas of Supervision : U.S., British, and global modernism, as well as on broad range of topics in twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Carol Fadda-Conrey Assistant Professor 411 Hall of Languages cfaddaco@syr.edu 315-443-8790 Areas of Supervision: Arab-American literature and culture, ethnic and minority studies, post-colonial and transnational studies. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Arthur Flowers Associate Professor 414 Hall of Languages arflower@syr.edu 315-443-2072 View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Chris Forster Assistant Professor 423 Hall of Languages csforste@syr.edu 315-443-8790 Areas of Supervision: Any aspect of twentieth century literature, the history of obscenity and copyright, or digital projects of some kind. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Ken Frieden Professor 306 Tolley Humanities Building kfrieden@syr.edu 315-443-1894 Areas of supervision: Religion and literature; Psychoanalytic approaches to fiction; Yiddish and Hebrew literature. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Mike Goode Associate Professor 420B Hall of Languages mgoode@syr.edu 315-443-4950 Areas of Supervision: Eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature and culture, Romanticism, the history of history, the history of the novel, and eighteenth and early nineteenth-century intellectual history. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Roger Hallas Director of Undergraduate Studies; Associate Professor of English; Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program. 309 Tolley Humanities Building rhallas@syr.edu 315-443-4947 Areas of Supervision: Documentary media, experimental film and video, queer media and British cinema, as well as visual studies projects focused on issues of witnessing, museum display and the archive. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Chris Hanson Assistant Professor 413 Hall of Languages cphanson@syr.edu 315-443-4159 Areas of supervision: New media, interactive fiction and narrative, digital games, avant-garde film and video, television, temporality, spatiality, and code/software studies. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Brooks Haxton Professor 432 Hall of Languages bhaxton@syr.edu 315-443-9482 View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Mary Karr Professor 434 Hall of Languages 315-443-9479 Areas of Supervision: Memoir and Poetry. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Christopher Kennedy Director of Creative Writing, Associate Professor 429 Hall of Languages ckennedy@syr.edu 315-443-3755 Areas of Supervision: Poetry and Short Fiction. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Claudia Klaver Interim Chair, Associate Professor 424 Hall of Languages ccklaver@syr.edu 315-443-2074 Areas of Supervision: Professor Klaver's areas of dissertation include Victorian studies and gender theory. She has supervised dissertations on interracial intimacies in Anglo-India, gender dissonance in Victorian fiction, female authority and medicine in 19th-century women's first-person narrations, the emergence of the culture concept in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the tourist gaze in Victorian England. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Amy Lang Professor aslang@syr.edu View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Erin Mackie Professor 415 Hall of Languages esmackie@syr.edu 315-443-9471 Areas of Supervision : Eighteenth-century studies and in popular culture. Eighteenth-century topics include: female desire in Burney and Edgeworth; Jane Austen and community; Swift's satire of the book; heroic drama and political crisis; early modern women writers and print culture. Topics outside the eighteenth century have focused on culture and style, postcolonialism, gender and sexuality, ethnicity, and contemporary music cultures. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Patricia Moody Associate Professor 426 Hall of Languages pamoody@syr.edu 315-443-9486 View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Kevin A. Morrison Assistant Professor 409 Hall of Languages kmorri05@syr.edu 315-443-2559 Areas of Supervision: Projects focusing on the Victorian period in Britain as well as those relating to his ongoing research and teaching interests, including historiography and historicism; gender studies; human/nonhuman animal studies; material, political, and print cultures; and public feelings. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Donald Morton Professor 406 Hall of Languages dmorton@syr.edu 315-443-2188 Areas of Supervision: Gay/Queer Studies and Marxism. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Patricia Roylance Assistant Professor 427 Hall of Languages pjroylan@syr.edu 315-443-9488 Areas of Supervision: Early American literature and culture, American literature and culture more generally, transnationalism and globalization, imperialism, and the history of the book. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- George Saunders Professor 212 Tolley Humanities Building gwsaunde@syr.edu 315-443-8776 Areas of Supervision: Fiction, especially the short story. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Stephanie Shirilan Assistant Professor 410 Hall of Languages shirilan@syr.edu 315-443-2049 Areas of Supervision: Late Renaissance and 17th century English literature, especially those with research interests in the conceptual histories of the body, disease, imagination, subjectivity, melancholy, the occult, science, medicine, natural history, natural philosophy, and the literature of discovery and contact. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Bruce Smith Professor 207 Tolley Humanities Building bfsmith@syr.edu 315-443-9473 Areas of Supervision: Poetry and poetics. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Dana Spiotta Assistant Professor 210 Tolley Humanities Building dspiotta@syr.edu 315-443-8796 Areas of Supervision: Fiction View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Harvey Teres Director of Judaic Studies, Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees, Professor 310 Tolley Humanities Building hmteres@syr.edu 315-443-4891 Areas of Supervision: 20th-century American literature and culture, with special emphasis on literary leftism and on the public and political presence of literature and popular culture. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Greg Thomas Associate Professor 408 Hall of Languages gthomas@syr.edu 315-443-9472 Areas of Supervision: Africana Literature, Global Englishes ("American," etc.), Gender & Sexuality Studies, Colonialism, Race & Empire, "Theory." View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Silvio Torres-Saillant Professor 417 Hall of Languages saillant@syr.edu 315-443-9475 View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- David Yaffe Assistant Professor 433 Hall of Languages dyaffe@syr.edu 315-443-9474 Areas of supervision: 20th and 21st century American fiction and poetry; interdisciplinary studies, especially the intersections of music and literature; creative nonfiction; biography and autobiography; the book review; the essay; public intellectuals; jazz and rock criticism. View Faculty Profile

Part Time and Visiting Faculty

--------------------------------------- Sarah Harwell Associate Director, Creative Writing 420A Hall of Languages scharwel@syr.edu 315-443-9480

--------------------------------------- Jolynn Parker Associate Director, Undergraduate Studies 405 Hall of Languages jmpark02@syr.edu 315-443-5985

--------------------------------------- Karl Parker Part-Time Instructor 432 Hall of Languages kipark02@syr.edu 315-443-9477

--------------------------------------- Sanford Sternlicht Part-Time Instructor, Professor Emeritus 732 Ostrom Avenue svsternl@syr.edu 315-443-0198

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