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Annas  

Pamela Annas, Professor and Associate Dean, CLA

Ph.D., Indiana University

Working-Class Literature, Modernism, Poetry, Pedagogy
pamela.annas@umb.edu

 

auerbach  

Elsa Auerbach, Professor and Director of the Composition Program

Ph.D., Northwestern University

Literacy, Adult ESL, Bilingual/ESL Reading, Tutoring Composition, Applied Linguistics

 

barron

 

Patrick Barron, Assistant Professor and Director of Professional Writing Program

Ph.D., University of Nevada

Twentieth-century American and Italian Poetry; Environmental Literature and Ecocriticism; Native American Literature; Professional Writing

Jessica Barros  

Jessica Barros , Lecturer
Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 73
617-287-6746
barrosjessicam@gmail.com

 

bookbinder  

Susan Bookbinder, Lecturer

 

brown  

Matthew Brown, Assistant Professor and Associate Department Chair

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

20th-century English, Irish, and Scottish literature; post-colonial literature and theory; multicultural literature; modernism and postmodernism

 

bruss  

Neal Bruss, Associate Professor and Director of Technical Writing Program

Ph.D., University of Michigan

English language, linguistic perspectives on literature, composition theory, writing pedagogy

 

cappelli  

Margherita Cappelli, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 22

617-287-6717

margherita.cappellli@umb.edu

 

center  

Carole Center, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 111

617-287-6729

carole.center@umb.edu

 

chandler  

Carol Chandler Rourke, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 10

617-287-6704

carol.chandler@umb.edu

 

chocos  

Teddy Chocos, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 11

617-287-6710

teddy.chocos@umb.edu

 

davis  

Helene Davis, Lecture
Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 50
617-287-6728
helene.davis@umb.edu

 

erde  

Ann Erde, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 55

617-287-6739

ann.erde@umb.edu

 

fay  

Elizabeth Fay, Professor

Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook

Romantic Studies, Literary Theory, Feminist Criticism, Women Writers

 

fulton  

John Fulton, Assistant Professor

MFA, University of Michigan

Fiction Writing, The Short Story, the Novella

 

goleman  

Judith Goleman, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Composition theory, pedagogy and history

 

hess  

John Hess, Senior Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 21

john.hess@umb.edu


Brian Hochman  

Brian Hochman, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 70

bhochman@fas.harvard.edu

   

Sandra Howland, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 70

617-287-6744

sandra.howland@umb.edu

 

iwanaga  

Esther Iwanaga, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 21

617-287-6721

esther.iwanaga@umb.edu

 

kamath  

Stephanie Kamath, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, M. Phil., University of Cambridge
British literature, medieval literature, translation studies, history of
the English languge, history of the material text

 

Steven Kaufman  

Steven Kaufman, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 65

617-287-6787
steven.kaufman@umb.edu

kingsley  

Victoria Kingsley, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 106

617-287-6742


klimasmith  

Elizabeth Klimasmith, Associate Professor and Fellowships Adviser

Ph.D. University of Washington

American Literature and Culture, especially the 19th and early 20th centuries

 

kutz  

Eleanor Kutz, Professor

Ph.D. Indiana University

Composition, Language and Literacy, Pedagogy

 

kwock  

Suji Kwock Kim, Assistant Professor

MFA, University of Iowa

contemporary and Korean American poetry

 

   

Linda Lawrence, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 18

617-287-6718

 

maisano  

Scott Maisano, Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Indiana University

Shakespeare; English Renaissance; literature and science in 16th & 17th centuries; theories and theatres of artificial life

 

marks  

Laurie Marks, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 106

617-287-6742

martinez  

Marta Martinez-Early, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 10

617-287-6704

 

Jill McDonough  

Jill McDonough, Lecturer
MFA, Boston University
jill.mcdonough@umb.edu
Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 65
617-287-6787

Jes  

Jeslyn Medoff , Lecturer
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 23

617-287-6735
jeslyn.medoff@umb.edu

 

askold  

Askold Melnyczuk

M.A., Boston University

creative writing, fiction, contemporary fiction

 

Grace Mlady  

Grace Mlady, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 113

grace.mlady@umb.edu

morrisette  

Kevin Morrissette, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 112

617-287-6731

 

Alex Mueller

Alex Mueller, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Pedagogy, English language, medieval literature

 

   

Dorothy Nelson, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 12

617-287-6709


nelson  

Duncan Nelson, Associate Professor

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 5

617-287-6708

 

nixon  

Cheryl Nixon, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director, Coordinator of Literature Teaching Interns

18th century Literature, rise of the novel, history of the book, and law and literature

 

nurhussein  

Nadia Nurhussein, Assistant Professor

African American Literature; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Poetry Writing

 

oconnell  

Shaun O'Connell, Professor

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst

American Literature, Irish-American Literature & Culture, Modern Irish Literature
Research & Writing Interests: American Literature

 

ogrady  

Thomas O'Grady, Professor, Director of Irish Studies and Creative Writing Program Director

Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

Irish Literature and Culture; Canadian Literature; Poetry and Fiction; James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, William Carleton, Patrick Kavanagh, Benedict Kiely

 

Parnell  

Catherine Parnell, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 51

617-287-6763

 

penner  

Louise Penner, Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Program Director

Ph.D., Rice University

Victorian Literature, Women's Literature, Literature and Medicine

 

peseroff  

Joyce Peseroff, Distinguished Lecturer, Poet in Residence, MFA Director

M.F.A., University of California, Irvine

creative writing and 20th century American poetry

 

   

Joe Piazza, Lecturer

 

   

Liz Raptis, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 90

617-287-6757

 

raymond  

Karen Raymond, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 18

 

rhodes  

Wayne Rhodes, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 15

617-287-6712

 

Ricks  

Christina Ricks, Lecturer
M.A., English Literature, U/Mass, Boston
Courses Taught:  Literature and Society; Literature and Visual Arts; The Art of Literature

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 90

617-287-6757

 

romanow  

Rebecca Romanow, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 20

617-287-6759

 

ross  

Marcia Ross, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 10

617-287-6704

   

Candice Rowe, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 105

617-287-6743

 

Peter Sarno  

Peter Hallet Sarno , Lecturer
M.A. University of Massachusetts, Boston

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 43

617-287-7875
peter.sarno@umb.edu

saunders  

Rebecca Saunders, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 19

617-287-6725

 

schwartz  

Lloyd Schwartz, Frederick S. Troy Professor of English

Ph.D., Harvard University

poetry, classical music, films, Elizabeth Bishop

 

sorum  

Eve Sorum, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Modernism, 20th century British fiction and poetry, Virginia Woolf, cultural geography, and the literature of modern war

 

srikanth  

Rajini Srikanth, Associate Professor

Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo

American Literature, diaspora studies, comparative race and ethnic studies, the pedagogy of literature, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature

Janet Stevens

Janet Stevens, Lecturer
Wheatley 6th floor, Room 50
617-287-6728

  Stoehr

Taylor Stoehr, Professor

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley

literary and cultural history, Life Writing, The Black Presence in American Literature

 

sutherland  

Stephen Sutherland, Assistant Professor
Associate Director of Freshman English and Co-ordinator of Composition Interns

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

composition theory and history, pedagogy, image-text rhetorics, the essay genre, writing program administration

 

Natalia Tavares  

Natalia Tavares , Lecturer
M.A. in Literature U/Mass Boston

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 43

617-287-7875
natalia.tavares@umb.edu

Elizabeth Thompson  

Elizabeth Thompson, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 22

617-287-6717

 

tobin  

John Tobin, Professor

Ph.D., University of Toronto

Renaissance literature, language, society, and popular culture, Shakespeare

617-287-6727


tomlinson  

Susan Tomlinson, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Brown University

African-American literature, Colonial American literature, and gender and modernism, narrative



torra  

Joseph Torra, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 51

617-287-6763


von morze  

Leonard Von Morze, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of California Berkeley

literature of the colonial and revolutionary periods and of the early Republic, multiculturalism, independence and mobility


   

Margaret Walsh, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 74

617-287-6747


   

Susan Walsh, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 40

617-287-6756

zamel  

Vivian Zamel, Professor; Director, ESL Program and the Center for the Improvement of Teaching

Ph.D., Columbia University

English as a Second Language, Composition Theory & Practice, Applied Linguistics