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Pam Annas, Professor and Associate Dean, CLA

Ph.D., Indiana University
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

Professional Writing; Environmental Literature; Ecocriticism; American Literature; Native American Literature and Culture

 

bookbinder  

Susan Bookbinder, Lecturer

 

brown  

Matthew Brown, Assistant Professor

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

 

burge  

Judith Burge, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 112

617-287-6731

judy.burge@umb.edu

 

cappelli  

Margherita Cappelli, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 22

617-287-676717

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

 

crossley  

Robert Crossley, Professor and Director of the M.A. Program

Ph.D., University of Virginia

utopian literature; science fiction; epic poetry; apocalyptic literature; literature and pedagogy

 

davis  

Helene Davis, Lecturer

 

 

dittmar  

Linda Dittmar, Professor

Ph.D., Stanford University

Film Studies, 20th-Century Fiction & Drama, Multicultural Literature, Literary & Film Theory, Women and Gender

 

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, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 21

john.hess@umb.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

Literature of the 14th and 15th century, including Chaucer, Lydgate, Christine de Pizan, and Langland

 

kingsley  

Victoria Kingsley, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 106

617-287-6742


klimasmith  

Elizabeth Klimasmith, Assistant Professor

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

 

 

askold  

Askold Melnyczuk

M.A., Boston University

creative writing, fiction, contemporary fiction

 

morrisette  

Kevin Morrissette, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 112

617-287-6731

 

   

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, Assistant Professor, Associate Department Chair, 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 and Director of Irish Studies

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

 

   

Catherine Parnell, Lecturer

Wheatley, 6th floor, Room 51

617-287-6763

 

penner  

Louise Penner, Assistant Professor

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

 

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

 

rudnick  

Lois Rudnick, Professor

Wheatley, 5th floor, Room 60

617-287-6775

 

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

Ph.D., University of Michigan

20th century British fiction and poetry, specializing in modernism, the writing of Virginia Woolf, 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

 

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

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

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

 

   

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

English as a Second Language, Composition Theory & Practice, Methodology of Teaching ESL