Department of English Faculty

Jonathan Alexander, Ph.D. Louisiana State University, UCI Chancellor's Fellow, Campus Writing Coordinator, and Professor of English and Education (writing studies, composition/rhetoric, new media studies, sexuality studies)

Elizabeth Allen, Ph.D. University of Michigan, Associate Professor of English (medieval literature and culture)

Stephen A. Barney, Ph.D. Harvard University, Professor Emeritus of English (medieval literature and culture, allegory)

Jami Bartlett, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Assistant Professor of English (narrative theory, the novel, literature and philosophy)

Carol Burke, Ph.D. University of Maryland, Professor of English (folklore, cultural studies, creative nonfiction)

Ellen S. Burt, Ph.D. Yale University, Professor of English and Comparative Literature (eighteenth-century French literature and nineteenth-century poetry)

James L. Calderwood, Ph.D. University of Washington, Professor Emeritus of English (drama, Shakespeare)

Ronald F. Carlson, M.A. University of Utah, Director of Fiction, Programs in Writing, and Professor of English and Creative Writing (fiction writing, the short story, twentieth-century American literature)

Jerome Christensen, Ph.D. Cornell University, Professor of English (British Romanticism, film studies)

Michael P. Clark, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, Vice Provost for Academic Planning and Professor of English (Colonial American literature, critical theory)

Miles Corwin, M.A. University of Missouri School of Journalism, Professor of English (immersion journalism, covering the criminal justice system and law enforcement, true crime, inner city education, affirmative action)

Rebecca Davis, Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, Assistant Professor of English (Old and Middle English literature, Piers Plowman, medieval religious culture, women's writing, medieval philosophy, representations of nature and animals in literature)

Robert Folkenflik, Ph.D. Cornell University, Edward A. Dickson Professor Emeritus of English (eighteenth-century, novel, biography, and autobiography)

Linda Georgianna, Ph.D. Columbia University, Professor Emerita of English (medieval literature and culture)

Richard Godden, Ph.D. University of Kent, Professor of English (twentieth-century American literature, literature of the American South, the relation between economic and literary forms)

Daniel M. Gross, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Director of Composition and Associate Professor of English (history and theory of rhetoric, early modern literature and culture, Heidegger and rhetoric)

Martin Harries, Ph.D. Yale University, Professor of English (modern drama, critical theory, Shakespeare)

Erika Hayasaki, B.A. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Assistant Professor of English (literary journalism, narrative nonfiction, immersion journalism, youth culture, crime, poverty, education, urban affairs, death)

Rebeca Helfer, Ph.D. Columbia University, Associate Professor of English (early modern literature and culture, Spenser, rhetoric)

Andrea K. Henderson, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Professor of English (romantic literature, poetics)

John Hollowell, Ph.D. University of Michigan, Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment Emeritus (rhetorical theory, teaching of composition, American literature)

Virginia Jackson, Ph.D. Princeton University, Associate Professor of English and Chair in Rhetoric and Communication (poetics, nineteenth- and twentieth-century American poetry, rhetoric)

Laura H.Y. Kang, Ph.D. University California, Santa Cruz, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Comparative Literature, and English (feminist epistemologies and theories, cultural studies, ethnic studies)

Ketu H. Katrak, Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College, Professor of Drama, Comparative Literature, and English (Asian American literature, postcolonial literature)

Arlene R. Keizer, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Associate Professor of English (African American and Caribbean literature and culture, critical race and ethnic studies, feminist theory)

Michelle Latiolais, M.F.A. University of California, Irvine, Professor of English and Creative Writing (creative writing, fiction)

Rodrigo Lazo, Ph.D. University of Maryland, Associate Professor of English (Latino studies, American ethnic and minority literature, Cuba and Cuban American studies)

James Kyung-Jin Lee, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Director of the Graduate Program in Culture and Theory, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, and Associate Professor of English (Asian American literature, urban studies, modern social movements, U.S. political economy)

Jayne E. Lewis, Ph.D. Princeton University, Professor of English (Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature)

Julia Reinhard Lupton, Ph.D. Yale University, Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Education (Renaissance literature, literature and psychology)

Juliet Flower MacCannell, Ph.D. Cornell University, Professor Emerita of English (eighteenth-century French literature, modern semiotics, comparative literature)

Steven Mailloux, Ph.D. University of Southern California, Professor Emeritus of English (rhetoric, critical theory, American literature, law and literature)

James McMichael, Ph.D. Stanford University, Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing (contemporary poetry, poetry writing, prosody, Joyce)

Jack Miles, Ph.D. Harvard University, UCI Distinguished Professor of English (Biblical studies; religion and literature; religion and science; religion and international relations, especially in the Middle East)

J. Hillis Miller, Ph.D. Harvard University, UCI Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature (Victorian literature, critical theory)

Robert L. Montgomery, Ph.D. Harvard University, Professor Emeritus of English (Renaissance literature, critical theory, comparative literature)

Jane O. Newman, Ph.D. Princeton University, Professor of Comparative Literature and English (sixteenth- and seventeenth-century German literature, contemporary theory and criticism, feminism)

Robert Newsom, Ph.D. Columbia University, Professor Emeritus of English (Victorian literature, theory of fictions)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, UCI Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature (African and Caribbean literatures, theater and film, performance studies, cultural and political theory)

Margot Norris, Ph.D. State University of New York, Buffalo, UCI Chancellor's Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature (modern Irish, British, American and continental modernism; literature and war)

Laura O'Connor, Ph.D. Columbia University, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature (British and American modernism, Irish literary studies, postcolonial theory, poetics)

Robert L. Peters, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Professor Emeritus of English (Victorian literature, contemporary poetry)

R. Radhakrishnan, Ph.D. State University of New York, Binghamton, UCI Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature (postcolonial literature and theory, critical theory, poststructuralism, democracy and minority discourse, nationalisms and diasporas, globalization, feminisms, transnationalism: race, gender, ethnicity)

Barbara L. Reed, Ph.D. Indiana University, Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment Emerita, English (American literature, children's literature)

Hugh Roberts, Ph.D. McGill University, Associate Professor of English (Romantic literature, eighteenth-century literature, Victorian poetry, literary theory, New Zealand literature)

Michael Ryan, Ph.D. University of Iowa, Director of Poetry, Programs in Writing, and Professor of English and Creative Writing (American literature, creative writing, poetry, poetics)

Edgar T. Schell, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Professor Emeritus of English (medieval and Renaissance literature)

Gabrielle Schwab, Ph.D. University of Konstanz, UCI Chancellor's Professor of Comparative Literature and English (modern literature, critical theory, psychoanalysis)

Barry Siegel, M.S. Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Director of Literary Journalism and Professor of English (literary journalism and creative nonfiction)

Victoria Silver, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Director of the Summer M.A. Program and Associate Professor of English (early modern literature, history and theory of rhetoric, philosophy and literature, religious studies)

James Steintrager, Ph.D. Columbia University, Department Chair of English and Professor of English and Comparative Literature (comparative literature, eighteenth-century French, German, and English literature and aesthetics)

Michael Szalay, Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University, Professor of English (twentieth-century American literature, film and media studies, corporate culture)

Brook Thomas, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, UCI Chancellor's Professor of English (American literature, literature and law)

Harold Toliver, Ph.D. University of Washington, Professor Emeritus of English (Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature, theory of genre)

Irene Tucker, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Associate Professor of English (Victorian literature, history and theory of the novel, history of medicine and technology, Hebrew literature, literature and philosophy)

Ann J. Van Sant, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Associate Professor of English (seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature, eighteenth-century novel, women and fiction, satire)

Andrzej Warminski, Ph.D. Yale University, Professor of English (Romanticism, critical theory)

Henry Weinstein, J.D. University of California, Berkeley, Senior Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment, Law and English (media law, literary journalism)

Amy Wilentz, B.A. Harvard College, Professor of English (literary journalism, creative nonfiction, developing nations' journalism, opinion writing)

Geoffrey Wolff, Novelist and Biographer, Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing (creative writing, fiction, biography)