Department of English

Faculty Listings

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, XYZ
faith adiele Faith Adiele

Assistant Professor | 2 MFAs University of Iowa

Interests: Creative nonfiction writing, especially travel writing, documentary writing and film, cultural memoir, socially-engaged essay, Africana/ diaspora studies.

adiele@pitt.edu | Publications | Vita

Mark Anderson

Mark L. Anderson
Assistant Professor | PhD
Interests: Film Studies

andersml@pitt.edu |

 

Susan Z. Andrade
Associate Professor | PhD University of Michigan

Interests: African and Caribbean literature and culture in English and French, feminist and colonial/postcolonial theory, European travel narratives

sza@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

Jonathan Arac
Andrew W. Mellon Professor

Interests: US literature and culture since 1820; British literature and culture 1740-1940; literary criticism and theory; the novel.

arac119@comcast.net | Publications

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Dave Bartholomae

David Bartholomae
Department Chair, Professor | PhD Rutgers University

Interests: Composition theory and pedagogy

barth@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications | Vita

 

Brenda Berrian
Professor (joint appointment with Africana Studies) | PhD Université de Paris—III Nouvelle Sorbonne

Interests: Contemporary African American and Caribbean women writers

bberrian@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

Don Bialostosky

Don Bialostosky
Professor | PhD University of Chicago

Interests: British Romantic literature, rhetorical theory, Bakhtin, composition studies


dhb2@pitt.edu
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Ellen Bishop
Lecturer (Film)

ebishop@pitt.edu |

 

Troy Boone
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies | PhD University of Rochester

Interests: Children’s literature, popular culture, culture of imperialism, 18th- and 19th-century British literature

boone@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

Paul Bove

Paul A. Bové
Distinguished Professor | PhD SUNY at Binghamton

Interests: Globalization, intellectuals, “emergence,” modern American literature, Henry Adams

bove@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

 

Curtis Breight

Curtis Breight
Associate Professor | PhD Yale University

Interests: Renaissance culture, Shakespeare, film

breight@pitt.edu | Publications

 

David Brumble

H. David Brumble
Professor | PhD University of Nebraska

Interests: Late Medieval and Renaissance literature, the Bible as literature

brumble@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

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Jean Carr

Jean Ferguson Carr
Associate Professor | PhD Univ. of Michigan

Interests: Composition, women’s studies, 19th-century American constructions of literacy and letters

jcarr@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

 

Steve Carr

Stephen L. Carr
Associate Professor | PhD University of Michigan

Interests: William Blake, printmaking, interrelations of the arts

scarr@pitt.edu
| Courses/Syllabi | Publications

 

Fiona Cheong

Fiona Cheong
Associate Professor | MFA Cornell University

Interests: U.S. ethnic literatures, Asian American fiction, creative writing pedagogies, women’s studies

cheong@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

 

Eric Clarke

Eric O. Clarke
Associate Professor | PhD Brown University

Interests: 19th-century British literature, queer theory, social theory, human rights

eclarke@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publication

 

Nick Coles

Nicholas Coles
Associate Professor | PhD SUNY at Buffalo

Interests: Working class literature, the politics of literacy, 19th-century British culture

coles@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

Ron Curran

Ronald T. Curran
Associate Professor | PhD University of Pennsylvania

Interests: American literature, mythology, Jungian analytical psychology

rtcurran@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

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Cathy Day

Cathy Day
Assistant Professor (Writing) | BA from DePauw University | MFA from the University of Alabama.

Interests: Fiction and Contemporary Literature.

cld37@pitt.edu | cathyday.com

Toi Derricotte

Toi Derricotte
Professor | MFA New York University

Interests: Poetry

toiderri@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

Bruce Dobler

Bruce Dobler
Associate Professor | MFA University of Iowa

Interests: Creative nonfiction, fiction

bdobler@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

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Lynn Emanuel
Professor | MFA University of Iowa

Interests: Poetry

emanuel@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

 

Jessica Enoch
Assistant Professor | PhD Penn State University

jee34@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

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Jane Feuer

Jane Feuer
Professor | PhD University of Iowa

Interests: Film, popular culture, television, cultural studies

scorpio@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

Lucy Fischer

Lucy Fischer
Distinguished Professor | Director, Film Studies Program. PhD New York University

Interests: Hollywood film, feminist film theory

lfischer@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

Kathryn Flannery

Kathryn Flannery
Professor | PhD University of Pittsburgh

Interests: Literacy studies, early modern British cultural studies, women’s studies

flannery@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publication

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Nancy Glazener

Nancy Glazener
Associate Professor | PhD Stanford University

Interests: 19th- and 20th-century U. S. literature

glazener@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

 

Margaret Goscilio
Lecturer |

bgoscilo@pitt.edu |

 

Jean Grace
Lecturer, Associate Director of the Writing Center (Composition)

jgrace@pitt.edu | [faculty biography]

Marah Gubar

Marah Gubar
Director of Children's Literature Program | Assistant Professor | PhD Princeton University

Interests: British and American children’s literature, Victorian literature, 19th- and 20th-century drama

mjg4@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Vita

Lee Gutkind

Lee Gutkind
Professor | BA University of Pittsburgh

Interests: Creative nonfiction

lgu@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

 

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Michael Helfand

Michael Helfand
Associate Professor | PhD University of Iowa

Interests: Anglophone literature written after 1800, reader response and reception theory

msh@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Vita

 

Hannah Johnson
Assistant Professor | Princeton University

hrj4@pitt.edu
| Courses/Syllabi | Publications

R.A.T. Judy

Ronald Judy
Professor | PhD University of Minnesota

Interests: Literary and cultural theory, globalization, Immanuel Kant, Ibn Khaldun, post-structuralist theory, postcolonial theory, Islam

buchnfar@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

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Paul Kameen

Paul Kameen
Associate Professor | PhD State University of New York-Albany

Interests: Pedagogy and composition theory, Greek rhetoric, contemporary poetics

pkameen@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications | Vita

Mark Kemp

Mark Kemp
Lecturer (Literature)

[faculty biography]
mkemp@pitt.edu

Chuck Kinder

Chuck Kinder

Professor | Director of the Writing Program | MA University of West Virginia

Interests: Fiction

chuckkinder@aol.com | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

 

Geeta Kothari

Writing Center Director, Lecturer
(Composition, Writing)

mano@pitt.edu

James Knapp

James F. Knapp
Professor | PhD University of Connecticut

Interests: Literary and cultural history, Anglo-Irish literature, modernism in literature and the visual arts, the Arts and Crafts Movements in the United States and Ireland

knapp@fcas.pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

 

Carl Kurlander

Lecturer |

ckpa@pitt.edu

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Marcia Landy

Marcia Landy
Distinguished University Service Professor | PhD University of Rochester

Interests: Film genres, national cinema, film and politics, Italian cinema, Gramsci

mlandy@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

 

Jeanne Marie Laskas
Assistant Professor | MFA University of Pittsburgh

Interests: Creative nonfiction

laskas@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

Kimberely Latta

Kimberly Latta

Assistant Professor | PhD Rutgers University.

Interests: Late 17th- and early 18th-century literature.

ksl1@pitt.edu | Publications

Jennifer Lee

Jennifer Lee

Lecturer | Associate Director of Composition (Composition, Writing)

Interests: Creative Nonfiction, especially hybrid and experimental forms; writing pedagogy.

starla@pitt.edu

Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner
Assistant Professor |
Poetry, Writing
Interests: Creative writing and literature.

Adam Lowenstein

Adam Lowenstein

Associate Professor | PhD University of Chicago

Interests: Horror films, relays between genre films and art films, national cinemas, spectatorship, surrealism, new media, trauma studies

alowen@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

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Colin McCabe

Colin MacCabe

Distinguished University Professor | PhD Cambridge University

Interests: 17th-century literature, 20th-century literature and media, history of English since 1500, psychoanalysis, Joyce, linguistics

maccabe@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

Neepa Majumdar

Neepa Majumdar

Assistant Professor | PhD Indiana University

Interests: Indian cinema; sound in cinema; tourism, ethnography, and cinema; stardom and the history of fame; third cinema and postcolonial issues in film studies

nmajumda@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

 

Dawn Lundy Martin

Assistant Professor |
Poetry, Writng
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Elizabeth Matway

Lecturer | Director, Writing Across the Curriculum
ebm12@pitt.edu

 

Daniel Morgan
Assistant Professor |
Film
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Beth Newborg
Lecturer |


bateman@pitt.edu

Marianne Novy

Marianne Novy

Professor | PhD Yale University

Interests: Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, women’s studies, feminist literary criticism, literary representations of adoption

mnovy@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

Jeff Oaks

Jeff Oaks
Lecturer in Poetry | Managing Director, Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series (Writing)

oaks@pitt.edu
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Linda Orbach

Linda Orbach
Lecturer / English Advisor
(Composition)

lbo1@pitt.edu | [faculty biography]

 

Tony Petrosky
Professor | Joint appointment with Education (Composition, Literature)

tpetrosk@pitt.edu | [faculty biography

Fiore Pugliano

Fiore Pugliano

Lecturer / English Advisor (Composition, Literature)


fiore@pitt.edu | [faculty biography] |

 

Shalini Puri
Associate Professor | PhD Cornell University

Interests: Colonial and postcolonial literatures and cultures, Caribbean literature

spuri@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

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Christopher Rawson

Christopher Rawson
Lecturer in English (Literature)

cchr@pitt.edu
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Kellie Robertson

Kellie Robertson
Assistant Professor | PhD Yale University

Interests: Language and literacy in medieval and early modern Europe, Marxist theory

krobert@pitt.edu
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Ann Ronchetti
English Department Bibliographer

ronchett@pitt.edu
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Mariolina Salvatori
Associate Professor | PhD University of Pittsburgh

Interests: Hermeneutics, composition, literacy, pedagogy, transactions of knowledge, the relations between teachers, students, and texts that different theories of reading make possible

marsa@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications | Vita

William Scott
Assistant Professor | PhD Johns Hopkins

Interests: 20th-century American and African-American literature, critical theory, corporeality and performance

wdscott@pitt.edu
| Courses/Syllabi | Publications

James Seitz
Associate Professor | PhD New York University

Interests: Composition, literature, literacy, and education

seitz@pitt.edu
| Courses/Syllabi | Publications

Cindy Skrzycki
Senior Lecturer
(Journalism)

skrzycki@pitt.edu | faculty biography

Philip Smith

Philip E. Smith
Associate Professor | PhD Northwestern University

Interests: 19th- and 20th-century literary and culture studies involving Oscar Wilde, literature and science, science fiction, drama, the institution of English teaching

psmith@pitt.edu
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Susan Harris Smith
Professor | PhD Northwestern University

Interests: Dramatic literature and American studies

shs1@pitt.edu
| Courses/Syllabi | Publications

John Twyning
Associate Professor, Director Literature Program | D.Phil, University of East Anglia

Interests: literary connections to architecture, landscape, and art; development of English literature within an Anglo-European context; history of English theatre; and the culture of early modern London.

twyning@gmail.com | Courses/Syllabi | Publications

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Jennifer Waldron
Assistant Professor (Literature)
BA, Oberlin College, MA, New York University, PhD, Princeton University

Interests: ritual and performance theory, religious polemic, word/image problems, and histories of gender and the body.

jwaldron@pitt.edu

Courtney Weikle-Mills
Assistant Professor |
(Children's Literature, Literature)

Specializing in early American children’s literature and culture. She teaches courses on children’s literature and culture from a variety of periods, as well as eighteenth and nineteenth-century American literature.

cweikle@yahoo.com |

Michael West
Professor | PhD Harvard University

Interests: the Classical tradition, Renaissance culture, Christian heroism, mock-heroic, satire, and comic forms, stylistics, rhetoric, and linguistically oriented criticism, pedagogy, the short story, the American Renaissance, Irish literature, with expertise on Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Thoreau, and Joyce
mikewest@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications | Vita

 

Stefan Wheelock
Assistant Professor | PhD Brown University

Interests: 18th-century political philosophy, 18th-century black writing on slavery, Anglophone long 18th-century literature and culture, Marxist critical theory, hermeneutics, existential phenomenology, Africana philosophy.

wheelock@pitt.edu
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Lois Williams
Lecturer in English (Composition, Writing)

lmwst35@pitt.edu | [faculty biography]

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Phil Wion
Associate Professor | PhD Yale University

Interests: Psychoanalytic criticism, especially of Shakespeare

pwion@pitt.edu | Courses/Syllabi | Publications | Vita

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