Literature Faculty

Literature Faculty

Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of Literature

MFA, Columbia University, 1982; MA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1980; BA, College of William and Mary, 1978

Teaching:

Poetry

Phone: (909) 607-3820
Professor of Literature

B.A. Michigan State University, School of Arts and Sciences; M.A. Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences; Ph.D. Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences

Barton Evans and H. Andrea Neves Professor of Literature

A.B., Princeton University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University

Teaching:

American Literature, Science and Literature, Polish Literature, Contemporary Irish Poetry, The Bible, Rhetoric and Oratory, Milton

Phone: (909) 607-3005
Waldo W. Neikirk Professor of Literature

A.B., Brown University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

Teaching:

Twentieth-Century English and American Literature, Literary Theory, Renaissance and Modern Poetry, Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, French Literature

Research:

Modern Literature and Culture,Criticism and Critical Theory,Literature and Philosophy,Literature and Science,Psychoanalysis

Associate Dean of the Faculty for Curriculum; Associate Professor of Literature

BA, Washington University; MA, University of York, England; MA, PhD, Columbia University

Teaching:

Medieval literature and culture, Chaucer, Dante, gender studies, drama

Research:

Middle English literature and drama, medieval religious culture, travel narrative, urban studies, history of the book

Phone: (909) 621-8862
Assistant Professor of Literature

B.A. Literature, Yale University; M.S. Symbolic Systems and Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Stanford University.

Teaching:

Literature and Cognitive Science, Dramatic Theory, World Literature, Philosophy and Literature in Early Modern Europe, Global Anglophone Literature

Research:

Dramatic Theory and Poetics in Medieval Kashmir, Philosophy and Literature in Early Modern Europe, Literature and Neuroscience, Human-Centered AI

Associate Professor of Literature

B.A., Ph.D., Yale University

Teaching:

Shakespeare, Milton, Pastoral, Literature and Science, Literature and Politics

Research:

Milton, British Poetry and Prose 1500-1800, History of Science, History of Rhetoric, Comparative Epic, Literature and Philosophy, Literature and Linguistics

Phone: (909) 607-4221
Professor of Literature and Film

B.A., Wayne State University; M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo; Assistant/Associate Professor, North Carolina State University, 1990-2001.

Teaching:

Film Studies/Media Studies, Modernism/Postmodernism.

Research:

Film, Modernism/Postmodernism, Creative Writing.

Phone: (909) 607-9678
Associate Professor of Literature
Teaching:

20th century and contemporary African American literature and culture

Phone: 909-607-1658
Professor of Literature
A.B., UC Berkeley (1968); M.A., UCLA (1970); Ph.D., Stanford (1975)
Teaching: Poetry, Film, Literary Criticism, Composition
Research: Film Noir, Spy Films; Popular Love Songs; Lyric Poetry; African American Poetry; Poet-Critics
Phone: (909) 607-4045
Professor of Literature

B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Teaching:

18th & 19th-century British, American, and Russian Literature; Romanticism; Leadership in Literature and Film; Literary Theory

Research:

British and American Romanticism; 19th-Century Russian Literature; Leadership in Literature and Film

Phone: 909-607-3057

Visiting Faculty

Visiting Associate Professor of Literature

BA, Western Washington University; MA, Ph.D., University of Virginia

Teaching:

Writing, British Literature, Linguistics, Utopian/Dystopian Literature, Place Studies

Visiting Instructor of Literature

BA, Brown University; MFA, Iowa Writers' Workshop; PhD, UC Berkeley (Aug 2024)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature

B.A. Language Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

M.A. Applied Linguistics, California State University, Fullerton

Visiting Professor of Literature
Phone: (909) 607-7040
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature

BA, University of Virginia; MFA, University of Arizon

 
Teaching:

Creative writing

 
Research:

Creative writing

 
Visiting Instructor

I received my BA from Yale; a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford; a MA and (in 2024) a PhD from UC-Berkeley. 

Teaching:

Nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century North American poetry

Constructions of nature in the nineteenth century

Public-facing criticism

Research:

 Lyric and narrative time

Poetry and place