Literature Faculty
MFA, Columbia University, 1982; MA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1980; BA, College of William and Mary, 1978
Poetry
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
A.B., Princeton University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
American Literature, Science and Literature, Polish Literature, Contemporary Irish Poetry, The Bible, Rhetoric and Oratory, Milton
A.B., Brown University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Twentieth-Century English and American Literature, Literary Theory, Renaissance and Modern Poetry, Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, French Literature
Modern Literature and Culture,Criticism and Critical Theory,Literature and Philosophy,Literature and Science,Psychoanalysis
BA, Washington University; MA, University of York, England; MA, PhD, Columbia University
Medieval literature and culture, Chaucer, Dante, gender studies, drama
Middle English literature and drama, medieval religious culture, travel narrative, urban studies, history of the book
B.A. Literature, Yale University; M.S. Symbolic Systems and Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Stanford University.
Literature and Cognitive Science, Dramatic Theory, World Literature, Philosophy and Literature in Early Modern Europe, Global Anglophone Literature
Dramatic Theory and Poetics in Medieval Kashmir, Philosophy and Literature in Early Modern Europe, Literature and Neuroscience, Human-Centered AI
B.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Shakespeare, Milton, Pastoral, Literature and Science, Literature and Politics
Milton, British Poetry and Prose 1500-1800, History of Science, History of Rhetoric, Comparative Epic, Literature and Philosophy, Literature and Linguistics
B.A., Wayne State University; M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo; Assistant/Associate Professor, North Carolina State University, 1990-2001.
Film Studies/Media Studies, Modernism/Postmodernism.
Film, Modernism/Postmodernism, Creative Writing.
20th century and contemporary African American literature and culture
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
18th & 19th-century British, American, and Russian Literature; Romanticism; Leadership in Literature and Film; Literary Theory
British and American Romanticism; 19th-Century Russian Literature; Leadership in Literature and Film
Visiting Faculty
BA, Western Washington University; MA, Ph.D., University of Virginia
British Literature, Linguistics, Utopian/Dystopian Literature, Place Studies
B.A. Language Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
M.A. Applied Linguistics, California State University, Fullerton
BA, University of Virginia; MFA, University of Arizon
Creative writing
Creative writing
I received my BA from Yale; a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford; a MA and (in 2024) a PhD from UC-Berkeley.
Nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century North American poetry
Constructions of nature in the nineteenth century
Public-facing criticism
Lyric and narrative time
Poetry and place