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Literature Faculty

Henri Cole,
Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of Literature

MFA, Columbia University, 1982 BA, College of William and Mary, 1978

Phone: (909) 607-3820
Website: http://henricole.com/index.html
Leland de la Durantaye,

Ph.D.

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

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Website: https://www.cmc.edu/academic/faculty/profile/leland-de-la-durantaye
Robert Faggen,

Ph.D.

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
John Farrell,

Ph.D.

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

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Website: http://www.johnfarrellonline.com
Seth Lobis,

Ph.D.

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
James Morrison,

Ph.D.

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.

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Phone: (909) 607-9678
Website: http://www.jamesmorrisonbooks.com
Ellen Rentz,

Ph.D.

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

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Phone: (909) 621-8862
Thomas Schur, Ph.D.
Lecturer of Literature
Teaching:

Film studies and video production

Phone: (909) 607-9150
Derik Smith,

Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Literature
Teaching:

20th century and contemporary African American literature and culture

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Phone: 909-607-1658
Robert von Hallberg, Ph.D.
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
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Phone: (909) 607-4045
Nicholas Warner,

Ph.D.

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

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Phone: 909-607-3057

Visiting Faculty

Rickey Fayne,

M.F.A.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature

MA, Northwestern University; MFA, Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin

Teaching:

African American Literature, American Literature, Creative Writing

Research:

African American Literature, Creative Writing

Kevin Moffett,

M.F.A.

Visiting Associate Professor of Literature
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Blanford Parker, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor of Literature
Phone: (909) 607-7040
Corinna Vallianatos,

 

 

 
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature

BA, University of Virginia; MFA, University of Arizon

 
Teaching:

Creative writing

 
Research:

Creative writing