Literature Faculty

Henri Cole, Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of Literature MFA, Columbia University, 1982 BA, College of William and Mary, 1978
Email: henri.cole@cmc.edu
Phone: (909) 607-3820

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 CV
Email: leland.deladurantaye@cmc.edu

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
Email: robert.faggen@cmc.edu
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 CV
Email: jfarrell@cmc.edu

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
Email: slobis@cmc.edu
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; Associate Professor, North Carolina State University, 1990-2001. Teaching: Film Studies, Modernism/Postmodernism. Research: Film, Modernism/Postmodernism, Creative Writing. CV
Email: jmorrison@cmc.edu
Phone: (909) 607-9678

Ellen K. Rentz, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Literature; Co-Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies 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
Email: ellen.rentz@cmc.edu
Phone: (909) 621-8862

Derik Smith, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Literature Teaching: 20th century and contemporary African American literature and culture CV
Email: djsmith@cmc.edu
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 CV
Email: rvh@cmc.edu
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 CV
Email: nwarner@cmc.edu
Phone: 909-607-3057

Visiting Faculty

Christine Crockett, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature B.A. Claremont McKenna College; M.A. UC Riverside; Ph.D. UC Riverside Research: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Literature, The Gothic, Gender Studies, Medical Literature CV
Email: ccrockett@cmc.edu
Phone: (909) 607-3454