Literature Faculty
Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of Literature
MFA, Columbia University, 1982
BA, College of William and Mary, 1978
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 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; 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 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
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 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
Phone: (909) 607-3454
Visiting Lecturer of Literature
BA, University of Virginia; MFA, University of Arizon
Teaching:
Creative writing
Research:
Creative writing