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

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

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; 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

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

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

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

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

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

Phone: (909) 607-3454

Kevin Moffett,

M.F.A.

Visiting Associate Professor of Literature

Blanford Parker, Ph.D.

Visiting Professor of Literature

Phone: (909) 607-7040

Corinna Vallianatos,

Visiting Lecturer of Literature

BA, University of Virginia; MFA, University of Arizon

Teaching:

Creative writing

Research:

Creative writing