English, General Literature and Rhetoric Faculty

Amir Ahmadi, Assistant Professor

MFA, New York University; PhD, University of Queensland

Specialty: Creative writing; comparative literature

Mary Grace Albanese, Associate Professor

MA, Columbia University in the City of New York

 

Maria Isabel Alvarez, Lecturer

MFA, Arizona State University

 

David Bartine, Associate Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of California at Berkeley

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1987-1988

Martin P. Bidney, Professor Emeritus

PhD, Indiana University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1979-1980

Tina Chin-Chu Chang, Associate Professor

MFA, Columbia University

Affiliated: Creative Writing Program, Center for Writers (CW)

Joseph E. Church, Associate Professor

BA, MA, PhD, University of California at Irvine

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2007-2008

Specialty: 19th century American literature; literature and psychology

Michael J. Conlon, Associate Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Florida

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1978-1979

Marilynn R. Desmond, SUNY Distinguished Professor

BA, Sonoma State University; MA, University of Oregon; PhD, University of California at Berkeley

University Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring, 2002-2003

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS)

Specialty: Medieval literature; classics and medieval narrative; Chaucer; feminist theory/ queer theory; manuscript studies; francophone middle ages

Mario A. Di Cesare, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus

PhD, Columbia University

 

Lois J. Einhorn, Professor

BA, MA, Pennsylvania State University; PhD, Indiana University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1982-1983

Specialty: Rhetorical theory and criticism; organizational communication

Rosalind J. Gabin, Associate Professor Emerita

PhD, University of California at Berkeley

Chancellor's and University Awards for Excellence in Teaching 1984-1985

Pamela J. Gay, Associate Professor Emerita

PhD, New York University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997-1998

Maria M. Gillan, Professor Emerita

MA, New York University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2007-2008

Thomas Glave, Professor

BA, Bowdoin College; MFA, Brown University

Affiliated: Creative Writing Program, Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (LACAS); Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specialty: Creative writing: fiction, Caribbean and African American literature, queer/ LGBT literature

Praseeda Gopinath, Associate Professor

MA, University of Delhi; PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Affiliated: Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specialty: Post-war British literature, twentieth century British literature, postcolonial studies, Anglophone literature, gender and sexuality studies, radio/sound studies, Northern Ireland studies

Warren Harding, Assistant Professor

BA, Oberlin College; AM, PhD, Brown University

Specialty: Comparative Carribean studies; Carribean women's writing; comparative Black feminist literary criticism; and migration and diaspora studies

John O. Havard, Professor

BA, MA, PhD, University of Chicago

Affiliated: Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Specialty: Eighteenth-Century British literature; Romanticism; Transatlantic studies; literature and politics; Critical Theory

Elizabeth K. Hewitt, Associate Professor Emerita

PhD, University at Buffalo (SUNY)

 

Leslie L. Heywood, Professor

BA, MFA, University of Arizona; MA, PhD, University of California at Irvine

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2008-2009; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1996-1997

Affiliated: Center for Writers (CW); Creative Writing Program; Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS)

Specialty: Sports studies; 20th-century literature; feminist and critical theory; creative writing

Olivia Holmes, Professor

BA, Yale University; MFA, University of Iowa; PhD, Northwestern University

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS)

Specialty: Medieval studies; rhetorical discourse; Italian literature; troubadours; authorship

Katie Kadue, Assistant Professor

BA, Yale University; PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Specialty: 16th and 17th century English and French literature

Joseph A. Keith, Associate Professor

BA, Hampshire College; MA, Johns Hopkins University; PhD, Columbia University

Specialty: Modern U.S. and British literature; culture of U.S. imperialism

John M. Kuhn, Assistant Professor

BA, University of Kansas; MPhil, PhD, Columbia University

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS)

Joseph Leeson-Schatz, Lecturer

BA, MA, PhD, 黑料视频 (SUNY)

Affiliated: Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS), 

Meisha Lohmann, Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, 黑料视频 (SUNY)

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS)

Claire Luchette, Assistant Professor

AB, Brown University; MFA, University of Oregon

Specialty: Creative writing; fiction

Richard L. McLain, Associate Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of California at Berkeley

 

Monika Mehta, Associate Professor

BA, Saint Olaf College; MA, PhD, University of Minnesota

Affiliated: Institute for Asia and Asian Diasporas (IAAD); Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specialty: Globalization; diaspora and cultural production; postcolonial literature; new media & film studies; theories of nation-state; contemporary Critical Theory; feminist and sexuality studies

Robert Micklus, Associate Professor

BA, Ursinus College; MA, University of Connecticut; PhD, University of Delaware

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1985-1986

Specialty: Early American literature; southern fiction; American humor

Jean-Pierre Mileur, Professor

BA, University of California at Berkeley; MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale University

 

Alexandra Moore, Professor

BA, Brown University; MPA, Maxwell School; MA, PhD, University of Rochester

Affiliated: Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls, Human Rights Institute (HRI); Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA); Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Mihir K. Parekh, Associate Professor

BA, The Ohio State University; MA, PhD, University of California at Santa Cruz

 

Birgit Rasmussen, Associate Professor

MA, PhD, University of California at Berkeley

Affiliated: Human Rights Institute (HRI), Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP); Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Jessie Reeder, Associate Professor

PhD, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Affiliated: Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls; Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (LACAS)

Phillip E. Rogers, Associate Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Illinois

Chancellor鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1972-1973

Liz Rosenberg, Professor

BA, Bennington College; MA, Johns Hopkins University; PhD, 黑料视频 (SUNY)

University Award in Excellence in Teaching, 1983-1984

Affiliated: Center for Writers (CW); Creative Writing Program

Specialty: Creative writing

Michael Sharp, Lecturer

BA, Ponoma College; MA, PhD, University of Michigan

Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005-2006

Specialty: Medieval literature

Jennifer L. Stoever, Associate Professor

BA, University of California at Riverside; MA, PhD, University of Southern California

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2013-2014

Affiliated: Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls

Susan Strehle, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor

BA, Stanford University; MA, PhD, University of California at Berkeley

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2004-2005; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1977-1978

Affiliated: Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specialty: American literature; contemporary fiction; women writers

Paul E. Szarmach, Professor Emeritus

PhD, Harvard University

 

Barry D. Targan, Professor Emeritus

PhD, Brandeis University

 

Albert H. Tricomi, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus

PhD, Northwestern University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1973-1974

Elizabeth T. Tricomi, Lecturer Emerita

PhD, Northwestern University

Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001-2002

Elizabeth Tucker, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor

BA, Mount Holyoke College; MA, University at Buffalo (SUNY); PhD, Indiana University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2008-2009; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1992-1993

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS); Center for Writers (CW); Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Specialty: Folklore; children's studies; fantasy

Ryan Vaughan, Lecturer

PhD, 黑料视频 (SUNY)

John E. Vernon, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of California at Davis

University Award for Excellence in Research, 1993-1994

Alvin P. Vos, Associate Professor Emeritus

PhD, University of Chicago

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2006-2007; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1974-1975

Grant Webster, Professor Emeritus

PhD, The Ohio State University

Joseph Weil, Associate Professor

BA, SUNY Empire State College

Affiliated: Center for Writers (CW); Creative Writing Program; Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS)

Bridget Whearty, Assistant Professor

BA, University of Montana; PhD, Stanford University

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS); Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH)

Gayle E. Whittier, Associate Professor Emerita

BA, University at Buffalo (SUNY); PhD, Cornell University

Affiliated: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS)

Specialty: Creative writing; Shakespeare; selected aspects of modern literature

Robert Wilson, Adjunct Lecturer

PhD, 黑料视频 (SUNY)

Jaimee Wriston Colbert, SUNY Distinguished Professor

BA, University of Washington; MA, Brown University

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2018-2019; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2012-2013

Affiliated: Center for Writers (CW); Creative Writing Program

Specialty: Creative writing; contemporary literature

Lisa T. Yun, Associate Professor

BA, Yale University; MA, University of Houston; PhD, University of Texas at Dallas

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2006-2007

Affiliated: Human Rights Institute (HRI); Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program (LACAS); Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)

Specialty: Asian American literature; Asian Diasporic studies; comparative ethnic studies

Alexi Zentner, Associate Professor

BA, Grinnel College; MFA, Cornell University

Affiliated: Center for Writers (CW), Creative Writing Program

Specialty: Creative writing; contemporary fiction