We believe that learning to use the English language powerfully and precisely within a world of so many languages and cultures will give you the tools to become a critical and creative thinker, able to analyze and interpret individual literary texts, while making enlightened connections with other works and disciplines. Each of our classes will help you develop an informed awareness of traditions and cultural, historical, and literary variations and progressions.

Simultaneously, intensive writing practice will guide you towards clear and elegant expression as you acquire professional writing skills within the cultural sphere. We champion intellectual ambition, creativity, and imagination. We encourage you to pay close attention to the written word when analyzing historical, social, philosophical, and psychological processes, so that you can explore the capacity of language to inform reflection on human values and societal differences and mobilize your creative imagination.

Minors

Faculty

  • Kaylen Baker

    Junior Lecturer

  • Emma Bartel

    Junior Lecturer

  • Aurelien Bellucci

    Lecturer

  • Valentin Cartillier

    JUNIOR LECTURER

  • Alice Craven

    Professor

  • Olivia Custer

    Lecturer

  • Sian Dafydd

    Lecturer

  • Amanda Dennis

    Assistant Professor

  • Rashmi Dharia

    Junior Lecturer

  • William Dow

    Professor

  • Biswamit Dwibedy

    Assistant Professor

  • Liliane Ehrhart

    Junior Lecturer

  • Oliver Feltham

    Professor

  • Hannah Garner

    Junior Lecturer

  • Geoffrey Gilbert

    Professor, Director of the Teaching and Learning Center

  • Jeffrey Greene

    Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing

  • Daniel Gunn

    Distinguished Professor

  • Adrian Harding

    Assistant Professor

  • Brenton Hobart

    Associate Professor

  • Cary Hollinshead-strick

    Associate Professor, Department Chair

  • Rachel Kapelke-dale

    Lecturer

  • Elizabeth Kinne

    Associate Professor

  • Caitlyn Lesiuk

    JUNIOR LECTURER

  • Lauren Lydic

    Lecturer

  • Linda Martz

    Associate Professor

  • Daniel Medin

    Professor

  • Ann Mott

  • Richard Pevear

    Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature

  • Anne-Marie Picard

    Professor

  • Patrick Preston

    Lecturer

  • Rebekah Rast

    Professor

  • Roy Rosenstein

    Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature

  • Sneharika Roy

    Associate Professor, Writing Program Administrator

  • Margery Safir

  • Joanna Scutts

    Lecturer

  • Sei Shiomi

    Junior Lecturer

  • Nafkote Tamirat

  • David Tresilian

    Assistant Professor

  • Yulia Tsutserova

    Lecturer

  • Jula Wildberger

    Professor

  • Russell Williams

    Associate Professor, Director of the Learning Commons and Director of Faculty Development

  • Loren Wolfe

    Lecturer

Faculty Emeriti

Jeffrey Greene
Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing
BA, Goddard College
MFA, University of Iowa
PhD, University of Houston

Richard Pevear
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature
BA, Allegheny College
MA, University of Virginia

Roy Rosenstein
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
Licence, Paris V
BA, Columbia University
MA, Harvard University
Maîtrise, Paris IV
PhD, Columbia University 

Margery Safir
Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature
BA, Columbia University
MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale University

Celeste Schenck
President Emerita
Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature
BA in English, Princeton University
PhD in Comparative Literature, Brown University

Jula Wildberger
Professor Emerita of Classics and Comparative Literature
MA, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
PhD, Julius-Maximilians Universität, Würzburg
Habilitation, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main

FACULTY EMERITI, IN MEMORIAM

Charlotte Kessler †
Assistant Dean Emerita
BA, Illinois Wesleyan University
MA, Catholic University of America

Marc Pelen †
Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature
BA, MA, PhD, Princeton University