Faculty Directory

Following is an alphabetical list of English Department Professors, Senior Lecturers, Emeriti, Visiting Faculty, and a number of faculty from other departments who regularly teach courses cross-listed in English.

A list of the Graduate Faculty, members of the university faculty who may represent specific fields on English graduate student committees, may be accessed on the English Graduate Faculty Page.

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Abrams, Meyer H. Ph.D., Harvard University: Class of 1916 Professor of English Emeritus; Address: 234 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-3428; E-mail: mha5@cornell.edu
Adams, Barry B. Ph.D., University of North Carolina: Professor Emeritus; Address: 159 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-4138; E-mail: bba1@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: English drama of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; non-dramatic literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; history of the English language.
CV Adams, James Eli Ph.D., Cornell University: Associate Professor; Address: 294 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-4895; E-mail: jea29@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Nineteenth-century British literature and culture; interdisciplinary study of Victorian Britain; gender and sexuality; non-fictional prose.
CV Attell, Kevin Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley: Assistant Professor; Address: 250 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-6800; E-mail: kda24@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Twentieth-century American and British literature; literary and critical theory; postcolonial studies; history and theory of the novel; film studies.

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Biers, Katherine Ph.D., Cornell University: Postdoctoral Fellow; Address: 337 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-2648; E-mail: klb5@cornell.edu
Bishop, Jonathan P. Ph.D., Harvard University: Professor Emeritus; Address: 234 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 254-8363
Blackall, Jean F. Ph.D., Harvard University: Professor Emerita; E-mail: jfbinva@aol.com
CV Bogel, Fredric V. Ph.D., Yale University: Professor; Address: 269 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-7454; E-mail: fvb1@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Eighteenth-century English literature; satire; English and American poetry; critical theory; rhetoric and writing.
CV Bogel, Lynda D. M. Phil, Yale University: Senior Lecturer; Address: 273 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-9308; E-mail: ldb4@cornell.edu
CV Braddock, Jeremy Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania: Assistant Professor; Address: 250 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-6800; E-mail: jb358@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Twentieth-century American literature and culture; transatlantic modernism; African American literature; visual studies; cinema; collaboration and authorship; forms of documentary recording and representation.
CV Brady, Mary Pat, Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles: Associate Professor; Address: 286 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-7566; E-mail: mpb23@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: U.S. Latino and Latina literatures and cultures; cultural studies; American multi-ethnic literatures.
CV Brown, Laura, Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley: John Wendell Anderson Professor of English; Address: 339 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-5180; E-mail: lsb7@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature, especially matters of generic history, ideology, and form; feminist criticism; Marxist criticism, cultural critique.

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Caputi, Anthony F. Ph.D., Cornell University: Professor Emeritus (English/Comparative Literature); December 22, 1924 - February 6, 2008
CV | WEB Carlacio, Jami, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee: Lecturer; Address: 173 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-7446; E-mail: jlc225@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: nineteenth-century Anglo- and African American women's rhetorics--specifically abolition and women's rights; African American women's autobiography; the fiction of Toni Morrison; and twentieth-century American literature.
CV Chase, Cynthia Ph.D., Yale University: Professor; Address: 291 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-1036; E-mail: cc97@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Romanticism, theory, psychoanalysis; romantic and modern poetry; women's literature; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel.
CV Cheyfitz, Eric Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University: Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters; Address: 157 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-3546; E-mail: etc7@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: American literatures; federal Indian law.
CV Correll, Barbara Ph.D., University of Wisconsin: Associate Professor; Address: 325 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-7411; E-mail: bc21@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Renaissance cultural texts; gender, post-structualist theory; film; cultural studies; lesbian, bisexual, and gay literary studies.
CV Culler, Jonathan D. D. of Phil., Oxford University (England): Class of 1916 Professor of English (English/Comparative Literature); Address: 232 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-9315; E-mail: jdc9@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Literary theory and history of modern literary criticism; English poetry since 1600; nineteenth-and twentieth-century French literature.

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CV | WEB Davis, Stuart A. M. Phil, Yale University: Senior Lecturer; Address: G39 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-6281; E-mail: sad4@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Shakespeare and receptions of Shakespeare, narrative theory, the literature of philosophy, news media, teaching with technology.
CV | WEB DeLoughrey, Elizabeth Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park: Associate Professor; Address: 265 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-6800; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Literatures of the Caribbean and Pacific; feminist theory and women's writing; post-colonial literature and theory.
CV Donaldson, Laura E. Ph.D., Emory University: Professor; Address: 145 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-9312; E-mail: ld49@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: American Indian literature and culture; American Indian women; postcolonial studies; gender, race and law; religion and literature.

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Eddy, Donald D. Ph.D., University of Chicago: Professor of Bibliography and English, Emeritus; Phone: (607) 255-6800; E-mail: dde2@cornell.edu
Elias, Robert Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania: Goldwin Smith Professor of English Literature and American Studies, Emeritus

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CV Fakundiny, Lydia B. Phil., B. Litt., St. Anne’s Coll., Oxford: Address: 269 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-7454; E-mail: lef5@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Creative nonfiction, particularly essay and autobiography; prose style; literary collaboration; teaching; Old English heroic poetry.
Farred, Grant Ph.D., Princeton University: Professor, Africana Studies and English; Address: 108 Triphammer; Phone: (607) 254-4714; E-mail: gaf38@cornell.edu
Faulkner, David Ph.D., Princeton University: Senior Lecturer, Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines and English; Address: 101 McGraw; Phone: (607) 255-4061; E-mail: df259@cornell.edu
CV Francois, Anne-Lise Ph.D., Princeton University: Associate Professor; Address: 167 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-8528; E-mail: af228@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Romanticism and modernity; romantic and modern poetry; the psychological novel and novel of manners; aesthetic and critical theory; ecocritcism.
CV Fried, Debra Ph.D., Yale University: Associate Professor; Address: 243 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-6804; E-mail: df18@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American poetry; history of the lyric; linguistic approaches to poetry; poetic form, prosody and interpretation; linguistic approaches to the novel; American film.
CV | WEB Fulton, Alice M.F.A., Cornell University: Ann S. Bowers Professor of English; Address: 239 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-9307; E-mail: af89@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: The reading and writing of poetry; short fiction; critical writing; postmodernism; 20th century American poetry; feminist theory; Emily Dickinson; poetics and science.

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Gainor, J. Ellen Ph.D., Princeton University: Professor (Theatre, Film & Dance); Address: 350 Caldwell Hall; Phone: (607) 255-7374; E-mail: jeg11@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: British and American Drama; feminist theatre criticism; women playwrights; dramaturgy; arts management.
CV Galloway, Andrew Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley: Professor; Address: 63 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-2325; E-mail: asg6@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Old and Middle English (at present especially Chaucer, Langland, Gower); medieval history writing; intellectual communities and the sociology of knowledge; visions of women and women's writings; paleography and codicology.
CV Gilbert, Roger S. Ph.D., Yale University: Professor; Address: 233 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-7094; E-mail: rsg2@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Twentieth-century American poetry; British and American romantic poetry; American literature; Shakespeare; Milton; literary evaluation.
CV Gottschalk, Katherine Ph.D., University of Chicago: Walter C. Teagle Dir. of Freshman Writing Seminars; Senior Lecturer; Address: 101 McGraw Hall; Phone: (607) 255-4061; E-mail: kkg1@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: writing across the curriculum; composition pedagogy; writing program administration; memoir; creative non-fiction.

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CV Hanson, Ellis Ph.D., Princeton University: Professor; Address: 171 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-7111; E-mail: eh36@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Victorian literature; decadence and aestheticism; lesbian and gay studies; psychoanalysis; and film.
CV | WEB Herrin, Lamar Ph.D., University of Cincinnati: Professor Emeritus; Address: 263 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-9311; E-mail: wlh4@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Twentieth-century Southern fiction; contemporary American fiction; story and novel writing.
CV Hill, Thomas D. Ph.D., Cornell University: Professor of English and Medieval Studies; Address: 262 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-3799; E-mail: tdh1@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Old English; Middle English; Old Norse-Icelandic; Old French. Though primarily interested in literature, have served on committees of students interested in linguistics on occasion.
CV Hite, Molly Ph.D., University of Washington: Professor; Address: 250 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-6801; E-mail: mph7@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Twentieth-century fiction; literature by women, especially experimental narratives; feminist criticism and theory; modernism, postmodernism, and alternative constructions of the twentieth-century literary history (including challenges to existing canons); fiction writing.

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CV | WEB Janowitz, Phyllis M.F.A., University of Massachusetts: Professor; Address: 365 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-6797; E-mail: pj26@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Poetry writing and reading, especially that of the twentieth century; twentieth-century American fiction; women and literature; and the artist.
CV Jones, Wendy Ph.D., Cornell University: Senior Lecturer; Address: 137 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-6282; E-mail: wj18@cornell.edu

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CV Kalas, Rayna Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania: Associate Professor; Address: 241 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-4190; E-mail: rmk45@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: 16th- and 17th-century poetry and prose; poetics and technology; visual studies; the labor and craft of writing in the early modern period.
Kaske, Carol Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University: Professor Emerita; Address: 159 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-4138; E-mail: CVk2@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Edmund Spenser; Dante; Renaissance Latin writers such as Erasmus, Ficino; other non-dramatic literature of the HIgh Middle Ages and Renaissance; cultural history of these periods, especially gender, patronage, printing, religion, magic, and Neoplatonism; in literature as a whole—rhetoric, epic, romance, and the theory and practice of the allegorical and symbolic modes.
CV Koch, Michael M.F.A., Wichita S. University: Editor, Epoch Literary Magazine; Senior Lecturer; Address: 251 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-3385; E-mail: mk64@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Creative Writing; contemporary American short fiction; contemporary fiction of the American South.

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CV Lennon, J. Robert M.F.A., University of Montana: Assistant Professor; Address: 361 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-7281; E-mail: jrl24@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Creative writing (fiction): contemporary literature; crime and science fiction novels.
CV Lorenz, Philip Ph.D., New York University: Assistant Professor; Address: 141 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-4740; E-mail: pal37@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Renaissance Drama, Political Theology, Sovereignty, Poetics and Theory, Literature and Philosophy
Lurie, Alison A. B., Radcliffe Coll.: Frederic J. Whiton Professor of American Literature Emerita; Address: 263 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-4235; E-mail: al28@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Creative writing; the novel; children's literature; folklore.

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CV Mann, Jenny Ph.D., Northwestern University: Assistant Professor; Address: 286 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-3339; E-mail: jcm238@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British literature and culture; history of rhetoric and rhetorical theory; history of science; gender studies.
Marcus, Phillip Ph.D., Harvard University: Professor Emeritus
Maxwell, Barry Ph.D., Stanford University: Senior Lecturer (Comparative Literature/American Studies); Address: 143 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-5798; E-mail: bhm4@cornell.edu
CV | WEB McCall, Dan E. Ph.D., Columbia University: Professor Emeritus; Address: 250 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-6800; Scholarly and Professional Interests: American literature 1800-1950; the writing of fiction.
CV | WEB McClane, Kenneth A. M.F.A., Cornell University: W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Literature; Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow; Address: 278 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-9314; E-mail: kam6@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Creative writing; African American literature.
McConkey, James R. Ph.D., State University of Iowa: Goldwin Smith Professor of English Emeritus; Phone: (607) 255-6800; E-mail: jrm9@cornell.edu
CV McCoy, Maureen M.F.A., University of Iowa: Professor; Address: 271 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-6792; E-mail: mem35@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Creative writing; the novel.
CV McCullough, Kate Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley: Associate Professor; Address: 288 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-6796; E-mail: mkm23@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: American literature after 1865; women's literature; feminist literary criticism and theory; lesbian/queer theory.
Mermin, Dorothy M. Ph.D., Harvard University: Goldwin Smith Professor of English Emerita; Address: 283 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-6800; E-mail: dmm12@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Women's poetry; nineteenth-century women's literature; Matthew Arnold; Victorian poetry and non-fictional prose.
CV Mohanty, Satya P. Ph.D., University of Illinois: Professor; Address: 321 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-3335; E-mail: spm5@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Critical theory; twentieth-century literature; colonial and postcolonial studies; the novel; modernism/postmodernism; film.
CV | WEB Morgan, Robert R. M.F.A., University of North Carolina: Kappa Alpha Professor of English; Address: 363 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-3503; E-mail: rrm4@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Creative writing; American literature; English poetry; the twentieth century.
CV | WEB Murray, Timothy Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University: Professor; Address: 285 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-4012; E-mail: tcm1@cornell.edu; Timothy Murray; Contact Zones: The Art of CD-Rom; Critical Surfing: Culture and Art on the World Wide Web; Scholarly and Professional Interests: English and French Renaissance studies; theatre and performance; film and video; psychoanalysis; aesthetics; cultural studies; lesbian, bisexual, and gay literary studies.

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CV Parker, A. Reeve Ph.D., Harvard University: Professor; Address: 279 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-9316; E-mail: arp2@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: English Romanticism and related materials of the late Enlightenment and French Revolutionary periods in England, France, and, to a lesser extent, Germany, with special interests not only in works by major individual writers but also in the role of letters and theater in charting individual liberties and social and political responsibilities; issues relating to literary aesthetics and interpretation, dramatic theory and performance, and the representation of familial, national, and international politics.
Parrish, Stephen M. Ph.D., Harvard University: Goldwin Smith Professor of English Emeritus; Phone: (607) 255-6800

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CV Quiñonez, Ernesto M.A., CUNY: Assistant Professor; Address: 267 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-6805; E-mail: eq25@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Creative writing; Latino/a fiction; protest literature; magic realism

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Radzinowicz, Mary Ann Ph.D., Columbia University: Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of English, Emerita; E-mail: manr@tinet.ie
CV Raskolnikov, Masha Ph.D., U, of California, Berkeley: Assistant Professor; Address: 165 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-9505; E-mail: mr283@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Middle English literature, allegory theory, medieval philosophy and rhetoric, contemporary critical theory, feminist and queer studies.
Rosenberg, Edgar Ph.D., Stanford University: Professor (English/Comparative Literature) Emeritus; Address: 133 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-3544; E-mail: er31@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction; Anglo-Judaic studies.
CV Ruff, Carin Ph.D., U of Toronto: Assistant Professor; Address: 283 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-6806; E-mail: cr222@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Medieval Latin and Old English language and literature; narrative and historiography; history of grammar and language pedagogy; history of the book.

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Saccamano, Neil Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University: Associate Professor; Address: 293 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-8569; E-mail: ncs5@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Eighteenth-century English and French literature and philosophy; print culture; poststructuralist theory.
CV | WEB Samuels, Shirley Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley: Professor; Address: 257 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-3994; E-mail: srs8@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: American literature and culture; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American fiction; feminist criticism, American studies.
CV Sawyer, Paul L. Ph.D., Columbia University: Professor; Address: 101 McGraw Hall; Phone: (607) 255-2280; E-mail: pls12@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Literature of the Victorian period; nonfiction prose—its form and genres, its audience, its historical and ideological functions; fiction and poetry of the nineteenth century; Marxian and feminist approaches and the ways questions of politics and ideology can be related to close local readings.
CV | WEB Schwarz, Daniel R. Ph.D., Brown University: Fredric J. Whiton Professor of English Literature; Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow; Address: 242 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-9313; E-mail: drs6@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: The British novel from Defoe through Joyce—special focus on Joyce, Conrad, Lawrence, Hardy, Forster, and Woolf—but also the Victorian novel; cultural criticism, especially the modernist tradition, including the relation between, on the one hand, painting and sculpture and, on the other, literature; twentieth-century poetry, especially Wallace Stevens; literary theory; the changing nature of literary studies and the profession; Victorian poetry and Victorian studies; and the history and theory of the novel.
CV Shaw, Harry E. Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley: Professor; Address: 277 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-8278; E-mail: hes3@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction; historical fiction and literary form; history of the novel; theory of narrative.
Shonkwiler, Alison Ph.D., Rutgers University: Visiting Assistant Professor; Address: 363 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-3503; E-mail: ars10@cornell.edu
CV Siegel, Sandra Ph.D., University of Chicago: Professor; Address: 264 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-9317; E-mail: sfs5@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: English and Irish literary studies; the politics of Anglo-Irish literary culture; the social thought of the late nineteenth century; the concept of “modernity” in the twentieth century.
Strout, Cushing Ph.D., Harvard University: Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters, Emeritus; Address: 250 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-6800; E-mail: scs15@cornell.edu

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CV Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae M.F.A., Pennsylvania S.University: Assistant Professor; Address: 41 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-8349; E-mail: lv48@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Creative writing; African American literature; 19th-Century American literature.
CV Vaughn, Stephanie M.F.A., University of lowa: Professor; Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow; Address: 169 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-6798; E-mail: sv19@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Creative writing.
CV | WEB Viramontes, Helena M.F.A., University of California at Irvine: Professor; Address: 267 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-8573; E-mail: hmv2@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Creative writing.

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CV Waligora-Davis, Nicole Ph.D., Duke University: Assistant Professor; Address: 292 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-3501; E-mail: naw22@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American and American literature and expressive culture; African American and American cultural criticism; race and gender theory; immigration law; critical race theories; postmodern geography.
CV Wetherbee, Winthrop Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley: Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus; Address: 283 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-6806; E-mail: ww22@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests:Chaucer; Middle English; Classical and medieval Latin; Dante; Old French poetry; Medieval literary criticitism.
CV Wong, Shelley Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley: Associate Professor (English/Asian American Studies); Address: 282 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-9310; E-mail: ssw6@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Asian American, African American, and ethnic literatures; Asian Canadian literature; cultural studies.
CV Woubshet, Dagmawi Ph.D., Harvard University: Assistant Professor; Address: 341 Goldwin Smith Hall; Phone: (607) 255-9546; E-mail: dw242@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: African American Literature; Ethiopian Poesis; Queer Studies; AIDS and Narratives of Loss; 1980s; Contemporary African and African-American Visual Culture

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CV Zacher, Samantha Ph.D., University of Toronto: Assistant Professor; Address: 261 Goldwin Smith; Phone: (607) 255-9309; E-mail: sz66@cornell.edu; Scholarly and Professional Interests: Old English literature (with a special interest in prose homilies and biblical poetry); Middle English literature; manuscript studies; rhetoric; studies in orality and literacy; history of the English language.