I am delighted both to hear on very good authority that we are now the Hottest Ivy (check out the Cornell Chronicle web site for the story "Newsweek makes it official....") and to welcome the brilliant new English faculty who are joining us and generating some of the heat.

--Molly Hite, Chair


Kevin Attell

Assistant Professor of English

 

Kevin Attell was awarded a Ph.D. from Berkeley and was a Mellon Fellow at Johns Hopkins University before coming to Cornell. He is working on two books, one on the encyclopedic novel in the twentieth century, the other on the relations between work by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben and the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.  Kevin has also translated two of Agamben's books and several essays.  He will begin teaching Cornell in January of 2008, teaching English 469, The Paranoid Style in Contemporary American Fiction and Film, and English 270, The Reading of Fiction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carole Boyce Davies

Professor of Africana Studies and English

 

Carol Boyce Davies received her Ph.D. from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.  She was on the faculty of SUNY Binghamton, Northwestern University and Florida International University before coming to Cornell.   She is the author of Black Women, Writing and Identity:  Migrations of the Subject (1994) and Left of Karl Marx:  Claudia Jones, Black/Communist Woman (forthcoming 2007), and has edited or co-edited eleven collections of criticism.  She is currently working on a volume of personal reflections, Caribbean Spaces:  Between the Twilight Zone and the Underground Railroad.  She will begin at Cornell in the spring of 2008.

 

 

 

AppleMark Jeremy Braddock

Assistant Professor of English

 

Jeremy Braddock received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and was a Fellow at Cornell's Society for the Humanities, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Haverford College, and an Assistant Professor at Princeton University before coming to Cornell.  A specialist in twentieth-century American literature and culture, he is finishing a book, The Modernist Collector and Black Modernity, 1914-1934, has edited a collection of essays on Hollywood "B" movies, and has published articles on the Black Atlantic and African-American modernism.  A Fellow at Stanford's Humanities Center this year, Jeremy will begin teaching at Cornell in the fall of 2008.

 

 

 

 

Grant Farred

Professor of Africana Studies and English

 

Grant Farred got his Ph.D. at Princeton and taught at the University of Michigan, Williams College and Duke University before coming to Cornell.  He is the author of two books, What's My Name?  Black Vernacular Intellectuals (2003) and Midfielder's Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa (1999), along with numerous articles.  He is completing a third book, Bodies in Motion, Bodies at Rest, forthcoming in 2008.  This fall Grant will be teaching Africana/English 392, Writing the African Diaspora, and Africana/English 693, African-American Cultural Theory.  

 

 

 

 

 

David Faulkner

Senior Lecturer, Knight Institute for

 Writing in the Disciplines & English

 

David Faulkner received his Ph.D. in English from Princeton University and has taught literature and writing courses at SUNY Cortland and Ithaca College.  He has published many articles on late nineteenth-century fiction.  He will teach English 270, The Reading of Fiction and Writing Workshop 137 in the fall and in spring semester will teach English 288, 388, and Writing Workshop 138.

 

 

 

 

 

Jane Juffer

Associate Professor of English and Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies

 

Jane Juffer is a specialist in U.S. cultural studies who received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and was a member of the faculty of Pennsylvania State University before coming to Cornell.  She is the author of two books, At Home with Pornography: Women, Sex, and Everyday Life (1998) and Single Mother: The Emergence of the Domestic Intellectual (2006), and has published articles on U.S./Latina/o studies, the corporate university, and being a Chicago Cubs fan.  She will begin teaching at Cornell in the fall of 2008.

 

 

 

Jenny Mann

Assistant Professor of English

 

Jenny Mann received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell's Society for the Humanities before joining the English Department faculty.  A specialist in sixteenth and seventeenth century British literature and culture, she is completing a book, Outlaw Rhetoric:  Fashioning Vulgar Eloquence in Early Modern England, and articles on Sydney's Arcadia and the hermaphrodite in Early Modern England.  For fall semester, Jenny will be teaching an honors seminar, Literature and National Identity:  Imagining England in the Age of Shakespeare, and a freshman seminar, "Base, Common, and Popular":  Shakespeare in Film and Fiction.

 

 

 

Alison Shonkwiler

Visiting Assistant Professor of English

 

Alison Shonkwiler received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2007 and is writing a book-length study of the twentieth-century American novel and money.  She will teach freshman seminars fall semester and in spring semester will teach English 251, Twentieth-Century Women Novelists, and English 367 on U.S. novels about money in the late twentieth century.