People
Donald Weber, chair
Lucia, Ruth and Elizabeth MacGregor Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-2279
Office:
312 or 112 Shattuck Hall
Office hours:
T and Th, 1:30-4:00; W, 10:00-12:00 in 312 or 112 Shattuck
Specialty: American literature and culture; Ethnic Studies; Film; Politics and literature
Dean Albarelli
Visiting Associate Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-3330
Office:
15, 8 Park Street
Specialty: Creative writing
Nigel Alderman
Associate Professor of English, Director of Studies for English & Chair of Critical Social Thought
Phone:
413-538-3224
Office:
206 Shattuck Hall
Office hours:
M, 12:00-1:15; T, 12:00-1:15; W, 12:00-1:15 & 4:00-5:00
Specialty: Post-1945 British literature and culture; Modernism; Romanticism; Literary theory, especially Marxist aesthetics
Christopher Benfey (leave 2013-14)
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-2532
Office:
210 Shattuck Hall
Specialty: Emily Dickinson; 20th century American poetry; Turn-of-the-century American writing; Southern literature; New Orleans literature and culture
Wendy Bergoffen
Visiting Associate Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-3058
Office:
25, 8 Park Street
Office hours:
M and W, 12:30-1:15 in the LITS atrium
Iyko Day
Assistant Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-3222
Office:
314 Shattuck Hall
Office hours:
W, 12:30-3:00
Specialty: Asian American Literature; Visual Culture
Corinne Demas
Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-2801
Office:
23, 8 Park Street
Office hours:
W, before class by appointment and after class from 4:05-5:15 & also other days by appointment
Specialty: Fiction writing; Short story; Children's literature
Leah Glasser
Associate Dean of Studies, Senior Class Dean & Lecturer in English
Phone:
413-538-2855
Office:
21, 8 Park Street
Office hours:
By appointment
Specialty: American literature; Late 19th century through Early 20th century; Women writers; Nature writing; Women's autobiography and biography
Eugene Hill
Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-2358
Office:
D4 Torrey Hall
Office hours:
W, 2:00-4:30 (open office hours, no appointment needed)
Specialty: 16th and 17th century English literature; John Donne; John Milton
Heidi Holder
Visiting Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-3347
Office:
14, 8 Park Street
Office hours:
M, 3:00-4:30 & by appointment
Specialty: Modern Drama & Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Literature
Andrea Lawlor
Visiting Lecturer in English
Phone:
413-538-2146
Office:
217 G Dwight Hall
Speciality: ESOL; Creative Writing; Trans/Queer Writing
John Lemly (leave 2013-14)
Alumnae Foundation Chair in English
Phone:
413-538-2448
Office:
204 Shattuck Hall
Specialty: 18th century English literature; African literature; Renaissance and Modern Drama; Non-fiction writing; Early American literature; African American literature; Jane Austen
Sara London
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-2103
Office:
11, 8 Park Street
Office hours:
Th, 3:00-4:30 & by appointment
Catherine Manegold
Visiting Senior Lecturer in English
Phone:
413-538-2450
Office:
22, 8 Park Street
Office hours:
MTW, 9:00-11:00
Specialty: Journalism
Amy Martin (leave Spring)
Associate Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-2644
Office:
12, 8 Park Street
Specialty: Victorian literature and culture; 19th century British literature; 19th century Irish literature; Postcolonial Studies; Gender Studies; Theories of Nationalism; Literary and cultural theory
Valerie Martin (leave spring)
Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-2808
Office:
32, 8 Park Street
Specialty: Creative writing; contemporary women's writing; the short story; Nineteenth Century American and British Literature
Karen Osborn
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-3136
Office:
34, 8 Park Street
Office hours:
M, 9:00-11:00; T, 4:10-5:30 & by appointment
Specialty: Creative writing
Larry Parnass
Visiting Lecturer in English
Phone:
413-538-2146
Office:
111 Shattuck Hall
Specialty: Journalism
Gayle Pemberton
Visiting Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-2457
Office:
31, 8 Park Street
Office hours:
M, 2:30-4:00 & by appointment
Jenny Pyke
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-3116
Office:
33, 8 Park Street
Specialty:19th Century British Literature; Modern Scottish literature; Autobiography and Memoir
Amy Rodgers
Assistant Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-3038
Office:
212 Shattuck Hall
Office hours:
W, 12:00-1:00; Th, 3:00-400
Specialty: Early Modern Literature and Culture; Literary Theory; Audience Studies; Mass Culture and Popular Culture Studies; Film Studies; Medieval Drama; Contemporary Drama; Playwriting and Dance History
Suparna Roychoudhury
Assistant Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-3384
Office:
215 Shattuck Hall
Office hours:
M, 1:00-3:00
Specialty: Shakespeare; English Renaissance literature and culture; history of science and medicine; transnational Anglophone literature; cognitive studies.
Robert B. Shaw
Emily Dickinson Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-2444
Office:
13, 8 Park Street
Office hours:
M and T, 2:30-3:30 & by appointment
Specialty: Poetry writing; Modern British and American poetry; 17th century literature; 20th century American Southern literature
Mark C. Shea
Visiting Lecturer in English; Coordinator of ESOL
Phone:
413-538-3541
Office:
215 Dwight Hall
Kate Singer
Assistant Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-3229
Office:
213 Shattuck Hall
Office hours:
M, 1:00-2:00; Tu, 10:00-11:00 & by appointment
Specialty: British Romanticism; 18th and 19th century women's writing; Poetics
Sally Sutherland (leave 2013-14)
Senior Lecturer in English
Phone:
413-538-3438
Office:
24, 8 Park Street
Specialty: Shakespeare in production (on stage and on film); 16th and 17th century drama and poetry; Non-fiction writing
Elizabeth Young
Carl M. and Elsie A. Small Chair in English
Phone:
413-538-2326
Office:
202 Shattuck Hall
Office hours:
W, 1:00-4:00 and by appointment
Specialty: Women writers; Feminist theory; American literature; American Studies; Film; Visual Culture
Wesley Yu
Assistant Professor of English
Phone:
413-538-2825
Office:
317 Shattuck
Office hours:
T and Th, 2:30-4:00 & by appointment
Specialty: Medieval Studies
Staff
Cindy Meehan
Senior Administrative Assistant for English & Medieval Studies
Phone:
413-538-2146