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Faculty Administrators

Name Ext. or Full #
Elizabeth Ammons, Interim Department Chair 72047
Linda Bamber, Director of First-Year Writing Program 72381
Jay Cantor, Director of Creative Writing 72460
Judith Haber, Director of Graduate Studies 75492
Sonia Hofkosh, Transfer of Credit Representative 72461
Ichiro Takayoshi, Replacement Advisor 72378

Full-Time Faculty

Name Ext. or Full #
Elizabeth Ammons, Harriet H. Fay Professor of Literature; American literature, women writers 72047
Linda Bamber, Associate Professor; Women and literature, Shakespeare 72381
Jay Cantor, Professor; History of consciousness, modernism, creative writing 72460
Kevin Dunn, Associate Professor; Renaissance literature 72816
Lee Edelman, Fletcher Professor of English Literature; Literary theory, film studies, modern poetry
(On leave Spring 2013)		 72046
John M. Fyler, Professor; Chaucer, medieval literature; Interim Director of the Center for Humanities at Tufts University 72048
Judith Haber, Professor; Early Modern Literature and Culture 75492
Andrea Haslanger, Assistant Professor; Eighteenth-century British Literature 72379
Sonia Hofkosh, Associate Professor; British romantic literature 72461
Joseph Litvak, Chair; Professor; Nineteenth-century British literature, Literary Theory, Jewish Cultural Studies
(On leave Spring 2013)		 72455
Lisa Lowe, Professor; European and American Studies 72051
John Lurz, Assistant Professor; Twentieth-Century British Literature 75171
Katie Peterson, Professor of the Practice; Poetry and Creative Writing 76393
Modhumita Roy, Associate Professor; World literature in English 72840
Christina Sharpe, Associate Professor; Twentieth-century American Literature, Multiethnic literature, Black Literary, Visual, and Cultural Studies 72377
Ichiro Takayoshi, Assistant Professor; American Literature, American Culture 72378
Michael Ullman, Lecturer; Non-Fiction Writing, British and Irish Literature 72457
Jonathan Wilson, Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate; American literature, creative writing
(On leave Fall 2012/Spring 2013)		 73364

Emeritus Faculty

Name Ext. or Full #
Sylvan Barnet, Fletcher Professor of English Emeritus; English Literature 73459
David Cavitch, Professor of English Emeritus; 19th Century American and 20th Century British Literature 73459
Sheila Emerson, Associate Professor; Victorian literature 73459
Carol Flynn, Professor; Eighteenth-century British literature 73459
Alan Lebowitz, Professor Emeritus; 19th and 20th Century American Literature, Creative Writing 73459
John Perry, Professor of English Emeritus; Poetry and Literary Criticism 73459
Jesper Rosenmeier, Fletcher Professor of English Emeritus; Puritanism, Early American Literature 73459

Part-Time Faculty

Name Ext. or Full #
Carl Beckman, Lecturer/Graduate Student Instructor Mentor; First year writing 75956
Susan Carlisle, Lecturer; First year writing 75956
Michael Downing, Lecturer; Creative writing 72457
Janis Freedman-Bellow, Lecturer 72457
Geoffrey Gardner, Lecturer; First year writing
(On Leave Spring 2013)		 72049
Julia Genster, Lecturer; Eighteenth-century British literature, Shakespeare 72048
Rebecca Gibson (Kaiser), Lecturer; Creative writing 72049
Mark Gosztyla, Lecturer; Creative writing 72049
Marcie Hershman, Lecturer; Creative writing 72457
Joseph Hurka, Lecturer; Creative writing 75956
Ronna Johnson, Lecturer 74514
Sibyl Johnston, Lecturer; Creative writing 72457
Mark Karlins, Lecturer; First year writing 72049
Elizabeth Leavell, Lecturer; First year writing 72457
Stephanie Levine, Lecturer; First year writing 617-576-0409
Nan Levinson, Lecturer; Creative writing 72380
Wanda MacDonald, Lecturer; First year writing 73026
Courtney McDermott, Lecturer; First year writing 72459
Neil Miller, Lecturer; Creative writing 75956
Dale Peterson, Lecturer; First year writing
(On Leave Spring 2013)		 72459
Priscilla Sneff, Lecturer; Creative writing, first year writing 72459
Mareike Stanitzke, Lecturer; First year writing 74514
Lynn Stevens, Lecturer/Director, English 3 & 4; First year writing 75956
Randall Stiffler, Lecturer; First year writing 72459
Jonathan Strong, Lecturer; Creative writing 72380
Jan Swafford, Lecturer; First year writing
(On Leave Spring 2013)		 75956
Grace Talusan, Lecturer; Creative writing, First year writing 72457
David Valdes Greenwood, Lecturer; First year writing 73459
Allison Van Deventer, Lecturer; First year writing 73026
Ted Weesner, Lecturer; Creative writing 72459
Carol Wilkinson, Lecturer/Graduate Student Instructor Mentor; First year writing 72049

Former Faculty

Name Ext. or Full #
Virginia Jackson n/a

Staff

Name Ext. or Full #
Wendy E. Medeiros, Department Administrator 73559
Douglas Riggs, Administrative Assistant 72403
Chantal Hardy, Administrative Assistant 73448