Faculty & Staff
Full-Time Faculty
Stephen Barber
Associate Professor of English
British and European modernism; Critical theory; Philosophy and literature
Carolyn Betensky
Associate Professor of English
Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Victorian Literature and Culture, Literary and Cultural Theory, Psychoanalysis
Mary Cappello
Professor of English
Affiliated Professor of Women's Studies
American literature; Creative Writing; Literature and Medicine; Sound Studies
Peter Covino
Assistant Professor of Literature with Creative Writing
Avant-garde and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Italian American, Translation, and Ethnic Studies
Kathleen Davis
Associate Professor of English
Medieval studies; Translation studies; Issues of Periodization
and Secularism
Sarah Eron
Assistant Professor of English
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature, Culture, and
Philosophy; Aesthetic Theory; Romanticism
David Faflik
Assistant Professor of English
Critical/Cultural theorist in Nineteenth-century American Literature and Culture; urban studies; American Studies
Gitahi Gititi
Professor of English and Film Media. Joint appointment in Africana Studies.
Postcolonial studies, Third World Film, African and African American novel, drama, and poetry
J. Jennifer Jones
Assistant Professor of English and Affiliated Professor of Women's Studies
British Romanticism, critical theory, poetics, and aesthetics
Valerie Karno
Associate Professor of English
Internship Coordinator
Law and Literature; Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literature; American Studies; Film & Television; Gender Studies
John R. Leo
Professor of English
Film studies, cultural studies, queer theory, international visual cultures, and modern comparative literature
Naomi Mandel
Associate Professor of English
Post-1945 U.S. literature, contemporary extreme literature, critical theory
Martha Elena Rojas
Assistant Professor of American Literature
Rumowicz Literature of the Sea Lecture/Seminar Series, Co-Director
Karen Stein
Professor of English and Women's Studies
author of Reading, Learning, Teaching Toni Morrison
Ryan Trimm
Associate Professor of English and Film Media
Chair, Department of English
Twentieth century and contemporary British literature and culture, film, postcolonial theory and literature, cultural studies, theory and philosophy
Gina Valentino
Assistant Professor of English
Comparative U.S. Race and Ethnic Studies (Native American, Asian American, African American, Chicana/Chicano); 20th and 21st century U.S. Literature, Class and Labor
Jean Walton
Professor of English, Women's Studies, and Film Media
British and European Modernism; Film and Culture; Gender, Race,
Sexuality, Urban Politics
Travis D. Williams
Assistant Professor of English
Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Shakespeare; Science and literature
Emeritus
Paul G. Arakelian
Professor Emeritus, English
Ph.D. Indiana University
B.A. California State University, Los Angeles
Josie P. Campbell
Professor Emeritus, English, Women's Studies, Comparative Literature,
and the Allan Shawn Feinstein College of Continuing Education
Dan Pearlman
Professor Emeritus, English
In Memoriam
Sue Fisher Vaughn (d. 2010)
Allan MacLaine (d. 2009)
R.B. Reaves (d. 2008)
Tom Towers (d. 2006)
William L. Mensel, Jr. (d. 2005)
