Barbara M. Benedict, Charles A. Dana Professor of English and Department Chair
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Professor Benedict is the author of numerous articles and three books: Framing Feeling;
Making the Modern Reader; and Curiosity.Dean Albarelli, Allan K.
Smith Assistant Professor in Creative Writing
M.F.A., University of Virginia
Professor Albarelli is the author of Cheaters and Other Stories, and numerous short
stories, essays, and poems in various anthologies and journals.
Jan Cohn, G. Keith Funston Professor of American Literature and American Studies
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Professor Cohn has published books on the American house and popular romance, as well as a
biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart and a history of the Saturday Evening Post.
Lucy Ferriss, Writer-in-Residence
Ph.D., Tufts University
Professor Ferriss, an award-winning writer, has published four novels, The
Misconceiver, Against Gravity, The Gated River, and Philip’s Girl, and a
book of criticism, Sleeping with the Boss: Female Subjectivity and Narrative Pattern in
Robert Penn Warren.
Sheila Fisher, Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., Yale University
Professor Fisher has published a book on Chaucer and essays on the Gawain-poet; she has
edited an anthology of feminist contextual essays on medieval and Renaissance writings.
- Francisco Goldman, Allan K. Smith Professor of English Language and Literature
Professor Goldman, an award-winning writer, has published The Long Night of White
Chickens, and The Ordinary Seaman. He has also published short fiction in
various publications.
Dianne M. Hunter, Professor of
English
Ph.D., SUNY/Buffalo.
Professor Hunter is the author of numerous articles on drama, feminism, and the
psychoanalysis of literature; she is editor of The Makings of Dr. Charcot’s
Hysteria Shows; Seduction and Theory; and Gullibles Travles.
Dirk Kuyk,
Professor of English
Ph.D., Brandeis University
Professor Kuyk has published books on Faulkner and an essay on Zora Neale Hurston’s Their
Eyes Were Watching God.
Paul Lauter , Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature
Ph.D., Yale University
Professor Lauter’s books include Canons and Contexts, The Conspiracy of the
Young, and From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park: The Cultural Work of American
Studies; he is general editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature.
Hugh Ogden,
Professor of English
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Professor Ogden has published five books of poetry and won numerous awards. His most
recent poetry has been concerned with Native American values and culture as well as his
enduring subjects of human loss and survival.
Margo Perkins,
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University
Professor Perkins is the author of Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the
Sixties and essays on the short fiction of Toni Cade Bambara, on Carl Van Vechten and
the Harlem Renaissance, and on Black women’s spirituality.
John F. Pfeil,
Professor of English
M.F.A., Stanford University
Professor Pfeil’s most recent books are, in fiction, What They Tell You to Forget and,
in criticism, White Guys: Studies in Postmodern Domination and Difference.
Milla Riggio,
James J. Goodwin Professor of English
Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor Milla Riggio has edited Children’s Literature; The Play of Wisdom: Its
Texts and Context; Medieval Drama: Reinterpretations; Trinidad and Tobago Carnival; and
Teaching Shakespeare through Performance.
Ronald R. Thomas , Professor of English
Ph.D., Brandeis University
Professor Thomas is the author of Dreams of Authority; Detective Fiction and The
Rise of Forensic Science; and numerous essays on Victorian literature and culture.
Allan K. Smith
Center for Writing and Rhetoric
Beverly Wall,
Director; Associate Professor and the Allan K. Smith Lecturer in English
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Professor Wall has published essays on subjects ranging from teaching writing with
multimedia technologies to the intersection of rhetoric, politics, and cyberspace
Cynthia L. Butos, Sr. Lecturer in the Smith
Center
M.A., Trinity College
Cynthia Butos' recent publications include an anthology headnote on Louisa May Alcott as
well as presentations on evaluating the World Wide Web.
Irene Papoulis, Lecturer in the Smith Center
Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook
Irene Papoulis’ recent publications include essays on psychoanalysis and writing,
the experiences of "self-effacing" writers, and the relationship between gender
theories and grading.
Robert Peltier, Lecturer in the Smith Center
M.A., Trinity College
Professor Peltier’s recent publications include anthology chapters on Katherine
Mansfield, Yukio Mishima, Ray Bradbury, John Updike, and others, as well as an essay on
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