Curriculum
Courses
Faculty

Chairperson

Professor Jonathan Elmer*

Associate Chairperson

Kathy O. Smith

Graduate Faculty

(An asterisk [*] denotes membership in the University Graduate School faculty with the endorsement to direct doctoral dissertations.)

Distinguished Professors

Philip Appleman* (Emeritus), Susan D. Gubar* (Emerita), James Justus* (Emeritus), Terence Martin* (Emeritus), Scott R. Sanders* (Emeritus)

Chancellor’s Professors

Judith H. Anderson*, Anthony Ardizzone*, Robert Fulk*, James Naremore* (Emeritus)

Rudy Professor/COAS Distinguished Professor

Patrick Brantlinger* (Emeritus)

Tarkington Chair of American Literature

George Hutchinson*

Culbertson Chair of Writing

John Schilb*

Ruth N. Halls Professors

Paul John Eakin* (Emeritus), Karma Lochrie*

Professors

Anthony V. Ardizzone*, George Barnett (Emeritus), Frederick Beaty* (Emeritus), Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch* (Emeritus), Catherine Bowman*, Patrick Brantlinger* (Emeritus), Mary Burgan (Emerita), Linda Anne Charnes*, Lawrence Clopper* (Emeritus), Don Cook* (Emeritus), Alfred David* (Emeritus), Jonathan E. Elmer*, Christine Rhoda Farris*, Mary Agnes Favret*, Charles Forker* (Emeritus), Robert Dennis Fulk*, Mary Gaither* (Emerita), Donald Gray* (Emeritus), Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis* (Emeritus, Comparative Literature), Raymond W. Hedin*, George Bain Hutchinson*, Kenneth Johnston* (Emeritus), Eugene R. Kintgen* (Emeritus), M. Eugene Lawlis* (Emeritus), Peter Lindenbaum* (Emeritus), Karma D. Lochrie*, Christoph Lohmann* (Emeritus), Alyce L. Miller*, Andrew Horton Miller*, Lewis Miller* (Emeritus), Roger Mitchell* (Emeritus), Richard Nash*, David J. Nordloh* (Emeritus), Alvin H. Rosenfeld* (Jewish Studies), John Lincoln Schilb*, Murray Sperber* (Emeritus), Maura Frances Stanton*, Shane Vogel*, Stephen Myers Watt*, William Wiatt* (Emeritus), Paul Zietlow* (Emeritus), Malvin Zirker* (Emeritus)

Associate Professors

Michael P. Adams*, Dana Larson Anderson*, Purnima Bose*, Judith Christine Brown*, William Burgan* (Emeritus), Edward Paul Comentale*, Jennifer Fleissner*, Paul Charles Gutjahr*, T. Scott Herring*, Jeffrey F. Huntsman* (Emeritus), Patricia Clare Ingham*, Joshua Kates*, DeWitt Douglas Kilgore*, Ivan Kreilkamp*,  Sheila Lindenbaum (Emerita), Joan Pong Linton*, Maurice Manning*, Joss Marsh*, Michael Rosenblum* (Emeritus), Ranu Samantrai*, Lee W. Sterrenburg (Emeritus), Samrat Upadhyay, Nicholas Mark Williams*, John Woodcock* (Emeritus)

Assistant Professors

Penelope Anderson, Denise Cruz, Ross Gay, Shannon Gayk,Tarez Graban, D. Rae Greiner, Ellen Mackay*, Jesse Molesworth

Adjunct Professors

Oscar Kenshur* (Emeritus, Comparative Literature), Barbara Klinger* (Communication and Culture), John McCluskey Jr.* (Emeritus, African American and African Diaspora Studies), Dror Wahrman* (History)

Adjunct Associate Professors

Herbert Marks* (Comparative Literature), Melvin Plotinsky* (Emeritus)

Director of Graduate Studies

Associate Professor Patricia Ingham*, Ballantine Hall 442D, (812) 855-1543