Faculty
The faculty of the English Department consists of scholars in all the major periods of English and American literature, who are also enthusiastic and dedicated teachers. In addition to traditional survey courses, the department offers a rich variety of seminars, small discussion classes devoted to intensive study of particular areas and topics. The department offers workshops in creative writing and sponsors annual contests in playwriting, poetry, and fiction. Members of the department are also actively engaged in the University¹s interdisciplinary programs and concentrations. Extensive and intensive consultation between faculty and students is strongly encouraged by the department.
Program Faculty
James Elliott, Ph.D.
Professor of English; Chair, Department of English;
Adjunct Professor of Screen Studies
Chair of English; Nineteenth-century American literature; textual editing; contemporary literary theory
Tel: 1-508-793-7152
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SunHee Kim Gertz, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Director, Leir Center in Luxembourg
Director of Graduate Studies; Western European literature of the late Middle Ages; semiotics and rhetorical theory
Tel: 1-508-793-7126
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Betsy P. Huang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Ethnic and racial identities in twentieth-century American literature; science fiction
Tel: 508-793-7145
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Fern Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Sociolinguistics, with a special emphasis on gender, race, and ethnicity in discourse
Tel: 1-508-793-7142
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Esther Jones, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, E. Franklin Frazier Chair in African American Literature, Theory, and Culture, English Department
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Lisa Kasmer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature
Tel: 508-793-8593
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Stephen M. Levin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
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Meredith Neuman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
American literature from the colonial period through the nineteenth century
Tel: 508-793-7298
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Virginia Mason Vaughan, Ph.D.
Professor of English
(on sabbatical Fall 2009)
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Adjunct Faculty
John Bassett, Ph.D.
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Gino DiIorio, M.F.A.
Associate Professor of Theater
Adjunct Associate Professor of English
Director, Theater Arts Program
Program Director for Theater Arts, Acting in film and theater; writing plays and screenplays
Tel: 1-508-793-7456
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Department Instructors
Jessica Bane Robert, M.F.A.
Louis Bastien, Ph.D.
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Timothy Connolly, M.A.
Susan E. Richmond, M.A.
Emeriti Faculty
Serena S. Hilsinger, Ph.D.
Stanley Sultan, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Tel: 1-508-793-7143
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