People

John J. Conron, Ph.D.

James Elliott, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, English
Textual editing; historical/cultural/bibliographical research; issues of race, class, gender, and historicism in the 19th and 20th centuries
Email: jelliott@clarku.edu

SunHee Gertz, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita and Senior Research Scholar, Department of English
Tel: 1-508-793-7152
Email: sgertz@clarku.edu

Serena S. Hilsinger, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, English
Modernist literature; literature by women
Email: shilsinger@clarku.edu

Fern Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of English 

Dr. Johnson is a sociolinguist specializing in the study of ethnicity, race, and gender in discourse. Her teaching and research center on the relationship of cultural systems to language-in-use, especially ideological codes in discourse and language policy issues. She has written on topics including cultural models for understanding language diversity, language policy, gender and discourse, and the language of advertising as cultural text.

Tel: 1-508-793-7142
Email: fjohnson@clarku.edu

Virginia Mason Vaughan, Ph.D.
Research Professor, Department of English
Early modern English literature, especially Shakespeare and his contemporaries
Tel: 1-508-793-7144
Email: vvaughan@clarku.edu