Our faculty focus on literature as old as the Middle Ages and as young as yesterday as we a delve into a diverse array of literary periods and genres.
Literature students have the opportunity to study with accomplished specialists, with coursework conducted in small seminars, ensuring a high level of interaction between graduate students and faculty. The deliberately small size and friendly atmosphere of the program allow for considerable interaction and camaraderie among graduate students themselves, creating a close, supportive community.
Our Literary History Faculty
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Marilyn AtlasScholarly Focus: American, women's studies
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Edmond Y. ChangScholarly Focus: 20th and 21st-century American Literature & Ethnic American Literature | Literary Theory & Cultural Studies | Feminist & Queer Theory | Queer Game Studies | Media Studies | Popular Culture
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Loreen GieseScholarly Focus: Shakespeare | Early Modern English Drama | Marriage, Family, and Household In London | Early Modern English Law | Archival Sources for London History
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Mary Kate HurleyScholarly Focus: Old and Middle English language and literature | Anglo-Norman literature | Critical Theory | Speculative Fiction | Ecocriticism | the History of the English Language | American Medievalism
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Paul C. JonesScholarly Focus: American Literature
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Joseph McLaughlinScholarly Focus: British Literature since 1800 | Postcolonial Literature & Theory | London in Literature | Ecological Approaches to Literature | Literary Theory | History of the Book | Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
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Ghirmai NegashScholarly Focus: African Literature | Critical Theory
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Beth QuitslundScholarly Focus: Renaissance British literature | Literature and culture of the Long Reformation | the Bible in English | Hymnody
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Nicole ReynoldsScholarly Focus: British Romantic literature and culture | History of the book | World War I and print culture | Gender and sexuality studies | Women’s literature and Feminist literary theory
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Thomas ScanlanScholarly Focus: Early American
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Jeremy W. WebsterScholarly Focus: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature | Literature and Health | Satire
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Linda ZionkowskiScholarly Focus: Restoration | Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Faculty in the News
Edmond Chang Named 2025-26 Emerging Presidential Research Scholar
His areas of research include technoculture; race, gender, and sexuality; video games, analog games, live action role playing, queer game studies; feminist media studies; cultural studies; popular culture; and 20/21Century American literature.
Jeremy Webster Awarded 2024-25 Baker Fund Grant
His project is "Materiality, Manuscript Culture, and the Queerness of Satire in Late Stuart England."