Faculty and Staff (Full Time)

Administration

John Rickard Chair john.rickard@bucknell.edu
Michael Drexler Director of Graduate Studies michael.drexler@bucknell.edu
Greg Clingham Director, Bucknell University Press clingham@bucknell.edu
Shara McCallum Director, The Stadler Center for Poetry smccallu@bucknell.edu
Carmen Gillespie Executive Director, Toni Morrison Society carmen.gillespie@bucknell.edu
Paula Closson Buck Editor, West Branch paula.buck@bucknell.edu
Denise Lewis
Academic Assistant

dlewis@bucknell.edu


Current Faculty

Alex Block

Renaissance Literature (Non-Dramatic and Lyrical Poetry), Theology, Adaptation, Intertextuality

Paula Closson Buck

Creative Writing (Poetry), Modern British and American Literature

Christopher Camuto

Creative Writing (Creative Nonfiction), American and Native American Literature

Glynis Carr

American Literature, Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, and Ecocriticism

Greg Clingham

British Literature (1660-1832)

Mara de Gennaro

Transnational modernism and comparative postcolonial studies.

Michael Drexler

Colonial American Literature, Early National American Literature, Critical and Psychoanalytic Theory

Eric Faden

Film Studies

Carmen Gillespie

American, African American, and Caribbean Literatures, Creative Writing (Poetry)

Porochista Khakpour

Creative Writing (Fiction)

Shara McCallum

Creative Writing (Poetry and Creative Nonfiction), Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Caribbean and African American Literature

Ghislaine McDayter

Romantic Literature, Literary Theory, 18th and 19th century British Literature, Women's Studies

Saundra Morris

19th Century American Literature, American Poetry, and Social Justice

James Peterson

African American Literature, Hip Hop Culture

Jean Peterson

Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare, and Dramatic Literature

Harriet Pollack

American Literature, Southern Literature, American Women Writers, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty

Meenakshi Ponnuswami

Modern Drama, Theater History, and Performance Theory

John Rickard

Irish Literature, James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, History of the Novel, and Science & Literature

Robert Rosenberg

Creative Writing (Fiction and Poetry), Contemporary Literature

Harold Schweizer

Modern Poetry, Literary Theory, Holocaust Studies, Representations of Suffering, and the Comparative Humanities

Alf Siewers

Medieval Literature, Celtic Studies, and Literature & the Environment

G. C. Waldrep

Creative Writing (Poetry)

Virginia Zimmerman

Victorian Poetry, Fiction, and Prose; 19th-century Literature & Science; Young Adult Fiction, Cultural Studies


Emeriti

Pauline Fletcher
Dennis Baumwoll

Harry R. Garvin
Anthony C. Gosse
William G. Holzberger
Marilyn Mumford
John V. Murphy
T. Tucker Orbison
Michael Payne
Karl W. Patten, Jr.
Richard Smith
Robert Love Taylor
John Wheatcroft