Faculty and Staff


  • Alexandra Block

    Assistant Professor of English
    Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison
    Scholarly interests: Renaissance literature, lyric poetry, theology and literature

  • Paula Closson Buck

    Professor of English
    Ph.D. Ohio
    Scholarly interests: creative writing (poetry), modern British and American literature

  • Christopher Camuto

    Associate Professor of English
    Ph.D. Virginia
    Scholarly interests: creative writing (non-fiction), American and Native American literature

  • Glynis Carr

    Associate Professor of English
    Ph.D. Ohio State
    Scholarly interests: American literature, feminist theory, women's studies, eco-feminism

  • Greg Clingham

    Professor of English
    Director of Bucknell University Press
    Ph.D. Cambridge
    Scholarly interests: English literature 1660–1860, literature in relation to law, history, memory, translation, landscape, the environment, and the exotic.

  • Mara de Gennaro

    Assistant Professor of English
    Ph.D. Columbia
    Scholarly interests: Comparative modernisms; Postcolonial literature and theory; 2oth- and 21st-century British, Global Anglophone, Caribbean, and African literatures.

  • Michael Drexler

    Associate Professor of English
    Ph.D. Brown
    Scholarly interests: early American literature

  • Eric Faden

    Associate Professor of English
    Ph.D. Florida
    Scholarly interests: film studies, video production

  • Carmen Gillespie

    Professor of English
    Director of the Griot Institute of Africana Studies
    Ph.D. Emory
    Scholarly interests: American literature, African American literature, Caribbean literature, creative writing

  • Amanda Keeler

    Visiting Assistant Professor of English
    Ph.D. Indiana University
    Scholarly interests: Film and media studies, video production, media criticism and theory

  • Shara McCallum

    Professor of English
    Ph.D. Binghamton
    Scholarly interests: creative writing (poetry and creative nonfiction), contemporary poetry and poetics

  • Ghislaine McDayter

    Department Chair
    Professor of English
    Ph.D. Duke
    Scholarly interests: Romantic literature, literary theory, 18th- and 19th-century English literature, women’s studies

  • Saundra Morris

    Professor of English
    Ph.D. Cornell
    Scholarly interests: 19th-century American literature, American poetry, social justice

  • Derek Palacio

    Assistant Professor of English
    M.F.A. Ohio State University
    Scholarly interests: creative writing (fiction and screenwriting); contemporary literature; Latin American literature.

  • Jean Peterson

    Associate Professor of English
    Ph.D. Pennsylvania
    Scholarly interests: Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, dramatic literature

  • Gregory Pierrot

    Visiting Assistant Professor of English
    Ph.D. Penn State
    Scholarly interests: African American literature, race and nation, cultural studies, music in literature

  • Harriet Pollack

    Professor of English
    Ph.D. Virginia
    Scholarly interests: American literature, the modern novel, Southern literature, American women writers, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty

  • Meenakshi Ponnuswami

    Associate Professor of English
    Ph.D. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Scholarly interests: dramatic literature, theater history, performance theory

  • John Rickard

    Professor of English
    Ph.D. North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Scholarly interests: James Joyce, Irish studies, modern British literature, science and literature

  • Robert Rosenberg

    Associate Professor of English
    M.F.A. Iowa
    Scholarly interests: creative writing (fiction), American and British Literature

  • Harold Schweizer

    Professor of English
    Ph.D. University of Zürich
    Scholarly interests: modern poetry, literary theory, studies in suffering and representation, comparative humanities

  • Alf Siewers

    Associate Professor of English
    Ph.D. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Scholarly interests: medieval literature, Celtic studies, literature and the environment

  • G.C. Waldrep

    Associate Professor of English
    Director of Graduate Studies in English
    Editor of West Branch
    Ph.D. Duke
    Scholarly interests: history, creative writing/poetry, American Studies

  • Claire Watkins

    Assistant Professor of English
    M.F.A  Ohio State University
    Scholarly interests: creative writing (fiction and creative nonfiction); contemporary literature, literature of the American West

  • Virginia Zimmerman

    Associate Professor of English
    Ph.D. Virginia
    Scholarly interests: Victorian literature, children’s literature, science and literature