Anthony Stewart
Professor of English
English Department Chair, Director of Literary Studies; Specialization: 20th- and 21st-century African American literature and culture
Faculty & Staff
The Bucknell community mourns the loss of our beloved colleague and friend Carmen Gillespie, who passed away unexpectedly at her home on Friday, August 30. At Bucknell, Carmen was a professor of English and founder and director of the Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives and Cultures.
Department Chairs and Academic Assistants
Denise Lewis
Lead Academic Assistant, Humanities; Academic Assistant, English
Contact
denise.lewis@bucknell.eduAll Faculty and Staff
Chris Camuto
Associate Professor of English
Director of Creative Writing; Specialization: nonfiction with a focus on nature, the environment, science, travel, history and culture
Contact
chris.camuto@bucknell.edu
Jeremy Chow
Assistant Professor of English
Specialization: 18th century literature & culture, gender, queer, & sexuality studies, environmental humanities, animal & plant studies, the blue humanities
Contact
jhc034@bucknell.eduPaula Closson Buck
Professor of English
Rafe Dalleo
Professor of English
Director of Film/Media Studies, Affiliated Faculty in Latin American Studies; Specialization: world literature, Caribbean studies, postcolonial theory
Contact
r.dalleo@bucknell.edu
Michael Drexler
Professor of English
Specialization: early and 19th century American literature, literary theory, slavery and resistance in the Americas
Contact
michael.drexler@bucknell.edu
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ken.eisenstein@bucknell.eduContact
eric.faden@bucknell.edu
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cpg008@bucknell.eduKatie Hays
Assistant Professor of English
Specialization: poetry writing, contemporary poetry, creative writing
Contact
katie.hays@bucknell.eduJennifer Hessler
CFD Postdoctoral Fellow in English
Specialization: television studies, media industries, surveillance, cultural representation
Contact
jmh073@bucknell.edu
Mai-Linh Hong
Assistant Professor of English
Specialization: American literature (20th & 21st c.), Asian American literature, critical race and ethnic studies, critical refugee studies, law and humanities, contemporary poetry
Contact
mai-linh.hong@bucknell.edu
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kat.lecky@bucknell.eduDenise Lewis
Lead Academic Assistant, Humanities; Academic Assistant, English
Contact
denise.lewis@bucknell.edu
Elena Machado
Professor of English
Affiliated Faculty in Latin American Studies; Specialization: contemporary American, US Latinx, and Caribbean diaspora literatures
Contact
e.machado@bucknell.edu
Ghislaine McDayter
Professor of English
Specialization: 18th and 19th century British literature, romanticism, feminist and queer theory
Rebecca Meyers
Academic Film Programmer and Lecturer
Specialization: digital video and 16mm filmmaking, avant-garde cinema, film programming & exhibition
Contact
rebecca.meyers@bucknell.edu
Contact
daniel.nienhuis@bucknell.edu
Chinelo Okparanta
Associate Professor of English
Specialization: art and craft of short fiction and of the novel, with emphasis on multicultural literature written in English, including contemporary literature of the African diaspora, African realism vs Afrofuturism, and contemporary LGBTQ literature
Contact
jean.peterson@bucknell.edu
Meenakshi Ponnuswami
Associate Professor of English
Specialization: black British and British Asian theatre; theatre of the Black Arts Movement; modern drama; theatre of the Civil Rights era; ethnic comedy; masculinity in American theatre
Contact
m.ponnuswami@bucknell.edu
Robert Rosenberg
Professor of English
Specialization: Creative Writing (fiction), travel writing, contemporary American and British literature
Joe Scapellato
Assistant Professor of English
Specialization: fiction (short stories, novels) and screenwriting
Contact
joe.scapellato@bucknell.eduChet'la Sebree
Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts
Specialization: poetry writing with a particular attention to the line and formal experimentation; Creative Writing, poetry, contemporary poetry, slavery and early American history, women, gender, and sexuality studies, Black womanhood
Contact
cns007@bucknell.eduPhilip Sewell
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Contact
philip.sewell@bucknell.edu
Alf Siewers
Associate Professor of English
Affiliated Faculty in Environmental Studies & Sciences; Specialization: early literature, Christian literature, nature literature, literary resistance to totalitarianism, public writing and media, the novel
Contact
alf.siewers@bucknell.eduAnthony Stewart
Professor of English
English Department Chair, Director of Literary Studies; Specialization: 20th- and 21st-century African American literature and culture
Contact
anthony.stewart@bucknell.eduG.C. Waldrep
Professor of English; Editor of West Branch
Specialization: Creative Writing; poetry; creative nonfiction (lyric essay); modernism and postmodernism; Dada and surrealism; ecopoetics; ekphrastic poetics; religion and poetry
Contact
gc.waldrep@bucknell.edu
Virginia Zimmerman
Professor of English
Specialization: children's and young adult literature, Victorian literature, material culture and time
Emeriti Faculty
Dennis Baumwoll
Professor of English,Emeritus
Contact
baumwoll@bucknell.eduGlynis Carr
Associate Professor of English,Emerita
Contact
glynis.carr@bucknell.eduPauline Fletcher
Professor of English,Emerita
Contact
pfletchr@bucknell.eduHarry Garvin
John P. Crozer Professor of English Literature,Emeritus
Contact
hgarvin@bucknell.eduSaundra Morris
Professor of English,Emerita
Contact
saundra.morris@bucknell.eduMarilyn Mumford
Professor of English,Emerita
Contact
mumford@bucknell.eduJohn Murphy
Professor of English,Emeritus
Contact
jmurphy@bucknell.eduT. Tucker Orbison
Professor of English,Emeritus
Contact
orbison@bucknell.eduHarriet Pollack
Professor of English,Emerita
Contact
harriet.pollack@bucknell.eduJohn Rickard
Professor of English,Emeritus
Contact
john.rickard@bucknell.eduHarold Schweizer
Professor of English,Emeritus
Robert Taylor
Professor of English,Emeritus
Contact
rtaylor@bucknell.eduEnglish
Location
121 Vaughan Literature Building