Faculty List
Department Faculty
![John Burt](../images/faculty/burt-john.jpg)
Expertise: American literature, romanticism, composition, philosophy of education, literature of the American South, poetry
![Ulka Anjaria](../images/faculty/anjaria-ulka.jpg)
Expertise: South Asian literatures and film, postcolonial literature and theory, narrative theory, the global novel, interdisciplinary approaches, literary theory
Expertise: Medieval and premodern literature and philosophy; Dante studies; disability studies; crip theory; women, gender, and sexuality studies; Italian studies; comparative literature; digital humanities
![Elizabeth Bradfield](../images/faculty/bradfield-elizabeth.jpg)
Expertise: Poetry, literary publishing, eco-writing
Pronunciation: Elizabeth Bradfield
![Brandon Callender](../images/faculty/callender-brandon.jpg)
Expertise: 19th- and 20th-century American literature, African American literature, film / media, and gender and sexuality studies, horror studies
![Emilie Diouf](../images/faculty/diouf-emilie.jpg)
Expertise: Anglophone and Francophone African literature, Caribbean literature, critical theory, film/media, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial theory and literature
![William Flesch](../images/faculty/flesch-william.jpg)
Expertise: Shakespeare, history of poetry, narrative theory, literature and science, film
![Krysten Hill reading to an audience](../images/faculty/hill-krysten.jpg)
Expertise: Poetry
photo credit: Jon Beckley
![Caren Irr](../images/faculty/irr-caren.jpg)
Expertise: Theory, film and media studies, contemporaneity, environmental humanities, the novel
Pronunciation: Irr as in "irregular" or "irritable"
![Marjan Kamali](../images/faculty/kamali-marjan.jpeg)
Expertise: Fiction and creative nonfiction
Expertise: Medieval literature, drama, digital humanities
![Thomas King](../images/faculty/king-thomas-new.jpg)
Expertise: Early modern English drama and social performance, 18th-century British studies, performance studies, queer studies, gender studies
![Stephen McCauley](../images/faculty/mccauley-stephen.jpg)
![Paul Morrison](../images/faculty/morrison-paul.jpg)
Expertise: Modernism, literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, film studies
![John Plotz](../images/faculty/plotz-john.jpg)
Expertise: Victorian literature, the novel, politics and aesthetics
![Laura Quinney](../images/faculty/quinney-laura.jpg)
Expertise: Romanticism, literature and philosophy, 18th-century literature
![David Sherman](../images/faculty/sherman-david.jpg)
Expertise: Global modernism, elegy and the politics of commemoration, public sphere theory, comedy, literature in the criminal justice system, literature and philosophy
![Jeffrey Shoulson](../images/faculty/shoulson-jeffrey.jpg)
Expertise: Early Modern English Literature, Jewish Studies, Biblical Studies
![Faith Smith](https://www.brandeis.edu/aaas/people/images/smith-faith.jpg)
Expertise: Caribbean cultural production; Black diasporic literature; afterlives of slavery, indenture and empire; gender and sexuality
![Howie Tam](../images/faculty/tam-howie.jpg)
Expertise: Asian American literature and film, Vietnam War literature and film, critical refugee studies, queer of color criticism, Vietnamese studies, critical race studies of the United States and France
![Ramie Targoff](../images/faculty/targoff-ramie.jpg)
Expertise: Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, religion and literature, Italian literature, women's writing
![Jerome Tharaud](../images/faculty/tharaud-jerome.jpg)
Expertise: Early American literature and culture, print culture and media, American religious history, art history and visual culture, theories of space and place, the American West
![Marc Weinberg](../images/faculty/weinberg-marc.jpg)
Expertise: Film, television, screenwriting
Emeritus
![Mary Baine Campbell](../images/faculty/campbell-mary-baine.jpg)
Expertise: Medieval and early modern literature and culture, 20th-century poetry, poetry of women in English, travel writing, history of science, creative writing
![Susan S. Lanser](../images/faculty/lanser-susan.jpg)
Expertise: 18th-century literature, culture, history, narrative theory and the novel, the French Revolution, gender and sexuality, Israel-Palestine studies
![Dawn Skorczewski](../images/faculty/skorczewski-dawn.jpg)
Expertise: 20th-century poetry, psychoanalysis and pedagogy, composition studies
![Susan Staves](../images/faculty/staves-susan-2022.jpg)
Expertise: 17th- and 18th-century British literature, history, and legal history
![Cheryl Walker](../images/faculty/walker-cheryl.jpg)
Affiliated
![Robin Feuer Miller](../images/faculty/miller-robin-feuer.jpg)