English Faculty

Katie M. Adkison

Assistant Professor of English

Jessica L. Anthony

Lecturer in English

Autofiction, creative nonfiction, creative writing, essay, graphic and digital/multimedia narratives, hybrid narratives, memoir, Modernism, novel, novella, Postmodernism, short stories, Surrealism

Todd P. Carmody

Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Steven C. Dillon

Professor of English

film studies

Sylvia A. Federico

Professor of English

Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin literature and history, Benedictine manuscript culture, Chaucer, French literary and historical connections to England, Iberian and Italian literary and historical connections to England, late medieval literary London, manuscript studies, medieval studies, Middle English language and culture, Middle English literature

Sanford A. Freedman

Associate Professor of English

Myronn E. Hardy

Lecturer in English

Lillian R. Nayder

Professor of English

biography, Charles Dickens, Dickens studies, life writing, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Victorian authorship, Victorian fiction, Victorian gender studies, Wilkie Collins

Therí Pickens

Professor of English

20th and 21st century African American/Arab American literature, African American literature and cultural studies, Arab American literature and cultural studies, black feminism, cognitive impairment, disability, disability studies, gender studies, literary theory, mental health, physical impairment, spectacular fiction

Tiffany M. Salter

Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies and English

Robert B. Strong

Lecturer in English and Director of National Fellowships

early American history and culture, early American literature, early American puritan conversion and narratives, Indian and English translation efforts in the 17th century, poetics, poetics, poetry, poetry, poetry and archival research

Myra E. Wright

Visiting Assistant Professor of English