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English Department Faculty

 
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Catherine Blecki (Emeritus)
Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
 
  16th & 17th Century English Literature
A. Noelle Brada-Williams
Associate Professor

M.A. Graduate Coordinator
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998
Faculty Offices 110
408-924-4439
awilli@email.sjsu.edu

Ethnic American Literature, 18th-Century British Literature, Parody, Rhetoric & Composition

Balance Chow
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Univ. of Georgia, 1991
 
Faculty Offices 224
408-924-4430
balancechow@yahoo.com 

Literary Theory; Ethnic Literatures; Chinese Literature; Comparative Literature

Bonita M. Cox
Associate Professor
Career Writing Program Coordinator
Ph.D. Stanford, 1995
Faculty Offices 115
408-924-4449
bmcox@email.sjsu.edu
Classical & Medieval Literature; British History 500-1500; Celtic Studies; Technical Writing & Editing; Composition & Rhetoric; History of the Language
Robert Cullen
Professor
Ph.D. UCLA, 1981
Faculty Offices 117
408-924-4454
rcullen2000@earthlink.net

Rhetoric and Composition; American Literature

 

Paul Douglass
Professor
Director, Steinbeck Center
Ph.D. UCLA, 1981
Faculty Offices 108
408-924-4429
pdouglas@email.sjsu.edu

American Literature; Modernism; Byron

Adrienne L. Eastwood
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Univ. of California, San Diego, 2004
Faculty Offices 116
408-924-4509
eastwood@email.sjsu.edu
Early Modern English Literature and Culture; Shakespeare

 

John Engell (Chair)
Professor
Teaching Assistant Supervisor
Ph.D. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1979
Faculty Offices 218
408-924-4499
jfengell@email.sjsu.edu
Colonial American Literature; American Novel; Native-American Studies; Film &Literature
Andrew Fleck
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Claremont Graduate University, 2000
On Sabbatical Leave 2006-07
Faculty Offices 111
408-924-4457
afleck@email.sjsu.edu
 

Early Modern British Literature; Shakespeare; the Dutch in English Literature

Jack Haeger (Emeritus)
Professor
jhhaeger@yahoo.com  
Katherine D. Harris
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. City University of New York, 2005
Faculty Offices 220
408-924-4475
kharris@email.sjsu.edu

British Romanticism, Textual Theory, History of the Book, Feminist Theory

Allison Heisch
Professor
Ph.D. Harvard, 1977
Faculty Offices 107
408-924-4434
heisch@email.sjsu.edu

Renaissance Literature; Historiography; Critical Thinking & Writing; Interdisciplinary Arts & Humanities

Scott Hymas (Emeritus)

sshymas@hotmail.com

 
Persis Karim
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Texas, 1998
(on sabbatical Fall 2007)
Faculty Offices 216
408-924-4476
pkarim@email.sjsu.edu

Comparative Literature; Creative Writing; Ethnic American Literature; Postcolonial Literature; Iranian Diaspora Literature

Don Keesey (Emeritus)
Professor
Ph.D.
dkeesey@email.sjsu.edu  
Revathi Krishnaswamy
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Kent State University, 1990
Faculty Offices 125
408-924-1384
rkrishna@email.sjsu.edu

19th- & 20th-Century British Fiction; Colonial & Post-Colonial Literature; Critical Theory

Jonathan Lovell
Professor
Director, San Jose Area Writing Project & English Education Co-Coordinator
Ph.D. Yale, 1980
Faculty Offices 109
408-924-4437
jhlovell@pacbell.net
jlovell@email.sjsu.edu

Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing, K-14; Theory and Practice in the Teaching of English, 7-12; Reader Response Theory.

Samuel Maio
Professor
Ph.D. University of Southern California, 1986
Faculty Offices 223
408-924-4483
smaio@email.sjsu.edu

Creative Writing Poetry; Critical Theory; Modern Poetry

David Mesher
Professor
Ph.D. University of Washington, 1978
 
Faculty Offices 220
408-924-4440
mesher@email.sjsu.edu

Modern, Post-Modern, Post-Colonial & Comparative Literature

 

Cathleen Miller
Assistant Professor
MFA Penn State, 1997
 
Faculty Offices 125
408-924-4441
Miller2go@earthlink.net

Creative Writing: Nonfiction

 

Linda C. Mitchell
Professor
Ph.D. University of Southern California, 1996
Faculty Offices 117
408-924-4453
linda.mitchell@sjsu.edu

17th & 18th Century, Language Theory/Grammar; English Education; History of Rhetoric

Manjari Ohala
Professor
Ph.D. UCLA, 1972
Faculty Offices 116
408-924-4579
manju@trill.berkeley.edu 

Phonetics; Phonology; Sociolinguistics; Indo-Aryan Linguistics; Chair, LLD

Arlene Okerlund (Emeritus)
Professor
Ph.D. University of California San Diego, 1969
okerlund@email.sjsu.edu English Renaissance Literature; Shakespeare; Spenser; Marlowe
John Pollock
Professor
Advisement Coordinator & Honors Program Advisor
Ph.D. University of California Davis, 1971
Faculty Offices 111
408-924-4442
jpollock@email.sjsu.edu

17th-Century British Literature; Poetry

Scott Rice
Professor
Ph.D. Arizona, 1968
Faculty Offices 109
408-924-4447
Rhetoric & Composition; Freshman Composition; 18th-Century British Novel;
Smollett; Satire; Children's Literature
Gabriele Rico (Emeritus)
Professor
Ph.D. Stanford, 1976
Faculty Offices 114
408-924-4436
g_rico@comcast.net
larico@rcn.com 

Rhetoric & Composition; Creative Arts.

 

Franklin Rogers (Emeritus) frrogers@email.sjsu.edu  
Susan Shillinglaw
Professor
Ph.D. Univ. of North Carolina, 1985
Faculty Offices 118
408-924-4487
shilling@email.sjsu.edu 
sshillingl@aol.com 

American Literature; Steinbeck

Alan Soldofsky
Professor
MFA Program Director
MFA Iowa, 1972
Faculty Offices 106
408-924-4432
soldofsk@email.sjsu.edu

Contemporary Poetry; Modern American Poetry; Robinson Jeffers.

 

Nancy Stork (Assoc. Chair)
Professor
Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1985
Faculty Offices 218
408-924-4477
nstork@email.sjsu.edu
Medieval Literature
Nick Taylor
Assistant Professor
Advisor/Editor, Reed Magazine
MFA University of Virginia
Faculty Offices 219
408-924-4458
nicholas.p.taylor@gmail.com
Creative writing fiction
Mary Warner
Assistant Professor
Associate Director, San Jose Area Writing Project & English Education Co-Coordinator
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1992
Faculty Offices 109
408-924-4417
mwarner@email.sjsu.edu

Young Adult Literature; Bible as Literature; Professional Development of Secondary-Level English Teachers

 

William Wilson
Professor
Ph.D. Virginia, 1979
 
Faculty Offices 223
408-924-4510
drwawilson@hotmail.com
19th-Century British Literature; Contemporary Irish Literature

 

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