Faculty

• Ratio of majors to full-time department faculty: 5:1
• Average class size, introductory: 25
• Average class size, advanced: 15

Full-Time Faculty

Kerry Bakken B.A., Colgate University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Houston

Christopher Bakken B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.F.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., The University of Houston

James Bulman B.A., Cornell University; M.A., University of Wales at Aberystwyth; Ph.D., Yale University

M. Caballero B.A., Appalachian State University; M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., Tufts University

Terra Caputo

Diane D'Amico B.A., Merrimack College; M.A., Villanova University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Jennifer Drouin B.A., Université Sainte-Anne; M.A., Acadia University; Ph.D., McGill University

Jennifer Hellwarth (chair) B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Anne Jones

Aisha Damali Lockridge

Lloyd Michaels B.A., Brandeis University, 1966; M.A., Ohio University, 1967; Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1972

David Miller A.B., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University

Heather Murray

Kirk Nesset B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Christopher Potter

Laura Quinn B.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Benjamin Slote B.A., Northwestern University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University

Susan Slote

Selected Publications and Achievements

• Elia Kazan, published by G.K. Hall.
• Christina Rossetti: Faith, Gender, and Time, published by Louisiana State University Press.
• "Listening to 'The Goophered Grapevine,' and Hearing Raisins Sing" published in American Literary History.
• "'Trifles' as Treason: Coming to Consciousness as Gendered Readers," in Generating Reader Response to Literature.
• "The Servant and the Served: Ellen Douglas's Can't Quit You, Baby," published in The Southern Literary Journal.
• President, Shakespeare Association of America (first faculty member from a liberal arts college to hold the position).
• "Moby Dick Meets Big Nurse: A Feminist Defense of a Misogynist Text," published in Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints.
• The Stories of Raymond Carver, published by Ohio University Press.
• Dark Eden: The Swamp in 19th Century American Culture, published by Cambridge University Press.
• General Editor, Shakespeare in Performance series (36 volumes), published by Manchester University Press.
• Editor, American Iconology: New Approaches to 19th Century Art and Literature, published by Yale University Press.
• The Phantom of the Cinema in Modern Film, published by State University Press of New York.
• "Mirrors of Language, Mirrors of Self: The Conceptualization of Artistic Identity in Gaspara Stampa and Sofonisba Anguissola" published in Maternal Measures.
• Ingmar Bergman's Persona, published by Cambridge University Press.
• T. S. Eliot Prize in Poetry for After Greece, a book of poems published by Truman State University Press
• The Roy T. Ames Essay Award
• "Necessary Lies," published in Story Quarterly
• "'Be unto me as a precious ointment': Lady Grace Mildmay: Sixteenth Century Female Practitioner" in Dynamis: International Journal of the History of Science and Medicine
• "Anti-Pastoral and Guilty Vision in Richard Rodriguez's Days of Obligation" in Texas Studies in Literature and Language
• "Mr Agreeable," published in the 1999 Pushcart Anthology