Faculty Accepting Graduate Students
Work with our faculty.
Prospective graduate students are encouraged to identify faculty whose research and teaching align with their interests. The faculty listed below are tenure-track members of the department and are eligible to advise graduate students.
Applicants are welcome to review faculty profiles and indicate potential advisors in their application materials. While admission is not contingent on securing an advisor in advance, demonstrating alignment with faculty expertise is an important part of the application process.
English Graduate Faculty (Ph.D. and M.A.)
| Name | Area Group |
| Amanda Bailey | Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern |
| Sharada Balachandran Orihuela | American, Multi-ethnic Literatures of the United States, and Comparative Literature |
| Ralph Bauer | American and Comparative Literature |
| Tita Chico | 1700-1900 British and Irish/Transatlantic |
| Kim Coles | Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern |
| John Drabinski | African American/Caribbean and Postcolonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial, and Global Anglophone, and Comparative Literature |
| Chris Eng | American, Multi-ethnic Literatures of the United States, and Comparative Literature |
| Jessica Enoch | Language, Writing, and Rhetoric |
| Oliver Gaycken | Modernist, Postmodernist, and Contemporary, Cinema/Media Studies, and Comparative Literature |
| Angela Glotfelter | Language, Writing, and Rhetoric |
| Chad Infante | African American/Caribbean and Postcolonial and Comparative Literature |
| Michael Israel | Language, Writing, and Rhetoric |
| Lee Konstantinou | Modernist, Postmodernist, and Contemporary |
| Kari Kraus | Digital Humanities |
| Marilee Lindemann | American |
| Peter Mallios | American |
| Randy Ontiveros | American, Multi-ethnic Literatures of the United States, and Comparative Literature |
| Marisa Parham | Digital Humanities, African American/Caribbean and Postcolonial |
| Gerard Passannante | Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern, and Comparative Literature |
| Sangeeta Ray | African American/Caribbean and Postcolonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial, and Global Anglophone, and Comparative Literature |
| Kellie Robertson | Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern, and Comparative Literature |
| Laura Rosenthal | 1700-1900 British and Irish/Transatlantic |
| Jason Rudy | 1700-1900 British and Irish/Transatlantic and Postcolonial, Decolonial, and Global Anglophone |
| Cecilia Shelton | Language, Writing, and Rhetoric |
| David Simon | Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern and Comparative Literature |
| Scott Trudell | Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern |
| Vessela Valiavitcharska | Language, Writing, and Rhetoric and Comparative Literature |
| Christina Walter | Modernist, Postmodernist, and Contemporary |
| Orrin Wang | 1700-1900 British and Irish/Transatlantic and Language, Writing, and Rhetoric |
| Scott Wible | Language, Writing, and Rhetoric |
| Sara Wilder | Language, Writing, and Rhetoric |
| Edlie Wong | American |
Comparative Literature
| Name | Home Department | Area Group |
| Josh Alvizu | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | German Studies |
| Luka Arsenjuk | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Cinema and Media Studies |
| Hester Baer | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | German Studies |
| Sharada Balachandran Orihuela | English | Multi-ethnic Literatures of the United States |
| Ralph Bauer | English | American Literature |
| John Drabinski | English | African American/Caribbean and Postcolonial |
| Caroline Eades | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | French Studies and cinema and Media Studies |
| Oliver Gaycken | English | Modernist, Postmodernist, and Contemporary and Cinema and Media Studies |
| Anny Gaul | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Arabic Studies |
| Chad Infante | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | African American/Caribbean and Postcolonial and Comparative Literature |
| Ryan Long | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Spanish and Portuguese |
| Matthew Miller | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Persian Studies |
| Randy Ontiveros | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Multi-ethnic Literatures of the United States |
| Elizabeth Papazian | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Russian Studies and Cinema and Media Studies |
| Gerard Passannante | English | Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern |
| Sean Pue | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | South Asian Studies |
| Sangeeta Ray | English | African American/Caribbean and Postcolonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial, and Global Anglophone, and Comparative Literature |
| Mauro Resmini | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Italian and Cinema and Media Studies |
| Kellie Robertson | English | Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern |
| David Simon | English | Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern |
| Vessela Valiavitcharska | English | Language, Writing, and Rhetoric and Comparative Literature |
| Orrin Wang | English | 1700-1900 British and Irish/Transatlantic and Language, Writing, and Rhetoric |
| Eric Zakim | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Jewish Studies and Cinema and Media Studies |
| Affiliate Faculty | Home Department | Area Group |
| Francisco Barrenechea | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Classics |
| Maria Beliaeva Solomon | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | French |
| Andrea Frisch | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | French |
| Fatemeh Keshavarz | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Persian Studies |
| Michael Lavery | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Russian |
| Michele Mason | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Japanese |
| Valérie Orlando | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | French and Cinema and Media Studies |
| Marisa Parham | English | Digital Humanities, African American/Caribbean and Postcolonial |
| Andrew Schonebaum | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Chinese |