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Faculty Hiring Initiative

Faculty Hiring Initiative

The Department of English is currently completing a two-year search for six new senior faculty members. With this expansion, we are on the way to transforming a strong program into one of the nation’s leading centers for literary study.

New Faculty

John Archer, Professor
Ph.D. 1988, Princeton
16^th and 17^th Century English literature, including drama; literature and cultural theory and the history of criticism; cultural studies

Jennifer Baker, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2000, University of Pennsylvania
American literature; colonial, early national and antebellum literary and intellectual history; American RomanticismAmerican literature; colonial, early national and antebellum literary and intellectual history; American Romanticism

Patricia Crain, Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1996, Columbia University

Toral Gajarawala

Paula McDowell

Karen Newman
Ph.D. 1978 (Comparative Literature), M.A. 1972 (Comparative Literature) University of California Berkeley
Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama; early modern literature and culture; English and continental; literary theory; gender studies; cultural translation

Crystal Parikh, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2000, University of Maryland
Asian American literature and studies; Latino/Chicano literature and studies; feminist and minority discourse theory; postcolonial studies; 20^th century American literature

Jini K. Watson, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2006, Duke University
Asia-Pacific literature and cultural studies; postcolonial studies; spatial and architectural theory; comparative modernities; feminist and critical theory

Robert Young, Professor
D. Phil. 1979, Exeter College, Oxford
Postcolonial literatures and cultures; the history of colonialism and anti-colonialism; cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries; literary and cultural theory; Romanticism; Victorian literature and culture

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