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Administration and Staff

Administration and Staff

Chair: Phillip Brian Harper

Deputy Chair: Karen Newman

Director of Graduate Studies: Elizabeth McHenry

Director of Undergraduate Studies: Gabrielle Starr

Faculty Secretary: Lytle Shaw

Advisor for Dramatic Literature: Gabrielle Starr

Director of Graduate Admissions: Bryan Waterman

Coordinator, Prospective PhD Open House: Crystal Parikh

Coordinator, Prospective PhD Recruitment: Patrick Deer

Graduate Job Placement Coordinator: Paula McDowell

Field Colloquium Coordinators: Patrick Deer, Hal Momma

Directors of the Poetics Institute: Denis Donoghue, Anselm Haverkamp

Director of the Henry James Associates: John Maynard

Director of The Summer in London Program: Ernest Gilman

Department Administrator : Susan McKeon

Graduate Program Administrator: Lissette Roarabaugh

Undergraduate Administrative Aide: Shanna Williams

Administrative Aide to the Chair: Patricia Okoh-Esene

Dramatic Literature Administrative Aide: Taeesha Muhammad


Advisory Committee: John Archer (term 08-11), Karen Newman (term 07-10; on leave spring 2009), Bryan Waterman (term 08-11; on leave fall 2008), Jini Kim Watson (term 08-11), Robert Young (term 06-09; on leave spring 2009), Thomas Augst (replacement, 08-09), Martha Rust (replacement, spring 2009)

Graduate Program Committee: Elizabeth McHenry (chair), Tom Augst, Christopher Cannon, Patrick Deer, Juliet Fleming, Phil Harper (ex-officio; non-voting), Bridget McFarland (student member), Yair Solan (student member)

Undergraduate Program Committee: Gabrielle Starr (chair), Jennifer Baker (spring), John Guillory, Maureen McLane (fall), Phil Harper (ex-officio; non-voting), Cyrus Patell, Sukdev Sandhu, plus one undergraduate student rep.

Ph.D. Admissions Committee: Christopher Cannon (chair), John Archer, Jennifer Baker, Anselm Haverkamp, Hal Momma, Crystal Parikh, Lytle Shaw, Cliff Siskin, Raji Sunder Rajan

M.A. Admissions Committee: Christopher Cannon (chair), Juliet Fleming, Cyrus Patell, Martha Rust

Graduate Job Placement Committee: Paula McDowell (coordinator), Mary Poovey, Cliff Siskin

IT Committee: Martha Rust (chair), David Hoover (fall), Patrick Deer, Phil Harper (ex-officio; non-voting), Sukdev Sandhu, Cliff Siskin, Bryan Waterman (spring)

Senior Twentieth-Century Search Committee: Karen Newman (chair), Patrick Deer, Phil Harper, Sukdev Sandhu, Lytle Shaw, Roy Perez (student member)

Mid-Career Victorianist Search Committee: Gabrielle Starr (chair), Tom Augst, Juliet Fleming, John Guillory, Jeff Spear, Yohei Igarashi (student member)


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