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Terry Allison (Professor; Dean, College of Arts and Letters) (email) (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego)  Comparative contemporary fiction (English and French); cultural studies; gender, sexuality, and queer studies

Betty Bamberg (Professor) (webpage) (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Rhetoric; composition studies; sociolinguistics

Lita Barrie (Lecturer) (email) (MA, Victoria University) Composition

Benjamin Bateman (Assistant Professor) (email) (Ph.D., University of Virginia) Transatlantic Modernisms; Queer Studies; Literary Theory; Studies in Popular Culture

Lise Buranen (Lecturer; Acting Director, University Writing Center) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition

Mary Bucci Bush (Professor) (email) (D. A., Syracuse University) Creative writing (fiction)

Michael A. Calabrese (Professor) (email) (Ph.D., University of Virginia) Medieval literature; Chaucer; classical studies

Roberto Cantú (Professor) (webpage) (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Latin American and Mexican American literatures; literary theory and criticism; Chicano film; Mexican cultural history

Hema Chari (Department Chair; Professor) (email) (Ph. D., University of Southern California) Twentieth-Century British literature; postcolonial literature; film; gender studies

John L. Cleman (Professor) (email) (Ph. D., University of Wisconsin) American literature; American studies

Deborah Davis (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition

Melvin B. Donalson (Professor) (email) (Ph.D., Brown University)  American Cinema; Creative Writing; Ethnic literature and American Popular Culture

Marilyn Elkins (Professor) (email) (Ph. D., University of North Carolina) American literature; women's literature; African-American literature; composition

Florence Emch (Lecturer) (email) (MA, Indiana University) Composition

James M. Garrett (Associate Professor) (webpage) (Ph. D., University of Southern California) British Romanticism; British literature; critical theory; composition

Laura Garrett (Lecturer) (webpage) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition

Linda Greenberg (Assistant Professor) (email) (Ph. D., University of California, Los Angeles) Ethnic American Literature; Women's Literature; 20th Century American Literature

Christopher S. Harris (Assistant Professor) (webpage) (Ph. D., Bowling Green State University, Ohio) History of composition instruction, writing pedagogy, digital rhetorics, objectives-based writing assessment

Margaret Hart (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition

Michelle Hawley (Associate Professor) (webpage) (Ph. D., University of Chicago) Victorian literature; children's literature; cultural studies; aesthetics

Martin Huld (Professor) (webpage) (Ph. D., University of California, Los Angeles) Linguistics; history of the English language; language and culture

Steven S. Jones (Professor) (webpage) (Ph. D., University of California, Davis) Folklore; children's literature

Noelle Kahwaji (Lecturer) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition

Maria Karafilis (Professor) (website) (Ph. D., University of Maryland) American Literature to 1900; theory of the novel; women's literature

Judith Kendall (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition

Andrew Knighton (Assistant Professor) (email) (Ph. D., University of Minnesota) American Literature to 1900; Cultural Studies; critical theory; print culture; aesthetics.

Janet Kraft (Lecturer) (email) (MFA, California State University, Long Beach) Composition

Atef Laouyene (Assistant Professor) (email) (Ph.D., University of Ottawa, Canada) Postcolonial Studies; Anglophone Literatures; Critical Theory; Arab Diaspora Studies

Jun Liu (Professor) (email) (Ph. D., University of Massachusetts) Critical Theory, Twentieth Century American Literature, American Ethnic Literature, 19th Century and 20th Century European Literature, diasporic and postcolonial literature

Caroline McManus (Professor) (email) (Ph. D., University of California, Los Angeles) Shakespeare; Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English literature; women's studies

Jennifer Ohlund (Assistant Professor) (email) Eighteenth-Century British literature

Judy Olson (Lecturer) (email) (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine) Composition

Marlene Pearson (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Northridge) Composition

Phil Poulos (Lecturer) (email) (Ph.D., University of Tulsa) Composition

Ruben D. Quintero (Professor) (webpage) (Ph. D., Harvard University) Eighteenth-Century British literature; classical rhetoric

Lollie Ragana (Lecturer) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition

Lauri Ramey (Professor; Director, Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics) (webpage) (Ph.D., University of Chicago) Creative writing, lyric poetry and poetics, African American literature, the intersection of critical and creative writing, formally innovative literature, modernism and postmodernism, and black British writing

David Reyes (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition

Jorge Ribeiro (Lecturer) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition

Buddy Roberts (Lecturer) (email) (MA, Syracuse University) Composition

Sue Rosvall (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition

Arpi Sarafian (Lecturer) (email) (Ph.D., University of Southern California) Composition

Carl M. Selkin (Professor) (webpage) (Ph. D., State University of New York at Binghamton) Seventeenth-Century poetry and prose; Canadian literature

Sharon Smartt (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition

Aaron Sonnenschein (Assistant Professor) (webpage) (Ph. D., University of Southern California) Linguistics; language and culture; grammar

Timothy Steele (Professor) (webpage) (Ph. D., Brandeis University) Creative writing (poetry); critical theory; classical studies; modern poetry

Alison Taufer (Professor) (webpage) (Ph. D., University of California, Los Angeles) Medieval and Renaissance drama, Shakespeare, Arthurian literature, sixteenth-century English prose

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