Staff
Jeanne Gee
(323) 343-4140
E&T A636
Stephanie Lai
(323) 343-4140
E&T A604
Tenured and Tenure-Track
Benjamin Bateman (Associate Professor) (webpage) (email) (Ph.D., University of Virginia) Transatlantic Modernisms; Queer Studies; Literary Theory; Studies in Popular Culture
Mary Bucci Bush (Professor) (webpage) (email) (D. A., Syracuse University) Creative writing (fiction)
Michael A. Calabrese (Professor) (webpage) (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 (Professor) (email) (Ph.D., University of Southern California) Twentieth-Century British literature; postcolonial literature; film; gender studies
Melvin B. Donalson (Professor) (webpage) (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
James M. Garrett (Professor and Department Chair) (webpage) (Ph.D., University of Southern California) British Romanticism; nationalism and literature; ecocriticism
Linda Greenberg (Associate Professor) (email) (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Ethnic American Literature; Women's Literature; 20th Century American Literature
Christopher S. Harris (Associate Professor) (webpage) (email) (Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, Ohio) History of composition instruction, writing pedagogy, digital rhetorics, objectives-based writing assessment
Michelle Hawley (Professor) (email) (Ph.D., University of Chicago) Victorian literature; children's literature; cultural studies; aesthetics
Nicole Horejsi (Assistant Professor) (email) (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Eighteenth-century British literature; Neoclassicism; women's writing; classical studies
Martin Huld (Professor) (webpage) (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Linguistics; history of the English language; language and culture
Steven S. Jones (Professor) (email) (Ph.D., University of California, Davis) Folklore; children's literature
Maria Karafilis (Professor) (webpage) (email) (Ph.D., University of Maryland) American Literature to 1900; narratives of citizenship and belonging
Andrew Lyndon Knighton (Professor) (webpage) (email) (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) American Literature to 1900; Cultural Studies; critical theory; print culture; aesthetics.
Atef Laouyene (Associate Professor) (webpage) (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
Kathryn Perry (Assistant Professor) (email) (Ph.D., University of Louisville) Community Literacy and Literacy Studies; Composition Theory and Pedagogy; Ethnography and Ethnographic Methods; Qualitative Research; Narrative Theory; Actor-Network Theory
Ruben D. Quintero (Professor) (webpage) (Ph.D., Harvard University) Eighteenth-Century British literature; classical rhetoric
Lauri Ramey (Professor) (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
Bidhan Roy (Associate Professor) (webpage) (email) (Ph.D., University of London) Postcolonial literature; Twentieth-Century British literature
Aaron Sonnenschein (Associate Professor) (webpage) (Ph.D., University of Southern California) Linguistics; language and culture; grammar
Alison Taufer (Professor) (email) (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Medieval and Renaissance drama, Shakespeare, Arthurian literature, sixteenth-century English prose
Lecturers
Joshua Adachi (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Hasmik Barsamian (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Simon Black (Lecturer) (email) (MFA, Columbia University) Composition, Creative Writing
Deborah Conway de Prieto (Lecturer) (email) (Ph.D., Pacifica Graduate Institute) Composition
Christine Danelski (email) (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University) Composition
Deborah Davis (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Daven Desai (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Tsoleen Donoyan (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Florence Emch (Lecturer) (email) (MA, Indiana University) Composition
Laura Garrett (Lecturer) (webpage) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Leone Hankey (Lecturer) (email) (JD, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Composition
Margaret Hart (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Ximena Hernandez (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Fred Hess (Lecturer) (email) (MFA, University of California, Los Angeles) Composition
Jenny Hicks (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Victoria Holladay (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Noelle Kahwaji (Lecturer) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Rebecca Kershman (Lecturer) (email) (MFA, University of Massachusetts) Composition
Janet Kraft (Lecturer) (email) (MFA, California State University, Long Beach) Composition
Daniel Lambert (Lecturer) (email) (MA, Loyola Marymount University) Composition
Kevin McCabe (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Karen McDermott (Lecturer) (email) (JD, MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Lianna Manukyan (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Andrew Montana (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Judy Olson (Lecturer) (email) (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine) Composition
Phil Poulos (Lecturer) (email) (Ph.D., University of Tulsa) Composition
Lollie Ragana (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Veronica Reyes (email) (MFA, University of Texas, El Paso) Composition
Jorge Ribeiro (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Christopher Rock (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Albert Vargas (Lecturer) (email) (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University) Composition
Niklas Watanabe (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition
Jonathan Zeiss (Lecturer) (email) (MA, California State University, Los Angeles) Composition