Peter Brier
Emeritus Professor of English; Ph.D., Occidental College/Claremont Graduate School
Contact: (323) 343-4289
E-mail: [email protected]
- British Romantic literature
- Literary criticism
- American and Anglo-Jewish writers of the 19th and 20th centuries
- American literary criticism
- English Romantic writers
- Cultural criticism
Fluent in: German.
Mary Bucci Bush
Emerita Professor of English; D.A., Syracuse University
Contact: (323) 343-4174
E-mail: [email protected]
- Fiction writing
- Creative writing
- Short stories
- Italian immigrant culture and Italian American writers
- Relationship between Blacks and Italians
Michael Calabrese
Professor of English; Ph.D., University of Virginia
Contact: (323) 343-4288
E-mail: [email protected]
- Medieval literature
- Chaucer
- Piers Plowman
- Classical studies
Hema Chari
Emerita Professor of English; Ph.D., USC
Contact: (323) 343-4294
E-mail: [email protected]
- Modern and postmodern British literature
- 20th century fiction
- Colonial and postcolonial writers and theory
- Gender studies/feminist theory
- Marxist theory
- Film theory and cultural studies
- Third World literature
Fluent in: French, Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu.
Linda Greenburg
Professor of English; Ph.D.
Contact: (323) 343-5812
E-mail: [email protected]
- Ethnic American literature
- 20th Century American literature
- Women's and Gender Studies
- Community Engagement Practices in English
Lauren Heintz
Assistant Professor of English; Ph.D., UC San Diego
Contact: (323) 343-4140
E-mail: [email protected]
- American and ethnic literature
- Gender and sexuality studies
- Ethnic and race relations in the 19th century
Steven Swann Jones
Emeritus Professor of English; Ph.D., UC Davis
Contact: (323) 343-4293
E-mail: [email protected]
- Folklore
- Fairy tales
- Children's literature
- Folklore in American literature
Jun Liu
Emeritus Professor of English; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts; Post-graduate Certificate in Translation, United Nations Translation Program in Beijing
Contact: (323) 343-5345
E-mail: [email protected]
- 20th century American literature (particularly Faulkner)
- 19th century and 20th century European literatures
- Critical theory
- Asian diasporan literature
- Cultural translation
- Enlightenment modernity and aesthetic modernity in the 19th century
- Asian American literature
Fluent in: Chinese.
Caroline McManus
Emerita Professor of English; Ph.D., UCLA
Contact: (323) 343-4151
E-mail: [email protected]
- Elizabethan court culture, portraits and literature
- 16th and 17th century English literature
- Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton and early modern women writers
Lauri Ramey
Emerita Professor of English; Director, Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Contact: (323) 343-4165
E-mail: [email protected]
- American poetry
- Poetics, particularly modern and contemporary
- International poetries
- Poetry of the African diaspora, especially African American and Black British
- Live art and performance poetry
- African American Poetry Archive
- Teaching of creative writing
Alison Taufer
Professor of English; Ph.D., UCLA
Contact: (323) 343-4152
E-mail: [email protected]
- Comparative literature
- Chivalric romance
- Arthurian literature
- Medieval drama and romance
- Renaissance drama
- Renaissance prose fiction
Fluent in: Spanish.