Literature Faculty

BA, Yale University. MA, PhD, University of Virginia. Special interest in British Romantic poetry, Romantic legacies in modern and contemporary poetry, and the history of criticism and theory. Essays published in Raritan, Parnassus, Keats-Shelley Journal, Philosophy and Literature, and Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets. SLC, 2001–

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MA, Hebrew University. PhD, Brown University. Special interests in critical and cultural theory, gender studies, postcolonial studies, translation studies, autobiography, and modern and contemporary fiction. Selected scholarly publications include essays in PMLA, MLN, Yale French Studies, Studies in Twentieth-Century Fiction, Yale Journal of Criticism, Modern Fiction Studies, Profils Américains, and in collections such as: Borderwork: Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature; Women, Autobiography, and Fiction: A Reader; Critical Cosmos: Latin American Approaches to Fiction; Feminism and Institutions: A Dialogue on Feminist Theory; and MLA Approaches to Teaching Representations of the Holocaust. Author of Can These Bones Live?: Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory; co-editor of Life/Lines: Theorizing Women’s Autobiography. Recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, Lucius Littauer Award, and Hewlett-Mellon grants. Visiting professor at Université de Montpellier-Paul Valéry and Université de Versailles-St. Quentin. SLC, 1984–

BA, University of California-Berkeley. MA, San Francisco State University. PhD, Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Special interests in Asian American literature and film, late 20th-century transnational East and Southeast Asian cultural studies, East Asian film, postcolonial theory, ethnic studies, globalization, affect, new media. SLC, 2007–

MA, University of California-Berkeley. PhD, University of California-Santa Barbara. Has published on late medieval and early Renaissance Peninsular literature, as well as Latin American literature (Sarmiento, Altamirano, Manuel de Jesús Galván). Among her translations are Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts (into Portuguese) and Caetano Veloso’s Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil (Knopff, 2002). Has taught at King’s College (London), Princeton, and Goucher College; directed and was the first resident director of the Sarah Lawrence in Havana program (2001-2004). She is currently at work on a bilingual edition of short tales from the Spanish-speaking world. SLC, 1997–

BA, New York University. MA, PhD, Yale University. Special interests include Restoration and 18th-century literature, the history of the novel, film and film theory, political history, Henry James, and gender studies. SLC, 2008–

BA, Tufts University. MA, PhD, University of Virginia. Special interests include African American literature and studies, 18th century to the present; Caribbean literature and studies, literatures in English and/or translations; early American/transatlantic literatures; postcolonial literatures in English, particularly of the African diaspora; race, cultural, and postcolonial theory; black popular culture; performance poetry; and the intersection of black music and resistance internationally. SLC, 2008–

BA, Columbia College. MA, Yale University. Special interest in 19th- and 20th-century American and European literature, with particular emphasis on relationships between politics and literature; recipient of French government-Fulbright fellowship for study at the Sorbonne. SLC, 1964-1971; 1974–

BA, University of Pennsylvania. Oxford University. MA, PhD, Princeton University. Special interest in medieval and Renaissance poetry, particularly English. Author of papers and articles on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson; Persuasions of Fall, a book of poems; and poems in Confrontation, Missouri Review, Parnassus, and other magazines; recipient of Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, Ernest J. Poetry Prize, Thouron-University of Pennsylvania British-American Exchange Program scholarship; Woodrow Wilson fellow. SLC, 1973–

BA, University of Pennsylvania. MA, Oxford University. MA, PhD, Princeton University. Special interest in American literature and film, the history of drama, and classical literature; recipient of the New York State Teacher of Excellence Award and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities; fiction and poetry published in Epoch, Lost Creek, Georgetown Review, Confrontation, and Pig Iron; plays performed throughout the United States and in the United Kingdom, Australia, and India; member of the Dramatists Guild. SLC, 1988–

BA, Yale University. MA, Tufts University. PhD, Columbia University. Special interest in modern and postmodern literature, the novel, and travel writing. Author of The Odyssey of Style in Ulysses, Penelope Voyages: Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition, and numerous essays on modern literature; editor of Transcultural Joyce and Decolonizing Tradition: New Views of Twentieth-Century “British” Literary Canons. Current work includes the fiction and theory of Christine Brooke-Rose and collected essays on Joyce. Recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence in Research, Teaching, and Service from the University of Utah. Former chair of English at the University of Utah and dean of humanities at the University of California-Irvine. Former president of the International James Joyce Foundation and the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. President of Sarah Lawrence College, 2007–

BA, Harvard University. PhD, Brown University. Special interest in American studies. Author of Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan and America’s Coming of Age as a Superpower, The Triumph of Meanness: America’s War Against Its Better Self, Their Last Battle: The Fight for the National World War II Memorial, Like a Holy Crusade: Mississippi 1964, The Crowd in American Literature, and American and English Fiction in the Nineteenth Century; editor of Getting Out: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq, Debating Affirmative Action, Arguing Immigration, Culture in an Age of Money, Busing USA, The New Journalism, and The New Killing Fields; contributor to The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, The Nation, Yale Review, National Law Journal, and The Guardian; editorial board member, Dissent magazine. Recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, and the Rockefeller Foundation. SLC, 1972–

BA, Bryn Mawr College. MA, University of Pennsylvania. PhD, Yale University. Special interests include theory of narrative, French literature of the 19th century, decadence in painting and literature, and semiotic and rhetorical approaches to the short story. Recipient of Yale University’s Mary Cady Tew Prize and the Dwight and Noyes Clark fellowship. Scholarly publications include essays in PMLA, Yale French Studies, Substance, and Romanic Review; the anthologies Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism and Maupassant Conteur et Romancier; and the books Hurdles and Moving Forward, Holding Fast: The Dynamics of Movement in Nineteenth-Century French Culture. Visiting professor at the Institut d’Études Francaises d’Avignon. Dean of studies, Sarah Lawrence College, 1972-1975. SLC, 1971–

BA, Yale University. MA, PhD, University of Massachusetts. Special interests in Milton, 17th-century English literature, English Romanticism, African literature, theology and poetics, and psychoanalytic criticism. Author of Lady in the Labyrinth: Milton’s ‘Comus’ as Initiation; co-author with Bonnie Shullenberger of Africa Time: Two Scholars’ Seasons in Uganda; essays published in Milton Studies, Renaissance Drama, and other journals and collections. Senior Fulbright Lecturer at Makerere University, Uganda, 1992-1994; director of NEH Summer Seminars on the Classical and the Modern Epic, 1996 and 1999. SLC, 1982–

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. Central interest in European history and culture, with special emphasis on military history and literature. Writes regularly for First of the Month, Dissent; occasional contributor to The Nation, The Observer (London); former editor, Audacity; contributing editor, American Heritage Magazine; SLC, 1987–

BA, Columbia College. Special interest in 19th-century European and English fiction, with emphasis on psychological and sociological relationships as revealed in works of Dickens, Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Balzac, Stendhal, James, Flaubert, and others. Dean of the College, 1980 to 1985. SLC, 1965–

MA, University of Glasgow. MA, PhD, New York University. Scholar and poet. Special interests in 18th- to 20th-century British literature, poetry and poetics, and Scottish writing. Recipient of a Hawthornden fellowship (2008) and current chair of the Scottish Literature Discussion Group of the Modern Language Association. Author of essays published in Romanticism’s Debatable Lands (Palgrave, 2007), Keats-Shelley Journal, Pequod, Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), and elsewhere. Poetry published in Best Scottish Poems (Scottish Poetry Library, 2005), Poetry Review, The Independent, The Scotsman, Grand Street, and Literary Review. SLC, 2008–