Faculty and Staff

Current Faculty and Staff

Alex Alston

Assistant Professor of Literatures in English
Areas of Focus
nineteenth and twentieth-century African American literature, the afterlives of slavery, Black eco-literary traditions, ecofeminism ...
Contact
Location English House 204
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Devin William Daniels

Visiting Assistant Professor of Literatures in English
Areas of Focus
Twentieth-century American literature, film and media studies, contemporary literature, critical data studies, writing pedagogy.
Contact
Location English House 206
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Chloe Flower

Assistant Professor of Literatures in English
Areas of Focus
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century transatlantic literature and culture; childhood studies; children’s literature; juvenilia; object ...
Contact
Phone 610-526-5403
Location English House 202
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Colby Gordon

Associate Professor of Literatures in English
Areas of Focus
Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, trans studies, queer theory, law and literature, religion and literature.
Contact
Phone 610-526-5413
Location English House 210
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Jennifer Harford Vargas

Associate Professor of Literatures in English on the Dorothy Nepper Marshall Professorship of Hispanic and Hispanic-American Studies
Co-Director of LAILS
Areas of Focus
Latina/o literary and cultural productions; contemporary U.S. literatures; trans-national American studies
Contact
Phone 610-526-5309
Location English House 205
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Vanessa Petroj

Director of Multi-Lingual Writing and Lecturer in Writing Program
Areas of Focus
Rhetoric and composition, spoken and written multilingualism, linguistics, code-switching, contrastive grammar, reading comprehension. ...
Contact
Phone 610-526-7743
Location English House 207
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Jess Shollenberger

Visiting Assistant Professor of Literatures in English
Areas of Focus
Twentieth-century and contemporary American literature, modernism, queer studies, affect theory, trans studies.
Contact
Phone 610-526-7742
Location English House 203
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Kate Thomas

K. Laurence Stapleton Professor of Literatures in English
Areas of Focus
Nineteenth-century British literature and culture; queer studies; nineteenth-century communication technologies; history of sexuality; cr...
Contact
Phone 610-526-5305
Location English House 200
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Emeritus Faculty

Linda-Susan Beard

Professor Emeritus of Literatures in English
Areas of Focus
Contemplative intelligence, post-colonial literatures, South African and African-American literature  
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Carol L. Bernstein

Mary E. Garrett Alumnae Professor Emeritus of English and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature
Areas of Focus
Romantic and Victorian literature, literary theory, cultural memory, urban novel
Contact
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Jane Hedley

K. Laurence Stapleton Professor Emeritus of English
Areas of Focus
Literature of English Renaissance, poetry of all periods, literature and the visual arts
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Contact Us

Department of Literatures in English

English House
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101 N. Merion Avenue
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Phone: 610-526-5306

Daniel Parker, Administrative Assistant
dparker1@brynmawr.edu