Emeritus Faculty

Dorothy J. Hale

Professor of the Graduate School and Rachel Anderson Stageberg Chair Emeritus
Critical Theory
Narrative & the Novel
20th- and 21st-Century American
20th- and 21st-Century British
19th-Century American

My research focuses on two related fields: the Anglo-American novel, especially from 1875 to the present, and the theory of the novel, which develops into its own discipline during this period. I am particularly interested in problems of novelistic form. For my work on point of view, voice, narrative, and the politics of form, see Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present (Stanford UP, 1998); The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1900-2000 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006); and The Novel and the New Ethics (Stanford UP, 2020).

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Robert L. Hass

Emeritus
20th- and 21st-Century American
Creative Writing
Poetry

Richard Hutson

Emeritus
19th-Century American
20th- and 21st-Century American
African American
Critical Theory
Narrative & the Novel

Abdul R. JanMohamed

Emeritus
Critical Theory
African American
Cultural Studies

Born and raised in Kenya and educated in the US (Univ. of Hawaii, BA; Brandeis Univ., PhD), Abdul JanMohamed has taught in the English Department at UC, Berkeley since 1983. His publications include Manichean Aesthetics: The Politics of Literature in Colonial Africa; The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse (co-edited with David Lloyd); The Death-Bound-Subject: Richard Wright's Archaeology Of Death; (ed.) Reconsidering Social Identification: Race, Gender, Class, and Caste. He was the founding editor (along with Donna Przybylowicz) of Cultural...

Steven Justice

Professor emeritus
Middle English
Poetry

Justice joined the faculty in 1987 after a short stint at Washington University, and, one brief absence excepted, hung doggedly about until retirement.

His chronological and geographical focus is impulsive and vagrant, though it usually comes home to the later middle ages in Britain. (It wanders backward from there more often than forward.) He tends to seek out medieval works that think thoughts more interesting, and pose questions more riddling, than the critical tools we bring to bear on them. Thus Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381 (1994) showed that fourteenth-...

Maxine Hong Kingston

Emeritus

Georgina Kleege

Emeritus
Creative Writing
Disability Studies

Georgina Kleege joined the English department at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003 where in addition to teaching creative writing classes she teaches courses on representations of disability in literature, and disability memoir. Her collection of personal essays, Sight Unseen (1999) is a classic in the field of disability studies. Essays include an autobiographical account of Kleege’s own blindness, and cultural critique of depictions of blindness in literature, film, and language. Many of these essays are required reading for students in disability studies, as well...

Jeffrey Knapp

Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School, Ida Mae & William J. Eggers Chair Emeritus
Drama
Renaissance and Early Modern
Critical Theory
Poetry
Film
Cultural Studies

Jeffrey Knapp is Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at Berkeley, the Ida Mae and William J. Eggers Chair in English Emeritus, and a Faculty Affiliate Emeritus of Berkeley's Film & Media department. After undergraduate and then graduate study at Berkeley, Knapp taught at Harvard for three years before returning to Berkeley in 1990. He has received the campus’s Distinguished Teaching Award and its Faculty Service Award; he is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEH Fellowship.

Knapp has published four books: An Empire Nowhere: England and America...

Donald McQuade

Emeritus
19th-Century American
Creative Writing

D.A. Miller

Emeritus; Former John F. Hotchkis Chair in English
Cultural Studies
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Narrative & the Novel
Film

D. A. Miller is John F. Hotchkis Professor Emeritus and formerly Professor of the Graduate School. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 1977 and has taught at Columbia and Harvard as well as at Berkeley, where he was a member of the English Department for many years. In 2017, he was Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and lectures frequently in that country. Professor Miller works in the areas of film, nineteenth-century fiction, and gay and cultural studies. His courses have addressed the postwar European art film, the Western,...