Emeritus Faculty

Alan H. Nelson

Emeritus
Middle English
Renaissance and Early Modern

Alan H. Nelson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His specializations are paleography, bibliography, and the reconstruction of the literary life and times of medieval and Renaissance England from documentary sources. His most recent solo publication are Monstrous Adversary: The Life of Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford (Liverpool University Press, 2003). He is also one of four editors of the recently-published Oxford, Records of Early English Drama, 2 vols. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004). (...

John Niles

Emeritus
Old English
Scottish
Poetry
Cultural Studies

I retired from the Department in 2003 after twenty-six years on the faculty, after having served in the three ranks of the professorship, and I recently wound up my teaching career as Professor of Humanities at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. As someone whose degrees are from U.C. Berkeley (BA in English 1967; PhD in Comparative Literature 1972), I have indelible memories of the years I spent here, from the time I first walked into classes taught by the likes of Thom Gunn and Alain Renoir until recent years. I am grateful to the colleagues from whom I absorbed so many insights over...

Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe

Emeritus
Textual Criticism
Old English
Cultural Studies

I specialize in the literary culture of Anglo-Saxon England. My research focuses on cultural transmission, editing in manuscript cultures, and questions of agency in early medieval culture.

Raymond Oliver

Emeritus

Genaro M. Padilla

Emeritus
20th- and 21st-Century American
Chicanx and/or Latinx
Cultural Studies

Morton D. Paley

Emeritus
18th-Century British
19th-Century British

My current research is on literature and art in Britain during the later eighteenth century, and, more specifically, on the art of George Romney on literary subjects.

I am co-editor of Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, pubished bt the University of Rochester.

I am co-editing The European Reception of William Blake, a volume of new essays to be published by Bloomsbury.

Carolyn Porter

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

Ishmael S. Reed

Emeritus

Hugh Macrae Richmond

Emeritus
Renaissance and Early Modern
Drama
Poetry

My current activity in research and teaching is chiefly concerned with the history of Shakespeare performance, as reflected in Shakespeare's Theatre: a Dictionary of His Stage Context (Continuum International, 2002, 2004, and on the internet by Credo Reference) and in the website at: http://shakespearestaging.berkeley.edu This website has just (August 2016) been thoroughl;y revised and restructured. My full personal bibliography can be found on that site Similar updating has been completed...

Susan Schweik

Emeritus
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Disability Studies
Poetry
Cultural Studies
20th- and 21st-Century American
Critical Theory
19th-Century American

Susan Schweik's last book was The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public. She is completing a book tentatively titled Unfixed: How the Women of Glenwood Asylum Overturned Ideas about IQ, & Why You Don't Know About Their Work. A recipient of Berkeley's Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and U.C.'s Presidential Chair in Undergraduate Education , she was involved with the development of disability studies at Berkeley for over 25 years. She was co-coordinator of the Ed Roberts Fellowships in Disability Studies post-doctoral program at Berkeley (...