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Emeritus Faculty
Charles F. Altieri
Professor Emeritus and Rachael Anderson Stageberg Chair Emeritus
Poetry
20th- and 21st-Century American
20th- and 21st-Century British
Joel B. Altman
Emeritus
Drama
Renaissance and Early Modern
Julia Bader
Emeritus
20th- and 21st-Century American
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Narrative & the Novel
Ann Banfield
Emeritus
Critical Theory
Linguistics
Narrative & the Novel
Mitchell Breitwieser
Emeritus
20th- and 21st-Century American
Early American
19th-Century American
Carol T. Christ
Emeritus; Eleventh Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
19th-Century British
Thomas Farber
Emeritus
Creative Writing
Richard Feingold
Emeritus
18th-Century British
Catherine Gallagher
Emeritus; Former Ida May and William J. Eggers Jr. Chair in English
19th-Century British
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Narrative & the Novel
Steven Goldsmith
Emeritus
Critical Theory
19th-Century British
Poetry
Marcial Gonzalez
Emeritus
20th- and 21st-Century American
Chicanx and/or Latinx
Critical Theory
Cultural Studies
Narrative & the Novel
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
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
Steven Justice
Professor emeritus
Middle English
Poetry
Maxine Hong Kingston
Emeritus
Georgina Kleege
Emeritus
Creative Writing
Disability Studies
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
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
Alan H. Nelson
Emeritus
Middle English
Renaissance and Early Modern
John Niles
Emeritus
Old English
Scottish
Poetry
Cultural Studies
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Emeritus
Textual Criticism
Old English
Cultural Studies
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
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
Susan Schweik
Emeritus
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Disability Studies
Poetry
Cultural Studies
20th- and 21st-Century American
Critical Theory
19th-Century American
Peter D. Scott
Emeritus
Hertha D. Sweet Wong
Professor of the Graduate School
19th-Century American
20th- and 21st-Century American
Native American
Cultural Studies