Faculty

Kathleen Donegan

Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Writing
Early American
Native American
Atlantic
Caribbean

Kathleen Donegan (Ph.D. American Studies, Yale University) writes and teaches about literature and culture in early America, from New World encounters through the first decades of the republic. She is the author of Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America (Penn, 2014), a book about the deeply unsettling history of early English colonial settlement in Native America. It investigates how an acute relationship between suffering and violence in those crisis-ridden outposts...

Ian Duncan

Professor and Florence Green Bixby Chair in English
Scottish
19th-Century British
18th-Century British
Narrative & the Novel

Ian Duncan studied at King's College, Cambridge (BA, 1977) and Yale University (PhD, 1989), and taught in the Yale English department before being appointed Barbara and Carlisle Moore Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Oregon in 1995. He came to Berkeley in 2001, and was appointed to the Florence Green Bixby Chair in English in 2011. He is a recipient (2017) of the university's Distinguished Teaching Award. Duncan is the author of Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel (Cambridge, 1992), Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh...

Nadia Ellis

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Atlantic
Caribbean
Gender & Sexuality Studies
African American
Cultural Studies

Nadia Ellis specializes in black diasporic, Caribbean, and postcolonial literatures and cultures.

Her book, Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora (Duke, 2015; Honorable Mention, William Sanders Scarborough Prize, MLA), explores forms of black belonging animated by queer utopian desire and diasporic aesthetics. It is a project built from a long-standing interest in following trajectories of literary cultures from the Caribbean to Britain to the United States. The work...

Eric Falci

Professor; Department Chair
Poetry
20th- and 21st-Century British
Irish

I joined the faculty at U.C. Berkeley in Fall 2006 after finishing my PhD at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. My first book, Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010, appeared in 2012. A second book,...

Julia Fawcett

Associate Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Affiliate Faculty in English

Julia Fawcett's research looks at the origins of concepts of privacy and publicity—as well as of domesticity, imperialism, and urban space—in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and performance in the circum-Atlantic world. Her first book, Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 (University of Michigan Press, 2016), was a Finalist for the George Freedley Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association. It examines the performance and...

Catherine Flynn

Associate Professor, Director of Irish Studies, Director of Berkeley Connect, Affiliate of the Program in Critical Theory
Critical Theory
Narrative & the Novel
Irish
20th- and 21st-Century British

Catherine Flynn works on British and Irish modernist literature in a European avant-garde context. Her book, James Joyce and the Matter of Paris, appeared with Cambridge University Press (2019).

For the hundred-year anniversary of Ulysses, she has put together...

Anne-Lise François

Associate Professor
18th-Century British
19th-Century British
Critical Theory
Narrative & the Novel
Poetry

Anne-Lise François joined the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley as an assistant professor in 1999, after receiving her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. Her teaching and research focus on (mostly) 19th-century British, American and European (French and German) fiction, poetry and thought, with some excursions into the 17th, 18th, and early 20th centuries. She has taught courses on the modern period in British and American literary history, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, as well as seminars and graduate...

Joshua Gang

Associate Professor and Affiliate Faculty, Department of Philosophy
Philosophy and Literature
20th- and 21st-Century British and Irish
Narrative & the Novel
Drama
Gender and Sexuality Studies

I joined UC Berkeley's English department in 2015; as of Fall 2024 I am also affiliate faculty with the Department of Philosophy. My research interests include: 20th- and 21st-century British literature; literature and philosophy--especially philosophy of mind and moral philosophy; the history of the novel; literary history; and the history of criticism and reading practice.

My book Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind was published by Johns Hopkins...

Cecil S. Giscombe

Professor and Robert Hass Chair in English
Creative Writing
Poetry

Mark Goble

Professor
20th- and 21st-Century American
Film
Critical Theory
19th-Century American
Narrative & the Novel
Poetry
20th- and 21st-Century British

Mark Goble received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and taught at UC Irvine before coming to Berkeley's English department in 2008. His research focuses on the connections between literature and other media technologies from the late 19th-century to the present.

He is the author of Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life (Columbia) and his next book, Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion (Columbia) is forthcoming in 2024. He is currently at work on...