Emeritus Faculty

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...

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,...

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