Faculty
CALS-affiliated faculty and graduate students conduct research investigating the cultural, ethical, and imaginative work of literature, rhetoric, and/or theory in political, institutional, and historical contexts. This interdisciplinary work in and across a wide array of literary periods, areas, and methodologies includes specializations in American Literature Before 1900, American Literature After 1900, Modernist Studies, Contemporary Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, African American Language and Literature, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Media and Digital Studies, Visual Culture, Theory and Cultural Studies, and Book History and Textual Studies.
Professor Emeritus of English, Comparative Literature, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Distinguished Professor of English
Affiliated Faculty, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies
Founding Editor, Verge: Studies in Global Asias
Founding Director, Global Asias Initiative
Assistant Professor of African American Studies, English, and African Studies
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English
Affiliate Faculty, Information Science and Technology
Digital Director, Zebrapedia.org (Zebrapedia.psu.edu)
Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French and Francophone Studies
Paterno Family Professor of American Literature and Professor of African American Studies and History
Director of the Center for American Literary Studies (on leave Spring 2023) and Associate Professor of English
Interim Director (Spring 2023) of the Center for American Literary Studies and Associate Professor of English
McCourtney Professor of Civic Deliberation;
Senior Scholar, McCourtney Institute for Democracy
Professor of English and of Communication Arts and Sciences
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Weiss Chair of the Humanities
Director of Graduate Studies
Faculty-in-Charge, Disability Studies Minor
Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Co-Director, Center for Black Digital Research, #DigBlk
Co-Director, Cooper-Du Bois Mentoring Program
Associate Professor of English and African American Studies
Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Honors Advisor
Mitrani Family Professor of Jewish Studies
Professor of English and Jewish Studies
Editor, Studies in American Jewish Literature
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Women's Studies
General Editor, Hemingway Letters Project
Associate Professor of English
Director, Digital Culture and Media Initiative
