Faculty and Staff

Current Faculty and Staff

Alex Alston

Assistant Professor of Literatures in English
Areas of Focus

nineteenth and twentieth-century African American literature, the afterlives of slavery, Black eco-literary traditions, ecofeminism 

Contact
Location English House 204
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Devin William Daniels

Visiting Assistant Professor of Literatures in English
Areas of Focus

Twentieth-century American literature, film and media studies, contemporary literature, critical data studies, writing pedagogy.

Contact
Location English House 206
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Chloe Flower

Assistant Professor of Literatures in English
Areas of Focus

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century transatlantic literature and culture; childhood studies; children’s literature; juvenilia; object relations psychoanalysis; histories of education; spatial theory; the uncanny; material culture.

Contact
Phone 610-526-5403
Location English House 202
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Colby Gordon

Associate Professor of Literatures in English
Areas of Focus

Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, trans studies, queer theory, law and literature, religion and literature.

Contact
Phone 610-526-5413
Location English House 210
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Jennifer Harford Vargas

Associate Professor of Literatures in English on the Dorothy Nepper Marshall Professorship of Hispanic and Hispanic-American Studies
Co-Director of LAILS
Areas of Focus

Latina/o literary and cultural productions; contemporary U.S. literatures; trans-national American studies

Contact
Phone 610-526-5309
Location English House 205
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Jess Shollenberger

Visiting Assistant Professor of Literatures in English
Areas of Focus

Twentieth-century and contemporary American literature, modernism, queer studies, affect theory, trans studies.

Contact
Phone 610-526-7742
Location English House 203
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Kate Thomas

K. Laurence Stapleton Professor of Literatures in English
Areas of Focus

Nineteenth-century British literature and culture; queer studies; nineteenth-century communication technologies; history of sexuality; critical and cultural theory; food studies

Contact
Phone 610-526-5305
Location English House 200
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Emeritus Faculty

Linda-Susan Beard

Professor Emeritus of Literatures in English
Areas of Focus

Contemplative intelligence, post-colonial literatures, South African and African-American literature
 

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Carol L. Bernstein

Mary E. Garrett Alumnae Professor Emeritus of English and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature
Areas of Focus

Romantic and Victorian literature, literary theory, cultural memory, urban novel

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Jane Hedley

K. Laurence Stapleton Professor Emeritus of English
Areas of Focus

Literature of English Renaissance, poetry of all periods, literature and the visual arts

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Contact Us

Department of Literatures in English

English House
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101 N. Merion Avenue
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Phone: 610-526-5306

Daniel Parker, Administrative Assistant
dparker1@brynmawr.edu