Department of English at the University of Virginia

Arata, Stephen

Associate Professor
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature, History of the Novel
Associate Chair of the Department

Baker, Peter

Professor
Medieval, Eighteenth Century Literature

Beattie, Ann

Edgar Allan Poe Professor
Creative Writing- Fiction

Blair, Sydney

Associate Professor
Creative Writing - Fiction

Booth, Alison

Professor
Victorian, Feminist Criticism, Narrative Theory, Biography, Literary Tourism

Boswell, Barbara

ACLS Fellow, Carter G. Woodson Institute

African-American Studies

Braden, Gordon

Linden Kent Memorial Professor
Renaissance, Classical Backgrounds
Director of Graduate Admissions

Brickhouse, Anna

Associate Professor
American Studies, Hemispheric Studies
Director, Undergraduate Studies in English

Cantor, Paul

Clifton Waller Barrett Professor
Romanticism, Shakespeare, Comparative Literature

Casey, John

Henry Hoyns Professor of English
Creative Writing - Fiction

Chakravorty, Mrinalini

Assistant Professor
Postcolonial Literature and Theory

Chantell, Claire

Lecturer
Rhetoric and Composition, 19th Century American Literature

Chase, Karen

Linden Kent Memorial Professor
Victorian Literature, Theory of Fiction

Chong, Sylvia

Associate Professor
American Studies, Film

Cohen, Ralph

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus
Eighteenth-Century Criticism, Literary Theory and History

Cushman, Stephen

Robert C. Taylor Professor of English
American Literature, Poetry

Denton, Elizabeth

Lecturer, Fiction Writing
Creative Writing - Fiction

D'Errico, Jon

Assistant Professor
Associate Director, Professional & Academic Writing

Dove, Rita

Commonwealth Professor
Creative Writing - Poetry

Edmundson, Mark

University Professor
Romantic Poetry, Literary Theory

Feldman, Jessica

Professor
Modern Comparative Literature

Felski, Rita

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor
Literary Theory and Aesthetics, Feminist Theory, Modernity and Postmodernity, Cultural Studies
Editor, New Literary History

Forster, Christopher

Shannon Fellow

Fowler, Elizabeth

Associate Professor
Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Fraiman, Susan

Professor
Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, British Novel, Cultural Studies

Lisa Goff

Professorship

American Studies

Graham, Austin

ACLS Fellow and Lecturer in English

English and American Literature

Grandison, Ian K.

University Professor
American Studies

Greeson, Jennifer

Assistant Professor
American Literature

Guest, Paul

Assistant Professor

Creative Writing

Holsinger, Bruce

Professor (English and Music)
Medieval and Reformation Studies, Theory, Intellectual History

Hurley, Alison

Instructor in English
Restoration and 18th Century British Literature

Jost, Walter

Professor
Rhetorical/Literary Theory and Criticism

Kelly, C. Brian

Lecturer
Journalism

Kinney, Clare

Associate Professor
Renaissance, Medieval Literature
Director, Graduate Placement

Kinney, Daniel

Professor
Renaissance Literature
General Editor, Works of Abraham Cowley

Korte, Walter

Associate Professor of Drama
Film Studies

Krentz, Christopher

Associate Professor
American Literature, Deaf and Disability Studies
Director of the American Sign Language Program

Levenson, Michael

William B. Christian Professor
Modern Literature and Critical Theory

Livingood, Jeb

Lecturer
Creative Writing - Fiction
Faculty Advisor, Meridian
Associate Director, Creative Writing Program

Löfgren, Lotta

Lecturer
20th Century and Contemporary Literature and Drama

Lott, Eric

Professor
American Studies, Cultural Studies

Luftig, Victor

Associate Professor
20th century Literature, K-12 education, Irish Literature

Maus, Katharine E.

James Branch Cabell Professor
Renaissance Literature

McDowell, Deborah

Alice Griffin Professor
American Literature

McGann, Jerome

John Stewart Bryan Professor
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature, History and Theory of Texts

Nystrom, Debra

Professor
Creative Writing - Poetry

O'Brien, John

Associate Professor
Restoration, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Cultural Studies

Olwell, Victoria

Assistant Professor
American and Modern Literature and Culture, Gender Studies
Director, Modern Studies Area Program

Orr, Gregory

Professor
Creative Writing - Poetry

Papovich, Frank

Lecturer and Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Science
American Literature, Literature of the American West, Literature of the South

Parker, John

Renaissance and Medieval Literature

Pasanek, Brad

Assistant Professor

Eighteenth-Century Literature, Digital Humanities

Railton, Stephen

Professor
American Literature

Ramazani, Jahan

Edgar F. Shannon Professor
Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Postcolonial Literature

Rody, Caroline

Professor

Contemporary Ethnic American, Postcolonial, and Women’s Fiction

Ross, Marlon B.

Professor
British Romanticism, 20th Century African American Literature, Gender & Queer Theory

Shukla, Sandhya

Associate Professor

American Studies and English
Director of American Studies Program

Smith, Hallie

Lecturer

Modern and Contemporary American Literature, Poetry

Spaar, Lisa Russ

Professor
Creative Writing - Poetry
Director, Area Program in Poetry Writing

Spearing, A.C.

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor
Medieval Literature

Spearing, Elizabeth

Lecturer

Medieval Literature

Stauffer, Andrew

Associate Professor
Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Suarez, Michael

Director, Rare Book School and University Professor
Books Arts Press and Department of English

Tilghman, Christopher

Professor
Creative Writing
Director, Creative Writing Program

Tonra, Justin

Visiting Professor

19th Century British Literature

Townley, Jeremy

Lecturer in English

Fiction Writing

Tucker, Herbert

John C. Coleman Professor
Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Vander Meulen, David

Professor
Bibliography and Textual Criticism, Eighteenth Century Literature

Wall, Cynthia

Professor
Restoration, Eighteenth-Century Literature
Chair of the Department

Waters, Claire

Associate Professor

Medieval Literature

Wicke, Jennifer

Professor
19th & 20th Century British & American Literature; Modernism; Critical Theory; Film & Media Studies

Woolfork, Lisa

Associate Professor
American & African-American Literature
Director, Distinguished Majors Program