Department of English at the University of Virginia

Arata, Stephen

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

Baker, Peter

Professor
Medieval, Eighteenth Century Literature
Director of Graduate Admissions

Beattie, Ann

Edgar Allan Poe Professor
Creative Writing- Fiction

Blair, Sydney

Associate Professor
Creative Writing - Fiction
Director, Creative Writing Program

Booth, Alison

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

Braden, Gordon

Linden Kent Memorial Professor
Renaissance, Classical Backgrounds

Brickhouse, Anna

Associate Professor
American Studies, Hemispheric Studies
Director, Distinguished Majors Program

Calise, Patrice

Lecturer

Medieval Literature

Cantor, Paul

Clifton Waller Barrett Professor
Romanticism, Shakespeare, Comparative Literature

Casey, John

Professor
Creative Writing - Fiction

Casteen, John

Lecturer

Creative Writing

Chakravorty, Mrinalini

Assistant Professor
Postcolonial Literature and Theory

Chantell, Claire

Lecturer
Rhetoric and Composition, 19th Century American Literature

Chase, Karen

Professor
Victorian Literature, Theory of Fiction

Chong, Sylvia

Assistant Professor
American Studies, Film

Clymer, Lorna

Visiting Professor

Restoration and 18th Century Literature

Cohen, Ralph

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

Cocola, James

Lecturer

Modern and Contemporary Literature

Colomb, Gregory

Professor
Writing Studies, 18th Century Literature, Theory
Director, Academic & Professional Writing

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

Drucker, Johanna

Robertson Professor of Media Studies

Edmundson, Mark

University Professor
Romantic Poetry, Literary Theory

Eisenberg, Deborah

Professor
Fiction Writing

Feldman, Jessica

Professor
Modern Comparative Literature
Director, Undergraduate Studies

Felski, Rita

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor
Feminist Theory, Modernity and Postmodernity, Aesthetics, Cultural Studies
Director, Comparative Literature

Fowler, Elizabeth

Associate Professor
Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Fraiman, Susan

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

Golumbia, David

Assistant Professor
Digital Media, Cultural Studies, Theories of Language

Grandison, Ian K.

University Professor
American Studies

Lilah Hegnauer

Lecturer

Creative Writing

Holsinger, Bruce

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

Hunter, J. Paul

Professor
Restoration & 18th Century 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
Film Studies

Krentz, Christopher

Assistant 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
Editor, Meridian

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

Nelson, Raymond

Arts & Sciences Professor
American Literature

Nohrnberg, James

Professor
Renaissance Literature, The Bible

Nolan, Barbara

Robert C. Taylor Professor
Medieval Literature

Nystrom, Debra

Associate Professor
Creative Writing - Poetry

O'Brien, John

Associate Professor
Restoration, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Cultural Studies
Associate Chair of the Department

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

Preston, Caroline

Lecturer

Creative Writing

Railton, Stephen

Professor
American Literature

Ramazani, Jahan

Edgar F. Shannon Professor
Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Postcolonial Literature
Chair of the Department

Raymond, Claire

Visiting Professor

Women's Writing, Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Rody, Caroline

Associate Professor
Ethnic American, Caribbean, and Women's Fiction