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ADELE DAVIDSON
Title: Associate Professor
Degree: B.A., Kenyon; Ph.D., Virginia.
Interests: Shakespeare; sixteenth-century literature; seventeenth-century literature; critical theory.

JAMES P. CARSON
Title: Chair, Associate Professor
Degree: B.A., Alberta (Canada); M.A., British Columbia (Canada); Ph.D., California, Berkeley.
Interests: Eighteenth-century British literature; eighteenth- century novel; the Gothic novel; literature and economics; popular culture studies.

JENNIFER S. CLARVOE
Title: Associate Professor (on leave)
Degree: B.A., Princeton; Ph.D., California, Berkeley.
Interests: Modern and contemporary poetry; modern British literature; the long poem; creative writing; women's and gender studies.

WILLIAM F. KLEIN
Title: Associate Professor
Degree: B.A. Butler; M.A., Ph.D. Chicago.
Interests: History of the English language; Medieval literature; the short story; the self in literature.

P. F. KLUGE
Title: Writer-in-Residence
Degree: B.A., Kenyon; Ph.D., Chicago.
Interests: Recent American literature, fiction and non-fiction; creative writing and journalism.

DEBORAH LAYCOCK
Title: Associate Professor (on leave)
Degree: B.A., Alberta (Canada); M.A., British Columbia (Canada); Ph.D., Stanford.
Interests: Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and culture (1660-1800); women writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; drama of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; Canadian literature.

PERRY LENTZ
Title: McIlvaine Professor
Degree: B.A., Kenyon; Ph.D., Vanderbilt.
Interests: Nineteenth-century American literature; Colonial American literature; literature of the American South; history and literature; historical fiction.

SERGEI LOBANOV-ROSTOVSKY
Title: Assistant Professor (Exeter Program)
Degree: B.A., Louisanna State; M.A., Stanford; Ph.D., Harvard.
Interests: Renaissance drama and poetry; modern drama; poetry and fiction.

DAVID H. LYNN
Title: Associate Professor
Degree: B.A., Kenyon; Ph.D., Virginia.
Interests: Creative writing; modern and postcolonial literature.

ELLEN S. MANKOFF
Title: Visiting Instructor
Degree: B.A., Reed; M.A., Johns Hopkins.
Interests: Medieval and Renaissance literature; feminist approaches to Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton.

ELISE MARKS
Title: Visiting Assistant Professor
Degree: B.A., Harvard; M.A., Ph.D, California, Berkeley.
Interests: Early Modern literature; Shakespeare; Gender Studies; Cultural Studies; Femminist Theory, History of Drama; Fiction Writing.

THEODORE O. MASON, JR.
Title: Associate Professor
Degree: B.A., Wesleyan; Ph.D., Stanford.
Interests: African-American literature and culture; American literature; literary theory.

KIM MCMULLEN
Title: Associate Professor
Degree: B.A., Denison; M.A., Stanford; Ph.D. Duke.
Interests: American literature since 1865; modern and postmodern narrative; twentieth-century Irish literature and culture; American studies.

RONALD A. SHARP
Title: John Crowe Ransom Professor
Degree: B.A., Kalamazoo; M.A., Michigan; Ph.D., Virginia.
Interests: Romanticism; contemporary poetry; the literature of friendship.

TIMOTHY B. SHUTT
Title: Associate Professor
Degree: B.A., Yale; Ph.D., Virginia.
Interests: Medieval literature; Renaissance literature; Dante; Chaucer; Old English; Epic and Romance.

JUDY R. SMITH
Title: Professor
Degree: B.A., Connecticut College; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana.
Interests: American literature; women's and gender studies; American studies.

PATRICIA VIGDERMAN
Title: Visiting Instructor (on leave, second semester
Degree: B.A., Vassar; M.A., Ph.D. candidate, Tufts.
Interests: Creative writing; Victorian literature; fiction by women.

KATHERINE H. WILL
Title: Adjunct Professor of English
Degree: B.A. Tufts; M.A., Ph.D., Illinois.
Interests: Victorian literature, the novel; Thomas Hardy; Kate Chopin; Women's Literature; Academic Administration.

ERIN BELIEU
Title: Unknown at present time
Degree: B.F.A., University of Nebraska; M.A., Boston University.
Interests:

JAMES KIMBRELL
Title: Unknown at present time
Degree: B.A. Millsaps College; M.A. University of Southern Mississippi; M.F.A. University of V
Interests: Poetry writing; Non-fiction writing; Fiction Writing; Romanticism; Twentieth-century literature; Southern Literature; Poetics; Literary Theory; Rhetoric and Composition.

SHUCHI KAPILA
Title: Assistant Professor
Degree: B.A., M.A., Delhi (India); Ph.D., Cornell.
Interests: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century British Fiction; the Postcolonial Novel; Colonial History; Postcolonial Theory; Theories of Narrative.

JOSEPH N. CLARKE
Title: Visiting Instructor
Degree: B.A., Fordham; M.A., Ph.D. candidate Rutgers.
Interests: Anglophone Caribbean Literature; Anglophone African Literature; Twentieth Century British Literature; Postcolonial Theory/Critical Theory; Twentieth Century African-American Literature.



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