English Faculty
The faculty of the Kenyon College English Department is large and diverse, including members with specialization in many areas of British, American, and world literatures written in English, as well as a wide range of critical and creative approaches to the study of literature. The renowned Creative Writing faculty offers an array of workshops through which students can fulfill the department's Creative Writing Emphasis.
Deborah Laycock
Associate Professor of English, Chair
Areas of Expertise: Restoration drama, eighteenth-century British literature and culture, Canadian literature
Contact Information:
Sunset Cottage 208
740-427-5753
laycock@kenyon.edu
Read Deborah Laycock's biography.
James P. Carson
William P. Rice Associate Professor of English
Contact Information:
Sunset Cottage 209
740-427-5203
carson@kenyon.edu
Jennifer Clarvoe
Professor of English
Contact Information:
Sunset Cottage 210
740-427-5211
clarvoe@kenyon.edu
Read Jennifer Clarvoe's biography.
Adele Davidson
Charles Pettit McIlvaine Professor of English
Contact Information:
Lentz House 208
740-427-5560
davidsoa@kenyon.edu
Read Adele Davidson's biography.
Kathleen Fernando
Visiting Instructor of English
Areas of Expertise: Post-colonial literature
Contact Information:
Sunset Cottage 201
740-427-5754
fernandok@kenyon.edu
Read Kathleen Fernando's biography.
Ivonne M. García
Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise: nineteenth-century U.S. literature, postcolonial studies, Latin@ studies
Contact Information:
Lentz House 105
740-427-5613
garciai@kenyon.edu
Visit Ivonne García's website.
Read Ivonne García's biography.
Thomas Hawks
Visiting Assistant Professor of English (on leave 2012-13)
Contact Information:
Sunset Cottage 107
740-427-5732
hawkst@kenyon.edu
Sarah J. Heidt
Associate Professor of English (on leave 2012-13)
Contact Information:
heidts@kenyon.edu
Lewis Hyde
Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing (Fall only)
Contact Information:
Sunset Cottage 02
740-427-5343
hyde@kenyon.edu
Visit Lewis Hyde's website.
Read Lewis Hyde's biography.
William F. Klein
Professor of English
Contact Information:
Sunset Cottage 205
740-427-5205
klein@kenyon.edu
Read William Klein's biography.
P.F. Kluge
Writer-in-Residence
Contact Information:
Finn House 104
740-427-5407
klugef@kenyon.edu
Visit P.F. Kluge's website.
Read P.F. Kluge's biography.
Perry Lentz
Professor Emeritus
Areas of Expertise: American literature, Southern literature, historical fiction
Contact Information:
lentzpe@kenyon.edu
Salinda Lewis
Visiting Instructor of English
Contact Information:
Lentz House 203
740-427-5215
lewiss@kenyon.edu
Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
Professor of English
Contact Information:
Sunset Cottage 103
740-427-5212
lobanovrosto@kenyon.edu
Read Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky's biography.
David Lynn
Professor of English, Editor of The Kenyon Review
Contact Information:
Finn House 114
740-427-5271
lynnd@kenyon.edu
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Read David Lynn's biography.
Ellen S. Mankoff
Instructor of English
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Areas of Expertise: Chaucer, Renaissance literature, nineteenth-century British literature
Contact Information:
Sunset Cottage 204
740-427-5425
mankoff@kenyon.edu
Read Ellen Mankoff's biography.
Theodore O. Mason Jr.
Professor of English
Areas of Expertise: African-American literature and culture, narrative theory, literary and cultural theory
Contact Information:
Lentz House 106
740-427-5204
masonte@kenyon.edu
Jesse E. Matz
Associate Professor of English (Kenyon-Exeter Program 2012-13)
Contact Information:
matzj@kenyon.edu
Janet McAdams
Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Poetry and Associate Professor of English
Contact Information:
Sunset Cottage 206
740-427-5206
mcadamsj@kenyon.edu
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Read Janet McAdams' biography.
Kim McMullen
John Crowe Ransom Professor of English
Contact Information:
Lentz House 207
740-427-5185
mcmullen@kenyon.edu
Read Kim McMullen's biography.
Pashmina Murthy
Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise: postcolonial literary studies, critical theory, transnational studies
Contact Information:
Sunset Cottage 104
740-427-5213
murthyp@kenyon.edu
Read Pashmina Murthy's biography.
Rosemary O'Neill
Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise: Medieval literature, history of the book, Chaucer
Contact Information:
Sunset 202
740-427-5755
oneillr@kenyon.edu
Read Rosemary O'Neill's biography.
Elizabeth Rogers
Kenyon Review Fellow
Contact Information:
Bailey House 01
740-427-5418
rogerse@kenyon.edu
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Read Elizabeth Rogers' biography.
Roger Rosenblatt
Visiting Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Creative writing
Read Roger Rosenblatt's biography.
Jené Schoenfeld
Assistant Professor of English (on leave Fall 2012)
Areas of Expertise: African American literature, American literature, mixed race
Contact Information:
Lentz House 202
740-427-5008
schoenfeldj@kenyon.edu
Read Jené Schoenfeld's biography.
Natalie Shapero
Kenyon Review Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Poetry and Poetics, Legal Studies
Contact Information:
Bailey House 02
740-427-5419
shaperon@kenyon.edu
Read Natalie Shapero's biography.
Judy R. Smith
Professor Emerita
Areas of Expertise: American literature, American studies, women's and gender studies
Contact Information:
smithju@kenyon.edu
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Patricia Vigderman
Assistant Professor of English
Contact Information:
Lentz House 209
740-427-5033
vigdermanp@kenyon.edu
Read Patricia Vigderman's biography.
Katharine Weber
Richard L. Thomas Visiting Professor of Creative Writing
Areas of Expertise: Creative Writing
Contact Information:
Sunset Cottage 203
740-427-5033
weberka@kenyon.edu
Visit Katharine Weber's website.
Read Katharine Weber's biography.