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 Creative Writing faculty is internationally recognized, and through the Richard L. Thomas Chair in Creative Writing, the department is able to bring a variety of important writers to campus to teach workshops and literature courses for one semester each year.
Kim McMullen
John Crowe Ransom Professor of English, Chair
Contact Information:
Lentz House 207
740-427-5185
mcmullen@kenyon.edu
Read Kim McMullen's biography.
Erika Boeckeler
Assistant Professor of English
Contact Information:
Lentz House 208
740-427-5755
boeckelere@kenyon.edu
Read Erika Boeckeler's biography.
James P. Carson
Associate Professor of English (on leave 2009-10)
Contact Information:
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:
Sunset Cottage 202
740-427-5560
davidsoa@kenyon.edu
Read Adele Davidson's biography.
Ivonne M. García
Assistant Professor of English
Contact Information:
Lentz House 105
740-427-5613
garciai@kenyon.edu
Read Ivonne García's biography.
Thomas Hawks
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Contact Information:
Sunset Cottage 107
740-427-5732
hawkst@kenyon.edu
Sarah J. Heidt
Assistant Professor of English
Contact Information:
Lentz House 203
740-427-5215
heidts@kenyon.edu
Lewis Hyde
Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing
Contact Information:
Bailey House 11
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
Deborah Laycock
Associate Professor of English (Kenyon Exeter Program 2009-10)
Areas of Expertise: Restoration drama, eighteenth-century British literature and culture, Canadian literature
Contact Information:
laycock@kenyon.edu
Read Deborah Laycock's biography.
Perry Lentz
Professor Emeritus
Areas of Expertise: American literature, Southern literature, historical fiction
Contact Information:
lentzpe@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
Visit David Lynn's website.
Read David Lynn's biography.
Ellen S. Mankoff
Instructor of English
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 (on leave spring semester)
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 Matz
Associate Professor of English
Contact Information:
Eaton Center North
740-427-5926
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
Read Janet McAdams' biography.
Robert Mezey
Visiting Richard B. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing
Jené Schoenfeld
Assistant Professor of English
Contact Information:
Lentz House 202
740-427-5008
schoenfeldj@kenyon.edu
Read Jené Schoenfeld's biography.
Judy R. Smith
Professor of English
Areas of Expertise: American literature, American studies, women's and gender studies
Contact Information:
Sunset Cottage 104
740-427-5213
smithju@kenyon.edu
Read Judy R. Smith's biography.
Patricia Vigderman
Assistant Professor of English
Contact Information:
Sunset Cottage 203
740-427-5033
vigdermanp@kenyon.edu