Chair

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Pashmina Murthy

Associate Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Postcolonial studies, critical theory, transnational studies.
Campus
Address
Waite House 108
Phone Number
(740) 427-5213

Faculty

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Elinam Agbo

Kenyon Review Fellow English
Areas of Expertise
Speculative fiction, coming-of-age narratives, transnational literature
Campus
Address
Waite House 109
Phone Number
(740) 427-5619

Alex Brostoff

Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
20th and 21st century hemispheric American studies; queer & transfeminist cultural production; autotheory.
Campus
Address
Lentz House 207
Phone Number
(740) 427-5105

Piers Brown

Associate Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Renaissance poetry and poetics; theories of metaphor; book history; the history of science; and science fiction and fantasy.
Campus
Address
Waite House 107
Phone Number
(740) 427-5329

Brenna Casey

Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
American Literature, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Ethnic Studies
Campus
Address
Keithley House 203
Phone Number
(740) 427-5654
 

Cristina Correa

Kenyon Review Fellow English Department
Areas of Expertise
Creative writing; Caribbean and Latine arts; intersectional and interdisciplinary practices
Campus
Address
Waite House 106
Phone Number
(740) 427-5540

Kathryn Crim

Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Early modern; poetics; critical theory
Campus
Address
Waite House 006
Phone Number
(740) 427-5033

Adele Davidson

Charles P. McIlvaine Professor of English
Campus
Address
Lentz House 208
Phone Number
(740) 427-5560

Nicole Dutton

Editor of the Kenyon Review
Campus
Address
Finn House 114
Phone Number
(740) 427-5350
 

Kathleen Fernando

Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Post-colonial literature(s) and theory, South Asian literature, Canadian diasporic writing.
Campus
Address
Waite House 204
Phone Number
(740) 427-5754

Kelly Fleming

Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Humanities
Areas of Expertise
Eighteenth-century British literature and culture; gender and sexuality studies; material culture
Campus
Address
Waite House 203
Phone Number
(740) 427-5666

Daimys Garcia

Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation Fellow Visiting Instructor
Areas of Expertise
Women of color feminisms, Latinx and Native American literatures, decolonial praxis
Campus
Address
Lentz House 202
Phone Number
(740) 427-5653

Andy Grace

Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Poetry Writing, 20th century American and British poetry, Literary Theory, Cultural Studies, History of the Pastoral
Campus
Address
Waite House 007
Phone Number
(740) 427-5192
 

Thomas Hawks

Dean for Academic Advising and Support
Campus
Address
Chalmers Library, 237
Phone Number
(740) 427-5448

Sarah Heidt

Associate Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Nineteenth-century British literature and culture, auto/biography and life writing, women's writing, literatures of memory, pedagogy.
Campus
Address
Lentz House 203

Geetha Iyer

Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellow
Areas of Expertise
Creative writing, ecology and environmental sciences, ecocriticism
Campus
Address
Waite House 005

Laura Jok

Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Creative writing, contemporary short fiction, experiments in narrative perspective
Campus
Address
Waite House 204
Phone Number
(740) 427-5030

P.F. Kluge

Writer in Residence
Campus
Address
Finn House 104
Phone Number
(740) 427-5407

Travis Chi Wing Lau

Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, health humanities, disability studies
Campus
Address
Waite House 205
Phone Number
(740) 427-5300

Michael Leong

Robert P. Hubbard Assistant Professor of Poetry
Areas of Expertise
Creative writing, American literature, poetry studies
Campus
Address
Waite House 201
Phone Number
(740) 427-5882

Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky

Professor of English
Campus
Address
Waite House 203
Phone Number
(740) 427-5212

David Lynn

Special Assistant to the President
Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Creative writing, modern literature
Campus
Address
Treleaven House 201
Phone Number
(740) 427-5271

Ted Mason

Associate Provost for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Special Advisor to the President
Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
African-American literature and culture, narrative theory, literary and cultural theory.
Campus
Address
Lentz House 106
Phone Number
(740) 427-5204

Jesse Matz

Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Modernist culture, narrative theory
Campus
Address
Lentz House 209
Phone Number
(740) 427-5209
 

Michael Nye

Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Fiction, Creative Writing, Literary Publishing
Campus
Address
Keithley House 202
Phone Number
(740) 427-5354

Rosemary O'Neill

Associate Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Medieval literature, history of the book, Chaucer.
Campus
Address
Waite House 206
Phone Number
(740) 427-5755

Keija Parssinen

Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Travel Writing, Contemporary Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, "Expatriate" Literature, Saudi Arabia

Sara Pfaff

Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies and English
Areas of Expertise
20th and 21st-century multi-ethnic U.S. literatures; critical race and indigenous studies; science and medicine in literature.
Campus
Address
Lentz House 203
Phone Number
(740) 427-5033

Jené Schoenfeld

Associate Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
African American literature, American literature, mixed race.
Campus
Address
Lentz House 202
Phone Number
(740) 427-5008

Matthew Suazo

Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Hemispheric American literature, early and nineteenth-century; literature and environment; postcolonial studies; slave narrative and autobiography. 
Campus
Address
Waite House 202
Phone Number
(740) 427-5321

Ira Sukrungruang

Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing
Areas of Expertise
Creative writing; creative writing pedagogy; inclusive literature 
Campus
Address
Keithley House 204
Phone Number
(740) 427-5361

Brianna Thompson

Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
American literature, women's literature, queer theory
 

Orchid Tierney

Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Environmental humanities, digital humanities, Anglophone poetry and poetics
Campus
Address
Lentz House 105
Phone Number
(740) 427-5613

Margaret Yoon

Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
British literature and culture from the Restoration to the Romantic period; sensibility and the novel; the passions in eighteenth-century medicine, religion, and philosophy.
Campus
Address
Waite House 004

Emeriti

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Jim Carson

Professor Emeritus of English
Campus
 

Jennifer Clarvoe

Professor of English Emerita
 

Lewis Hyde

Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing Emeritus
Campus
 

Deborah Laycock

Associate Professor Emerita of English
 

Perry Lentz

Professor Emeritus of English
 

Ellen Mankoff

Assistant Professor of English Emerita

Judy Smith

Professor Emerita of English
 

Janet McAdams

Professor Emerita of English
 

Kim McMullen

Professor Emerita of English

Patricia Vigderman

Assistant Professor of English Emerita
 

Carla Parsons

Administrative Assistant in the Academic Division - English
Contact
Phone Number
740-427-5210
Email Address
parsonsc@kenyon.edu
Location
102 Lentz House