Gender and Sexuality Studies Faculty - English

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American Literature | Digital Humanities | Gender and Sexuality Studies | Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture | Transatlantic and Caribbean Studies | Writing and Rhetoric

Gender and Sexuality Studies Faculty

Hillary Chute

Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design

*Dr. Chute is on leave through the 2023-2024 academic year. Hillary Chute’s work focuses on comics and graphic novels, contemporary fiction, visual studies, American literature, gender and sexuality studies, literature and the arts, critical th…
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

Distinguished Professor of English

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon teaches courses in the fields of early American literature, Atlantic theatre and performance, and transatlantic print culture. She is the author of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849 (D…
Laura Green

Associate Dean of Teaching, Learning, and Experiential Education; Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

As associate dean, Laura Green works with colleagues throughout the college and the university to advance our mission in the Experiential Liberal Arts by connecting innovative classroom teaching and experiential learning; fostering excellence and inn…
Carla Kaplan

Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature; Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Carla Kaplan, a professor of English, African-American and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, holds the Davis Distinguished Professorship in American Literature and writes on modern, African-American, and women’s history and culture. She has pub…
Lori Lefkovitz

Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies; Director of Jewish Studies Program; Professor of English

Lori Hope Lefkovitz is the author of In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identity (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010), which was named a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Women’s Studies. Her awards i…
Patrick Mullen

Associate Professor of English; Undergraduate Program Director

Patrick Mullen is the author of The Poor Bugger’s Tool: Irish Modernism, Queer Labor, and Postcolonial History (Oxford, 2012), which is soon to be released in paperback. He has also written articles on Edith Wharton, James Joyce, and Roger Casement t…
K.J. Rawson

Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks

K.J. Rawson works at the intersections of the Digital Humanities and Rhetoric, LGBTQ+, and Feminist Studies. Focusing on archives as key sites of cultural power, he studies the rhetorical work of queer and transgender archival collections in brick-an…