American Literature Faculty

Professor of English and Africana Studies; Graduate Program Director

Professor Aljoe’s research focuses on 18th and early 19th Century Black Atlantic and Caribbean literature with a specialization on the slave narrative and early novels. In addition to teaching in these areas, she has published articles on these…

Associate Professor of English; Founding Director, Health, Humanities, and Society Program

Sari Altschuler’s research focuses primarily on American literature and culture before 1865, literature and medicine, disability studies, and the health humanities, broadly understood. She is the author of The Medical Imagination: Literature an…

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…

Chair and Professor of English

Professor Davis’s current book project, Attachment Styles, is an interdisciplinary work connecting attachment theory and literary studies. It looks at matters of dissociation, relationality, cybernetic theory, and attunement in figures in psychology …

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…

Assistant Professor of English

Ali Glassie’s research, teaching, and outreach explore the influence of the ocean’s cultural histories and ecological dynamics on the literatures of the Americas. Her current book project, Atlantic Shapeshifters: Sea Literature’s Fluid Forms, l…

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…

Associate Professor of English; Undergraduate Program Director

Professor Kim’s work centers critiques of colonialisms and racial capitalism and draws from critical digital studies, translation studies, critical theory and critical race & ethnic studies. She teaches courses on Race & Artificial Intelligen…