Affiliated and Emeritus Faculty

Professor of English

Professor of English

Francis Blessington’s major area is Milton and seventeenth-century English literature. He has written two books on Milton that have become standard: Paradise Lost and the Classical Epic (Routledge) and Paradise Lost: Ideal and Tragic Epic (A St…

Affiliated Associate Professor of English

Ryan Cordell is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in addition to an affiliated faculty member in the Department of English and a Core Founding Faculty Member in the NULab f…

Adjunct Professor

Kim is a fiction writer, the author of the short story collection UNDOING (Moon City Press, 2018) and the novel THE LIGHT SOURCE (7.13 Books, 2019). …

Professor of English

Dean’s Professor of Public and Digital Humanities and Professor of Africana Studies and History

Ángel David Nieves was a Professor of Africana Studies, History, and Digital Humanities in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH) at Northeastern University and is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of English and in the School of…

Professor of English

Professor of English

Professor of English

Juliana Spahr is a poet & scholar of 20th c. literature. Her poetry moves between lyricism, explanatory prose, and theoretical discussion. In her most recent book, That Winter The Wolf Came, concerns global struggle, especially those located at t…

Professor of English

Adjunct Professor

Stephanie Young is a poet and scholar whose writing engages feminist theory, digital and new media, and the Bay Area’s literary past and present. Her books of poetry and cross genre writing include Pet Sounds, It’s No Good Everything’s Ba…

Professor Emeritus of English

Gary Goshgarian is a professor of English and teaches courses in Science Fiction, Horror Fiction, Bestsellers, and Fiction Writing. He has taught fiction-writing workshops in the US and Europe. He is also the author of five popular college writing te…

Associate Professor Emeritus of English

Marina Leslie retired from the English Department at the end of the 2019-2020 academic year. She is the author of Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History and co-editor with Kathleen Coyne Kelly of Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in th…

Professor Emeritus of English

Mary Loeffelholz is Professor of English at Northeastern University. Her leadership in academic and faculty affairs includes five years as Chair of Northeastern’s English department (2001-2006) and eight years as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs (20…

Professor Emeritus of English and Linguistics

Janet Randall is an emeritus professor who was affiliated with both the Department of English and the Linguistics Program, in the College of Science. Her research and publications span areas in theoretical linguistics (the syntax/semantics interface,…

Professor Emeritus of English

Guy Rotella retired from the English department at the end of the 2011-2012 academic year. Professor Rotella began his Northeastern career in 1974. A specialist in twentieth-century American poetry, he has written or edited eight books, including Cas…

Associate Professor Emeritus of English