Our faculty's expertise spans from the Medieval period to the present, including literature from the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. Many of our scholars work on diasporic, transnational and/or global literatures; others focus on questions of social class, gender, and racial difference; and several focus on digital humanities and other interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to literature, linguistics, and rhetoric. The department also features award-winning, nationally recognized creative writers of novels, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Faculty and Staff
Chair
Paul McPherron
Professor
- Areas of Interest
- Applied Linguistics, ESL
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- Curriculum Vitae
- Office
- 68th Street West 1212A
- Phone
- (212) 772-5201
- pm39@hunter.cuny.edu
Dr. Paul McPherron is a professor in the Department of English, as well as the current department chair.
More About Paul McPherronFaculty
Professor
- Areas of Interest
- 19th and 20th Century British Literature and Culture, Global Anglophone Literature
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- Personal Website
- View
- Curriculum Vitae
- Office
- 68th Street West 1229
- Phone
- (212) 772-4037
- tagathoc@hunter.cuny.edu
Professor
- Areas of Interest
- Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, Critical Theory, Women's and Gender Studies
- Personal Site
- cristinaleonalfar.hcommons.org
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- Curriculum Vitae
- Office
- 68th Street West 1412
- Phone
- (212) 772-5187
- calfar@hunter.cuny.edu
Associate Professor
- Areas of Interest
- American Literature, Modernism, American Studies, Visual Culture
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- Commons Page
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- Curriculum Vitae
- Office
- 68th Street West 1205
- Phone
- (212) 772-5170
- jallre@hunter.cuny.edu
Doctoral Lecturer
- Areas of Interest
- Nineteenth-century American literature and culture, philosophy and literature, transcendentalism, affect theory, new materialism, pragmatism, feminism, first-year-writing and composition, care-centered pedagogies, theory and practice of ungrading.
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- Curriculum Vitae
- Office
- 68th Street West 1215
- abail@hunter.cuny.edu
Doctoral Lecturer
- Office
- 68th Street West 1238
- Phone
- (212) 772-5114
- sbarile@hunter.cuny.edu
Assistant Professor
- Areas of Interest
- 20th and 21st Century Global South Literature, science fiction, energy studies, public humanities
- Website
- rainabhagat.com
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- Curriculum Vitae
- Office
- 68th Street West 1204
- raina.bhagat@hunter.cuny.edu
Associate Professor in the Department of English and Director of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program
- Areas of Interest
- Literature from the Restoration to Present; special emphasis in British and American Literatures across the 19th Century, Romanticism, Transatlanticism, Philosophy of History, Political Theory, and Legal Theory
- Office
- 68th Street West 1231
- Phone
- (212) 772-4057
- kbl@hunter.cuny.edu
Lecturer
- Ares of Interest
- American Literature, Composition and Writing
- Office
- 68th Street West 1249
- Phone
- (212) 772-5203
- mbobrow@hunter.cuny.edu
Professor
- Areas of Interest
- 19th Century US Literature and Culture, Gender and Sexuality, Disability Studies, Childhood Studies
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- Commons Page
- View
- Curriculum Vitae
- Office
- 68th Street West 1232
- Phone
- (212) 772-5178
- sarah.chinn@hunter.cuny.edu
Associate Professor
- Areas of Interest
- Asian American Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Visual/Film Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies
- Office
- 68th Street West 1220
- Phone
- (212) 772-5180
- cchonsmi@hunter.cuny.edu
Associate Professor
- Areas of Interest
- 18th Century British Literature, 18th Century Visual and Material Culture,
- Women and Economics, the Gothic (18th-21st centuries)
- Office
- 68th Street West 1216
- Phone
- (212) 772-4043
- rebecca.connor@hunter.cuny.edu
Assistant Dean, Associate Professor
- Areas of Interest
- African American Rhetoric, Composition, Multiethnic Youth Spaces, Gender and Sexuality, African American Literacy, Latinx Literacy, Cultural Rhetoric, Writing Program Administration, Literacy Sponsorship
- Office
- 68th Street West 1305
- Phone
- (212) 772-5168
- cc1575@hunter.cuny.edu
Assistant Professor
- Areas of Interest
- 20th and 21st Century African American Literature
- Office
- 68th Street West 1218
- Phone
- (212) 772-5075
- nc1076@hunter.cuny.edu
Assistant Professor
- Areas of Interest
- Latinx literary and cultural studies, multiethnic American literature, nineteenth century literature, feminist literature and theory, and the literatures of the Americas
- Office
- 68th Street West 1246
- Phone
- (212) 772-3143
- ne1337@hunter.cuny.edu
Professor
- Areas of Interest
- African Diaspora and Caribbean Literature, Modern & Contemporary Drama, Theories of Total War, People's War, Insurgency, and Literary Form.
- Office
- 68th Street West 1230
- Phone
- (212) 772-5118
- jglic@hunter.cuny.edu
Professor
- Areas of Interest
- Applied Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Digital Teaching and Learning
- Office
- 68th Street West 1221
- Phone
- (212) 772-5175
- kgreenbe@hunter.cuny.edu
Professor
- Areas of Interest
- John Milton, Early Modern English Literature, Early Modern English Law, Memoir
- Office
- 68th Street West 1224
- Phone
- (212) 772-5182
- lynne.greenberg@hunter.cuny.edu
Distinguished Lecturer, MFA Director
- Areas of Interest
- Creative Writing
- Office
- 68th Street West 1228
- Phone
- (212) 772-5074
- ah5226@hunter.cuny.edu
Associate Professor
- Areas of Interest
- Rhetoric and Composition, Feminist Rhetorics
- Office
- 68th Street West 1233
- Phone
- (212) 772-5759
- whayden@hunter.cuny.edu
Professor
- Areas of Interest
- Chaucer, Medieval Literature, Manuscript Studies, Visual Culture
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- Curriculum Vitae
- Office
- 68th Street West 1411
- Phone
- (212) 772-5078
- marlene.hennessy@hunter.cuny.edu
Associate Professor
- Areas of Interest
- Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
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- Curriculum Vitae
- Office
- 68th Street West 1209
- Phone
- (212) 396-6489
- ghollis@hunter.cuny.edu
Professor and Co-Director of the Mellon Public Humanities and Social Justice Program
- Areas of Interest
- 20th Century Literature, Literary Theory, Visual Culture
- Office
- 68th Street West 1225
- Phone
- (212) 772-5111
- nisrael@hunter.cuny.edu
Associate Professor
- Areas of Interest
- Rhetorical Theory and Criticism, Composition, Nationalism Studies
- Office
- 68th Street West 1219
- Phone
- (212) 772-5189
- leigh.jones@hunter.cuny.edu
Professor
- Areas of Interest
- Victorian Literature and Culture, the History of the Novel, Literature of the Fin de Siècle,
- Modernism, World War I Literature, Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory, and Visual Culture
- Office
- 68th Street West 1214
- Phone
- (212) 772-5743
- krichar@hunter.cuny.edu
Doctoral Lecturer
- Areas of Interest
- Composition and Rhetoric, Expressivism, Narrative Theory
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- Curriculum Vitae
- Office
- 68th Street West 1201
- Phone
- (212) 772-5179
- smaceira@hunter.cuny.edu
Distinguished Lecturer
- Office
- 68th Street West 1212
- Phone
- (212) 772-5070
- jh8026@hunter.cuny.edu
Professor
- Areas of Interest
- Creative Writing, Contemporary Poetry
- Website
- donnamasini.com
- Office
- 68th Street West 1223
- Phone
- (212) 772-5166
- dmasini@hunter.cuny.edu
Assistant Professor
- Areas of Interest
- World Literature, Comparative Literature, Global Modernism and Modernity.
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- Curriculum Vitae
- Office
- 68th Street West 1249B
- mathew.shaj@hunter.cuny.edu
Distinguished Lecturer - MFA Program
- Areas of Interest
- Creative Writing, Fiction, Literature, Religion
- Website
- ayanamathis.com
- Office
- 68th Street West 1228
- Phone
- (212) 772-5074
- am14977@hunter.cuny.edu
Assistant Professor
- Areas of Interest
- Sociocultural Linguistics, Semiotics, Black and Latinx Performance/Verbal Art, Trans Studies, Ballroom Culture
- Website
- dozandri.com
- View
- Curriculum Vitae
- Office
- 68th Street West 1236
- dozandri.mendoza@hunter.cuny.edu
Associate Professor
- Areas of Interest
- Early American Literature; Native American Literature; Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies
- Website
- sites.google.com/site/drmarkmiller
- Office
- 68th Street West 1227
- Phone
- (212) 772-5174
- mark.miller@hunter.cuny.edu
Professor
- Areas of Interest
- 19th & 20th Century African American Literature and Visual Culture, Critical Theory, Black Western Literature
- Office
- 68th Street West 1204
- Phone
- (212) 772-4039
- jneary@hunter.cuny.edu
Doctoral Lecturer
- Areas of Interest
- 20th and 21st Century African and African American Literature, Global Black Studies and Identity, Black Feminism, Applied Anthropology, and Literary Ethnography
- Office
- 68th Street West 1249A
- Phone
- (212) 772-5117
- knims@hunter.cuny.edu
Doctoral Lecturer
- Areas of Interest
- Childhood studies, 19th Century British and Transatlantic Literature and Culture,
- Interdisciplinary Studies, Composition and Rhetoric
- Office
- 68th Street West 1248
- Phone
- (212) 650-3146
- dpaparel@hunter.cuny.edu
Associate Professor, Deputy Chair of the Council on Honors
- Areas of Interest
- Post-Colonial Literature, Critical Theory, Working-Class Literature, Feminist Theory, Globalization Studies
- Office
- 68th Street West 1226
- Phone
- (212) 772-5202
- sperer@hunter.cuny.edu
Professor
- Areas of Interest
- English Linguistics, Semiotics, Postcoloniality
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- Curriculum Vitae
- Office
- 68th Street West 1210
- Phone
- (212) 772-5076
- arreye@hunter.cuny.edu
Associate Professor
- Areas of Interest
- Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, Avant-garde and Experimental Poetics, Feminist Literature
- Office
- 68th Street West 1410
- Phone
- (212) 772-5752
- arobbin@hunter.cuny.edu
Doctoral Lecturer
- Areas of Interest
- British Literature
- Office
- 68th Street West 1306
- Phone
- (212) 396-6431
- dow.robbins@hunter.cuny.edu
Distinguished Lecturer - MFA Program
- Office
- 68th Street West 1203
- Phone
- (646) 842-0538
- ss1910@hunter.cuny.edu
Associate Professor
- Areas of Interest
- Creative Writing
- Office
- 68th Street West 1203
- Phone
- (212) 772-5079
- mth0009@hunter.cuny.edu
Doctoral Lecturer
- Areas of Interest
- Composition and Rhetoric
- Office
- 68th Street West 1201
- Phone
- (212) 772-5179
- kw1853@hunter.cuny.edu