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Former Faculty
Recently Retired Faculty
Jan Heller Levi
Professor Emeritus
- Education
- BA, Sarah Lawrence College
- Areas of Interest
- Poetry Writing
Kate Parry
Professor Emeritus
- Education
- Ed.D, Columbia University
- Areas of Interest
- Applied Linguistics
Gary Schmidgall
Professor Emeritus
- Education
- PhD, Stanford University
- Areas of Interest
- Shakespeare, Renaissance Poetry, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Biography, Gay Studies, Literature and Opera
Trudy Smoke
Professor Emeritus
- Education
- PhD, New York University
- Areas of Interest
- Applied Linguistics, Rhetoric and Composition
Thomas R. Sleigh
Retired Distinguished Professor
- Education
- MFA, Johns Hopkins University
- Areas of Interest
- Creative Writing, Ancient and Modern Poetry, Poetry in Translation
Neal Tolchin
Retired Associate Professor
- Education
- PhD, Rutgers University
- Areas of Interest
- American Literature, Ethnic Literature
Sylvia Tomasch
Retired Professor
- Education
- PhD, the City University of New York
- Areas of Interest
- Medieval Literature, Historical Cartography, Medieval Antisemitism, Surveillance Studies
Alan Vardy
Retired Professor
- Education
- PhD, University of Washington
- Areas of Interest
- Romanticism
Barbara Webb
Professor Emerita
- Education
- PhD, New York University
- Areas of Interest
- African-American Literature, African-Caribbean Literature, African Literature
Stephen Wetta
Retired Doctoral Lecturer
- Education
- PhD, New York University
- Areas of Interest
- English as a Second Language, Creative Writing
In Memoriam
Meena Alexander
Distinguished Professor
- Education
- PhD, University of Nottingham
- Areas of Interest
- Creative Writing, Romantic Poetry, Post-colonial Literature
Louise DeSalvo
Professor Emeritus
- Education
- PhD, New York University
- Areas of Interest
- Modern British Fiction, Creative Writing, Biography and Memoir
Gail Gordon
Lecturer
- Areas of Interest
- Multicultural American Literature
Eve Leoff
Associate Professor
Nondita Mason
Professor Emeritus
- Education
- PhD, New York University
- Areas of Interest
- 20th Century British Literature, Colonial Literature, Post-colonial Literature
Evelyn Melamed
Assistant Professor
- Education
- MA, City College; MA, Adelphi University
- Areas of Interest
- Writing, American Literature
Elizabeth Nunez
Distinguished Professor
- Education
- PhD, New York University
- Areas of Interest
- Creative Writing Fiction, English Literature, Caribbean Literature