Former Faculty
Retired Faculty
Faculty Member | Area of Interest |
Jan Heller Levi Professor Emeritus BA, Sarah Lawrence College |
Poetry Writing |
Kate Perry Professor Emeritus Ed.D, Columbia University |
Applied Linguistics |
Charles Persky Associate Professor PhD, Harvard University |
18th Century British Prose and Poetry, Bible and Literature |
Gary Schmidgall Professor Emeritus PhD, Stanford University garyschmidgallnyc@gmail.com |
Shakespeare, Renaissance Poetry, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Biography, Gay Studies, Literature and Opera |
Jenefer Shute Professor Emeritus PhD, University of California, Los Angeles |
Creative Writing, Contemporary Fiction and Drama |
Trudy Smoke Professor Emeritus PhD, New York University |
Applied Linguistics, Rhetoric and Composition |
Neal Tolchin Associate Professor PhD, Rutgers University |
American Literature, Ethnic Literature |
Barbara Webb Professor Emeritus PhD, New York University |
African-American Literature, African-Caribbean Literature, African Literature |
David Winn Assistant Professor MFA, University of Colorado |
Fiction Writing, The Short Story |
In Memoriam
Faculty Member | Area of Interest |
Meena Alexander Distinguished Professor PhD, University of Nottingham |
Creative Writing, Romantic Poetry, Post-colonial Literature |
Louise DeSalvo Professor Emeritus PhD, New York University |
Modern British Fiction, Creative Writing, Biography and Memoir |
Gail Gordon Lecturer -- |
Multicultural American Literature |
Nondita Mason Professor Emeritus PhD, New York University |
20th Century British Literature, Colonial Literature, Post-colonial Literature |
Evelyn Melamed Assistant Professor MA, City College MA, Adelphi University |
Writing, American Literature |