Department Leadership

Dr. Lucy Alford
Assistant Professor, Literature


Dr. Erin Branch
Teaching Professor

Dr. Ryan D. Shirey
Teaching Professor

Dr. Dean Franco
Winifred W. Palmer Professor of English

Dr. Jennifer Greiman
Professor, Literature
Director of the Humanities Institute

Sarah Hogan
Associate Professor of English

Dr. Zak Lancaster
Director of Graduate Study, Associate Professor – Writing & Linguistics

Joanna Ruocco
Professor of English in Creative Writing
Co-Director, Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series; Chair of the Editorial Board, Fiction Collective Two

Dr. Olga Valbuena
Associate Professor of English

Dr. Eric Wilson
Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English, Literature
Associate Chair