Elmaz Abinader
Professor of English
Mills Hall Room 313, 510.430.2225, moses@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Creative writing, fiction and nonfiction, theories of creativity, teaching creative writing
Diane Cady
Associate Professor of English
Mills Hall Room 314, 510.430.2218, dcady@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Chaucer, late medieval culture, medieval romance, medieval and early modern drama, new economic criticism, gender studies, cultural studies
Yiyun Li
Associate Professor of English
W. M. Keck Chair in Creative Writing
On leave 2008-2009
yli@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Creative writing, fiction and nonfiction
Ajuan Mance
Associate Professor of English
Aurelia Henry Reinhardt Chair
Mills Hall Room 311, 510.430.3378, amance@mills.edu
Professional Interests: African American literature, 19th-century American literature, U.S. popular culture, the oral tradition in U.S. literature, Black feminist thought, African American art
Cornelia Nixon
Professor of English
On sabbatical Fall 2008
Mills Hall Room 312, 510.430.2221, cnixon@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Fiction writing, modern British literature, contemporary fiction
Sarah Pollock
Professor of English, Part-time
Mills Hall Room 347, 510.430.2359, pollock@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Magazine and newspaper writing and editing, creative nonfiction, environmental and natural history writing
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Stephen Ratcliffe
Professor of English
Faculty Executive Committee Division Representative
Mills Hall Room 303, 510.430.2245, sratclif@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Creative writing, modern American poetry, Shakespeare, Renaissance poetry, English romantic poetry, contemporary poetry and poetics
Kathryn Reiss
Associate Professor of English, Part-time
Mills Hall Room 307, 510.430.2216, kreiss@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Creative writing, fiction for juveniles and young adults, historical fiction, suspense fiction, literature and time
Kirsten Saxton
Associate Professor of English, Director of Composition
Mary S. Metz Chair
Mills Hall Room 306, 510.430.2214, ktsaxton@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Women and the law, the history of the novel, 18th-century British literature and culture, post-colonial literature and culture, theories of sexuality, pedagogy, composition studies
Ruth Saxton
Professor of English
Mills Hall Room 301, 510.430.2151, rsaxton@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Modern British literature, feminist theory, the novel, Doris Lessing, Virginia Woolf, American women writers, teaching of writing, composition, contemporary fiction
Cynthia Scheinberg
Professor of English
Chair of the English Department
Dean of Graduate Literary Studies
Chair of Book Art Program, Spring
Mills Hall Room 319, 510.430.2213, cyns@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Victorian literature, emphasis poetry, Anglo-Jewish literature, women's studies, religion and literature, feminist theory, genre studies, cinema studies, composition and pedagogy, community service/service learning curriculum development
Juliana Spahr
Associate Professor of English, Director of Creative Writing
Mills Hall Room 315, 510.430.2289, jspahr@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Poetry and poetics, cultural studies, anti-colonial literature and theory
Thomas Strychacz
Professor of English
Mills Hall Room 304, 510.430.2208, toms@mills.edu
Professional Interests: American literature, mass culture, political and cultural approaches to literature, science fiction
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Visiting Scholars
Andrew Altschul
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall
Mills Hall 312, 510.430.2221.1, altschul@stanford.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 4:15-5:45
Professional Interests: Novel and short story writing
Dodie Bellamy
Visiting Writer, Fall
Mills Hall 305, 510.430.2219.1, dbellamy@mills.edu
Office Hours: Mondays 4:30-5:30
Professional Interests: Fiction, lyric essay, memoir, cross-genre writing
Kate Brubeck
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 336, 510.430.3136.1, katebrubeck@earthlink.net
Office Hours: Mondays 12:15-1:15 by appointment only
Professional Interests: fiction and creative nonfiction, intercultural communication, effects of multilingualism on identity and self-expression, ELL, grammar as style
Rebekah Edwards
Lecturer
Mills Hall 305, 510.430.2219.2, redwards@mills.edu
Office hours: Mondays 4:00-5:00,
Wednesdays 4:00-5:00, 9:15-10:00 pm and by appointment
Professional Interests: Queer theory, disability theory, visual culture theory, lesbian literature, American literature
Marcia Eppich-Harris
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall
Mills Hall Room 349, 510.430.2169.2, meppichharris@mills.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays 5:30-6:45
Professional Interests: Shakespeare, Renaissance, World Drama (from ancients to modern), Theatre of the Absurd, genre studies, history, romance, and creative writing
Cristina Garcia
Distinguished Visiting Writer, Spring
pinkhydrangea@hotmail.com
Professional Interests: Contemporary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, Latino/a literature, women's literature, Latin American literature, post-colonial literatures and cultur
Susan Gevirtz
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring
Susan@Tsoft.com
Professional Interests: Poetry and poetics, modern Greek poetry, cultural studies
Jennifer Hoofard
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 330, 510.430.2372.2, jhoofard@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, Thursday 2:45-3:45
Professional Interests: Literature by women, trauma studies, contemporary poetry, 20th-century American literature, African American women writers, literature and sexuality, the body
David Harrison Horton
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall
Mills Hall Room 349, 510.430.2240, dhorton@mills.edu
Office Hours: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays 6:30-7:30
Professional Interests: Poetry, aesthetics, composition
Liza Kramer
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 350, 510.430.2185.2, lkramer@miills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:30-2:15, Thursdays 4:00-4:45 and by appointment
Professional Interests: American literature, 19th- and 20th-century African American literature and history, critical race studies, feminist theory, autobiography and biography
Bula Maddison
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 330, 510.430.2372.1, bmaddiso@mills.edu
Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 4:00-5:30 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Bible, bible in modern literature, Bakhtinian theory
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Kim Magowan
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall 312, 510.430.2221.3, magowan.kim@gmail.com
Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 1:00-2:00 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Nineteenth- and 20th-century American literature, modernism, the gothic, African American literature and film
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 310, 510.430.2358.3, micheline@lmi.net
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-2:30 and 5:00-6:30
Professional Interests: Creative writing, the novel
Meredith May
Lecturer, Fall
Mills Hall Room 347, 510.430.2359.2, mmay@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 8:30-9:30
Professional Interests: Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle; travel writing; screenwriting; speaker: sex trafficking issues
Leslie Scalapino
Visiting Writer, Spring
leslie.scalapino@att.net
Professional Interests: Poetry, poetics, fiction, poem-plays, criticism, mysteries, book publishing
Matthew Shenoda
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall
Mills Hall Room 305, 510.430.2219.3 shenoda@matthewshenoda.com
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-2:00 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Contemporary poetry, creative nonfiction, poetry in translation, African and African disapora literature, post colonial studies, ethnic studies
Michelle Tea
Lecturer, Fall
Mills Hall Room 310, 510.430.2358.1,
sfsunday@aol.com
Office Hours: Thursdays 12:00-2:00
Professional Interests: Creative writing, fiction, memoir, personal narrative, DIY literary
culture
Truong Tran
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 350, 510.430.2185.1, truong.celan@gmail.com
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:30-2:00 and by appointment Wednesdays 5:00-6:00
Professional Interests: Poetry and poetics
Gail Tsukiyama
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 310, 510.430.2358.2, Gatsuki@aol.com
Office Hours: Wednesdays 3:00-4:00
Professional Interests: Creative writing, fiction and creative nonfiction, poetry, multicultural fiction
Kara Wittman
Lecturer
Mills Hall Room 336, 510.430.3136.2, kwittman@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:30-3:30, Thursdays 10:00-11:00 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Nineteenth century British literature, British romanticism, the novel, 19th-century science and culture, the history of science, composition and pedagogy
Stephanie Young
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 319, 510.430.3130, syoung@mills.edu
Office Hours for Students: Tuesdays 2:30-4:00
Professional Interests: Poetry and poetics
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Staff
David Harrison Horton
Administrative Assistant
Mills Hall Room 321, 510.430.2240, dhorton@mills.edu
Tonianne Nemeth
Executive Assistant
Mills Hall Room 321, 510.430.2217, tnemeth@mills.edu
Stephanie Young
Coordinator of English Graduate Programs
Mills Hall Room 319, 510.430.3130, syoung@mills.edu
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