Elmaz Abinader
Professor of English
W. M. Keck Foundation Professorship in Creative Writing
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
Mary S. Metz Professorship for Excellence and Creativity in Teaching
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
Janet L. Holmgren
Susan Mills Professor of English
Mills Hall Room 344, 510.430.2041, janeth@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Linguistics and literary analysis; language, rhetoric, and public speaking; American literature; higher education leadership and governance; women's education and empowerment; K-16 educational reform
Ajuan Mance
Professor of English
May Treat Morrison Professorship
Mills Hall Room 311, 510.430.3378, amance@mills.edu
Professional Interests: African American literature, 19th-century American literature, US popular
culture, the oral tradition in US literature, Black feminist thought, African American art
Cornelia Nixon
Professor of English
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
Program Head of Journalism
Mills Hall Room 347, 510.430.2359,
pollock@mills.edu
Professional Interests: The journalism revolution (digital media, social media, legacy news values, etc.),
magazine and news writing and editing for traditional media; creative nonfiction (in print and other forms),
historical and geographic narratives, environmental and natural history writing
Patricia Powell
Associate Professor of English
Mills Hall 351, 510.430.2204, ppowell@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Creative writing: fiction and nonfiction; Caribbean literature; African women
writers; gay and lesbian literature; contemporary fiction
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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
On leave Spring 2012
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
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
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
Professor of English, Director of Creative Writing
Aurelia Henry Reinhardt Chair
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
Faith Adiele
Distinguished Visiting Writer
Mills Hall Room 130, 510.430.2337, fadiele@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Creative writing, literary nonfiction and hybrid forms; travel writing; international and diasporic
literature; documentary and socially-engaged narrative; women’s and spiritual memoir; intersections of public
and personal identity
Kiara Brinkman
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall
kiarabrinkman@hotmail.com
Professional Interests: Fiction writing, contemporary fiction, Victorian literature, the gothic,
fiction for children and young adults, the graphic novel
Kate Brubeck
Visiting Assistant Professor
Director of Language Diversity Resources
Reinhardt 243, 510.430.3147, kbrubeck@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:15-12:30, Thursdays by appointment only
Professional Interests: Writing: grammar, style and voice; language learning; creative process; pedagogy
David Buuck
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 348, 510.430.2188, dbuuck@mills.edu
Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 1:30-2:15, Thursdays 12:00-2:00, and by appointment
Professional Interests: Poetry, postcolonial literature, site-specific and conceptual art, cultural studies,
globalization theory
Huma Dar
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall
hdar@mills.edu
Professional Interests: South Asian literature and cinema; critical theories of race, gender & sexuality;
post-colonialism and visuality; transnational feminism; cultural studies; critical theory; Muslim femininities
and masculinities; racialization and war
Tarah Demant
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall 305, 510.430.2219, tdemant@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:30-1:00, Thursdays 12:00-1:00, or by appointment
Professional Interests: American nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, women and gender studies,
gender and critical race theory, American nationalisms and foreignisms, whiteness studies, transnational
literature, writing and composition
Rebekah Edwards
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 324, 510.430.2036, redwards@mills.edu
Office Hours: Mondays/Wednesdays 12:00-12:45, Mondays 5:30-6:30, and by appointment
Professional Interests: Queer theory; problem bodies in 19th & 20th century British and American literatures; visual culture
and the aesthetics of alterity; passing narratives; poetics; race, gender and dis/ability in early 20th century US
cultures
Kiala Givehand
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 128, 510.473.5602, kgivehand@mills.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Professional Interests: Poetry and poetics; narrative and prose poetry; Southern women writers;
the relationship between family politics and identity; young adult literature (coming of age, dystopian
societies, & verse novels); the intersections of poetry and book art; community teaching and arts advocacy;
distance learning
Guillermo Gomez-Pena
Lecturer, Spring
Mills Hall Room 348, 510.430.2188
professor.gomez-pena@gmail.com
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-2:00
Professional Interests: Performance artist, intellectual DJ, reverse anthropologist, radical pedagogue, nomadic provocateur, deviant shaman, linguistic tightrope walker, X-treme identity thief, chercheur de limits
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Lecturer, Spring
Mills Hall 310, 510.430.2358, mjoseph@youthspeaks.org
Office Hours: Fridays 10:00-12:00
Professional Interests: Performance poetry, African American studies, hip hop aesthetics, playwriting, drama
Bula Maddison
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 330, 510.430.2372, bmaddiso@mills.edu
Office Hours: Mondays 4:00-5:00, Thursdays 10:00-11:00, and by appointment
Professional Interests: Bible, bible in modern literature, Bakhtinian theory
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Kim Magowan
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 349, 510.430.2169, magowan.kim@gmail.com
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-3:00, Thursdays 12:30-1:30, 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, micheline@lmi.net
Office Hours: Thursdays 1:30-2:30 and 5:00-6:00 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Creative writing, the novel
Meredith May
Lecturer, Fall
mmay@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle; travel writing; screenwriting;
speaker: sex trafficking issues, beekeeping
Miranda Mellis
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 346, 510.430.2340, mmellis@cca.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays 5:15-6:00
Professional Interests: Fiction, nonfiction, art criticism, ecology, activism, theory, pedagogy,
interdisciplinary practices
Barbara Jane Reyes
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall
bjanepr@gmail.com
Professional Interests: Political and multilingual poetry
Canyon Sam
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall
canyonla@gmail.com
Professional Interests: Screenwriting, memoir, including spiritual memoir; creative nonfiction; travel writing;
creative process; the oral tradition; biography as feminist history; socially-engaged narrative
Eirik Steinhoff
Lecturer, Fall
esteinhoff@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Renaissance poetry and poetics, translation, contemporary anglophone
poetry and poetics
Truong Tran
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 350, 510.430.2185, truong.celan@gmail.com
Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 12:15-1:30 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Poetry and poetics
Kara Wittman
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 336, 510.430.3136, kwittman@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:30-4:00 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: Tuesdays 1:00-2:30 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Poetry and poetics
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Staff
Jess Heaney
Administrative Assistant
Mills Hall Room 316, 510.430.2240,
jheaney@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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