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Graduate English Faculty
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Elmaz
Abinader Professor of English Mills Hall, Room 313 510.430.2225, moses@mills.edu Office Hours: Tuesday 3:30-5:00 and by appointment An award-winning author of poetry, plays, memoir, and fiction, Elmaz Abinader's courses include Writing of Creative Nonfiction and Theories of Creativity & the Teaching of Creative Writing. She also is co-founder of the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation and a recipient of a Silicon Valley Arts Fellowship. |
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Faith Adiele Distinguished Visiting Writer Mills Hall 130 510.430.2337, fadiele@mills.edu Office Hours: by appointment Faith Adiele's interests in travel and spiritual narratives, identity, and the intersection of public and private are reflected in her courses: Women Travel Writers, Documentary Narrative, and Creative Nonfiction. She coedited the anthology Coming of Age Around the World, and teaches related courses on multicultural and international young adult literature. |
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Kate Brubeck Visiting Professor, Fall Director of Language Diversity Services Mills Hall Room 305 510.430.2219, kbrubeck@mills.edu Kate Brubeck has taught and coordinated programs in language diversity and acquisition at Mills and throughout the Bay Area. She is interested in language—in the rules that bind and the ways we break those bonds; in the junctions and schisms, in both academic and creative writing, between voice and culture, between our private and public senses of self. |
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Diane Cady Associate Professor of English Mills Hall, Room 314 510.430.2218, dcady@mills.edu Office Hours: Monday 1:30-2:30, Wednesday 12:30-1:30, and by appointment Professional Interests: Chaucer, late medieval culture, medieval romance, medieval and early modern drama, new economic criticism, gender studies, cultural studies |
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Julie Chen Associate Professor of Book Art CPM, Room 107 510.430.2002, jchen@mills.edu Office Hours: Tuesday 4:00-5:00 and by appointment An internationally known book artist who has been publishing limited edition artists' books under the Flying Fish Press imprint for over 20 years, Julie Chen's courses include Building the Contemporary Book and The Book in Time and Space. |
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Tarah Demant Visiting Assistant Professor Mills Hall Room 305 510.430.2219, tdemant@mills.edu Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 10:00-1:00 and by appointment 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 |
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Rebekah Edwards Visiting Assistant Professor Mills Hall Room 344 510.430.2041, redwards@mills.edu Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday 4:00-5:00 and by appointment Rebekah Edwards' scholarly interests are reflected in her innovative courses on queer theory, disability theory, and visual culture, as well as lesbian and American literatures. In addition to her scholarship in these interdisciplinary fields, Edwards is also a poet; her first book of poems, then's elsewhere, was published in 2011 by Redwood Coast Press. |
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Susan Gevirtz Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring Mills Hall Room 350 510.430.2185, susangev@gmail.com Office Hours: Thursday 10:45-11:45 Professional Interests: Poetry and poetics, modern Greek poetry, cultural studies |
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Kiala Givehand Visiting Assistant Professor Mills Hall Room 128 510.473.5602, kgivehand@mills.edu Office Hours: Wednesday 3:00-4:00 by appointment Kiala Givehand prepares future teachers and social activists in her role as coordinator/instructor for the Community Teaching Project. She is also a poet, and her professional interests include: Southern women writers; young adult literature, poetics, the book as an art form; and distance learning. She is the founding editor of Generations Literary Journal. |
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Marisa Handler Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring Mills Hall Room 346 510.430.2340, marisahandler@gmail.com Office Hours: Monday 4:15-6:15 Professional Interests: Fiction, literary nonfiction, songwriting, global literature, the intersections between creative writing and personal and social transformation |
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Janet Holmgren Susan Mills Professor of English Mills Hall, Room 344 janeth@mills.edu Office Hours: On leave 2012–2013 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 |
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Marc Bamuthi Joseph Lecturer, Spring Mills Hall Room 324 510.430.2358, mjoseph@ycba.org Office Hours: Friday 12:00-2:00 Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a recipient of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Artist Award and the Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre, among many other awards. He is the director of performing arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. At Mills, he teaches poetry workshops, with special interests in performance, African American studies, hip hop aesthetics, and drama. |
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Bula Maddison Visiting Assistant Professor Mills Hall, Room 330 510.430.2372, bmaddiso@mills.edu Office Hours: Monday 4:00-5:00, Thursday 1:00-2:00 and by appointment Trained in comparative literature and Biblical studies, Bula Maddison teaches Bible as literature and related courses as well as literary studies, Greco-Roman myth, and world roots of literature. She has a special interest in Bakhtin theory. |
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Kim Magowan Visiting Assistant Professor Siekhaus Faculty Achievement Award Mills Hall, Room 349 510.430.2169, magowan.kim@gmail.com Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday 9:30-11:00 and by appointment Award-winning teacher Kim Magowan has published critical articles on American film and literature as well as fiction. Her scholarly interests include 19th- and 20th-century American literature, modernism, the gothic, African American literature, film, and composition. |
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Ajuan Mance Professor of English May Treat Morrison Professorship On sabbatical Spring 2013 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 |
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Micheline Aharonian Marcom Visiting Assistant Professor Mills Hall, Room 310 510.430.2358, michelinemarcom@gmail.com Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday 9:30-11:00 and by appointment Micheline Aharonian Marcom teaches workshops and craft classes in prose and the novel. Her first book, Three Apples Fell from Heaven (2001), was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. The Daydreaming Boy (2004) earned her the 2004 Lannan Literary Fellowship as well as the 2005 PEN Center USA Award for Fiction. |
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Cornelia Nixon Professor of English Mills Hall, Room 312 510.430.2221, cnixon@mills.edu Office Hours: Wednesday 2:30-4:30 and by appointment Cornelia Nixon teaches fiction writing and contemporary fiction. She has two published novels and has received two O. Henry Awards, two Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bunting Institute. |
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Sarah Pollock Program Head of Journalism Mills Hall, Room 347 510.430.2359, pollock@mills.edu Office Hours: Tuesday 12:00-1:00, Thursday 11:30-12:30 and by appointment A veteran journalist and former Mother Jones senior editor, Sarah Pollock's interests include social/cultural/environmental issues and literature. She is the author of numerous articles, essays, and book reviews for national magazines and newspapers. |
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Patricia Powell Associate Professor of English Mills Hall Room 351 510.430.2204, ppowell@mills.edu Office Hours: Thursday 2:00-4:00 and by appointment Author of Me Dying Trial, A Small Gathering of Bones, The Pagoda, and The Fullness of Everything, Patricia Powell teaches fiction and creative nonfiction workshops as well as courses in African and Caribbean literatures. |
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Stephen Ratcliffe Professor of English Faculty Executive Committee Division Representative John and Martha Davidson Professorship Mills Hall, Room 303 510.430.2245, sratclif@mills.edu Office Hours: Monday 2:30-4:00 Stephen Ratcliffe's work focuses on the creation and critical history of poetry. His scholarly interests span the range of poetic history, from English Renaissance to contemporary, and he has authored books on Shakespeare, Campion, and 20th-century experimental poetry. He has published more than 15 books of poems. |
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Kathryn Reiss Associate Professor of English, Part-time Mills Hall, Room 307 510.430.2216, kreiss@mills.edu Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 12:30-1:30 Award-winning author of more than 12 novels of suspense for children and teens, Kathryn Reiss is the recipient of the ALA Best Books award for YA, and a two-time MWA Edgar Award nominee. |
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Barbara Jane Reyes Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall Mills Hall 348 510.430.2188, bjanepr@gmail.com Barbara Jane Reyes is a poet with interests in political and multilingual poetry. She has published three chapbooks as well as three collections of poetry: Gravities of Center (2003); Poeta en San Francisco (2005), which received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; and Diwata (2010), a finalist for the California Book Award. |
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Kirsten Saxton Associate Professor of English, Director of Composition Mills Hall, Room 306 510.430.2214, ktsaxton@mills.edu Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 11:30-12:00 pm and by appointment Kirsten Saxton has published nationally on 18th-century literature and culture, early British women writers, and the history of the novel in English. Her recent book, Narratives of Women and Murder in England, 1680–1760: Deadly Plots, reflects her interest in theories of criminality and sexuality. |
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Ruth Saxton Professor of English Mills Hall, Room 301 510.430.2151, rsaxton@mills.edu Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 11:30-1:00 and by appointment Passionate about women's voices, Ruth Saxton engages the work of Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, and contemporary novelists in her publications and courses such as The Girl and Fictions of Female Possibility. She is a founder of the Mills writing and women's studies programs. |
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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 Office Hours: Monday 11:00-12:00, Tuesday, 1:30-2:30, Wednesday 2:30-3:30, Friday morning and other times by appointment Focusing on the intersections between religion and literature in 19th-century British text, Cynthia Scheinberg's specialties include women poets and Anglo-Jewish writers. Widely published in journals and essay collections, she also has published a book on Jewish identity in Victorian poetics and has won a number of awards for scholarship and teaching. |
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Juliana Spahr Professor of English Aurelia Henry Reinhardt Chair Director of Creative Writing On sabbatical Spring 2013 Mills Hall, Room 315 510.430.2289, jspahr@mills.edu Juliana Spahr teaches exploratory forms, ones full of juxtaposed noises, clashing contexts, and community discord even while some of her expectations (and hopes) for writing are more meditative. She publishes poetry, prose, and essay. |
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Thomas Strychacz Professor of English Mills Hall, Room 304 510.430.2208, toms@mills.edu Office Hours: Monday 12:00-2:30, Tuesday 2:20-3:30, Thursday 5:00-6:00, and by appointment Author of three books on literary modernism and many articles on American literature, Tom Strychacz's teaching interests extend from American literature to critical theory, drama, and science fiction. |
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Truong Tran Visiting Assistant Professor Mills Hall, Room 350 510.430.2185, truong.celan@gmail.com Office Hours: Tuesday 12:00-2:00, 5:30-6:30, and by appointment An award-winning poet and visual artist, Truong Tran is the author of five collections of poetry and a children's book. His work has been translated into Spanish and Dutch, and he was a featured poet in the 2011 Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam, the Netherlands—among other awards. He teaches poetry workshops and craft courses at Mills. |
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Kathleen Walkup Professor of Book Art, Program Head CPM, Room 119 510.430.2001, kwalk@mills.edu Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 11:00-12:00 A lecturer, curator, writer, and teacher, Kathleen has had a profound impact on the field of book art. Her research includes the history of women and print. Her ongoing project, Library of Discards, examines the conceptual nature of artists' books. She teaches pioneering classes that combine historical study and studio art. |
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Kara Wittman Visiting Assistant Professor Director of Rhetoric and Composition Mills Hall, Room 336 510.430.3136, kwittman@mills.edu Office Hours: Tuesday 11:00-1:00 and by appointment Kara Wittman teaches courses in 19th-century literature; narrative and novel theory; British Romanticism, history and philosophy of science; and intersections between literature, the public good, and the commons. She is director of rhetoric and composition at Mills, and also has interests in the history and theory of pedagogy. |
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Stephanie Young Visiting Assistant Professor Graduate Programs Director Mills Hall, Room 317 510.430.3130, syoung@mills.edu Office Hours: Monday 1:00-2:30 and by appointment Stephanie Young teaches workshops and craft classes in poetry. She has published two books of poetry, edited the anthology Bay Poetics, and is managing editor of the Deep Oakland website. Her interests include cross-genre and hybrid writing, poetry communities and movements, new media, documentary poetics, and performance. |
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Jess Heaney Cheena Marie Lo Tonianne Nemeth |