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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
Assistant 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
Assistant Professor of English
Mills Hall Room 306, 510.430.2219, yli@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Creative writing, fiction and nonfiction
Ajuan Mance
Associate Professor of English
Robert and Ann Wert 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
Sarlo Award Recipient
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
Assistant 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
On sabbatical Spring 2008
Mills Hall Room 305, 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, Aurelia Henry Reinhardt Chair
Chair of the English Department and
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
Associate Professor of English
W.M. Keck Chair in 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
Chana Bloch
Professor Emerita of English, Spring
Mills Hall 212, 510.430.2036-2, chana@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 5:30-6:30
Professional Interests: Writing and translating poetry, contemporary poetry, and Jewish literature
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Naomi Brenner
Lecturer, Spring
Mills Hall 307, 510.430.2216.2, nbrenner@berkeley.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 11:30-1:30, and by appointment
Professional Interests: Hebrew, Arabic, and Yiddish literature and culture; literature and conflict; multilingualism; constructions of gender and identity in literature
Kate Brubeck
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 336, 510.430.3136.1, katebrubeck@earthlink.net
Office Hours: Mondays 9:30-10:00, 12:30-1:00 by appointment only
Professional Interests: fiction and creative nonfiction, intercultural communication, effects of multilingualism on identity and self-expression, ELL, and grammar as style
Rebekah Edwards
Lecturer
Mills Hall 349, 510.430.2169.1, redwards@mills.edu
Office hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 4:00-6:00, and by appointment
Professional Interests: Queer theory, disability theory, visual culture theory, lesbian literature, American literature
Marcia Eppich-Harris
Lecturer, Fall
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
Mills Hall Room 310, 510.430.2358.1, pinkhydrangea@hotmail.com
Office Hours: Thursdays 2:30-4:00 and by appointment
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
Mills Hall 336, 510.430.3136.3, Susan@Tsoft.com
Office Hours: Thursdays 2:30-3:45
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 and Thursdays 4:00-5:00 and by appointment
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
Mills Hall Room 349, 510.430.2240, dhorton@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 4:00-5:00, Thursdays 3:30-4:30
Professional Interests: Poetry, aesthetics, composition
Liza Kramer
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 350, 510.430.2185.3, lkramer@miills.edu
Office Hours: Mondays 10:30-12:30
Professional Interests: American literature, 19th- and 20th-century African American literature and history, critical race studies, feminist theory, autobiography and biography
Adair Lara
Lecturer
Mills Hall Room 350, 510.430.2185.1, adair.lara@gmail.com
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:30-4:00
Professional Interests: Teaching the personal essay and memoir; manuscript consultation; magazine writing; writing non-fiction books, including memoir, how-to and small point-of-sale books
Bula Maddison
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 330, 510.430.2372.1, bmaddiso@mills.edu
Office Hours: Mondays 9:00-10:00, 2:00-3:00, Thursdays 11:00-12:00, and by appointment
Professional Interests: Bible, bible in modern literature, Bakhtinian theory
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Kim Magowan
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall
kim@magowan.com
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, 510.430.2358.2, micheline@lmi.net
Office Hours: Thursdays 1:30-2:30 and 5:00-6:00
Professional Interests: Creative writing, the novel
Laura Moriarty
Lecturer, Fall
laura@spdbooks.org
Professional Interests: Poetry, poetics, prose, science fiction, history of the book
Patricia Powell
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall
patriciaepowell@gmail.com
Professional Interests: Fiction writing, Caribbean literature, contemporary fiction
Leslie Scalapino
Visiting Writer
Mills Hall Room 310, 510.430.2358.3, leslie.scalapino@att.net
Office Hours: Mondays 2:00-4:00
Professional Interests: Poetry, poetics, fiction, poem-plays, criticism, mysteries, book publishing
Zaid Shlah
Lecturer, Fall
Professional Interests: Poetry/poetics, middle eastern literature and culture
Katie Simon
Lecturer
Mills Hall Room 349, 510.430.2169.2, kasimon@mills.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 1:00-2:00 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Seventeenth-, 18th-, and 19th-century American literature; autobiography; gender studies
Truong Tran
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 350, 510.430.2185.2, truong.celan@gmail.com
Office Hours: Wednesdays 12:00-2:00
Professional Interests: Poetry and poetics
Kara Wittman
Lecturer
Mills Hall Room 336, 510.430.3136.2, kwittman@mills.edu
Office Hours: Mondays 10:00-11:00, Wednesdays 1:00-2:00
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: Wednesdays 1:00-3:00
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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