Faculty
Jonathan Mulrooney
Professor, Department Chair
(Ph.D. Boston University)
Fields: British Romantic Literature; Romantic-period Theater and Public Culture; Nineteenth-Century British & American Literature; Film; Romantic Historicisms
Email: jmulroon@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 212 Phone: 508-793-3440
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Julie Camarda
Visiting Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Rutgers University)
Fields: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Global Romanticism(s), Poetry and Poetics, Gender and Sexuality, Media Theory, Genre Theory
Email: jcamarda@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 227B
Office hours: W 12-3 PM and by appt.
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Christine Coch
Associate Professor
English Department Director of Studies
(Ph.D., University of Chicago)
Fields: Renaissance English Literature and Culture; Shakespeare
Email: ccoch@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 224
Phone: 508-793-3947
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Leah Hager Cohen
Visiting Professor and James N. and Sarah L. O'Reilly Barrett Professor in Creative Writing
(M.S., Columbia University)
Fields: Creative Writing: Fiction and Nonfiction; Ethics of Storytelling
Email: lcohen@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 231 Phone: 508-793-3437
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Morris Collins
Lecturer, Montserrat Program
Email: mcollins@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 213 Phone: 508-793-3518
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Kyle C. Frisina
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Michigan)
Fields: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Drama and Literature; Performance Studies; Autotheory
Email: kfrisina@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 214 Phone: 508-793-3651
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Matthew Gannon
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fields: Modern British, Irish, and Caribbean literature; modernist poetry, visual art, and film; environmental humanities and ecocriticism; literary theory and philosophy
Email: mgannon@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 225
Office hours: MWF 10–12 and by appt.
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Debra L. Gettelman
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Harvard University)
Fields: 19th Century British Literature and Culture; the Novel; Book History; Film Adaptation
Email: dgettelm@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 235A Phone: 508-793-2759
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Madigan Haley
Associate Professor
(Ph.D. University of Virginia)
Fields: 20th- and 21st-Century British Literature; Comparative World Literatures; Transnational Modernism; History and Theory of the Novel; Postcolonial and Global Studies
Email: mhaley@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 223 Phone: 508-793-2523
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Daniela Kukrechtová
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Brandeis University
Fields: American poetry after 1850; African American literature; urban experience in modern American poetry; urban ecology; multicultural literature; global women writers; the literature of exile
Email: dkukrechtova@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 230
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Nathaniel Likert
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fields: Early modern English literature
Email: nlikert@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 215
Office hours: W 1-3 PM, and by appt.
Shawn Lisa Maurer
Professor
(Ph.D., University of Michigan)
Fields: 18th Century British literature and Culture; History and Theory of the Novel; Satire; Feminist and Critical Theory; Women's and Gender Studies; Women Writers; Female Modernism, esp. Dorothy Richardson; 19th and 20th Century Anglo-American Women's Poetry
Email: smaurer@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 229 Phone: 508-793-3444
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Melinda Moustakis
Visiting Assistant Professor, Creative Writing
(PhD Western Michigan University)
Field: Creative Writing
Email: mmoustakis@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 210
Office hours: Tues 11-12, Wed, 1:30-2:30, and Thurs 11-2
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Lee Oser
Professor
(Ph.D., Yale University)
Fields: English and American Poetry; Religion and Literature; Modernism; Catholic Fiction; Shakespeare and the Renaissance.
Email: leeoser@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 219
Phone: 508-793-2208
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Oliver de la Paz
Associate Professor
Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
(M.F.A, Arizona State University)
Fields: Creative Writing: Poetry and Hybrid Genres; Contemporary American Poetry; Asian American Literature
Email: odelapaz@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 227 Phone: 508-793-2698
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Leila Philip
Professor
Program Coordinator Creative Writing
(M.F.A, Columbia University)
Fields: Creative Writing/Non-fiction
Email: lphilip@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 217 Phone: 508-793-2393
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Lyz Reblin-Renshaw
Paige Reynolds
Professor
(Ph.D., University of Chicago)
Fields: Modern and Contemporary Irish Literature; Irish Studies; 20th Century British and American Literature and Culture; Modern Drama and Performance.
Email: preynold@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 228 Phone: 508-793-2695
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Melissa Schoenberger
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Boston University)
Fields: Restoration and 18th Century British Literature; Poetry; Translation
Email: mschoenb@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 222 Phone: 508-793-3521
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Hayley Stefan
Lecturer, Montserrat Program
(Ph.D., University of Connecticut)
Fields: Multi-ethnic Literature of the United States; Digital Humanities; Disability/Mad Studies; Young Adult Literature
Email: hstefan@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 214
Office hours: M/W 11-12; Thu 10-11 via Zoom.
Phone: 508-793-3331
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Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities
(Ph.D., Brown University)
Fields: Modernist and Postmodernist Fiction (American and European); Literary Revisions of Popular Narrative Genres (Folktale, Detective Story, Gothic Romance); 19th Century American Literature, esp. Poe, Hawthorne, and Dickinson; 20th Century Comparative Literature, esp. Nabokov
Email: ssweeney@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 220 Phone: 508-793-2690
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Elliott Visconsi
Professor
(Ph.D., UCLA)
Fields: Early modern English literature, law and literature, freedom of expression
Emails: evisconsi@holycross.edu
Stella Wang
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fields: Medieval Literature, Religious Culture
Email: swang@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 221
Office Hours: MWF 11-12 or by appointment
Patrick Whitmarsh
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fields: 20th and 21st Century Anglo-American literature; environmental humanities and ecocriticism; Anthropocene studies; science/speculative fiction
Email: pwhitmarsh@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 211
Office Hours: T 10-12 and W 12:30-1:30
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Xu Xi 許素細
Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters
Fields: Genres: Novel, Literary Essay, Short Fiction, Memoir; Transnational literatures in English; World Literatures in translation (especially literatures of Asia and postcolonial spaces); World Politics (esp. China-US relations); Indonesian language and literature.
Email: xxi@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 218 Office Phone: 508- 793-2365
Office hours: Th 1-2:30 PM and by appointment.
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Faculty Teaching Affiliated Courses
Sarah Klotz
Associate Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies
(Ph.D., The University of California, Davis)
Fields: Composition and Rhetoric, Native American/Indigenous Studies, Writing Assessment, American Literature
Email: sklotz@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 459
Phone: 508-793-3965
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Nadine M. Knight
Associate Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies
(Ph.D. Harvard University)
Fields: African American Literature; 19th and 20th Century American Literature; American Civil War Studies; Film and Television
Email: nknight@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 458
Phone: 508-793-2563
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Sarah Luria
Chair, Environmental Studies Department
Professor, Environmental Studies
(Ph.D., Stanford University)
Fields: 19th Century American Literature; American studies (Intersections Between Visual/Material Culture, History, and Literature); 19th Century Political Oratory and Rhetoric; 19th Century Sentimentalism; Robert Lowell "For the Union Dead" Website
Email: sluria@holycross.edu
Office: Beavan 114
Phone: 508-793-3443
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Jorge Santos
Associate Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
(Ph.D., University of Connecticut)
Fields: Ethnic American Literature; Immigrant/Migrant Literature; Ethnic Studies; American Cultural Studies; Graphic Narrative; Asian American Literature
Email: jsantos@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 460
Phone: 508-793-3460
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Staff
Elise Saad
Academic Administrative Assistant
Email: esaad@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 209
Phone: 508-793-2562
PO Box: 47A
Office hours: M-F 8:30-4:30
Faculty Emeriti
Patricia L. Bizzell
Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emerita, English
(Ph.D., Rutgers University)
Fields: Expository Writing; Theory and Practice of Rhetoric; American Literature to 1900; American Women's Literature
Email: pbizzell@holycross.edu
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Robert Cording
Professor Emeritus
Email: rcording@holycross.edu
James M. Kee
Professor Emeritus
(Ph.D., University of Virginia)
Email: jkee@holycross.edu
Maurice A. Géracht
Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emeritus
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)
Fields: 18th Century English Literature; English, American, French Narrative Traditions and Narrative Theory; 20th Century Visual Arts; Intersections Between Visual Arts and Literature.
Email: mgeracht@holycross.edu
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Richard E. Matlak
Professor Emeritus
(Ph.D., Indiana University)
Fields: William Wordsworth and English romantic writers; biography and poetry; dialogical approaches to literature; transitions between periods of literary history and national literatures.
Email:rmatlak@holycross.edu
B. Eugene McCarthy
Professor Emeritus
Email: emccarthy@holycross.edu
Sarah Stanbury
Professor Emerita
Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities
(Ph.D., Duke University)
Fields: Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature; Medieval Visual Culture; Mapping Margery Kempe
Email: sstanbur@holycross.edu
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Helen Whall
Professor Emerita
(Ph.D., Yale University)
Fields: Shakespeare; Renaissance Drama; Modern Drama; Comic Theory
Email: hwhall@holycross.edu