English Faculty

The English Department is composed of faculty whose appointments are directly in the department. Lori Anne Ferrell, Wendy Martin and Marc Redfield hold faculty appointments in the English Department.

Wendy Martin, Chair :: Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Professor of American Liturature and American Studies, George and Ronya Kozmetsky Endowed Chair of Transdisciplinary Studies,
Vice Provost and Director of the Transdisciplinary Studies Program

Professor Martin's publications include: An American Triptych: the Lives and Work of Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich: New Essays on The Awakening; We Are the Stories We Tell; Colonial American Travel Narratives; and The Beacon Book of Essays by Contemporary American Women. She is the founding Editor of Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and serves on the editorial boards of the Heath Anthology of American Literature and the "Gender and Culture" series of the University of North Carolina Press. Professor Martin teaches courses in the American Novel, Modernism, American Autobiography, and more.

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Lori Anne Ferrell :: Ph.D., Yale University
Professor of English and History

Professor Lori Anne Ferrell (Ph.D., Yale University) holds a joint appointment in Early Modern History and Literature in the School of Arts and Humanities. Her research concentrates on the effect religious and political change had on early modern texts--theological, literary, theatrical, and practical--in the turbulent century before the outbreak of civil war in Britain. Ferrell has co-directed three NEH Summer Institutes for College and University Faculty and has been a seminar director for the Folger Institute of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. She currently chairs the international advisory board for the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, a collaborative enterprise of the Universities of Wales.

At CGU Ferrell advises the concentration in early modern studies in the School of Humanities. She encourages transdisciplinary enrollment in her courses: The Shakespeare Seminar, classes on Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Milton, early modern theatre, and the English Bible (English Department); Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Tudor-Stuart British history, Post-reformation England, and Colonial America (History Department). In 2008 she was accepted as a student in the Intensive Acting Seminar offered by Los Angeles’s repertory Shakespeare company Theatricum Botanicum, and she has introduced aspects of that training, which she continues, into her courses on early modern English theater.

Ferrell is the author of Government by Polemic (Stanford UP) and co-editor of The English Sermon Revised (Manchester UP) and Religion and Society in Early Modern England (Routledge). She was the guest curator for a 2004 Huntington Library exhibit entitled The Bible and the People, was featured in a 2007 PBS documentary on the same subject, and recently published a book, also titled The Bible and the People, for Yale University Press (2008). She is currently editing a volume of The Complete Sermons of John Donne for Oxford University Press, as well as completing commissioned essays on postmodern theatrical revisions of King Lear, trends in early modern Catholic historiography, and graphic design in renaissance “how-to” books. Professor Ferrell has received grants from the Fulbright Commission, the Whiting Foundation, the British Academy, and the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Huntington Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Newberry Library. In Spring 2010 she will be a residential fellow of All Souls College Oxford.

History Department/English Department 
School of Arts and Humanities 
Claremont Graduate University 
143 East Tenth Street Claremont, CA 91711 
Tel.: 909.607.2652 
Fax: 909.607.1221 
Email: lori.ferrell@cgu.edu

Robert Hudspeth :: Ph.D., Syracuse University
Research Professor of English

Professor Hudspeth joins the English faculty on a three-year appointment as Research Professor of English (2005-2008). Professor Hudspeth is a specialist in 19th century American literature, particularly the literature of the Transcendentalists. Among his scholarly publications is a 6-volume set of Margaret Fuller's writings. Currently Dr. Hudspeth is editing The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau. 3 vols. The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau for Princeton University Press.

Marc Redfield :: Ph.D., Cornell University
Dean and Professor of English

Professor Redfield's fields of specialization include Romanticism, the nineteenth century novel, aesthetics, critical theory, and comparative literature. At Claremont Graduate University, he teaches courses in eighteenth century, Romantic, nineteenth century, and twentieth century British literature, and literary theory. His publications include articles on Goethe, Flaubert, Friedrich Schlegel, George Eliot, Pynchon, and de Man.

His book, Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996), won the MLA's First Book Prize.

Others works by Professor Redfield include The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, "Cultural Memory in the Present" series, 2003).

He is also the editor, with Janet Brodie (CGU History), of High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002), and the editor of Legacies of Paul de Man (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007). For contact information, please see Marc's homepage.

Constance Jordan :: Ph.D., Yale University
Professor of English, Emerita

Professor Jordan specializes in Early Modern literature and culture. She also has strong interests in the history of political thought from antiquity to the present, and in twentieth-century American and British theater. She has been awarded fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Folger Library, the Huntington Library, and the Newberry Library. Her publications include Renaissance Feminism: Literary Texts and Political Models, and Shakespeare's Monarchies: Ruler and Subject in the Romances.

Active Claremont Colleges Faculty

:: Audrey Bilger, CMC: Eighteenth-Century Literature.
:: Robert Faggen, CMC: American Literature.
:: John Farrell, CMC: American Literature.
:: Gayle Greene, SCR: Contemporary Women Writers; Feminist Studies.
:: Jeffrey D. Groves, HMC: American Literature.
:: Alexandra Juhasz, Pitzer: Film
:: Cristanne Miller, POM: American Literature, Women's Literature.
:: Arden Reed, POM: Romanticism; Literary Theory; Literature and the Visual Arts.
:: Cheryl Walker, SCR: American Literature, Women's Studies.
:: Margaret Waller, POM: Comparative Literature, Feminist Theory.
:: Nicholas Warner, CMC: American Literature, British and American Romanticism.

Visiting/Adjunct Faculty