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 Literature and American Studies
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 and teaching interests concentrate on the effect of religious and political change on early modern texts--theological, literary, theatrical, and practical--in the turbulent century before the outbreak of civil wars in Britain. She 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 encourages transdisciplinary enrollment in her courses, which include The Shakespeare Seminar as well as classes on Sidney, Spenser, Donne, early modern theatre, and the post-reformation Bible and its influence on literature (English Department); Renaissance and Reformation Europe, the politics of Calvinism, Tudor-Stuart British history, Post-reformation England, and transatlantic Puritanism (History Department).
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, Washington, D.C. 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 is currently completing a book with the same title for Yale University Press (forthcoming 2008). She has recently been commissioned to edit a volume of The Complete Sermons of John Donne for Oxford University Press. Professor Ferrell has been awarded research grants from the Fulbright Commission, the Whiting Foundation, the British Academy, the Huntington Library, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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
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.
English Department
School of Arts and Humanities
Claremont Graduate University
121 East Tenth Street
Claremont, CA 91711
Tel.: 909.607.2652
Fax: 909.607.1221
Email: robert.hudspeth@cgu.edu
Marc Redfield :: Ph.D., Cornell University
Interim 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 more about Professor Marc Redfield . . .
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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 :: Ph.D., University of Virginia (Claremont McKenna College)
- Edward W. Copeland :: Ph.D., Harvard University (Pomona College)
- Robert Faggen :: Ph.D., Harvard University (Claremont McKenna College)
- John Farrell :: Ph.D., Harvard University (Claremont McKenna College)
- Gayle J. Green :: Ph.D., Columbia University (Scripps College)
- Jeffrey D. Groves :: Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University (Harvey Mudd College)
- Alexandra Juhasz :: Ph.D., New York University (Pitzer College)
- Paul Mann :: Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz (Pomona College)
- Jay Martin :: Ph.D., Ohio State University (Claremont McKenna College)
- Cristanne C. Miller :: Ph.D., University of Chicago (Pomona College)
- Paul Saint-Amour :: Ph.D., Stanford University (Pomona College)
- Arden Reed :: Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University (Pomona College)
- Cheryl Walker :: Ph.D., Brandeis University (Scripps College)
- Margaret A. Waller, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (Claremont McKenna College)
- Steven C. Young :: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (Pomona College)
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