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Welcome to the English Department
The English Department at CGU is characterized by small seminars, multidisciplinary study, and independent learning in a student-centered environment. The department‘s objectives are to impart to students the ability to write clearly and effectively; an understanding of research in their field; a sense of the fields and subfields that shape primary and related disciplines; and the ability to undertake independent research and make an original contribution to their field.
The academic program emphasizes the breadth of American and British literatures, as well as critical theory, the development of research skills, and area expertise at the master’s and doctoral levels. Along with the interdisciplinary concentrations offered in the School of Arts & Humanities—American Studies, Early Modern Studies, Hemispheric & Transnational Studies, Media Studies, and Museum Studies—students may tailor distinct courses of study in cultural studies, gender studies, religion and literature, hemispheric Americas studies, U.S. Latino/a culture and literature, the graphic novel, and more.
As a result of its close ties to other Arts and Humanities departments, the English Department encourages transdisciplinary inquiry in graduate study. All degree tracks allow students to integrate topics in other humanistic disciplines with research in literature and the critical, cultural, and historical context of literary texts. Our program is particularly strong in interdisciplinary and transnational approaches to literature and culture.
CGU’s close-knit community nurtures an atmosphere of lively intellectual engagement while retaining the resources of a large, well-appointed university through membership in the Claremont University Consortium—with world-class professors and libraries and an active calendar of humanities-focused speakers and events.
Chair: Eric Bulson
831 N. Dartmouth Avenue • Claremont, CA 91711 • 909-621-8612 • Fax 909-607-9587
Eric Bulson
Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Chair in the Humanities
Professor of English
Chair, English Department
Programs
PhD in English
Core Faculty
Eric Bulson
Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Chair in the Humanities
Professor of English
Chair, English Department
Lori Anne Ferrell
Dean, School of Arts & Humanities
John D. and Lillian Maguire Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Director, Early Modern Studies Program
Director, Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards
David Luis-Brown
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English
Director, Africana Studies Program
Extended Faculty
Myriam Chancy
Scripps College
Research Interests
African diaspora with specialization in its literature
Kimberly Drake
Scripps College
Research Interests
Protest writing and rhetoric, American literature and culture, Disability literature, Prison writing, Short story and experimental fiction writing, Punk rock literature and subcultures, Writing pedagogy, Feminist theory, disability theory, queer theory, theories of race and class
Evan Kindley
Pomona College
Research Interests
Modernism, American poetry, creative nonfiction and the sociology of literature
Thomas Koenigs
Scripps College
Research Interests
Nineteenth-Century American literature, African-American literature, the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century, History of the novel, Novel theory, Gender and sexuality, Historicism, and American Modernism
Warren Liu
Scripps College
Research Interests
Contemporary American literature; Asian American literature
Aaron Matz
Pomona College
Research Interests
British fiction, 1850-present, history of the novel in England and France, literature and morality, realism, satire, and theory of genre
Sarah Raff
Pomona College
Research Interests
18th- and 19th-Century British literature, History and theory of the European novel, Jane Austen