1. People
  2. Current Faculty

Literature Faculty

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Laura C. Berry

Associate Professor

520-621-5241
berry@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 340
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Stephanie J. Brown

Career-Track Assistant Professor

  • Modernist and Contemporary British and Postcolonial Literature
520-621-1780
stephbrown@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 476
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Meg Lota Brown

Professor

  • Early modern literature and culture
  • Social constructions of gender and power
  • Discourses of science and medicine
520-621-1091
mlbrown@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 492
daniel cooper alarcon

Daniel F. Cooper Alarcon

Associate Professor

  • Critical approaches to travel & migration
  • Travel narratives and fictions
  • Latinx literatures
520-621-7394
dfcooper@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 490
Roger Dahood

Roger Dahood

Professor

520-621-1920
rdahood@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 465
paul hurh

Paul Hurh

Associate Professor

Director, Undergraduate Studies

  • Early American literature
  • Intellectual history and philosophy
  • Affect theory and new materialism
520-626-9498
jphurh@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 445G
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Jennifer Jenkins

Professor

  • Visual and literary cultures of the Southwest
  • Film history and media archaeology
  • Archival studies and history of the book
520-626-0774
jenkinsj@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 461
Fredrick Kiefer

Frederick P Kiefer

Professor

  • Shakespeare
  • Renaissance drama
520-621-7398
fkiefer@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 467
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Manya Lempert

Assistant Professor

  • British and French modernism
  • History and theory of Tragedy
  • Philosophy and Literature
520-626-1471
mlempert@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 423
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Lauren Camille Mason

Assistant Professor

520-621-5266
lmason@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 474
Lee Medovoi

Lee Medovoi

Professor

  • 20th and 21st literature
  • Capitalism and environment
  • Race and religion
520-621-6157
medovoi@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 471
John Melillo

John J Melillo

Assistant Professor

  • Poetics and Music
  • Modern and contemporary literature
  • Literary and cultural theory
520-626-0781
johnmelillo@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 424
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Gerald C Monsman

Professor

520-626-8525
monsman@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 367

Tenney Nathanson

Professor

520-621-1057
nathanso@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 482
petty homer

Homer B. Pettey

Professor

  • Film studies
  • Comparative literature
  • Nobel laureates of literature
520-626-0778
petteyh@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 442

Suresh Somnath Raval

Professor

520- 621-7403
sraval@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 440
Scott Selisker

Scott Selisker

Associate Professor

  • U.S. literature and Culture since 1945
  • Science technology and society (STS)
  • Science fiction
520-621-1154
selisker@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 494
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Charles E Sherry

Associate Professor

520-621-6214
csherry@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 421

Johanna Skibsrud

Assistant Professor

  • Modern poetry and fiction
  • Creative fiction and poetry
  • Feminist and postcolonial theory
520-626-0777
jskibsrud@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 430
ragini tharoor srinivasan

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan

Assistant Professor

  • Cultural studies of the contemporary
  • South Asian Anglophone literatures
  • Feminist and postcolonial theory
520-621-3922
rtsrinivasan@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 427
susan white

Susan M White

Professor

  • Film studies
  • Gender theory
  • Comparative literature
520-621-7404
swhite@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 378

Lynda M Zwinger

Director, Graduate Literature Program

Director, Graduate Studies

Professor

520-621-7408
lyndaz@email.arizona.edu
Modern Languages 431A