Catalogue 2011-12

• USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
• English
  • Undergraduate Degrees
  • Graduate Degrees
  • Courses of Instruction

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English

Chair: Margaret E. Russett, Ph.D.

Faculty

Distinguished Professors: T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ph.D.; Percival Everett, A.M.

Aerol Arnold Chair in English: James R. Kincaid, Ph.D.*

USC Associates’ Chair in Humanities: John Carlos Rowe, Ph.D.

Dean’s Professor of English: Bruce R. Smith, Ph.D.

Florence R. Scott Professor of English: Tania Modleski, Ph.D.

Barbra Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies: Alice Echols, Ph.D.

Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture: Dana Gioia, M.B.A.

Provost’s Professor of English and Art History: Kate Flint, Ph.D.

Professors: Joseph A. Boone, Ph.D.; Joseph A. Dane, Ph.D.; Lawrence D. Green, Ph.D.; Judith Halberstam, Ph.D.*; Peggy Kamuf, Ph.D.; David C. Lloyd, Ph.D.; Susan McCabe, Ph.D.; Carol Muske-Dukes, M.F.A.*; David Román, Ph.D.*; Margaret E. Russett, Ph.D.; Hilary M. Schor, Ph.D.; David St. John, M.F.A.; Daniel Tiffany, Ph.D.; David Treuer, Ph.D.; Marianne Wiggins

Associate Professors: Emily Anderson, Ph.D.*; Aimee Bender, M.F.A.; Alice Echols, Ph.D.; Judith Jackson Fossett, Ph.D.*; Alice Gambrell, Ph.D.*; Thomas Gustafson, Ph.D.*; William R. Handley, Ph.D.; Mark Irwin, Ph.D.; Heather James, Ph.D.*; Anthony Kemp, Ph.D.; Rebecca Lemon, Ph.D.; Teresa McKenna, Ph.D.; Viet Nguyen, Ph.D.*; David Rollo, Ph.D.*

Assistant Professors: Michelle Gordon, Ph.D.; Dana Johnson, M.F.A.; Karen L. Tongson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor (Teaching): Michael Du Plessis, Ph.D.

Assistant Professors (Teaching): Mary (Molly) A. Bendall, M.A.; Susan Segal, M.F.A.

Lecturers: Richard Berg, Ph.D.; Thea Cervone, Ph.D.; Michael duPlessis, Ph.D.; Chris Freeman, Ph.D.; Susan Green, Ph.D.; Cecilia Woloch, M.F.A.

Emeritus Leo S. Bing Professor: Jay Martin, Ph.D.

Emeritus Leo S. Bing Professor of English and American Literature: Paul K. Alkon, Ph.D.

Florence R. Scott Professor of English Emerita: Marjorie Perloff, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professors: Charles B. Berryman, Ph.D.; Donald C. Freeman, Ph.D.; Max F. Schulz, Ph.D.; Virginia J. Tufte, Ph.D.*

Emeritus Associate Professors: William H. Brown, Ph.D.; David Eggenschwiler, Ph.D.; Stephen C. Moore, Ph.D.