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Faculty & Staff

  Patrick J. Ireland
Associate Professor, Department Chair
(Ph.D., St. Louis University)
Fields: American literature: romanticism, realism, southern literature.
Email:pireland@holycross.edu

 

  Patricia L. Bizzell
Professor
(Ph.D., Rutgers University)
Fields: Expository writing; theory and practice of rhetoric; American literature to 1900; American women's literature.
Email:pbizzell@holycross.edu  Additional Information

 

  Jarrett H. Brown
Instructor
(Cand. Ph.D., College of William and Mary)
Fields:
Email:jbrown@holycross.edu

 

  Christine Coch
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Chicago)
Fields: Renaissance English literature and culture, Shakespeare, gender studies
Email:ccoch@holycross.edu  Additional Information

 

  Leah Hager Cohen
W.H. Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters, Visiting Professor
(M.S., Columbia University)
Fields:
Email:lcohen@holycross.edu

 

  Robert K. Cording
James N. and Sarah L. O'Reilly Barrett Professor in Creative Writing
(Ph.D., Boston College)
Fields: 17th Century poetry; 20th Century poetry;creative writing (poetry).
Email:rcording@holycross.edu

 

  Joanne Marie Cordón
Lecturer
(Ph.D., University of Connecticut)
Fields:
Email:jcordon@holycross.edu  Additional Information

 

  Diana V. Cruz
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Boston College)
Fields: 19th Century American Literature; The African American Literary Tradition; Contemporary African American Literature.
Email:dcruz@holycross.edu

 

  Maurice A. Géracht
Stephen J. Prior Professor of Humanities
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)
Fields: 18th Century English literature; English, American, French narrative traditions and narrative theory; 20th Century visual arts and intersections between visual arts and literature.
Email:mgeracht@holycross.edu  Additional Information

 

  Debra L. Gettelman
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Harvard University)
Fields: 19th Century British literature and culture; the novel; history of reading
Email:dgettelm@holycross.edu

 

  Elaine Hays
Director, Writer's Workshop, Lecturer
(Ph.D., University of Rhode Island)
Fields: Composition & Rhetoric, writing centers, tutor training
Email:ehays@holycross.edu

 

  James M. Kee
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Virginia)
Fields: Middle English literature, especially Chaucer and Langland; hermeneutics and literary criticism; philosophy and literature; the Bible and literature.
Email:jkee@holycross.edu

 

  Sarah Luria
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Stanford University)
Fields: 19th Century American Literature; American studies (intersections between visual/material culture, history, and literature); 19th Century political oratory and rhetoric; 19th Century sentimentalism; Robert Lowell "For the Union Dead" Web site.
Email:sluria@holycross.edu  Additional Information

 

  Richard E. Matlak
Professor
(Ph.D., Indiana University)
Fields: William Wordsworth and English romantic writers; biography and poetry; dialogical approaches to literature; transitions between periods of literary history and national literatures.
Email:rmatlak@holycross.edu

 

  Shawn Lisa Maurer
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Michigan)
Fields: 18th Century British literature and culture; history and theory of the novel; satire; feminist and critical theory; women's and gender studies; women writers; female modernism, esp. Dorothy Richardson; 19th and 20th Century Anglo-American women's poetry.
Email:smaurer@holycross.edu  Additional Information

 

  James Miracky S.J.
Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Development
(Ph.D., Rutgers University)
Fields: 20th Century British novel; modern and contemporary drama; history and theory of the novel; gender studies.
Email:jmiracky@holycross.edu

 

  William R. Morse
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Brandeis University)
Fields: Renaissance Literature; Shakespeare; Milton; Ovid.
Email:wmorse@holycross.edu

 

  Jonathan Mulrooney
Associate Professor
(Ph.D. Boston University)
Fields: British Romantic Literature; Romantic-period Theater and Public Culture; Nineteenth-Century British & American Literature; Film; Romantic Historicisms.
Email:jmulroon@holycross.edu  Additional Information

 

  Lee Oser
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Yale University)
Fields: English and American poetry; religion and literature; modernism.
Email:leeoser@holycross.edu

 

  Leila Philip
Associate Professor
(M.F.A, Columbia University)
Fields: Creative writing/Non-fiction
Email:lphilip@holycross.edu  Additional Information

 

  Stephanie Reents
Assistant Professor
(M.F.A., University of Arizona)
Fields:
Email:sreents@holycross.edu

 

  Paige Reynolds
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Chicago)
Fields: Modern and contemporary Irish literature; Irish studies; 20th century British and American literature and culture; modern drama and performance.
Email:preynold@holycross.edu  Additional Information

 

  Sarah Stanbury
Professor
(Ph.D., Duke University)
Fields: Chaucer and late medieval literature; medieval visual culture; Mapping Margery Kempe.
Email:sstanbur@holycross.edu  Additional Information

 

  Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Brown University)
Fields: Modernist and postmodernist fiction (American and European); literary revisions of popular narrative genres (folktale, detective story, Gothic romance); 19th Century American literature, especially Poe, Hawthorne, and Dickinson; 20th Century comparative literature, especially Nabokov.
Email:ssweeney@holycross.edu  Additional Information

 

  Helen M. Whall
Professor
(Ph.D., Yale University)
Fields: Shakespeare, renaissance drama, modern drama; comic theory.
Email:hwhall@holycross.edu  Additional Information

 

  Jennifer Donabed
Administrative Assistant
Fields:
Email:jdonabed@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 209 PO Box: 47A Phone: 508-793-2562

 


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