English Department
Faculty
Jae Choi
Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
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B.A. 2007 Portland State University; 2009 M.F.A. University of Iowa. Reed College 2011-.
Academic Focus: Poetry
Jay Dickson
Professor of English and Humanities
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A.B. 1988 Harvard College; M.A. 1991, Ph.D. 1996 Princeton University. Reed College 1996-99, 2001-.
Academic Focus: The novel, British modernism, Victorian literature, queer studies, postcolonial studies.
Michael Faletra
Associate Professor of English and Humanities
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B.A. 1994 Boston University; Ph.D. 2000 Boston College. Reed College 2001–04, 2007–09, 2010–.
Academic Focus: Medieval British literatures, Chaucer, Dante, Shakespeare, Arthurian literature, narrative theory, Celtic studies, folklore studies, and children's literature.
Rebecca Gordon
Assistant Professor of English and Humanities
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B.A. 1992 Stanford University; M.A. 1996 Indiana University; Ph.D. 2006 Indiana University. Reed College 2006-.
Academic Focus: Film, film theory, American studies, American fiction, including Chicano/Latino literature.
Maureen Harkin
Professor of English and Humanities
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B.A. 1983 University of Melbourne; M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1994 Johns Hopkins University. Reed College 2002-.
Academic Focus: Eighteenth-century British literary and visual culture, the novel and its social and cultural contexts 1680-1850, aesthetic theory.
Gabriele Hayden
Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Humanities
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B.A. 2000 Reed College; M.Phil. 2006 Yale University. Reed College 2009-.
Academic Focus: 20th-century literature, transnational modernisms, African American and diasporic literatures, Latino/a literatures, translation and material culture, feminist and queer theory.
Nathalia King
Professor of English and Humanities
Vollum 305
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B.A. 1978 University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Ph.D. 1992 New York University. Reed College 1987-.
Academic Focus: Rhetorical and narrative theory, the novel, autobiography, gender studies, creative writing.
Robert S. Knapp
Reginald F. Arragon Professor of English and Humanities
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B.A. 1962 University of Colorado; M.A. 1963 University of Denver; Ph.D. 1968 Cornell University. Reed College 1974-.
Academic Focus: Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, literary theory.
Laura Leibman
Professor of English and Humanities
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B.A. 1989 University of California, Davis; M.A. 1993, Ph.D. 1995 University of California, Los Angeles. Reed College 1995-.
Academic Focus: Early American literature and culture, American poetry, poetics and ethnopoetics, Native American literature and culture, postcolonial theory, gender theory, American studies.
Roger J. Porter
Professor of English and Humanities
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On sabbatical 2011-12.
B.A. 1958 Amherst College; M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1967 Yale University. Reed College 1961-.
Academic Focus: Modern drama, modern fiction, Shakespeare, autobiography as a literary form, nonfiction prose.
Traci J. Reeves
Scholar in Residence
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B.A. 2005 University of Southern California. Reed College 2010-.
Academic Focus: Film studies, African American film, African American studies, black popular culture.
Peter Rock (Chair)
Professor of Creative Writing
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A.A. 1988 Deep Springs College; B.A. 1991 Yale College; Stegner Fellow 1995-97 Stanford University. Reed College 2001-.
Academic Focus: Fiction and non-fiction.
Pancho Savery
Professor of English and Humanities
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B.A. 1972 Stanford University; Ph.D. 1980 Cornell University. Reed College 1995-.
Academic Focus: African American literature; American literature and cultural history; modern and contemporary drama, poetry, and fiction; creative writing; American Indian fiction.
Gail Berkeley Sherman
Professor of English and Humanities
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B.A. 1975 Barnard College; M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1982 Princeton University. Reed College 1981-.
Academic Focus: Medieval literature, gender studies, biblical narrative, 20th-century American fiction.
Ellen Keck Stauder
David Eddings Professor of English and Humanities
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(on administrative leave 2011-12)
B.M. 1973 Eastman School of Music; M.A. 1975 College of St. Rose; Ph.D. 1982 University of Chicago. Reed College 1983-.
Academic Focus: Modern poetry, Victorian literature, prosody, literature and the arts.
Lisa M. Steinman
Kenan Professor of English and Humanities
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On sabbatical 2011-12.
B.A. 1971, M.F.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1976 Cornell University. Reed College 1976-.
Academic Focus: Modern and contemporary poetry, creative writing, Romanticism, eighteenth-century poetry.
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Sarah Wagner-McCoy
Assistant Professor of English and Humanities
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B.A. 2002 Columbia University. M.A. 2003 University College Dublin. Ph.D. 2011 Harvard University. Reed College 2011-.
Academic Focus: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American fiction, transatlantic literature and culture, Irish drama and Irish studies, pastoral and environmental writing, the politics of classical education in postbellum America.
Crystal Williams
Dean for Institutional Diversity & Associate Professor Creative Writing
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(on administrative leave 2011-12)
B.A. 1997 New York University; M.F.A. 2000 Cornell University. Reed College 2000-.
Academic Focus: Poetry.