Peter Brier
Emeritus Professor of English | College of Arts and Letters
pbrier@calstatela.edu
(323) 343-4289
| American and Anglo-Jewish writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, American literary criticism, British Romantic literature, Cultural criticism, English Romantic writers, Literary criticism
Mary Bucci Bush
Emerita Professor of English | College of Arts and Letters
mbush@calstatela.edu
(323) 343-4174
| Creative writing, Fiction writing, Italian immigrant culture and Italian American writers, Relationship between Blacks and Italians, Short stories
Michael Calabrese
Professor of English | College of Arts and Letters
mcalabr@calstatela.edu
(323) 343-4288
| Chaucer, Classical studies, Medieval literature, Piers Plowman
Hema Chari
Emerita Professor of English | College of Arts and Letters
hchari@calstatela.edu
(323) 343-4294
| 20th century fiction, Colonial and postcolonial writers and theory, Film theory and cultural studies, Gender studies/feminist theory, Marxist theory, Modern and postmodern British literature, Third World literature
Linda Greenburg
Professor of English | College of Arts and Letters
lgreenb2@calstatela.edu
(323) 343-5812
| 20th Century American literature, Community Engagement Practices in English, Ethnic American literature, Women's and Gender Studies
Lauren Heintz
Assistant Professor of English | College of Arts and Letters
lheintz@calstatela.edu
(323) 343-4140
| American and ethnic literature, Ethnic and race relations in the 19th century, Gender and sexuality studies
Steven Swann Jones
Emeritus Professor of English | College of Arts and Letters
sjones@calstatela.edu
(323) 343-4293
| Children's literature, Fairy tales, Folklore, Folklore in American literature
Jun Liu
Emeritus Professor of English | College of Arts and Letters
jliu@calstatela.edu
(323) 343-5345
| 19th century and 20th century European literatures, 20th century American literature (particularly Faulkner), Asian American literature, Asian diasporan literature, Critical theory, Cultural translation, Enlightenment modernity and aesthetic modernity in the 19th century
Caroline McManus
Emerita Professor of English | College of Arts and Letters
cmcmanu@calstatela.edu
(323) 343-4151
| 16th and 17th century English literature, Elizabethan court culture, portraits and literature, Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton and early modern women writers
Sarah Minslow
Assistant Professor of English | College of Arts and Letters
sminslo@calstatela.edu
(323) 343-4140
| Children's and Young Adult literature, Holocaust and genocide education, Human rights studies
Lauri Ramey
Emerita Professor of English | College of Arts and Letters
lramey@calstatela.edu
(323) 343-4165
| African American Poetry Archive, American poetry, International poetries, Live art and performance poetry, Poetics (particularly modern and contemporary), Poetry of the African diaspora, especially African American and Black British, Teaching of creative writing
Alison Taufer
Professor of English | College of Arts and Letters
ataufer@calstatela.edu
(323) 343-4152
| Arthurian literature, Chivalric romance, Comparative literature, Medieval drama and romance, Renaissance drama, Renaissance prose fiction
Jasmine H. Wade
Assistant Professor of English | College of Arts and Letters
jwade12@calstatela.edu
(323) 343-4140
| Black fiction, Black speculative literature, Creative writing, Indigenous science fiction and fantasy, Protest art