English at Amherst College

46 faculty and 0 courses in English at Amherst College.

Faculty

• William H. Pritchard, Henry Clay Folger Professor of English, Emeritus h-index 10
  I am interested in English poetry and fiction from the past few centuries with emphasis on the twentieth century. Teaching Interests I teach modern American poetry, major English writers from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries
  Notable: “Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered” (1985) · 84 citations
• Geoffrey D. Sanborn, Samuel Williston Professor of English h-index 10
  Addition to sharing in the teaching of staff-taught courses like “Engaging Literature” and “Reading the Novel,” I teach courses that emerge from my training in Americanist literary criticism and my shifting interests in certain transhist
  Notable: “Mother's Milk: Frances Harper and the Circulation of Blood” (2005) · 29 citations
• Anston L. Bosman, Associate Professor of English h-index 7
  Notable: “The Tempest and Its Travels” (2001) · 64 citations
• Howell D. Chickering, G. Armour Craig Professor of Language and Literature, Emeritus h-index 5
  Notable: “Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition” (1980) · 117 citations
• Krupa Shandilya, Professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies (Contributing to English) h-index 4
  Notable: “Nirbhaya's Body: The Politics of Protest in the Aftermath of the 2012 Delhi Gang Rape” (2015) · 97 citations
• Carol Y. Bailey, Professor of Black Studies (Contributing to English) h-index 2
  Africana, gender, postcolonial, performance, and globalization studies; African, African American, and Caribbean Literature. Carol Bailey is a professor of Black Studies; she teaches courses in African American, African diasporic, and
  Notable: “The Caribbean Oral Tradition: Literature, Performance, and Practice, by Hanétha Vété-Congolo (ed.)” (2018) · 1 citations
• Amelia Worsley, Associate Professor of English h-index 1
  Notable: “Ophelia’s Loneliness” (2015) · 17 citations
• Kristina H. Reardon, Senior Lecturer in English h-index 1
  Notable: ““Amidst the Chime of the Razor Wire”: Narrating Poetic Justice in Guantanamo Bay” (2015) · 2 citations
• Alejandro Cuellar, Visiting Lecturer
• Alicia J. Mireles Christoff, Associate Professor of English
  My interests include Latinx and Latin American studies, multi-ethnic U.S. literature, contemporary poetry, critical race and ethnic studies, Black and WOC feminisms, novel studies, Victorian literature, and psychoanalysis. Book N
• Allen Guttmann, Emily C. Jordan Folger Professor of English and American Studies, Emeritus
  Professional and Biographical Information Degrees Ph.D., University of Minnesota (1961) M.A., Columbia University (1956) B.A., University of Florida (1953) Ph.D., (honorary), Universiteit Leuven (2005) A.M. (honorary), Amherst College (1971
• Amelie E. Hastie, Nancy and Douglas D. Abbey '71 Professor of English in Film and Media Studies; Program Chair of Film and Media Studies
• Andrea B. Rushing, Professor of Black Studies and English, Emerita
• Aneeka A. Henderson, Associate Professor of American Studies (Contributing to English)
• Anna Jones Abramson, Assistant Professor of English
  Anna Jones Abramson (previously listed as Anna Abramson) I specialize in global literature of the 20 th and 21 st centuries, with a particular focus on literary modernism. My teaching and research interests span affect theory, environmental
• Barry O'Connell, James E. Ostendarp Professor of English, Emeritus
• Ben Lieber, Senior Lecturer in Intensive Writing, Emeritus
• Benigno R. Sanchez-Eppler, Senior Lecturer in English
• C. Rhonda Cobham-Sander, Emily C. Jordan Folger Professor of Black Studies and English, Emerita
• Cheikh A. Thiam, Professor of English and Black Studies; Department Chair of English
• Dale E. Peterson, Eliza J. Clark Folger Professor of English and Russian, Emeritus
• David R. Sofield, Samuel Williston Professor of English, Emeritus
• Dennis James Sweeney, Lecturer in English
• Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, Associate Professor of Black Studies and History (Contributing to English)
  My scholarship concerns the long history of white supremacy and African-American opposition to white supremacy, and it combines the fields of African-American history and the history of capitalism. I believe that shedding light on the
• Eric Sanders, Visiting Assistant Professor of English
• Frank Leon Roberts, Assistant Professor of English
  My areas of scholarly expertise include twentieth and twenty-first century African American literature and culture; James Baldwin Studies; performance studies and dramatic literature; and histories of Black radicalism in the United States.
• George Abraham, Writer-in-Residence
• Ingrid L. Nelson, Professor of English
• John Cameron, Professor of English, Emeritus
• Joshua M. Guilford, Assistant Professor of English in Film and Media Studies
  Es on histories and theories of experimental cinema, with an emphasis on the New American Cinema, an independent film culture that emerged in the United States at the end of the 1950s. I recently completed a book on the politics of intimacy
• Judith E. Frank, Eliza J. Clark Folger Professor of English
• Karen J. Sanchez-Eppler, L. Stanton Williams 1941 Professor of American Studies and English; Department Chair of American Studies
  Selected Publications Professional and Biographical Information Degrees Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University (1990) M.A., The Johns Hopkins University (1986) B.A. Cantab, Cambridge University (1983) B.A., Williams College (1981) Research Int
• Kim Townsend, Class of 1959 Professor of English, Emeritus
• Kirun Kapur, Lecturer in English and Director of the Creative Writing Program
• Lisa Brooks, Winthrop H. Smith 1916 Professor of American Studies and English
  As a writer, literary scholar and historian, I work at the crossroads of early American literature & history, geography and Indigenous studies. In my writing and my teaching, I like to ask questions about how we see the spaces known as
• Max Kaisler, Center for Humanistic Inquiry Fellow and Visiting Lecturer in English
• Michael Elliott, President of the College
• Min Jin Lee, Writer-in-Residence
• Nozomi Nakaganeku Saito, Assistant Professor of English
  My research focuses on militarism, settler colonialism, and Cold War security in Asia and the Pacific. As a scholar of cultural studies, I take seriously literature’s capacity to both forward critiques of structures of domination and imagin
• Pooja G. Rangan, Professor of English in Film and Media Studies
  Disability studies, sound and auditory culture studies (including "accent studies" - a field that I have been working to constitute), and critical prison studies; many of my recent publications bring these research interests to bear
• Sarah E. Klotz, Visiting Associate Professor of English
• SEVAN Tavoukdjian, Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance (Contributing to English)
• Shayla I. Lawson, Assistant Professor of English
• Sony Coranez Bolton, Professor of Spanish and English; Faculty Equity and Inclusion Officer; Program Chair of Latinx and Latin American Studies
  Were born from my own personal experience of US militarism. In the United States, I grew up in San Francisco and outside of Chicago. Personally, I enjoy cooking, food-writing, and reading & writing poetry. I am a low-brow pop cult
• Tariq Jaffer, Professor of Religion (Contributing to English)
• Thirii M. Myint, Assistant Professor of English
  My research interests center on the concept of alterity and how it is constructed through language and stories. My first book, The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, a Haven is a language-driven novel that investigat

Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.