Literature at Hamilton College

19 faculty and 35 courses in Literature at Hamilton College.

Faculty

• Steven Yao, Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English h-index 10
  Global modernisms, 20th-century American literature, Asian-American literature (especially poetry), 20th-century British literature, Pacific Rim modernisms, translation theory, translation history, cross-cultural poetics and jazz studies. D
  Notable: “Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature” (2002) · 21 citations
• Onno Oerlemans, Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor of Literature h-index 8
  Notable: “Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature” (2005) · 63 citations
• Margaret Thickstun, Jane D. and Ellis E. Bradford '45 Distinguished Writing Chair h-index 6
  Notable: “The Work of Self-Representation: Lyric Poetry in Colonial New England.” (1992) · 77 citations
• Katherine Terrell, Professor of Literature h-index 4
  Middle English and Middle Scots literature (esp. William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, Geoffrey Chaucer, the Pearl -poet, alliterative poetry, historical writing, and romance); medieval women’s writing; medieval discourses of alterity (inclu
  Notable: “Rethinking the "Corse in clot": Cleanness, Filth, and Bodily Decay in Pearl” (2008) · 7 citations
• Nhora Lucía Serrano, Lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing h-index 2
  Notable: “Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies by Marc Singer” (2020)
• Benjamin Widiss, Chair, Associate Professor of Literature h-index 1
  Notable: “Pivoting Between Modernities” (2018) · 1 citations
• Stephanie Bahr, Associate Professor of Literature h-index 1
  Include: the intersections of medieval and Renaissance literature; print and manuscript culture; revenge tragedy; Global Shakespeare; representational ethics; gender; and film. In her teaching, Bahr particularly delights in introducing stud
  Notable: “Titus Andronicus and the Interpretive Violence of the Reformation” (2017) · 4 citations
• Anne Valente, Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, Director of Creative Writing
• Christian Goodwillie, Lecturer in History, Lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing
• Jane Springer, James L. Ferguson Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
• Naomi Guttman, Jane Watson Irwin Professor and Associate Chair of Literature and Creative Writing
• Patrick Caoile, Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
  Postcolonial, migration, and diaspora studies, specifically through Filipino American and contemporary American immigrant literary contexts. Similarly, Caoile’s creative writing examines the Filipino American experience through char
• Pavitra Sundar, Associate Professor of Literature, Director of Cinema and Media Studies
  —videographic criticism and disability studies—have also been recognized in the annual BFI Sight and Sound Polls for the Best Video Essays. Recent Courses Taught Echoes and Encores: Repetition in Literature Bollyw
• Phil Memmer, Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing
• Steve Schillinger, Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
• Suzanne Taylor, Assistant Professor of Literature
  Es on literature and philosophy of the long eighteenth-century. Her current book project, In and Out of Character: Free Will, Fiction, and Form, studies writers who used literary and philosophical fictions to explain the idea of acting out
• T Kira Māhealani Madden, Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
• Tara M. Holman, Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
  Black feminisms, race and aesthetics, visual culture studies, and queer performance studies. Recent Courses Taught Self-Articulation: Between Fiction and Autobiography Passing Down: Slavery and Its Afterlives Selected Publications &
• Tina May Hall, Edward North Chair of Greek and Greek Literature, Professor of Literature and Creative Writing

Courses

• Introductory Poetry and Fiction Workshop CRWR-215
• Playwriting CRWR-224
• Letterpress Studio CRWR-248
• Intermediate Poetry Workshop CRWR-304
• Intermediate Fiction Workshop CRWR-305
• Creative Non-Fiction Workshop CRWR-309
• Creative Writing in Spanish CRWR-383/483
• Seminar: Creative Writing CRWR-419
• Honors Project in Creative Writing CRWR-498
• Global Gothic LIT-110
• The Crime Novel from the Global South LIT-113
• Food in Literature and Film LIT-118
• Literature as/of medicine LIT-119
• Introduction to the History and Theory of Film LIT-120
• The Literary Animal LIT-124
• Monsters LIT-125
• Medieval Monsters and Marvels LIT-127
• American Ghosts LIT-128
• On the Art (and Ethics) of Character & the Character Profile LIT-130
• Apocalypse Now and Then LIT-133
• Performing Revenge LIT-136
• The Road Trip in American Literature LIT-138
• Dream/Life LIT-139
• Renaissance Outsiders LIT-140
• Literature and/of Empowerment LIT-145
• Black Women's Literary Renaissance LIT-146
• Representing Place: Thinking about the Meaning of Place and Space in Literature, History, and Culture LIT-147
• Echoes and Encores: Repetition in Literature LIT-148
• Finding Identity LIT-149
• Self-Articulation: Between Fiction and Autobiography LIT-151
• Literature: What Is It Good For? LIT-153
• Shakespeare and Film LIT-156
• Anna Karenina on Page and Screen LIT-157
• American #Cottagecore LIT-158
• + 1 more courses

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. 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.