English at Wesleyan University

28 faculty and 36 courses in English at Wesleyan University.

Faculty

• Ruth Nisse, Professor of English; Professor, Medieval Studies h-index 5
• Ren Ellis Neyra, Associate Professor of English; Associate Professor, African American Studies h-index 5
• Matthew Carl Garrett, Associate Professor of English; Associate Professor, American Studies h-index 4
• Elizabeth Hepford, Associate Professor of the Practice in TESOL; Affiliated, English h-index 4
• Marina Bilbija, Assistant Professor of English; Assistant Professor, African American Studies h-index 2
• Amy Cynthia Tang, Douglas J. and Midge Bowen Bennet Associate Professor of English
• Ashraf Rushdy, Professor of English; Benjamin Waite Professor of the English Language
• Courtney Weiss Smith, Associate Professor of English
• Danielle Vogel, Director, Creative Writing; Associate Professor of English
• Douglas Arthur Martin, Associate Director, Creative Writing; Associate Professor of English
• Edwin Sanchez, Associate Professor of Theater; Affiliated, English
• Harris Friedberg, Associate Professor of English
• Hirsh Sawhney, Associate Professor of English
• Jennifer Piper Wood, Visiting Professor of English; Dean for the Class of 2027
• Jimin Seo, Visiting Professor of English
• Joel Pfister, Professor of English; Olin Professor of English
• Lauren Silber, Assistant Director of Academic Writing; Affiliated, English
• Lily Leopold Saint, Associate Professor of English
• Lisa Cohen, Associate Professor of English; Associate Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Maaza Mengiste, Professor of English
• Natasha Korda, Professor of English; Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Rachel Heng, Assistant Professor of English
• Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon, Chair; Associate Professor of English
• Sally Bachner, Associate Professor of English
• Sean McCann, Professor of English; Kenan Professor of the Humanities
• Sierra Eckert, Assistant Professor of English
• Stephanie Kuduk Weiner, Professor of English
• Tyrone S. Palmer, Assistant Professor of English

Courses

• 21st Century American Literature (FYS) ENGL111F
• Reading Black Culture (FYS) ENGL112F
• A Nation of Immigrants? ENGL113
• Writing Medicine and the Doctor-Writer ENGL132
• The Revolutionary Rupture: Slavery, Latifundio and Revolution in Caribbean and Lat. Amer. Lit. and Cinema (FYS) ENGL141F
• Poetry Lab ENGL162
• The Narratives of Illness and Recovery ENGL200
• Ways of Reading: Originality and Its Opposites ENGL201A
• Investigative Storytelling ENGL202
• American Literature to 1865 ENGL203
• American Literature ENGL204
• Shakespeare ENGL205
• British Literature in the Enlightenment ENGL206
• Chaucer and His World ENGL207
• Feminist Theories ENGL208
• From Seduction to Civil War: The Early U.S. Novel ENGL209
• The Rise of the Novel ENGL210
• Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: Writing Science, Writing Science Studies ENGL211
• Literature and Black Feminism: The Dramas of Black Capital ENGL213
• Writing Nonfiction ENGL214
• Techniques of Poetry: Self, Self Divided, Self Revised ENGL216
• Recent American Fiction ENGL217
• The History that Hurts: Reading Saidiya Hartman ENGL218
• The Great American Novel ENGL219
• The African Novel ENGL221
• Poetics of Blackness ENGL222
• Transpacific Ecologies: Race, Literature, Environment ENGL225
• Sublimity, Visions, and the Self in British Literature ENGL226
• Reporting for Narrative ENGL227
• Life Writing: Writing About the Self and from Experience ENGL228
• Afro-Surrealism ENGL229
• Introduction to Asian American Literature ENGL230
• Foundations: Nation, South Asia, Diaspora ENGL231
• Mystics and Militants: Medieval Women Writers ENGL232
• All Ah We: Contemporary Afro-Caribbean Drama and Performance ENGL233
• Introduction to Postcolonial Studies ENGL234

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 2026-07-01.