- Peter Bognanni
- Associate Professor and Department Chair, English
- Fiction writing, especially contemporary; creative writing; screenwriting and film studies; humor writing; the contemporary novel.
- bognanni@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6557
- Annie Baxter
- Visiting Instructor, English
- abaxter1@macalester.edu
- Matt Burgess
- Assistant Professor, English
- Fiction writing; journalism; crime fiction; poetry.
- mburgess@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6514
- Melissa Cundieff
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- Poetry and fiction writing; creative nonfiction, trauma and violence; visual art; dream logic
- mcundief@macalester.edu
- James Dawes
- DeWitt Wallace Professor of English
- American literature; countercultures; human rights; literary and language theory; violence and trauma; literature and philosophy.
- dawes@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6809
- Amy E. Elkins
- Assistant Professor, English
- Modernism; 20th/21st-century British literature; Irish studies; Caribbean and diasporic literature; Art theory, archives & visual culture; Eco-studies; Queer theory and gender studies
- aelkins@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6515
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- Daylanne English
- Professor, English
- African American literature and culture; Afrofuturism; the digital humanities; The Harlem Renaissance; history of the novel; literature and legal studies; literature and medicine; race and visual culture; apocalyptic literature; detective fiction.
- englishd@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6583
- Sally Franson
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- Fiction writing; women's fiction; contemporary novels; auto-fiction; humor writing; journalism.
- sfranson@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6654
- Penelope Geng
- Associate Professor, English
- Early modern English literature and culture; Shakespeare; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama, poetry, and prose; law and literature; formalism; affect studies; disability studies.
- pgeng@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6641
- she/her/hers
- Curtis Gilbert
- Visiting Instructor, English
- cgilber2@macalester.edu
- Rachel Gold
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- Fiction writing: especially young adult and middlegrade; LGBTQ+ Literature, comic book literature, game narratives
- rgold@macalester.edu
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- Daniel Hornsby
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- Creative Writing
- dhornsby@macalester.edu
- Marlon James
- Writer in Residence and Associate Professor, English
- Creative Writing, fiction, post colonial literature, southern literature, Latin American fiction, criticism and blogs.
- mjames1@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6643
- Andrea Kaston Tange
- Professor, English
- Nineteenth-century British literature and culture, including: travel narratives, colonialism and empire, gender and class identities, visual and print culture, domesticity, childhood, Anglo-Jewish life and migrations.
- akastont@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6810
- she/her/hers
- Aurora Masum-Javed
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- Contemporary Poetry & Poetics, Personal Essay, Short Fiction
- amasumja@macalester.edu
- Melissa Merte
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- Nineteenth-century British literature and culture, especially Victorian memoirs and the novel; women’s studies; history and theory of the novel.
- mmerte@macalester.edu
- David Chioni Moore
- Associate Professor, International Studies and English
- Literary interactions in the Black Atlantic world, notably Africa, the Caribbean, and African America; post-colonial and/as the post-Soviet; comparative literature; cultural theory; globalization.
- mooredc@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6242
- Abbey Mei Otis
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- Speculative fiction especially as written by and for queer and marginalized populations, etc.
- aotis@macalester.edu
- Richard Pelster-Wiebe
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- Screenwriting; digital storytelling; sound design; and film history/theory/practice.
- rpelster@macalester.edu
- Kristina Popiel
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- 20th-21st Century American Literature; Critical Race Theory; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Political Economy; Black Feminism; Labor
- kpopiel@macalester.edu
- Michael Prior
- Assistant Professor, English and Mellon ACM Faculty Fellow
- Poetry, politics of poetic form, Asian American poetries, creative nonfiction, intergenerational memory, literary citizenship.
- mprior@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6532
- Sonita Sarker
- Professor Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English
- Feminist and literary theories; cultural studies of globalization as it intersects with nationalism, democracy, and imperialism; "minoritized" literatures, with a transnational comparative basis in Western Europe and Asia.
- sarker@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6316
- she/her/hers
- Emma Törzs
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- Fiction; creative nonfiction; short stories; novels (particularly 19th century and contemporary); contemporary science fiction and fantasy; gender studies; transformative works.
- etorzs@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6670
- Steven Woodward
- Visiting Instructor, English
- swoodwar@macalester.edu
- Jan Beebe
- Department Coordinator
- jbeebe@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6387
- she/her/hers