Macalester
- Andrea Kaston Tange
- Professor and Department Chair, 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
- Peter Bognanni
- Assistant Professor, English
- Fiction writing, especially contemporary; creative writing; screenwriting and film studies; humor writing; the contemporary novel.
- bognanni@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6557
- Anitra Budd
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- abudd@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6503
- Matt Burgess
- Assistant Professor, English
- Fiction writing; journalism; crime fiction; poetry.
- mburgess@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6514
- 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; Visual culture and art history; Art theory; Material culture; Gender, sexuality, and feminism
- aelkins@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6515
- 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
- Assistant Professor, English
- Early modern English literature and culture; Shakespeare; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama, poetry, and prose; law and literature; formalism; rhetoric; critical theory; affect studies; gender studies.
- pgeng@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6641
- 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
- Theresa Krier
- Professor of English, not currently teaching, in MSFEO program
- Ancient, medieval, and Renaissance poetry; Shakespeare; history of poetry; literature and religion; literature and the natural world.
- krier@macalester.edu
- Sierra Lomuto
- CFD Postdoctoral Fellow, English
- Medieval literature and culture; globalization in the middle ages; Chaucer; medieval romance; travel narratives; adaptation; comparative race studies; gender and sexuality studies
- slomuto@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6508
- 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
- Wang Ping
- Professor, English
- Creative writing, poetry and fiction; the Chinese-American immigrant experience; footbinding, sexuality and eroticism in Chinese culture; women in modern China; Chinese migrant workers and industrialization; environmental issues; photography.
- ping@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6512
- 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
- Taylor Schey
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British Literature; transatlantic Romanticism and its afterlives; literary and critical theory; political affect; poetry and poetics.
- tschey@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6532
- Stephen D. Smith
- Visiting Instructor, English
- Narrative Journalism
- ssmith9@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6638
- 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
- Benjamin Voigt
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- Poetry; creative nonfiction; fiction; hybrid/mixed form writing; ecopoetics and ecocriticism; documentary filmmaking.
- bvoigt@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6179
- Elizabeth Weixel
- Visiting Assistant Professor, English
- Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, dramatic and nondramatic, in historical contexts; children's literature; sonnets and lyric; Shakespeare; Spenser.
- eweixel@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6670
- Jan Beebe
- Department Coordinator
- jbeebe@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6387