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Recently Retired Faculty

Jan Heller Levi
Professor Emeritus
Education
BA, Sarah Lawrence College
Areas of Interest
Poetry Writing
Kate Parry
Professor Emeritus
Education
Ed.D, Columbia University
Areas of Interest
Applied Linguistics
Gary Schmidgall
Professor Emeritus
Education
PhD, Stanford University
Areas of Interest
Shakespeare, Renaissance Poetry, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Biography, Gay Studies, Literature and Opera
Trudy Smoke
Professor Emeritus
Education
PhD, New York University
Areas of Interest
Applied Linguistics, Rhetoric and Composition
Thomas R. Sleigh
Retired Distinguished Professor
Education
MFA, Johns Hopkins University
Areas of Interest
Creative Writing, Ancient and Modern Poetry, Poetry in Translation
Neal Tolchin
Retired Associate Professor
Education
PhD, Rutgers University
Areas of Interest
American Literature, Ethnic Literature
Sylvia Tomasch
Retired Professor
Education
PhD, the City University of New York
Areas of Interest
Medieval Literature, Historical Cartography, Medieval Antisemitism, Surveillance Studies
Alan Vardy
Retired Professor
Education
PhD, University of Washington
Areas of Interest
Romanticism
Barbara Webb
Professor Emerita
Education
PhD, New York University
Areas of Interest
African-American Literature, African-Caribbean Literature, African Literature
Stephen Wetta
Retired Doctoral Lecturer
Education
PhD, New York University
Areas of Interest
English as a Second Language, Creative Writing

In Memoriam

Meena Alexander
Distinguished Professor
Education
PhD, University of Nottingham
Areas of Interest
Creative Writing, Romantic Poetry, Post-colonial Literature
Louise DeSalvo
Professor Emeritus
Education
PhD, New York University
Areas of Interest
Modern British Fiction, Creative Writing, Biography and Memoir
Gail Gordon
Lecturer
Areas of Interest
Multicultural American Literature
Eve Leoff
Associate Professor
Nondita Mason
Professor Emeritus
Education
PhD, New York University
Areas of Interest
20th Century British Literature, Colonial Literature, Post-colonial Literature
Evelyn Melamed
Assistant Professor
Education
MA, City College; MA, Adelphi University
Areas of Interest
Writing, American Literature
Elizabeth Nunez
Distinguished Professor
Education
PhD, New York University
Areas of Interest
Creative Writing Fiction, English Literature, Caribbean Literature

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