Nicholas Howe
Professor of English
B.A. York University, Canada ‘74
Ph.D. Yale University ‘78

Expertise: The literature and culture of Anglo-Saxon England, from the 8th to 11th century.

Kent Puckett
Acting Assistant Professor of English
B.A. Hofstra University ‘94
Ph.D. Columbia University ‘02

Expertise: Nineteenth-century British
literature, theories of the novel, critical theory, and sociability.

Rei Terada
Professor of English
B.A. UCLA ‘83
Ph.D. Boston University ‘90

Expertise: How philosophical and logical problems in Western literary theory may be reconsidered as phenomenological and psychological dilemmas.

B.A. Carleton College ‘94
Ph.D. University of Virginia ‘02
Expertise: American and African American literature, and the cultural history of black vagrancy in the 19th and early 20th
centuries.