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Standing Faculty

  • Julia Alekseyeva

    Assistant Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies

    Office Hours

    fall 2025

    Tuesdays 2-3:30, please email to request appointment link

  • Abdulhamit Arvas

    Assistant Professor of English

     

    Office Hours

    fall 2025

    T. 2.30-3.30, or by appointment

  • Caroline Batten

    Assistant Professor of English

    Office Hours

    On research leave for AY 2025-6

  • Herman Beavers

    Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies

    Office Hours

    Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2-3:45, Thursdays, by appointment, via Zoom

  • Nancy Bentley

    Undergraduate Chair

    Donald T. Regan Professor of English

    Office Hours

    Thursdays and Fridays 3-5pm and by appointment.

    If you can meet during my office hours, please sign up for an appointment (at least 3 hours in advance) through this site: https://calendly.com/nbentley-english/30min

    If you cannot meet during my regular office hours or want to meet in person, please email me at: nbentley@english.upenn.edu

  • S. Pearl Brilmyer

    Associate Chair

    Associate Professor of English

    Office Hours

    T 1:30-3:30

  • Max Cavitch

    Associate Professor of English

    Office Hours

    fall 2025

     

    Zoom office hours, Fridays from 10:00 until 12:00, at: https://upenn.zoom.us/my/cavitch

     

     

  • Jean-Christophe Cloutier

    Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

    Office Hours

    fall 2025

    Tuesdays, 1pm-3pm, or by appointment (email me)

    USE THIS LINK TO SIGN UP: https://calendly.com/jccloutier/meeting-with-prof-cloutier

  • Rita Copeland

    Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Classical Studies, English, and Comparative Literature

    Office Hours

    office hours:  Fridays by appointment; other times by appointment

  • Margo Natalie Crawford

    Professor of English, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor for Faculty Excellence

  • David L. Eng

    Richard L. Fisher Professor of English

    Office Hours

    On Sabbatical 2025-2026 

  • James English

    John Welsh Centennial Professor of English

    Faculty Director, Price Lab for Digital Humanities

    Office Hours

    fall 2025

    Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:30-2:30

    or email me for an appointment

  • Jed Esty

    Vartan Gregorian Professor of English

    Office Hours

    fall 2025

    No regular office hours for the 2025-26 academic year.

  • Al Filreis

    Kelly Family Professor of English; Director, Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing; Faculty Director, Kelly Writers House

    Office Hours

    By appointment only.

  • Michael Gamer

    Graduate Chair

    Professor of English and Comparative Literature

    Office Hours

    During the Autumn of 2025, you can find me in 123 FBH (within the main departmental office) on Wednesdays 11am-1pm and by appointment. 

  • David Kazanjian

    Professor of English

    Chair of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, 2024-25, 2026-2028

    Office Hours

    fall 2025

    On Sabbatical 2025-26

    Research Resident, Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities, New York Public Library, 2025

    Visiting Scholar, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2026

  • Sara Kazmi

    Assistant Professor of English

    Office Hours

    fall 2025

    MW 1 30 to 2 30, or by appointment

     

  • Zachary Lesser

    Department Chair

    Edward W. Kane Professor of English

    Office Hours

    fall 2025

    By appointment

  • Heather K. Love

    Professor of English

    Office Hours

    fall 2025

    Wednesdays 11-1 

  • Bakirathi Mani

    Penn Presidential Compact Professor of English

  • Rahul Mukherjee

    Wolf Associate Professor of Television and New Media Studies; Associate Professor of English

    Office Hours

    Mondays 12-1pm and Wednesdays, 5-6pm

  • Zita Cristina Nunes

    Associate Professor of English

  • Josephine Park

    Associate Dean for Arts and Letters

    School of Arts and Sciences President's Distinguished Professor of English

    Office Hours

    fall 2025

    Wednesdays 3:30 - 4:30

  • Jennifer Ponce de León

    Associate Professor of English

    Office Hours

    On leave for the 2025-2026 academic year 

  • Jean-Michel Rabaté

    Professor of English and Comparative Literature

  • Paul Saint-Amour

    Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities

    Office Hours

    Wednesday 2:30–4:30 p.m. & by appt. Note: I will hold office hours this semester in Williams Hall, rm 720.

  • Melissa E. Sanchez

    Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature

    Core Faculty, Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

    Office Hours

    By appointment.

  • Emily Steiner

    A. M. Rosenthal Professor of English

  • Emily Steinlight

    Associate Professor of English

    Office Hours

    Thurs. 3:15–5:15

  • Lilith Todd

    Assistant Professor of English

  • Whitney Trettien

    Associate Professor of English

    Faculty Director, Price Lab for Digital Humanities

    Office Hours

    I have in-person or virtual appointments available M 12-2pm in Williams 614. To book, please visit: https://calendly.com/wtrettien/15min

  • David Wallace

    Judith Rodin Professor of English

    Office Hours

    one leave and based in Toronto Fall 2025

  • Simone White

    Associate Professor of English, Associate Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House

    Office Hours

    On Leave

  • Dagmawi Woubshet

    Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Associate Professor of English

    Office Hours

    fall 2025

    Tuesdays, 1-3pm

  • Chi-ming Yang

    Professor of English

    Office Hours

    Wednesdays 12:30-1:45pm & by appointment

Affiliated Standing Faculty

  • Warren Breckman

    Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History

  • Ashley Brock

    Assistant Professor of Romance Languages

  • Kathleen M. Brown

    David Boies Professor of History

  • Roger Chartier

    Annenberg Visiting Professor in History and Professor at the College de France

  • Peter Decherney

    Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor in the Humanities

    Professor of Cinema & Media Studies

    Director, Penn Global Documentary Institute

  • Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw

    Associate Professor of History of Art

  • Huda Fakhreddine

    Associate Professor of Arabic Literature

  • Nili Gold

    Professor of Modern Hebrew Language & Literature

  • Andrea Goulet

    Professor of Romance Languages

  • Kathryn Hellerstein

    Professor of Germanic Languages

  • John L. Jackson, Jr.

    Richard Perry University Professor
    Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor

  • Kevin M.F. Platt

    Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Russian and East European Studies

  • Karen Redrobe

    Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Cinema and Modern Media

  • Daniel Richter

    Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History

  • Deborah Thomas

    R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for Experimental Ethnography

  • Elly R. Truitt

    Associate Professor, History & Sociology of Science

  • Julia Verkholantsev

    Associate Professor of Russian and East European Studies

  • Lance Wahlert

    Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics & Health Policy; Faculty Director of Master of Bioethics (MBE) program at the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM)

  • Liliane Weissberg

    Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences; Professor of German and Comparative Literature.

  • Bethany Wiggin

    Associate Professor of German
    Founding Director, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities; Graduate Groups in Comparative Literature and English

  • Emily Wilson

    Professor of Classical Studies and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory

  • Chenshu Zhou

    Assistant Professor of Cinema & Media Studies and History of Art

Non-Standing Faculty

Emeritus

  • Rita Barnard

    Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature

  • Charles Bernstein

    Donald T. Regan Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature

  • Toni Bowers

    Professor of English

  • Rebecca Bushnell

    School of Arts and Sciences Board of Advisors, Professor Emerita of English

    Office Hours

    Email for an appointment

  • Peter Conn

    Vartan Gregorian Professor Emeritus of English

  • Timothy Corrigan

    Professor Emeritus of English, Cinema and Media Studies, and History of Art

  • Thadious Davis

    Geraldine R. Segal Professor Emerita of American Social Thought and Professor Emerita of English

  • Margreta de Grazia

    Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor Emerita of the Humanities

  • Suvir Kaul

    A. M. Rosenthal Professor Emeritus of English

  • Ania Loomba

    Catherine Bryson Professor Emerita of English

  • Cary Mazer

    Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts and English

  • Bob Perelman

    Professor Emeritus of English

  • Phyllis Rackin

    Professor Emerita of English

    Office Hours

    For an appointment, email prackin@upenn.edu

  • John Richetti

    A.M. Rosenthal Professor Emeritus of English

  • Peter Stallybrass

    Director Emeritus of Seminar in the History of Material Texts

    Annenberg Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of English

  • Wendy Steiner

    Richard L. Fisher Professor Emerita of English

  • Humphrey Tonkin

    Professor Emeritus of English