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Standing Faculty

  • Julia Alekseyeva

    Assistant Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 202
    215-746-4300

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    Mondays 2-3 PM and Tuesdays 5-6 PM, please sign up on Calendly

  • Abdulhamit Arvas

    Assistant Professor of English

     

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 220
    215-898-7348

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    T 1-3 pm

  • Rita Barnard

    Professor of English and Comparative Literature

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 337
    215-746-3770
  • Caroline Batten

    Assistant Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 213
    215-898-9526

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    By appointment

  • Herman Beavers

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

    3401 Walnut Street 326 A
    215 898-0507

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

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

  • Nancy Bentley

    Undergraduate Chair

    Donald T. Regan Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 335
    215-898-5641

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    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

  • Toni Bowers

    Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 239
    215-898-5223

    Office Hours

    spring 2023

    By appointment. 

     

  • S. Pearl Brilmyer

    Associate Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 218
    215-573-9645
    Kings College London 218

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    on leave 2024-2025

  • Max Cavitch

    Associate Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 341
    215-898-7456

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    office hours by appointment

  • Jean-Christophe Cloutier

    Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 316
    215-898-5864

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    On leave (2024-2025)

  • 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

    Department Chair

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

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 131
    215-898-7340
    Fisher-Bennett Hall 236
    215-898-7832
  • David L. Eng

    Richard L. Fisher Professor of English

    Faculty Director of the Program in Asian American Studies

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 212
    215-746-3763

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    T 2-3:30pm and by appointment. Please use Calendly:https://calendly.com/davidleng/fall-2024      

     

  • James English

    John Welsh Centennial Professor of English

    Faculty Director, Price Lab for Digital Humanities

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 311
    215-898-4377

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    On Leave Fall 2024

  • Jed Esty

    Vartan Gregorian Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 221
    215-746-4800

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    Thursdays, 2-4pm.  Please use Calendly link to pick a time slot.

  • Al Filreis

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

    Kelly Writers House 301
    215-573-9749

    Office Hours

    By appointment only.

  • Michael Gamer

    Professor of English and Comparative Literature

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 340
    215-746-2536

    Office Hours

    MW 1-3 and by appointment. 

  • Suvir Kaul

    A. M. Rosenthal Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 310B
    215-573-2531

    Office Hours

    fall 2021

    T R 11-Noon, and by appointment (on Zoom)

  • David Kazanjian

    Professor of English

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

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 214
    215-746-3768

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    By appointment. Please book here for meetings on Zoom or in my Comparative Literature Chair's office in 720 Williams Hall, or contact me for other options.

  • Sara Kazmi

    Assistant Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 241
    215-746-3769

    Office Hours

    spring 2024

    Fall 2024
    Wednesdays 3-5 PM or by appointment

  • Zachary Lesser

    Associate Chair

    Edward W. Kane Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 115
    215-898-0444

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    Mon 3-4:30 pm

    or by appointment

  • Ania Loomba

    Catherine Bryson Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 242
    215-898-6326

    Office Hours

    Spring 2020

    By appointment. 

     

  • Heather K. Love

    Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 338
    215-898-0128

    Office Hours

    fall 2023

    On leave in 2023-2024

  • Bakirathi Mani

    Penn Presidential Compact Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 240
    215-898-7841

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    Wednesdays 11:30-12:30 in FBH 240, and by appointment.

  • Zita Cristina Nunes

    Associate Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 238
    215-898-6365
  • Josephine Park

    Graduate Chair

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

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 132
    215-746-3529
    Fisher-Bennett Hall 318
    215-898-7382

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    Tuesdays 9-11am, on Zoom:

    https://calendly.com/jnpark3/officehours

  • Jennifer Ponce de León

    Associate Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 237
    215-573-8199

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    Mondays 3:15-4pm 

    Wednesdays 3:15-4pm

    and by appointment

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 237

     

  • Jean-Michel Rabaté

    Professor of English and Comparative Literature

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 339
    215-898-5870

    Office Hours

    2022

    Tu 2:30 - 3:30 

  • Paul Saint-Amour

    Graduate Chair

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

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 132
    215-746-3529
    Fisher-Bennett Hall 215
    215-746-3764

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    M 1:30 - 3 pm & W 10:30 a.m. - noon

  • Melissa E. Sanchez

    Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature

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

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 216
    215-746-3765

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    On leave.

  • Emily Steiner

    Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of English

  • Emily Steinlight

    Associate Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 116

    Office Hours

    spring 2023

    Tues. 1:15–3:15

  • Whitney Trettien

    Associate Professor of English

    Faculty Director, Price Lab for Digital Humanities

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 317
    215-898-7055

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    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

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 315
    215-746-3767

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    Tuesdays 2.00-4.00 at FBH 315

  • Simone White

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

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 336
    215-746-3766

    Office Hours

    spring 2022

    Wednesday 3-5 and by appointment

  • Dagmawi Woubshet

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

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 313
    215-898-5726

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    On sabbatical leave

  • Chi-ming Yang

    Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 314

    Office Hours

    fall 2024

    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

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 211
    215-746-3156
  • Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw

    Associate Professor of History of Art

  • 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

  • Rahul Mukherjee

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

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 243
    215-898-7355

    Office Hours

    Tuesday: 10:30-11:30am and by appointment 

  • 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

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 114
    215-898-3936
  • 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)

    Office Hours

    By appointment

    Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy; 423 Guardian Drive, 14th Floor

  • 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

  • Charles Bernstein

    Donald T. Regan Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature

    Office Hours

    2021

    retired

  • Rebecca Bushnell

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

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 113
    215-898-5145

    Office Hours

    Email for an appointment

  • Peter Conn

    Vartan Gregorian Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 113
    215-898-5145
  • Timothy Corrigan

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

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 113
    215-898-5145
  • Thadious Davis

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

  • Margreta de Grazia

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

  • Cary Mazer

    Professor of Theatre Arts and English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 113
    215-898-5145
  • Bob Perelman

    Professor of English Emeritus

  • Phyllis Rackin

    Professor of English Emerita

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 113
    215-898-5145

    Office Hours

    For an appointment, email prackin@upenn.edu

  • John Richetti

    A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English

  • Peter Stallybrass

    Director of Seminar in the History of Material Texts

    Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English

  • Wendy Steiner

    Richard L. Fisher Professor of English