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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 2023

    Monday 3-5 PM, please sign up on Calendly

  • Abdulhamit Arvas

    Assistant Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 220
    215-898-7348

    Office Hours

    fall 2023

    on leave

  • 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 2023

    Thursdays 3.30-5 pm and 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

    spring 2023

    Office Hours: Tuesday, and Thursday 2:30-4 pm; Wednesdays, Via Zoom, by appointment

  • Nancy Bentley

    Donald T. Regan Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 335
    215-898-5641

    Office Hours

    fall 2023

    Wednesdays 2-3 or by appointment

  • 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

    spring 2023

    Tuesdays 3-4:30, and by appointment

  • Max Cavitch

    Associate Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 341
    215-898-7456

    Office Hours

    fall 2023

    virtual office hours, by appointment

  • Jean-Christophe Cloutier

    Undergraduate Chair

    Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 316
    215-898-5864

    Office Hours

    fall 2023

    Office hours Wednesdays, 3:00pm-5:00pm, or by appointment.

    Use Calendly to book! https://calendly.com/jccloutier/15min

  • 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

  • Peter Decherney

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

    Professor of Cinema and Media Studies

    Director, Penn Global Documentary Institute

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 211
    215-746-3156

  • 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 2023

    Tuesdays 3:30-4:30pm & by appointment. Please use Calendly: https://calendly.com/davidleng/fall-2023

  • 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 2023

    In Fisher-Bennett 311:

         Tues 12:30-1:30

         Thurs 12:00-1:00

    or email me for an appointment

  • Jed Esty

    Vartan Gregorian Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 221
    215-746-4800

    Office Hours

    fall 2023

    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

    Office Hours

    I'll be in London on a British Academy Global Professorship until Autumn 2024. Please feel free to write to me via email.

  • 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

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 214
    215-746-3768

    Office Hours

    fall 2023

    Wednesdays 6:30-7:30 pm, Thursdays 3-5, and by appointment

  • Sara Kazmi

  • Zachary Lesser

    Associate Chair

    Edward W. Kane Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 115
    215-898-0444

    Office Hours

    fall 2023

    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 2023

    W 11-12 and by appointment

  • Rahul Mukherjee

    Dick 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 

  • Zita Cristina Nunes

    Graduate Chair

    Associate Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 132
    215-746-3529
    Fisher-Bennett Hall 238
    215-898-6365

  • Josephine Park

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

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 318
    215-898-7382

    Office Hours

    fall 2023

    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 2023

    Please email me to set up an 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

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

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 215
    215-746-3764

    Office Hours

    fall 2023

    Tues & Wed 2:00–3:30 p.m. & by appt.

  • Melissa E. Sanchez

    Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature

    Director, Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies

    Director, Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 216
    215-746-3765

    Office Hours

    fall 2021

    Tu 1-2 and by appointment

  • Emily Steiner

    Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 312
    215-898-7033

  • Emily Steinlight

    Associate Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 116
    215-898-5143

    Office Hours

    spring 2023

    Tues. 1:15–3:15

  • Whitney Trettien

    Assistant Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 317
    215-898-7055

    Office Hours

    fall 2023

    I have in-person or virtual appointments available M 10AM-12PM and W 2-3PM. 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 2023

    on leave

  • Simone White

    Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of English

    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 2023

    Mondays, 1pm-3pm

  • Chi-ming Yang

    Professor of English

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 314
    215-746-3527

    Office Hours

    fall 2023

    Tuesdays 1:00-3:00pm & by appointment (in either case, please email beforehand)

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

  • 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

  • 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

    Office Hours

    ON SABBATICAL JULY 1, 2021 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2022

  • 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

  • Julia Verkholantsev

  • Lance Wahlert

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

    Standing faculty in English, Cinema/Media Studies, and Gender/Sexuality Studies 

    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 114
    215-898-3936

    Office Hours

    Email for an appointment

  • Joel Osborne Conarroe

  • 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

  • Stuart Curran

  • 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 114
    215-898-3936

  • Bob Perelman

    Professor of English Emeritus

  • Phyllis Rackin

    Professor of English Emerita

    Fisher-Bennett Hall 113
    215-898-5145

    Office Hours

    spring 2022

    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

  • Humphrey Tonkin

  • Siegfried Wenzel