Faculty

Kathleen Donegan

Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Writing
Early American
Native American
Atlantic
Caribbean

Kathleen Donegan (Ph.D. American Studies, Yale University) writes and teaches about literature and culture in early America, from New World encounters through the first decades of the republic. She is the author of (Penn, 2014), a book about the deeply unsettling history of early English colonial settlement in Native America. It investigates how an acute relationship between suffering and violence in those crisis-ridden outposts...

Ian Duncan

Professor and Florence Green Bixby Chair in English
Scottish
19th-Century British
18th-Century British
Narrative & the Novel

Ian Duncan studied at King's College, Cambridge (BA, 1977) and Yale University (PhD, 1989), and taught in the Yale English department before being appointed Barbara and Carlisle Moore Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Oregon in 1995. He came to Berkeley in 2001, and was appointed to the Florence Green Bixby Chair in English in 2011. He is a recipient (2017) of the university's Distinguished Teaching Award. Duncan is the author of Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel (Cambridge, 1992), Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh...

Nadia Ellis

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Atlantic
Caribbean
Gender & Sexuality Studies
African American
Cultural Studies

Nadia Ellis specializes in black diasporic, Caribbean, and postcolonial literatures and cultures.

Her book, (Duke, 2015; Honorable Mention, William Sanders Scarborough Prize, MLA), explores forms of black belonging animated by queer utopian desire and diasporic aesthetics. It is a project built from a long-standing interest in following trajectories of literary cultures from the Caribbean to Britain to the United States. The work...

Eric Falci

Professor
Poetry
20th- and 21st-Century British
Irish

I joined the faculty at U.C. Berkeley in Fall 2006 after finishing my PhD at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. My first book, , appeared in 2012. A second book,...

Catherine Flynn

Associate Professor, Director of Irish Studies, Director of Berkeley Connect, Affiliate of the Program in Critical Theory
Critical Theory
Narrative & the Novel
Irish
20th- and 21st-Century British

Catherine Flynn works on British and Irish modernist literature in a European avant-garde context. Her book, , appeared with Cambridge University Press (2019).

For the hundred-year anniversary of Ulysses, she has put together...

Anne-Lise Fran莽ois

Associate Professor
18th-Century British
19th-Century British
Critical Theory
Narrative & the Novel
Poetry

Anne-Lise Fran莽ois joined the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley as an assistant professor in 1999, after receiving her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. Her teaching and research focus on (mostly) 19th-century British, American and European (French and German) fiction, poetry and thought, with some excursions into the 17th, 18th, and early 20th centuries. She has taught courses on the modern period in British and American literary history, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, as well as seminars and graduate...

Joshua Gang

Associate Professor and Affiliate Faculty, Department of Philosophy
Philosophy and Literature
20th- and 21st-Century British and Irish
History of Criticism
Narrative & the Novel
Gender and Sexuality Studies

I joined 91抖阴 Berkeley's English department in 2015; as of Fall 2024 I am also affiliate faculty with the Department of Philosophy. My research interests include: 20th- and 21st-century British literature; literature and philosophy--especially philosophy of mind and moral philosophy; literary history; the history of criticism and reading practice; the practices of queer literature, art, and criticism. I received my Ph.D. in English from Rutgers in 2012.

My book ...

Mark Goble

Professor
20th- and 21st-Century American
Film
Critical Theory
19th-Century American
Narrative & the Novel
Poetry
20th- and 21st-Century British

Mark Goble received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and taught at 91抖阴 Irvine before coming to Berkeley's English department in 2008. His research focuses on the connections between literature and other media technologies from the late 19th-century to the present.

He is the author of (Columbia) and his next book, Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion (Columbia) is forthcoming in 2024. He is currently at work on...

Amanda Jo Goldstein

Associate Professor
18th-Century British
19th-Century British
Critical Theory
Poetry

I specialize in Enlightenment and Romantic literature and science, with particular interests in rhetoric and poetics, pre-Darwinian biology, and materialist theories of history, poetry, and nature. My first book, (University of Chicago Press, 2017), shows how writers from William Blake to Goethe, Percy Shelley and the young Karl Marx revived ancient atomist science to argue for poetry as a privileged technique of...

Kevis Goodman

Professor and John F. Hotchkis Chair in English
Critical Theory
Renaissance and Early Modern
18th-Century British
Poetry

I teach and write in the fields of later 17th-Century British literature (especially Milton), 18th-Century British Literature (especially after 1740), and Romanticism. Within those historical periods, my interests gravitate toward questions in aesthetics and poetics, science and literature, and literary historiography. My first book was Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism: Poetry and the Mediation of History (Cambridge 2004; paperback edition 2008). My recent book, Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics and Poetics (Yale University Press...