Faculty & Staff
Rev. James Miracky, S.J.
Associate Professor, Department Chair
(Ph.D., Rutgers University)
Fields: 20th Century British novel; modern and contemporary drama; history and theory of the novel; gender studies.
E-mail: jmiracky@holycross.edu
Patricia L. Bizzell
Professor
(Ph.D., Rutgers University)
Fields: Expository writing; theory and practice of rhetoric; American literature to 1900; American women's literature.
E-mail: pbizzell@holycross.edu
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Christine Coch
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Chicago)
Fields: Early Renaissance Literature; Shakespeare.
E-mail: ccoch@holycross.edu
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Robert K. Cording
James N. and Sarah L. O'Reilly Barrett Chair in Creative Writing
(Ph.D., Boston College)
Fields: 17th Century poetry; 20th Century poetry; creative writing (poetry).
E-mail: rcording@holycross.edu
Joanne Marie Cordon
Visiting Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Connecticut)
Fields:
E-mail: jcordon@holycross.edu
Diana V. Cruz
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Boston College)
Fields: 19th Century American Literature; The African American Literary Tradition; Contemporary African American Literature.
E-mail: dcruz@holycross.edu
Brad Davis
Lecturer
(M.F.A., Vermont College)
Fields: Creative Writing (poetry)
E-mail: bdavis@holycross.edu
Anita J. Duneer
Visiting Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Connecticut)
Fields: 19th and 20th Century American literature; ethnic literature; women's literature; postcolonial and travel literatures; maritime literature; autobiography
E-mail: aduneer@holycross.edu
Melissa Falcon-Field
Visiting Assistant Professor
(M.F.A., Texas State University)
Fields:
E-mail: mfalcon@holycross.edu
Maurice A. Geracht
Stephen J. Prior Professor of Humanities
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)
Fields: 18th Century English literature; English, American, French narrative traditions and narrative theory; 20th Century visual arts and intersections between visual arts and literature.
E-mail: mgeracht@holycross.edu
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Debra L. Gettelman
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Harvard University)
Fields: 19th Century British literature and culture; the novel; history of reading
E-mail: dgettelm@holycross.edu
Elaine Hays
Director of Writing Programs, Lecturer
(Cand. Ph.D., University of Rhode Island)
Fields: Rhetoric and Composition; Writing Centers and Tutor Training
E-mail: ehays@holycross.edu
Patrick J. Ireland
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., St. Louis University)
Fields: American literature: romanticism, realism, southern literature.
E-mail: pireland@holycross.edu
James M. Kee
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Virginia)
Fields: Middle English literature, especially Chaucer and Langland; hermeneutics and literary criticism; philosophy and literature; the Bible and literature.
E-mail: jkee@holycross.edu
Jonathan Kim
Lecturer
(Ph.D., Brandeis University)
Fields:
E-mail: jkim@holycross.edu
Sarah Luria
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Stanford University)
Fields:19th Century American Literature; American studies (intersections between visual/material culture, history, and literature); 19th Century political oratory and rhetoric; 19th Century sentimentalism; Robert Lowell "For the Union Dead" Web site.
E-mail: sluria@holycross.edu
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Richard E. Matlak
Professor
(Ph.D., Indiana University)
Fields: William Wordsworth and English romantic writers; biography and poetry; dialogical approaches to literature; transitions between periods of literary history and national literatures.
E-mail: rmatlak@holycross.edu
Shawn Lisa Maurer
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Michigan)
Fields: 18th Century British literature and culture; history and theory of the novel; satire; feminist and critical theory; women's and gender studies; women writers; female modernism, esp. Dorothy Richardson; 19th and 20th Century Anglo-American women's poetry.
E-mail: smaurer@holycross.edu
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William R. Morse
Associate Professor, Special Assistant to the Dean of the College
(Ph.D., Brandeis University)
Fields: Renaissance Literature; Shakespeare; Milton; Ovid.
E-mail: wmorse@holycross.edu
Jonathan Mulrooney
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. Boston University)
Fields: British Romantic Literature; Romantic-period Theater and Public Culture; Nineteenth-Century British & American Literature; Film; Romantic Historicisms.
E-mail: jmulroon@holycross.edu
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Lee Oser
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Yale University)
Fields: English and American poetry; religion and literature; modernism.
E-mail: leeoser@holycross.edu
Leila Philip
Assistant Professor
(M.F.A, Columbia University)
Fields: Creative writing/Non-fiction
E-mail: lphilip@holycross.edu
Stephanie Reents
Stephanie Reents
(M.F.A., University of Arizona)
Fields:
E-mail: sreents@holycross.edu
Paige Reynolds
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Chicago)
Fields: Modern and contemporary Irish literature; Irish studies; 20th century British and American literature and culture; modern drama and performance.
E-mail: preynold@holycross.edu
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Bill Roorbach
William H. P. Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters
(M.F.A, Columbia University)
E-mail: broorbac@holycross.edu
Sarah Stanbury
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Duke University)
Fields: Chaucer and late medieval literature; medieval visual culture; Mapping Margery Kempe.
E-mail: sstanbur@holycross.edu
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Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Brown University)
Fields: Modernist and postmodernist fiction (American and European); literary revisions of popular narrative genres (folktale, detective story, Gothic romance); 19th Century American literature, especially Poe, Hawthorne, and Dickinson; 20th Century comparative literature, especially Nabokov.
E-mail: ssweeney@holycross.edu
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Helen M. Whall
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Yale University)
Fields: Shakespeare, renaissance drama, modern drama; comic theory.
E-mail: hwhall@holycross.edu
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Shirley Adams
Administrative Assistant
E-mail: sadams@holycross.edu