Faculty
Stephanie Reents
Chair, Department of English
Associate Professor
(M.F.A., University of Arizona)
Fields: Fiction; Contemporary American Fiction; Experimental Narrative Writing
Email: sreents@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 230 Phone: 508-793-2709
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Greg Chase
Visiting Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Boston University)
Fields: American and British Modernism; Philosophy and Literature; African American Literature; Southern Literature
Email: gchase@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 222
Phone: 508-793-2658
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Christine Coch
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Chicago)
Fields: Renaissance English Literature and Culture; Shakespeare
Email: ccoch@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 224
Phone: 508-793-3947
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Morris Collins
Email: mcollins@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 213 Phone: 508-793-3518
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Kyle C. Frisina
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Michigan)
Fields: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Drama and Literature; Performance Studies; Autotheory
Email: kfrisina@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 214 Phone: 508-793-3651
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Debra L. Gettelman
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Harvard University)
Fields: 19th Century British Literature and Culture; the Novel; Book History; Film Adaptation
Email: dgettelm@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 227B Phone: 508-793-2759
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Leah Hager Cohen
Visiting Professor and James N. and Sarah L. O'Reilly Barrett Professor in Creative Writing
(M.S., Columbia University)
Fields: Creative Writing: Fiction and Nonfiction; Ethics of Storytelling
Email: lcohen@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 231 Phone: 508-793-3437
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Madigan Haley
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. University of Virginia)
Fields: 20th- and 21st-Century British Literature; Comparative World Literatures; Transnational Modernism; History and Theory of the Novel; Postcolonial and Global Studies
Email: mhaley@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 223 Phone: 508-793-2523
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N. Claire Jackson
Visiting Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. University of Louisville)
Fields: Rhetoric and Composition, Writing Program Administration, Composition Pedagogy, Translingualism, Trans Studies
Email: ncjackso@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 217 Phone: 508-793-2364
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Sarah Klotz
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., The University of California, Davis)
Fields: Composition and Rhetoric, Native American/Indigenous Studies, Writing Assessment, American Literature
Email: sklotz@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 210 Phone: 508-793-3965
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Nadine M. Knight
Associate Professor
(Ph.D. Harvard University)
Fields: African American Literature; 19th and 20th Century American Literature; American Civil War Studies; Film and Television
Email: nknight@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 227A
Phone: 508-793-2563
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Christopher Kondrich
Visiting Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Denver)
M.F.A., Columbia University
Fields: Creative Writing: Poetry; Contemporary American Poetry; Ecopoetics/Environmental Writing
Email: ckondric@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 227
Office Hours: MW 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
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Sarah Luria
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" Website
Email: sluria@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 211 Phone: 508-793-3443
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Shawn Lisa Maurer
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
Email: smaurer@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 229 Phone: 508-793-3444
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Jonathan Mulrooney
Professor
(Ph.D. Boston University)
Fields: British Romantic Literature; Romantic-period Theater and Public Culture; Nineteenth-Century British & American Literature; Film; Romantic Historicisms
Email: jmulroon@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 212 Phone: 508-793-3440
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Lee Oser
Professor
(Ph.D., Yale University)
Fields: English and American Poetry; Religion and Literature; Modernism; Catholic Fiction; Shakespeare and the Renaissance.
Email: leeoser@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 219
Phone: 508-793-2208
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Oliver de la Paz
Associate Professor
On Leave
(M.F.A, Arizona State University)
Fields: Creative Writing: Poetry and Hybrid Genres; Contemporary American Poetry; Asian American Literature
Email: odelapaz@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 227 Phone: 508-793-2698
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Leila Philip
Professor
(M.F.A, Columbia University)
Fields: Creative Writing/Non-fiction
Email: lphilip@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 215 Phone: 508-793-2393
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Jennifer Reed
Visiting Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Virginia)
Fields: 18th- and 19th-Century British Literature and Culture
Email: jreed@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 231
Office Hours: M/F 11-12, M/W 3-3:50, and by appt.
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Paige Reynolds
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.
Email: preynold@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 228 Phone: 508-793-2695
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Jorge Santos
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., University of Connecticut)
Fields: Ethnic American Literature; Immigrant/Migrant Literature; Ethnic Studies; American Cultural Studies; Graphic Narrative; Asian American Literature
Email: jsantos@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 225 Phone: 508-793-3460
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Melissa Schoenberger
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Boston University)
Fields: Restoration and 18th Century British Literature; Poetry; Translation
Email: mschoenb@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 222 Phone: 508-793-3521
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Hayley Stefan
Visiting Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Connecticut)
Fields: Multi-ethnic Literature of the United States; Digital Humanities; Disability/Mad Studies; Young Adult Literature
Email: hstefan@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 214
Office hours: M/W 1-2, Th 10–11 via Zoom, & by appt.
Phone: 508-793-3331
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Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
(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, esp. Poe, Hawthorne, and Dickinson; 20th Century Comparative Literature, esp. Nabokov
Email: ssweeney@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 220 Phone: 508-793-2690
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Stella Wang
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fields: Medieval Literature, Religious Culture
Email: swang@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 221
Office Hours: W 1-4, and by appt.
Xu Xi 許素細
Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters
Fields: Genres: Novel, Literary Essay, Short Fiction, Memoir; Transnational literatures in English; World Literatures in translation (especially literatures of Asia and postcolonial spaces); World Politics (esp. China-US relations); Indonesian language and literature.
Email: xxi@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 218 Office Phone: 508- 793-2365
Office hours: Th 11am - 12pm; F 9:30 to 10:30am; & by appt.
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Staff
Elise Saad
Academic Administrative Assistant
Email: esaad@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 209
Phone: 508-793-2562
PO Box: 47A
Office hours: M-F 8:30-4:30
Faculty Emeriti
Patricia L. Bizzell
Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emerita, English
(Ph.D., Rutgers University)
Fields: Expository Writing; Theory and Practice of Rhetoric; American Literature to 1900; American Women's Literature
Email: pbizzell@holycross.edu
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Robert Cording
Professor EmeritusEmail: rcording@holycross.edu
Maurice A. Géracht
Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emeritus
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)
Fields: 18th Century English Literature; English, American, French Narrative Traditions and Narrative Theory; 20th Century Visual Arts; Intersections Between Visual Arts and Literature.
Email: mgeracht@holycross.edu
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Patrick Ireland
Associate Professor Emeritus
Email: pireland@holycross.edu
James M. Kee
Professor Emeritus
(Ph.D., University of Virginia)
Email: jkee@holycross.edu
Richard E. Matlak
Professor Emeritus
(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.
Email:rmatlak@holycross.edu
B. Eugene McCarthy
Professor Emeritus
Email: emccarthy@holycross.edu
William Morse
Associate Professor Emeritus
Email: wmorse@holycross.edu
Sarah Stanbury
Professor Emerita
Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities
(Ph.D., Duke University)
Fields: Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature; Medieval Visual Culture; Mapping Margery Kempe
Email: sstanbur@holycross.edu
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Helen Whall
Professor Emerita
(Ph.D., Yale University)
Fields: Shakespeare; Renaissance Drama; Modern Drama; Comic Theory
Email: hwhall@holycross.edu