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    The Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) is the focal point of the collaborative research activities of the Graduate Center. It promotes interdisciplinary research, partners with GC Research Centers, Institutes and Interdisciplinary Committees, connects the research activities of CUNY faculty at the Colleges to GC research programs and seminars, and provides a home for outstanding visiting scholars to collaborate with faculty and students. ARC offers support to GC doctoral students pursuing research as well as to postdoctoral students who have completed their initial projects.
 

Faculty

Faculty in the Ph.D. Program in English are either centrally appointed to the Graduate Center or tenured at one of the CUNY colleges. Centrally appointed faculty teach almost exclusively at the Graduate Center, both in the English Program and in affiliated Programs and Certificate Programs. College-appointed faculty generally teach one course a year in the English Program. Currently, there are over 50 active faculty members, including 12 Distinguished Professors. In addition to scholarship on English literature, our faculty has produced notable work in poetry and fiction, creative non-fiction, critical theory, art history, autobiography, biography, film studies, composition theory, and digital humanities. 

Faculty by Field

Faculty Specializations by Theory Group Field 

African American Writings and Poetics:
Ammiel Alcalay, Meena Alexander, Barbara E. Bowen, Kandice Chuh, James L. de Jongh, Hildegard Hoeller, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Neal Tolchin, Michele Wallace, Jerry Watts, Barbara Webb

Bibliographical Studies and Textual Theory:
David Greetham, Michael Grant Sargent, E. Gordon Whatley

Composition Theory and Rhetoric:
Mark McBeth, Rebecca Mlynarczyk, George Otte, Sondra Perl, Ira Shor, Jessica Yood

Feminist Theory and Women's Writings:
Meena Alexander, Barbara E. Bowen, Rachel Brownstein, Mary Ann Caws, Kandice Chuh, Carrie Hintz, Hildegard Hoeller, Jane Connor Marcus, Nancy K. Miller, Tanya Pollard, Talia Schaffer, Michele Wallace, Nancy Yousef

Gay/Lesbian/Queer Literature and Theory:
Glenn Burger, Kandice Chuh, Mario DiGangi, William Fisher, Richard Kaye, Wayne Koestenbaum, Steven F. Kruger, Jane Connor Marcus, Mark McBeth, David Savran, Michele Wallace, Joseph Wittreich

Literary History, Criticism, and Theory:
Ammiel Alcalay, Meena Alexander, John Brenkman, Glenn Burger, Mary Ann Caws, Kandice Chuh, Ashley Dawson, Marc Dolan, Edmund L. Epstein, David Greetham, Peter Hitchcock, Anne Humpherys, Nico Israel, Gerhard Joseph, Wayne Koestenbaum, Steve Kruger, Jane Connor Marcus, Nancy K. Miller, George Otte, Tanya Pollard, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Joan Richardson, David Richter, Neal Tolchin, Joshua Wilner, Jessica Yood, Nancy Yousef

Postcolonial Literature and Theory:
Ammiel Alcalay, Meena Alexander, John Brenkman, Glenn Burger, Kandice Chuh, Ashley Dawson, Lyn Di Iorio, Peter Hitchcock, Nico Israel

Faculty by Chronological Period

Faculty Specializations by Chronological Period

Medieval Literature:
Ammiel Alcalay, Glenn Burger, David Greetham, Steven F. Kruger,  Michael Grant Sargent, E. Gordon Whatley

Renaissance/Early Modern Literature:
Barbara E. Bowen, Mario DiGangi, Martin Elsky,  William Fisher, Carrie Hintz, Richard C. McCoy, Tanya Pollard, Joseph Wittreich

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature:
Rachel Brownstein, Carrie Hintz, Richard C. McCoy, Judith Milhous, Nancy K. Miller, David Richter, Joseph Wittreich, Nancy Yousef

The Romantic Movement:
Meena Alexander, Rachel Brownstein, Morris Dickstein, Wayne Koestenbaum, David Richter, Alan Vardy, Joshua Wilner, Joseph Wittreich, Nancy Yousef

The Victorian Period:
Felicia Bonaparte, Rachel Brownstein, N. John Hall, Anne Humpherys,  Gerhard Joseph, Richard Kaye, Talia Schaffer

American Literature to 1900:
Ammiel Alcalay, Morris Dickstein,  Lyn Di Iorio, Marc Dolan,  James L. de Jongh, Duncan Faherty, Hildegard Hoeller, William P. Kelly,  Robert F. Reid-Pharr, David S. Reynolds,  Joan Richardson, Neal Tolchin, Michele Wallace

Twentieth-Century Literature:
Ammiel Alcalay, Meena Alexander, John Brenkman,  Mary Ann Caws,  Kandice Chuh, Ashley Dawson, Lyn Di Iorio, James L. de Jongh, Morris Dickstein, Marc Dolan, Edmund L. Epstein, Peter Hitchcock, Hildegard Hoeller,  Nico Israel, Richard Kaye, Wayne Koestenbaum, Jane Connor Marcus, Nancy K. Miller, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Joan Richardson, David Savran, Talia Schaffer, Michele Wallace, Jerry Watts, Barbara Webb