Full-Time Faculty Directory

Name
Position
Research & Teaching Interests
Assistant Professor
Co-Director of First-Year Writing and Part-Time Instruction
Literacy; Rhetoric and Composition; Critical Digital Pedagogy; Anti-Racist Pedagogy
Assistant Professor
Interim Co-PI at CUNY-Initiative on Immigration and Education (CUNY-IIE)
Multilingualism; Multimodality; Urban and Bilingual Education; Transnationalism
Lecturer
Anti-Racist Pedagogy; Cultural Identity and Media Representation; Africana Studies
Assistant Professor
Poetry; creative writing
Professor, Queens College Department of English, CUNY Graduate Center English Ph.D. Program
Critical university studies; literatures of resistance; seventeenth-century women writers; Shakespeare
Distinguished Professor
Chaucer; Medieval English Literature; Premodern Gender and Sexuality; Global Middle Ages
Lecturer
Irish Studies; Theory; Twentieth-Century Poetry
Associate Professor
Disability; Poetry; Science Fiction; Theory
Professor
Contemporary US Poetry; Documentary Poetics
Doctoral Lecturer (SEEK)
Composition Studies; Performance Theory; Writing and the Teaching of Writing; Poetry as a Form of Literacy Practice
Professor
Department Chair
Victorian Literature & Culture; 19th-Century British Poetry; Literary Translation in History and Practice
Associate Professor
Writing Center Director
Writing Centers; Qualitative Research Methods in Writing Studies; Literacy Studies; Rhetoric of Adoption
Professor
Late 18th & Early 19th-century U.S. Literature and Culture; American Studies
Associate Professor
Chair, Academic Senate
Cinema & Media studies; Digital Humanities; Videographic Criticism
Associate Professor
Contemporary literature in a global context; the novel; postcolonial studies
Distinguished Professor in English and Italian American Studies
Director of Italian American Studies
Italian Diaspora Studies; Humor in US American culture; US American Ethnic Literatures; Literary Theory
Associate Professor
Director, QC Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
Faculty of English & Global Early Modern Studies, CUNY Graduate Center
Early Atlantic World; African Diaspora; Early Modern Trans Studies; Theater and Performance Studies
Distinguished Professor
New York State Poet (laureate), 2025-
Chancellor, Academy of American Poets, 2023-
Writing; Poetry & Poetics; Ethnic Studies
Lecturer
Critical Theory and Pedagogy; Cultural Studies; Writing Ecologies
Professor of English, Queens/CUNY and The Graduate Center/CUNY
Utopian and Dystopian Writing; Speculative and Experimental Fiction for Children and YA; Life Writing; 17th Century Lit
Associate Professor of English and Asian American Community Studies (AACS)
Lead PI/Director, Queens College AANAPISI Project (QCAP)
Asian American Literatures & Cultures; Ethnic Studies; Comics Studies; Comedy and Humor Studies
Associate Professor
Creative Nonfiction; Essays and Memoir; Cultural Criticism; Writing about Religion and Spirituality
Lecturer
Writing Center Pedagogy; Translanguaging; Creative Nonfiction; Writing about the Environment
Visiting Associate Professor
MFA Program
Creative Writing (Fiction); Creative Nonfiction; Speculative Fiction; Science Fiction
Assistant Professor
Shakespeare Studies; Queer & Transgender Theory; Performance Studies; Early Modern Studies
Lecturer (SEEK)
Asian American literature
Professor
Medieval Studies; Chaucer; LGBTQ+ Studies and Theory
Assistant Professor
Rhetorical Criticism; History of Rhetoric; Public Deliberation; Citizenship; Pedagogy
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director of Graduate Studies
20th-century literature; modernism
Associate Professor
Associate Chair
20th & 21st-Century Drama; Playwriting; Theatre & Urbanism
Lecturer
African American literature; 19th & 20th-century literature
Assistant Professor
Rhetoric and Composition; Critical Digital Pedagogy; Translanguaging; Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy; Prison Writing
Doctoral Lecturer
Internship Coordinator
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Latinx Literature and Culture; Contemporary US Literature; Comics and Graphic Narratives; Visual Culture; Queer Studies
Assistant Professor
20th- and 21st-Century American Literature; LGBTQ & HIV-affected Literature; Life Writing Studies
Professor
19th – 21st-century U.S. Latinx & Caribbean literatures and cultures
Professor
Medieval literature & cultural studies
Distinguished Professor
19th Century Literature; Feminist Theory; Ethics of Care; Disability Studies; Domestic Realism; Marriage Plot
Associate Professor
Fairy Tales; Children's Literature; Fantasy
Professor
Creative Writing; Literary Translation; 19th and 20th Century American Literature; Middle Eastern-American Literature
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature; Gothic Literature, 18th Century Transatlantic Literary Relations
Doctoral Lecturer
American Fiction 20th and 21st Century; American Drama 20th and 21st Century; Women Playwrights
Lecturer
Creative nonfiction in a mixture of prose and poetry
Lecturer
Rhetoric and Composition; Pedagogy; Latino/a/x Literature; Intersectional Feminist Theory
Professor
Director, MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation
Faculty Advisor, The Knight News
Memoir and Autobiography; Culture Writing; Creative Nonfiction; Music Writing; Neuroscience and the Arts.
Professor and Special Assistant to the Provost on Writing
Professor, English, CUNY Graduate Center
Writing & the teaching of writing; language & literacy; higher education; food
Assistant Professor
Black Studies; Gender/Sexuality Studies; 20th/21st Century American Literature; Critical Race Theory
American literature 1850-1950; Feminist Theory; Women’s and Gender Studies
Associate Professor
Creative writing (fiction)
Lecturer
Co-Director of First Year Writing
Academic Writing; Creative Writing; the Teaching of Writing