Elmaz Abinader
Professor of English
W. M. Keck Foundation Professorship in Creative Writing
Mills Hall Room 313, 510.430.2225, moses@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Creative writing, fiction and nonfiction, theories of creativity, teaching creative writing
Diane Cady
Associate Professor of English
On sabbatical Spring 2010
Mills Hall Room 314, 510.430.2218, dcady@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Chaucer, late medieval culture, medieval romance, medieval and early modern drama, new economic criticism, gender studies, cultural studies
Ajuan Mance
Associate Professor of English
Aurelia Henry Reinhardt Chair
Mills Hall Room 311, 510.430.3378, amance@mills.edu
Professional Interests: African American literature, 19th-century American literature, U.S. popular culture, the oral tradition in U.S. literature, Black feminist thought, African American art
Cornelia Nixon
Professor of English
Mills Hall Room 312, 510.430.2221, cnixon@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Fiction writing, modern British literature, contemporary fiction
Sarah Pollock
Professor of English, Part-time
Mills Hall Room 347, 510.430.2359, pollock@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Magazine and newspaper writing and editing, creative nonfiction, environmental and natural history writing
Patricia Powell
Associate Professor of English
Mills Hall 351, 510.430.2204, ppowell@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Creative writing: fiction and nonfiction; Caribbean literature; African women
writers; gay and lesbian literature; contemporary fiction
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Stephen Ratcliffe
Professor of English
Faculty Executive Committee Division Representative
Mills Hall Room 303, 510.430.2245, sratclif@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Creative writing, modern American poetry, Shakespeare, Renaissance poetry, English Romantic poetry,
contemporary poetry and poetics
Kathryn Reiss
Associate Professor of English, Part-time
Mills Hall Room 307, 510.430.2216, kreiss@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Creative writing, fiction for juveniles and young adults, historical fiction, suspense fiction, literature and time
Kirsten Saxton
Associate Professor of English, Director of Composition
Mills Hall Room 306, 510.430.2214, ktsaxton@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Women and the law, the history of the novel, 18th-century British literature and culture, post-colonial literature and culture, theories of sexuality, pedagogy, composition studies
Ruth Saxton
Professor of English
Mills Hall Room 301, 510.430.2151, rsaxton@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Modern British literature, feminist theory, the novel, Doris Lessing, Virginia Woolf, American women writers, teaching of writing, composition, contemporary fiction
Cynthia Scheinberg
Professor of English
Chair of the English Department
Dean of Graduate Literary Studies
Mills Hall Room 319, 510.430.2213, cyns@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Victorian literature, emphasis poetry, Anglo-Jewish literature, women's studies, religion and literature, feminist theory, genre studies, cinema studies, composition and pedagogy, community service/service learning curriculum development
Juliana Spahr
Associate Professor of English, Director of Creative Writing
Mills Hall Room 315, 510.430.2289, jspahr@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Poetry and poetics, cultural studies, anti-colonial literature and theory
Thomas Strychacz
Professor of English
On sabbatical 2009-2010
Mills Hall Room 304, 510.430.2208, toms@mills.edu
Professional Interests: American literature, mass culture, political and cultural approaches to literature, science fiction
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Visiting Scholars
Faith Adiele
Distinguished Visiting Writer
Mills Hall Room 130, 510.430.2337, fadiele@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:00-1:30, Wednesdays 2:30-3:30 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Creative writing, literary nonfiction and hybrid forms; travel writing; international and diasporic
literature; documentary and socially-engaged narrative; women’s and spiritual memoir; intersections of public
and personal identity
Kate Brubeck
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall
Mills Hall Room 305, 510.430.2219, katebrubeck@earthlink.net
Office Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays 9:30-10:30 and 2:30-3:30
Professional Interests: fiction and creative nonfiction, intercultural communication, effects of
multilingualism on identity and self-expression, ELL, grammar as style
David Buuck
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 350, 510.430.2185, dbuuck@mills.edu
Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 1:15-2:15 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Poetry, postcolonial literature, site-specific and conceptual art, cultural studies,
globalization theory
Mary Cudahy
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 348, 510.430.2188, mcudahy@mills.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:00-12:00
Professional Interests: Rhetoric, composition, autobiography, narratology, 20th century German
literature and poetics
Rebekah Edwards
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 324, 510.430.2036, redwards@mills.edu
Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 4:00-5:30 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Queer theory; problem bodies in 19th & 20th century British and American literatures; visual culture
and the aesthetics of alterity; passing narratives; poetics; race, gender and dis/ability in early 20th century U.S.
cultures
Marcia Eppich-Harris
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 346, 510.430.2340, meppichharris@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays 12:00-12:20, Wednesdays 2:00-4:00
Professional Interests: Shakespeare, Renaissance, world drama (from ancients to modern), Theatre of the
Absurd, genre studies, history, romance, creative writing, narrative theory
Susan Gevirtz
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring
Mills Hall, susangev@gmail.com
Professional Interests: Poetry and poetics, modern Greek poetry, cultural studies
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Lecturer
Mills Hall Room 310, 510.430.2358, mjoseph@youthspeaks.org
Office Hours: Fridays 10:00-12:00
Bula Maddison
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 330, 510.430.2372, bmaddiso@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays 3:00-4:30 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Bible, bible in modern literature, Bakhtinian theory
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Kim Magowan
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 349, 510.430.2169, magowan.kim@gmail.com
Office Hours: Wednesdays 4:00-6:30
Professional Interests: Nineteenth- and 20th-century American literature, modernism, the gothic,
African American literature and film
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 310, 510.430.2358, micheline@lmi.net
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:30-2:30 and 5:00-6:00
Professional Interests: Creative writing, the novel
Meredith May
Lecturer, Fall
Mills Hall Room 347, 510.430.2359, mmay@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays 9:00-9:30
Professional Interests: Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle; travel writing; screenwriting;
speaker: sex trafficking issues
Marilyn McEntyre
Visiting Professor, Fall
Mills Hall Room 304, 510.430.2208, mmcentyre@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays 11:00-12:00, Wednesdays 2:00-3:00 and by appointment
Professional Interests: The borderlands where literature and the sciences intersect; language
conservation in a culture of hype; autobiography, memoir, and literary nonfiction; contemplative reading
practices; 19th-century American prose; 20th-century poetry; poetry, pain, and the languages of healing
Miranda Mellis
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 349, 510.430.2169, mmellis@cca.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00-3:30
Professional Interests: Fiction, nonfiction, art criticism, ecology, activism, theory, pedagogy,
interdisciplinary practices
Leslie Scalapino
Visiting Writer, Spring
Mills Hall, leslie.scalapino@att.net
Professional Interests: Poetry, poetics, fiction, poem-plays, criticism, mysteries, book publishing
Truong Tran
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 350, 510.430.2185, truong.celan@gmail.com
Office Hours: Thursdays 12:00-2:00, 5:00-6:30
Professional Interests: Poetry and poetics
Gail Tsukiyama
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring
Mills Hall, Gatsuki@aol.com
Professional Interests: Creative writing, fiction and creative nonfiction, poetry, multicultural
fiction
Kara Wittman
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 336, 510.430.3136, kwittman@mills.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-3:00 and by appointment
Professional Interests: Nineteenth century British literature, British romanticism, the novel,
19th-century science and culture, the history of science, composition and pedagogy
Stephanie Young
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mills Hall Room 319, 510.430.3130, syoung@mills.edu
Office Hours for Students: Tuesdays 2:30-4:00
Professional Interests: Poetry and poetics
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Staff
Jess Heaney
Administrative Assistant
Mills Hall Room 316, 510.430.2240,
jheaney@mills.edu
Tonianne Nemeth
Executive Assistant
Mills Hall Room 321, 510.430.2217, tnemeth@mills.edu
Stephanie Young
Coordinator of English Graduate Programs
Mills Hall Room 319, 510.430.3130, syoung@mills.edu
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