Administration
- Administrative Leadership
- Graduate Committee
- Undergraduate Committee
- Additional Departmental Leadership
- Working Groups, 2023-2024
- Center, Initiative, and Project Leadership
- Graduate Leadership
The English department is served by a chair and a number of standing committees and department officers. Key committees seat graduate student representatives, elected annually by the graduate student body.
The following represent the Standing Committees, Working Groups, Center and Initiative Directors, and RAs for the academic year 2023-24.
Administrative Leadership
Chair
Jim Kearney
Grad Chair
Andrew Griffin
Undergrad Chair
Jeremy Douglass
Administrative Committee
- Heather Blurton
- Julie Carlson
- Bishnu Ghosh
- Rita Raley
- ex officio: E. Cook, Andrew Griffin, Jeremy Douglass
Graduate Committee
Steering and Admissions
- Bernadette Andrea (S)
- Maurizia Boscagli (W/S)
- Jeannine DeLombard
- Yunte Huang
- Mark Maslan
- Sowon Park
- Daniel Reeve
- Amrah Salomón
CoGS Representatives: Lexxus Coffey Edison and Maria-Carolina Sintura.
Jobs Placement Committee
Heidi Amin-Hong and Tess Shewry
Grad Admissions field readers and Field Examiners for the Qualifying Exam are named in Fall quarter by the Grad Chair.
Undergraduate Committee
- Jeremy Douglass, Chair
- Stephanie Batiste
- Brian Donnelly
- Enda Duffy (W/S)
- Ken Hiltner
- Rachael King (S)
- Swati Rana
- Russell Samolsky (W/S)
- Cathy Thomas
CoGS Representatives: Nadia Ahmed and Shaun Nowicki.
Additional Departmental Leadership
Other Standing Committees/Positions
EAP Representative
Maurizia Boscagli (W/S)
HFA Diversity Officer
Sowon Park
Lead TA Advisor
Felice Blake (W/S)
TA Advisor Panel: Amin-Hong, Olguín, Samolsky (W/S)
English Dept Representatives to the Faculty Legislature
Duffy (W/S), Maslan, Thomas
Library & Campus Information Resources Liaison
Melody Jue
Outreach and Donor Relations
Cook, Duffy (W/S), Olguin, Thomas
Lead TA Advisor Non-FTE Appointments (incl President’s Postdoctoral Fellows/Search Waivers)
- Chair: Blake (W/S)
- Batiste
- Carlson
- King (S)
- Olguin
- Salomón
- Waid (S)
Technology Committee
- Jeremy Douglass
- Alan Liu (S)
- Rita Raley
- Amrah Salomón
Working Groups, 2023-2024
Lead TA Advisor Digital Humanities Assistant Professor Search Committee
- Rita Raley, Chair
- Jeremy Douglass
- Rachael King
- Fabien Offert, GSS
Critical Creative Writing / CW Specialization
- Moraga
- Rana
- Batiste
Grad Program Revisioning Core Committee
- Kearney
- Blurton
- Griffin
- Amin-Hong
WASC Certification Committee (for 2023 WASC Certification)
Cook, Hiltner, Huang
Center, Initiative, and Project Leadership
2023-2024 Directors and RAs
American Cultures and Global Contexts Center
Director: Swati Rana
RA: Nirvana Shahriar
Center on Modern Culture, Materialism, and Aesthetics
Director: Maurizia Boscagli
RA: Leila Stegemoeller
Early Modern Center
Director: Jim Kearney, Fall; Patricia Fumerton, W/S
RA: Shaun Nowicki
Global Latinidades Project
Director: Ben Olguín
Hemispheric South/s
Director: Stephanie Batiste
RA: Lexxus Coffey Edison
Literature & Environment
Director: Bishnupriya Ghosh
RA: Becca Hamilton
Literature & Mind
Director: Julie Carlson
RA: Clara Chin
Las Maestras Center
Co-Directors: Cherríe Moraga and Celia Herrera Rodríguez
RA: Maria-Carolina Sintura
Medieval Literature
Director: Daniel Reeve
RA: Gil Vitro
Transcriptions
Director: Rita Raley
RA: Henry Coburn
Catalyst
Director: Brian Donnelly
RA: MariaCarolina Sintura
Graduate Leadership
Council of Graduate Students (CoGS) Representatives:
Co-Chairs: Alice Fulmer and Olivia Bievenue
Graduate Committee Representatives: Lexxus Coffey Edison and Maria-Carolina Sintura
Undergrad Committee Representatives: Nadia Ahmed and Shaun Nowicki
Co-Lead Teaching Assistants:
Maria Job and Liv Henderson
Social Media RA:
Celeste McAlpin-Levitt