Administration
- Administrative Leadership
- Graduate Committee
- Undergraduate Committee
- Additional Departmental Leadership
- Working Groups, 2022-2023
- Center, Initiative, and Project Leadership
The English department is governed by a chair and assisted by a number of standing committees and department officers. Each committee seats graduate student representatives, elected annually by the graduate student body.
The following represent the Standing Committees, Working Groups, Centers and Initiative Directors, and RAs for the academic year 2022-23.
Administrative Leadership
Chair
E. Heckendorn Cook
Vice Chair
Jim Kearney
Administrative Committee
- Stephanie Batiste
- Heather Blurton
- Bishnu Ghosh
- Melody Jue
- ex officio: Rachael King, Andrew Griffin, Jim Kearney
DEI Faculty Diversity Officer
Sowon Park
Graduate Committee
Steering and Admissions
- Andrew Griffin, Chair & DEI Graduate Diversity Officer
- Maurizia Boscagli
- Jeannine DeLombard
- Mark Maslan
- Amrah Salomón Johnson
- Russell Samolsky
- Daniel Reeve
- Tess Shewry
CoGS Representatives: Lexxus Coffey Edison and Maria-Carolina Sintura.
Jobs Placement
Heidi Amin-Hong and Bernadette Andrea
Grad Admissions field readers and Field Examiners for the Qualifying Exam are named in Fall quarter by the Grad Chair.
Undergraduate Committee
- Rachael King, Chair & DEI Undergraduate Diversity Officer
- Enda Duffy
- Ken Hiltner
- Rita Raley
- Swati Rana
- Cathy Thomas
CoGS Representatives: Olivia Henderson and Shaun Nowicki.
Additional Departmental Leadership
Teaching Assistantship Support
- Felice Blake, Faculty Lead TA Advisor
- Heather Blurton, TA Advisor
- Julie Carlson, TA Advisor
- Ken Hiltner, TA Advisor
- Erick Rodriguez and Maria Job, Co-Lead TAs
Data Management / Information / Library Liaison
Patricia Fumerton
EAP Representative
Maurizia Boscagli
Faculty Legislature Representatives
- Felice Blake
- Enda Duffy
- Cathy Thomas
- Mark Maslan, Alternative
Technology, Social Media, Remote Instruction
- Alan Liu
- Rita Raley
- Jeremy Douglass
Council of Graduate Students (CoGS) Co-Chairs
Parra and Saide Singh. (CoGS representatives to Undergrad and Grad Committees listed above.)
Working Groups, 2022-2023
Center Cooperation
- Maurizia Boscagli
- Melody Jue
- Alan Liu
- Ben Olguín
Creative/Critical Writing
- Cherríe Moraga, Chair
- Stephanie Batiste
- Felice Blake
- Julie Carlson
- Swati Rana
Curriculum Committee
- Jim Kearney, Chair
- Swati Rana
- Daniel Reeve
- Tess Shewry
Assessment (for Cycle 3 WASC Certification)
- E. Cook
- Ken Hiltner
- Yunte Huang
Website Initiative
- Jeremy Douglass
- Daniel Reeve
- Amrah Salomón
- Cathy Thomas
Center, Initiative, and Project Leadership
2022-23 Directors and RAs
American Cultures and Global Contexts Center
Director: Swati Rana
RA: Maile Young
Center on Modern Culture, Materialism, and Aesthetics
Director: Maurizia Boscagli
RA: Nirvana Shariar
Early Modern Center
Director: Patricia Fumerton
RA: Olivia Henderson
Global Latinidades Project
Director: Ben Olguín
RA: Kaaronica Evans-Ware
Hemispheric South/s
Director: Stephanie Batiste
RA: Taylor Holmes
Literature & Environment
Director: Melody Jue
RAs: Maria Job and Nadia Ahmed
Literature & Mind
Director: Julie Carlson
RA: TBA
Las Maestras Center
Co-Directors: Cherríe Moraga and Celia Herrera Rodríguez
RA: Maria-Carolina Sintura
Medieval Literature
Director: Heather Blurton
RA: Alice Fulmer
Transcriptions
Director: Alan Liu
RA: Leila Stegemoeller
Catalyst
Director: Brian Donnelly
RA: Henry Coburn