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List of Professors
| Name |
Years at Michigan |
Position | |
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Daniel Whedon |
1845 - 1851 | Professor of Logic, Rhetoric, and History |
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Datus C. Brooks |
1857 - 1864 |
Professor of Rhetoric, English an Speech Librarian |
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Andrew Dickson White |
1858 - 1863 |
Professor of History & English Literature Co-Founder & President of Cornell University |
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Allen Jeremiah Curtis |
1865 - 1867 | Assistant Professor of Rhetoric |
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Moses Coit Tyler |
1867 - 1881 |
Professor of Rhetoric and English Chair 1867-1881 |
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Isaac Newton Demmon |
1872 - 1920 |
Professor of English and Rhetoric Curator of Rare Books Chair of English 1881-1920 |
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Pierre Leslie Irving |
1873 | Acting Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Benjamin Burt |
1881 - 1887 | Assistant Professor of Rhetoric |
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George Hempl |
1889 - 1906 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Fred Newton Scott |
1889 - 1927 | Professor of Rhetoric & Journalism |
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Louis A. Strauss |
1895 - 1939 |
Professor of English Language and Literature Chair of English Language and Literature 1920-1938 |
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John Strong Perry Tatlock |
1897 - 1915 | Professor of English |
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Thomas Ernest Rankin |
1905 - 1928 | Associate Professor of Rhetoric |
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Morris Palmer Tilley |
1906 - 1946 | Professor of English Language and Literature & Teaching of English |
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Solomon Francis Gingerich |
1909 - 1933 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Wilber Ray Humphreys |
1910 - 1947 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Edward S. Everett |
1914 - 1953 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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William Ober Raymond |
1914 - 1928 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Samuel Moore |
1915 - 1934 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature and African and African American Studies |
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Oakley Calvin Johnson |
1917 - 1928 | Instructor in Rhetoric |
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Philip Louis Schenk |
1919 - 1944 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Erich A. Walter |
1919 - 1967 |
Professor of English Language and Literature & African and African American Studies Dean of Students |
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Roy William Cowden |
1919 |
Associate Professor of English Director of the Avery Hopwood Awards 1934- |
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Philip L. Schenek |
1919 - 1944 | Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & English |
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Waldo Mark Abbot |
1920 - 1958 |
Professor of Rhetoric, English an Speech Director Emeritus of Broadcasting Service-Radio |
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Louis I. Bredvold |
1921 - 1958 |
Professor of English Language and Literature Chair of English Language and Literature 1938-1947 |
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Oscar J. Campbell |
1921 - 1935 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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James Holly Hanford |
1921 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Amos Reno Morris |
1921 - 1950 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Charles Carpenter Fries |
1922 - 1958 | Professor of English Languages and Literature |
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Robert Frost |
1922 - 1924 1925 |
Fellow in Creative Arts 1922-1924 Professor of English 1925 |
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Henry Clinton Hutchins |
1924 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature |
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John Revell Reinhard |
1924 - 1963 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Clarence D. Thorpe |
1924 | Professor of English Language and Literature & Teaching of English |
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Arno L. Bader |
1925 - 1972 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Harold C. Binkley |
1925 - 1932 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Peter Monro Jack |
1927 - 1930 | Professor & Chair of Rhetoric Department |
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Albert Kunnen Stevens |
1927 - 1972 | Professor of English Language & Literature |
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Aubrey Leslie Hawkins |
1927 - 1949 | Instructor in English |
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Earl L. Griggs |
1928 - 1939 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Norman Edward Nelson |
1928 - 1969 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Kenneth Thorpe Rowe |
1928 - 1971 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Bennett Weaver |
1928 - 1962 | Professor of English Language and Literature & African and African American Studies |
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Theodore R. Hornberger |
1928 - 1937 | Assistant Professor of English & Rhetoric |
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Hereward Thimbleby Price |
1929 - 1950 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Stanley Royal Ashby |
1929 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Karl Litzenberg |
1929 - 1969 |
Professor of English Director of Residence Halls 1939-1943 |
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Howard Mumford Jones |
1930 - 1936 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Sanford B. Meech |
1930 - 1938 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Joe Lee Davis |
1930 - 1974 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Fred George Walcott |
1930 - 1965 | Professor of Education and English |
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Carlton Frank Wells |
1930 - 1968 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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John Francis Weimer |
1930 | Associate of English |
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Paul Mueschke |
1931 - 1966 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Mentor Lee Williams |
1931 - 1943 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Roy C. Cowen |
1931 | Associate Professor of English |
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Thomas A. Knott |
1934 - 1945 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Allan John Braitwaite Seager |
1935 - 1968 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Mentor Lee Williams |
1936 - 1943 | Assistant Professor of English |
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Richard Charles Boys |
1937 - 1974 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Henry Vining Seton Ogden |
1937 - 1974 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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John Arthos |
1939 - 1979 |
Hereward T. Price distinguished University Professor Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Morris Greenhut |
1943 - 1979 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Frank Livingstone Huntley |
1945 - 1973 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Hans Kurath |
1946 - 1962 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Albert Henry Marckwardt |
1946 - 1974 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Yao Shen |
1947 - 1962 |
Associate Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures Associate Professor of Chinese Languages and Literatures Associate Professor of English |
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Edward M. Anthony Jr. |
1947 - 1964 | Professor of Linguistics and English Language and Literature |
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Herbert C. Barrows Jr. |
1947 - 1997 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Arthur M. Eastman |
1947 - 1968 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Edwin A. Engel |
1947 - 1976 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Robert Fulton Haugh |
1947 - 1979 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Robert H. Super |
1947 - 1984 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Wayland Bryce Van Syoc |
1947 - 1963 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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James H. Robertson |
1947 - 1983 | Professor of English |
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Franklin Baldwin Newman |
1947 - 1957 | Assistant Professor of English |
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Don
ald Ross Pearce |
1947 | Associate Professor of English 1956 |
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Marvin Felheim |
1948 - 1979 |
Joe Lee David Distinguished Professor of American Culture Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Donald L. Hill |
1948 - 1983 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Sherman McAllister Kuhn |
1948 - 1984 |
Professor of English Language and Literature Editor Emeritus, Middle English Dictionary |
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Austin Warren |
1948 - 1968 | Professor of English Language and Literature & African and African American Studies |
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Eric W. Stockton Jr |
1948 - 1960 | Assistant Professor of English Language & Literature |
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Alexander W. Allison |
1949 - 1973 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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George Bagshawe Harrison |
1949 - 1964 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Arthur
 Japheth Carr |
1949 - 1967 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Sheridan Warner Baker |
1950 - 1981 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Harold V. King |
1950 - 1979 | Professor of English Language and Literature and Classical Studies |
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Deborah Bacon |
1950 - 1969 |
Associate Professor of English Dean of Women |
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James W. Downer |
1951 - 1985 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Robert Lado |
1951 - 1960 | Professor of English Language and Literature & Education |
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Harlan Henthorne Hatcher |
1951 - 1968 |
Professor of English Language and Literature President of the University of Michigan |
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William Richard Steinhoff |
1952 - 2000 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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James Radcliffe Squires |
1952 - 1982 | Professor of English Language & Literature |
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Joseph J. Firebaugh |
1952 - 1977 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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M. H. Hubert English Jr. |
1954 - 1996 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Mark Spilka |
1954 - 1963 | Assistant Professor of English Language & Literature |
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Sarah Ethelyn Grollman |
1955 - 1960 | Lecturer in English |
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Alan B 
Howes |
1955 - 2002 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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James J. Gindin |
1956 - 1994 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Edward Engelberg |
1957 - 1965 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Donald A. Hall |
1957 - 1977 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Charles R. O’Donnell |
1957 - 1969 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Edmund H. Creeth |
1958 - 1991 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Lyall H. Powers |
1958 - 1992 | Professor of English Language and Literature & Theatre and Drama |
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Leo F. McNamara |
1959 - 2001 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Thomas J. Garbaty |
1960 - 1992 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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William J. Gedney |
1960 - 1981 | Professor of Linguistics |
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Warne Conwell Holcombe |
1960 - 1985 | Associate Professor of English |
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Daniel N. Fader |
1961 - 1998 | Professor of English Languages and Literature |
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Robert T. Lenaghan |
1961 - 1997 | Professor English Language and Literature |
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William A. Coles |
1962 - 1985 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Anthony E. Friedman |
1962 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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John F. Reichert |
1962 - 1968 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Donald B. Sands |
1962 - 1984 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Robert E. Kusch |
1963 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Earl J. Schulze |
1963 - 1990 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature |
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John W. Wright |
1963 - 1997 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature |
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John W. Aldridge |
1964 - 1990 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Arthur Stephenson Dunning |
1964 - 1988 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Bert G. Hornback |
1964 - 1992 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Ejner J. Jensen |
1964 - 2004 |
Professor of English Language and Literature Acting Chair of English Language and Literature 1981 |
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Caesar R. Blake |
1964 - 1967 | Associate Professor of English |
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Richard W. Richard |
1965 - 2007 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Howard C. Brasher |
1965 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Walter H. Clark Jr. |
1965 - 1993 | Associate Professor of English Languages and Literature |
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Cecil D. Eby Jr. |
1965 - 1995 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Peter E. Firchow |
1965 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Charles H. Hinnant |
1965 - 1972 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Robert A. Neale |
1965 - 1966 | Visiting Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Robert L. Stilwell |
1965 - 1968 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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John E. Todd |
1965 - 1972 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Richard W. Bailey |
1965 - 2007 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Jay L. Robinson |
1965 - 1996 | Professor of English Language and Literature, Education |
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William Ingram |
1966 - 2000 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Robert F. Willson Jr. |
1966 - 1973 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Emily L. Cloyd |
1967 - 2000 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Robert Earl Hayden |
1967 - 1977 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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John R. Knott Jr. |
1967 - 2006 |
Professor of English Language and Literature Chair of English Language and Literature 1981-1987 |
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Alice C. Lunn |
1967 - 1970 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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John D. McBride |
1967 - 1970 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Joseph E. Mullin |
1967 - 1970 | Visiting Professor of English Language and Literature |
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John H. Raeburn |
1967 - 1969 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Stephen Dunning |
1967 - 1988 |
Professor of English Language & Literature Professor of Education |
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Lemuel A. Johnson |
1968 - 2002 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Ira Konigsberg |
1968 - 2000 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Robert A. Lucas |
1968 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Frances K. McSparran |
1968 - 2002 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature and African and African American Studies |
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Christopher R. Reaske |
1968 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Douglas C. Runnels |
1968 - 1972 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Steven Weiland |
1968 - 1975 | Assistant Professor of english Language and Literature |
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Russell A. Fraser |
1968 - 1995 |
Professor of English Austin Warren Professor of English Chair of English Language and Literature 1968-1973 |
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Lorne J. Forstner |
1969 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Satendra Khanna |
1969 - 1975 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Dennis S. Mitchell |
1969 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Gorman Beauchamp |
1970 - 2007 |
Adjunct Associate Professor of English Language and Literature Associate Professor of Engineering English |
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Darwin T. Turner |
1970 - 1971 | Professor of English Language and Literature & African and African American Studies |
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Ralph G. Williams |
1970 | Arthur F. Thurnau Professor |
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George Bornstein |
1970 - 2006 | Professor of English Language & Literature |
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Carolyn R. Gipson |
1971 - 1974 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Mary E. Rucker |
1971 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Joseph L. Blotner |
1972 - 1993 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Stuart Y. McDougal |
1972 - 1998 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Robert A. Weisbuch |
1972 - 2001 |
Professor of English Language and Literature Chair of English Language and Literature 1987-1994 |
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Peter Ferran |
1973 - 1994 | Associate Professor of English, Theatre and Residential College |
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Loy Davis Martin |
1973 - 1978 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Marie Pierre H. Ellmann |
1974 - 1976 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Barbra Morris |
1974 - 2006 |
Senior Lecturer in English Lecturer in English, Sweetland Writing Center |
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John A. Upshur |
1975 - 1978 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Diane C. Bennett |
1976 - 1979 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Gayl A. Jones |
1976 - 1984 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Margot Christa Norris |
1976 - 1987 | Professor of English Language and Literature & Theatre and Drama |
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Wendy L. Steiner |
1976 - 1978 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Michael P. Clark |
1977 - 1983 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Astrid J. Schleper |
1977 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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David V. Wiltschko |
1977 - 1983 | Assistant Professor of english Language and Literature |
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Sandor Goodhart |
1978 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Constantinos A. Patrides |
1978 - 1981 | George B. Harrison Professor of English |
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John Richard Kucich |
1979 - 2006 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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John Clark Hannay |
1980 - 1986 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Steven D. Lavine |
1981 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Patricia J. Sharpe |
1981 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Martha J. Vicinus |
1981 - 2011 |
Professor of English & Women's Studies Eliza M Mosher Distinguished University Professor Chair of English Language & Literature 1994-1998 |
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Robert Bley Vroman |
1982 - 1983 | Assistant Professor of Linguistics |
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George P. Garrett |
1982 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Debor Kuller Shuger |
1982 - 1988 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Robert E. Lewis |
1982 - 2003 |
Professor of English Language & Literature Executie Director, Middle English Dictionary Research Scientist |
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Danny Douglas |
1983 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Alice Fulton |
1983 - 2002 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Stanton B. Garner Jr. |
1983 - 1990 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Richard W. Tillinghast |
1983 - 2005 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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James Boyd White |
1983 - 2008 |
Professor of English Language and Literature L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law |
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James A. Winn |
1983 - 1998 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Herbert Frederick Tucker Jr. |
1984 - 1986 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature |
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John Malcolm Swales |
1985 - 2006 | Professor of Linguistics & Psychology |
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John Russell Brown |
1985 - 1997 | Professor of Theatre and Drama, English Language and Literature |
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Michael Awkward |
1986 - 1997 | Professor of English Language and Literature & African and African American Studies |
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Nancy L. Wiegand |
1986 | Assistant Professor of Linguistics |
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Carol L. Barash |
1987 - 1988 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Charles M. Baxter |
1987 - 1999 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Athena Vrettos |
1988 - 1995 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Anne K. Krook |
1989 - 1996 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Juan E. Leon |
1989 - 1994 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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William J. Paul |
1989 - 1999 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, Film and Video Studies |
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Marlon B. Ross |
1989 - 2003 | Professor of English Language and Literature & African and African American Studies |
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Rafia M. Zafar |
1989 - 1997 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Leonard Barkan |
1990 - 1994 | Professor of English Language and Literature & History of Art |
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Veronica M. Gregg |
1990 - 1996 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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William Nightingale |
1990 | Professor of English Language and Literature & Theatre and Drama |
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Stephen Sumida |
1990 - 1998 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Elizabeth Barnes |
1991 - 1997 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Christopher Flint |
1991 - 1998 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Simon E. Gikandi |
1991 - 2004 |
Robert Hayden Collegiate Professor Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Sally A. Robinson |
1991 - 1999 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature & Women's Studies |
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Rei M. Terada |
1991 - 2002 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Jill A. Rosser |
1992 - 1996 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Betty L. Bell |
1993 - 2005 | Associate Professor of English, American Culture & Women's Studies |
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P. A. Skantze |
1993 - 1999 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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John W. Tanke |
1993 - 1999 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Rebecca M. Egger |
1995 - 2001 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature and Women's Studies |
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Jonis Agee |
1995 - 1999 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Suzanne Raitt |
1995 - 2001 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature & Women's Studies |
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Gaylyn Studlar |
1995 - 2009 |
Professor of English Language and Literature, Film & Video, Women's Studies & Music Director of Program in Film & Video Studies |
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Aamir R. Mufti |
1996 - 2000 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Andrea Kelly Henderson |
1997 - 2003 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Arlene Rosemary Keizer |
1997 - 2004 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature and African and African American Studies |
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David W. Thomas |
1997 - 2004 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Shirley Neuman |
1999 - 2002 |
Professor of English Language and Literature and Women's Studies Dean of Literature, Science and the Arts |
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Ifeoma C. Nwankwo |
1999 - 2006 | Associate Professor of English Language and Literature and African and African American Studies |
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Reginald McKnight |
2000 - 2002 | Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Maria C. Sanchez |
2002 - 2008 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature & Women's Studies |
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Vivasvan Soni |
2002 - 2007 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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Sunil M. Agnani |
2005 - 2008 | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature |
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William B. Worthen |
2006 - 2008 |
Professor of English Language and Literature, Theatre and Drama J. L. Styan Collegiate Professor of Drama |







































































































