Regular Faculty
Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Jae Yeun Choi
Visiting Assistant Professor, English
B.A. Portland State University; M.F.A University of Iowa
Chekwube O. Danladi
Writer in Residence; Visiting Assistant Professor, English
B.A., Oberlin College; M.F.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Promise Li
Visiting Instructor, Critical Theory & Social Justice
A.B., Â鶹ÊÓƵ; M., A., Princeton University; Ph.D., Princeton University (in progress)
Professor, English Emeritus (1976-2020)
English
Daniel Fineman’s primary fields of interest are American literature and literary theory.
Professor, English, American Studies, Emeritus (1975-2019)
English
Eric Newhall taught courses in modern and contemporary American literature and culture.
Irma and Jay Price Professor of English Literature, English, Emerita
English
A 2007 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, she has published a number of poetry and fiction books and chapbooks, including Vertigo (2008), which was a National Poetry Series selection, and In a Landscape of Having to Repeat (2004), which received the PEN USA 2005 poetry award.
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Professor, English, Emeritus (1981-2019)
English
Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies
Interdisciplinary Writing
Swift's main field of teaching and research was late 19th- and early 20th-century British and American literature. He also taught for many years an interdisciplinary course on Los Angeles in Occidental's cultural studies program.
Professor, English; Emerita
English
Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies
Research Fields
Jean Wyatt’s main research field is contemporary women writers of color, with a special focus on African American and Black British women writers.