Faculty
![]() | Candice Amich Assistant Professor | Email (615) 322-2445 423 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Pavneet Aulakh Senior Lecturer | Email (615) 343-3186 419 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Thea Autry | Email 314 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Houston A. Baker Distinguished University Professor | Email (615) 343-7355 223 Buttrick Hall |
![]() | Gabriel Briggs Senior Lecturer | Email (615) 322-2314 420 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Jay Clayton William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Department of English Director, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy | Email Website (615) 343-8617 Curb Center |
![]() | Elizabeth Covington Senior Lecturer Programming Coordinator for Literary Studies | Email (615) 343-1642 Buttrick 127A |
![]() | Kate Daniels Professor Edwin Mims Professor of English | Email Website (615) 322-2175 320 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Colin Dayan Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities Professor of Law | Email Website (615) 322-2348 322 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Lisa Dordal Lecturer | Email Website 615-322-2325 411 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Alex Dubilet Assistant Professor | Email 421 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Tony Earley Samuel Milton Fleming Chair in English | Email (615) 322-2334 413 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Lynn Enterline Nancy Perot Chair Professor of English Director of Undergraduate Studies | Email (615) 322-3705 323 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Elizabeth Christin Essin Associate Professor Theater Studies | Email 322-3611 |
![]() | Jennifer Fay Professor of Cinema & Media Arts and English Chair Cinema & Media Arts | Email Website 134 Buttrick Hall |
![]() | Julia A. Fesmire Principal Senior Lecturer | Email (615) 875-8429 418 Benson Science Hall |
Teresa A. Goddu Associate Professor of English and American Studies | Email (615) 322-2325 321 Benson Science Hall | |
Andrea Hearn Senior Lecturer Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Science | Email (615) 875-5831 Commons 225C | |
![]() | Rick Hilles Associate Professor | Email (615) 322-3704 401 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Jessie Hock Assistant Professor | Email 615-322-2329 424 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Valerie Hotchkiss University Librarian Professor of English | (615) 322-4782 800FM, Central Library |
![]() | Joanna Huh Post Doctoral Scholar | Email 314 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Didi Jackson Visiting Assistant Professor | Email 400 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Major Jackson Professor of English Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities | Email (615) 322-2268 302 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Scott J. Juengel Associate Professor | Email Website (615) 322-2296 422 Benson Hall |
![]() | Sheba Karim Writer in Residence | Email Website 315 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Jeong Oh Kim Lecturer | Email (615) 322-4674 Old Gym 103G |
![]() | Judy Klass Senior Lecturer/Dual Appointment in Jewish Studies | Email 615-343-1642 333 Buttrick Hall |
![]() | Vera Kutzinski Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of English, Professor of Comparative Literature Director of the Alexander von Humboldt in English (HiE) Project, and Director of Graduate Studies | Email (615) 322-2541 303 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Jonathan Lamb Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities | Email Website 615-322-2272 310 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Lorraine M. López Gertrude Conaway Professor of English & Director of Creative Writing Faculty Director of Latino and Latina Studies | Email Website 612-322-2369 402 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Amanda Little Writer In Residence | Email Old Gym 103D |
![]() | Emily J. Lordi Associate Professor of English | Email 308 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Elizabeth Meadows Senior Lecturer Associate Director, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities | Email 615-343-2172 RPWC, Vaughn Home, 204 |
![]() | Marzia Milazzo Assistant Professor Affiliate faculty in African American and Diaspora Studies, Latino and Latina Studies, and Latin American Studies | Email Website (615) 322-2328 403 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Lorrie Moore Professor Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English | Email 322-3324 325 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Roger Moore Associate Dean, College of Arts and Science Principal Senior Lecturer | Email (615) 322-2844 350 Buttrick Hall |
![]() | Dana Nelson Chair, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English | Email (615) 343-3185 332 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Ifeoma Nwankwo Associate Professor Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships | Email (615) 322-2173 327 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Bridget Orr Associate Professor | Email (615) 322-2368 411 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Justin Quarry Senior Lecturer Programming Coordinator for Undergraduate Creative Writing | Email Website (615) 323-3187 427 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Anthony Reed Associate Professor of English | Email 318 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Nancy Reisman Professor | Email (615) 322-2335 313 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Akshya Saxena Assistant Professor of English | Email 615-875-8137 425 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Allison Schachter Associate Professor Program Director of Jewish Studies | Email 615-322-1172 142 Buttrick Hall |
![]() | Mark Schoenfield Professor | Email 322-2327 300 Benson Science hall |
![]() | Kathryn Schwarz Professor | Email (615) 322-2367 301 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Sandy Solomon Writer in Residence | Email 615 343 3187 410 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Hortense Spillers Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor | Email (615) 322-6979 315 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Rachel Teukolsky Professor of English | Email (615) 322-2347 319 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Cecelia Tichi Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English Professor of American Studies | Email (615) 322-2268 302 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Ben Tran Associate Professor | Email 615-322-7303 258 Buttrick Hall |
![]() | Mark Wollaeger Professor | Email Website (615) 322-7469 414 Benson Science Hall |
Emeritus and Retired Faculty
![]() | Vereen Bell Professor Emeritus | |
![]() | Sam B. Girgus Professor | |
![]() | Roy Gottfried Professor Emeritus | |
![]() | Mark Jarman Centennial Professor of English Emeritus | |
![]() | Michael Kreyling Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor Emeritus of English | |
![]() | Leah Marcus Edwin Mims Professor of English, Emerita | |
![]() | Charlotte Pierce-Baker Professor Emerita | |
![]() | John Plummer Professor Emeritus | Email Website |