Faculty
 | Brittany Ackerman Lecturer | Email Website Old Gym 103E |
 | Candice Amich Associate Professor of English | Email (615) 322-2445 402 Benson Science Hall |
 | Pavneet Aulakh Senior Lecturer | Email (615) 343-3186 419 Benson Science Hall |
 | Gabriel Briggs Principal Senior Lecturer | Email (615) 322-2314 418 Benson Science Hall |
 | Jay Clayton William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English Professor of Cinema and Media Arts, and Communication of Science, Engineering and Technology | Director of Undergraduate Studies | Email Website (615) 343-8617 Curb Center |
 | Lydia Conklin Assistant Professor of English | Email Website |
 | Iggy Cortez Assistant Professor, Cinema & Media Arts and English | |
 | Elizabeth Covington Principal Senior Lecturer Programming Coordinator for Literary Studies | Email (615) 343-1642 |
 | Colin Dayan Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities Professor of Law | Email Website (615) 322-2348 322 Benson Science Hall |
 | Cara Dees Lecturer | Email Website Benson Hall 423 |
 | Lisa Dordal Writer in Residence | Email Website 615-322-2325 411 Benson Science Hall |
 | Alex Dubilet Assistant Professor | Email 615-322-2328 403 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 | Email (615) 322-3705 323 Benson Science Hall |
 | Jennifer Fay Chair, Department of English Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Cinema & Media Arts | Professor of English and German Studies | Email Website (615) 322-2542 332 Benson Science Hall |
 | Teresa A. Goddu Professor of English and American Studies | Email (615) 322-2325 321 Benson Science Hall |
 | Stephanie A. Graves Lecturer | Email Website Old Gym 103F |
 | Andrea Hearn Principal Senior Lecturer Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Science | Email (615) 875-5831 350B Buttrick Hall |
 | Rick Hilles Associate Professor | Email (615) 322-3704 401 Benson Science Hall |
 | Jessie Hock Associate Professor of English | Email 615-322-2329 310 Benson Science Hall |
 | Jordan Ivie Lecturer | Email Old Gym 103E |
 | Didi Jackson Assistant Professor | Email https://didijackson.com/ 400 Benson Science Hall |
 | Major Jackson Professor of English & Director of Creative Writing 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 412 Benson Science Hall |
 | Sheba Karim Writer in Residence | Email Website 315 Benson Science Hall |
 | Jeong Oh Kim Senior Lecturer | Email (615) 322-4674 103C Old Gym |
 | Judy Klass Senior Lecturer/Dual Appointment in Jewish Studies | Email 615-343-1642 420 Benson Science Hall |
 | Vera Kutzinski Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of English, Professor of Comparative Literature Director of the Alexander von Humboldt in English (HiE) Project | Director of Graduate Studies | Email Website (615) 322-2541 303 Benson Science Hall |
 | Amanda Little Writer In Residence | Email 103D Old Gym |
 | Emily Lordi Professor of English Edwin Mims Chair of English | Email 308 Benson Science Hall |
 | Elizabeth Meadows Principal Senior Lecturer Associate Director, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities | Email 615-343-2172 RPWC, Vaughn Home, 204 |
 | Lauren Mitchell Lecturer | Email Old Gym 103F |
 | Lorrie Moore Professor Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English | Email 322-3324 325 Benson Science Hall |
 | Roger Moore Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts and Science Director of Undergraduate Education & Principal Senior Lecturer | Email (615) 322-2844 350E Buttrick Hall |
 | Dana Nelson Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English | Email (615) 343-3185 315 Benson Science Hall |
 | Carlos Alonso Nugent Assistant Professor | Email Website 422 Benson Science Hall |
 | Bridget Orr Associate Professor | Email (615) 322-2368 411 Benson Science Hall |
 | Lydia Peelle Lecturer | Email Benson Hall 423 |
 | Justin Quarry Senior Lecturer Programming Coordinator for Undergraduate Creative Writing | Email Website (615) 323-3187 427 Benson Science Hall |
 | Anthony Reed Professor of English and The Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of Fine Arts | 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 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 Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair of English | Email (615) 322-2367 301 Benson Science Hall |
 | Sandy Solomon Writer in Residence | Email 615 343 3187 410 Benson Science Hall |
 | Sam Stover Lecturer | Email Old Gym 103F |
 | Rachel Teukolsky Professor of English | Email Website (615) 322-2347 319 Benson Science Hall |
 | Ben Tran Associate Professor | Email 615-322-7303 258 Buttrick Hall |
 | Mark Wisniewski Lecturer | Email 615-322-8010 Old Gym 103G |
Emeritus and Retired Faculty
 | Houston A. Baker Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus | |
 | Kate Daniels Professor Emerita Edwin Mims Professor of English | Email Website |
 | Julia A. Fesmire Principal Senior Lecturer | |
 | Sam B. Girgus Professor | |
 | Roy Gottfried Professor Emeritus | |
 | Mark Jarman Centennial Professor of English Emeritus | |
 | Michael Kreyling Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor Emeritus of English | |
 | Jonathan Lamb Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities Distinguished Research Professor, Emeritus | Email Website |
 | Lorraine M. López Gertrude Conaway Professor of English Distinguished Research Professor, Emerita | Email Website |
 | Leah Marcus Edwin Mims Professor of English, Emerita | |
 | Charlotte Pierce-Baker Professor Emerita | |
 | John Plummer Professor Emeritus | Email Website |
 | Hortense Spillers Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor Distinguished Research Professor, Emerita | |
 | Cecelia Tichi Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English Distinguished Research Professor, Emerita | |
 | Mark Wollaeger Professor |