Faculty
![]() | Brittany Ackerman Lecturer | Email Website Old Gym 103E |
![]() | Shoshana Adler Assistant Professor of English | Email Benson Hall 422 |
![]() | Candice Amich Associate Professor of English Director of Graduate Studies | Email (615) 322-2445 402 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Pavneet Aulakh Senior Lecturer | Email (615) 343-3186 419 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Ajay Kumar Batra Assistant Professor of English | Email Benson Hall 424 |
![]() | 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 | Email Website (615) 343-8617 Benson Hall 320 |
![]() | Lydia Conklin Assistant Professor of English | Email Website |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Jennifer Fay Chair, Department of English Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Cinema & Media Arts | Professor of English and German Studies | Email Website 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 |
![]() | Huan He Assistant Professor of English | Email Benson Hall 327 |
Andrea Hearn Principal Senior Lecturer Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Science | Email (615) 875-5831 350B Buttrick Hall | |
![]() | Anna Hill Postdoctoral Fellow | |
![]() | 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 308 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Jeong Oh Kim Senior Lecturer | Email (615) 322-4674 421 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | 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 | Email Website (615) 322-2541 303 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Amanda Little Writer In Residence | Email 427 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Emily Lordi Professor of English Edwin Mims Chair of English | Email 308 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Helen Makhdoumian Postdoctoral Fellow in the Collaborative Humanities Global Humanities Thematic Research Cluster | |
![]() | Elizabeth Meadows Principal Senior Lecturer Associate Director, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities | Email 615-343-2172 RPWC, Vaughn Home, 204 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Bridget Orr Professor | Email (615) 322-2368 411 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | ZZ Packer Assistant Professor | Email 318 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Justin Quarry Principal Senior Lecturer Programming Coordinator for Undergraduate Creative Writing | Email Website (615) 323-3187 319 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Anthony Reed Professor of English and The Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of Fine Arts | Email 314 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Nancy Reisman Professor | Email (615) 322-2335 313 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Akshya Saxena Assistant Professor of English Dean | Email 615-875-8137 414 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Allison Schachter Professor Program Director of Jewish Studies | Email 615-322-1172 142 Buttrick Hall |
![]() | Mark Schoenfield Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies | 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 |
![]() | Rachel Teukolsky Professor of English | Email Website (615) 322-2347 322 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 Professor Emeritus Distinguished University Professor | |
![]() | Kate Daniels Professor Emerita Edwin Mims Professor of English | Email Website |
![]() | Lynn Enterline Professor Emerita Nancy Perot Chair Professor of English | Email (615) 322-3705 323 Benson Science Hall |
![]() | Julia A. Fesmire Principal Senior Lecturer | |
![]() | Sam B. Girgus Professor | |
![]() | Roy Gottfried Professor Emeritus | |
![]() | Mark Jarman Professor Emeritus Centennial Professor of English | |
![]() | Michael Kreyling Professor Emeritus Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English | |
![]() | Jonathan Lamb Professor Emeritus Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Distinguished Research Professor | Email Website |
![]() | Lorraine M. López Professor Emerita Gertrude Conaway Professor of English, Distinguished Research Professor | Email Website |
![]() | Leah Marcus Professor Emerita Edwin Mims Professor of English | |
![]() | Charlotte Pierce-Baker Professor Emerita | |
![]() | John Plummer Professor Emeritus | Email Website |
![]() | Hortense Spillers Professor Emerita Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor, Distinguished Research Professor | |
![]() | Cecelia Tichi Professor Emerita Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English, Distinguished Research Professor | |
![]() | Mark Wollaeger Professor Emeritus |