Timothy August

Associate Professor

Critical refugee studies; diasporic Vietnamese literature; postcolonial criticism; theories of food and eating; Asian American studies; world literature; television studies

Chelsey Barber

Director, Teacher Education Program

Nicholas Boggs

Assistant Professor

twentieth century American, African American, and LGBTQ literature; creative writing

Simone Brioni

Professor and Graduate Program Director

Film Studies and Filmmaking; Migration Studies; Postcolonial Theory; Science Fiction Studies

Karen Buechner

Adjunct Professor, Teacher Education

Andrew Flescher

Professor

Medical Humanities; bioethics and disability studies; literature and ethics; ethics and narratives of the problem of evil; comparative religious ethics; George Bernard Shaw; ethics and health care policy; ethics of organ donation; compassion and altruism; health care justice; normative ethics; moral theory; religion and culture; literature and film

Elyse Graham

Professor

Digital humanities; media studies; history of the book; transatlantic 20th and 21st-century literature; history of the English language

Heidi Hutner

Associate Professor

Environmental literature and film; ecofeminism; environmental justice; feminism; race studies; women's literature

Ileana Jiménez

Assistant Professor

Black and Latina feminisms, feminist and queer pedagogies, and digital feminist activism in the high school English classroom

Justin Omar Johnston

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director

Contemporary Anglophone literature; biopolitics and biotechnology in post-1945 novels; feminist theories of embodiment; postcolonial critiques of humanism; environmental humanities

Katherine D. Johnston

Assistant Professor

Twentieth and twenty-first century American literary studies; surveillance studies; critical data studies

Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood

Associate Professor

Polish and Soviet/Russian cinemas; gendered notions of identity; nationalism; colonial and post-colonial studies; Orientalist discourses; Polish and Russian travel to the East

Laura Kolb

Associate Professor

Early modern poetry and drama; conduct literature; writing by and for women; literature and economics

Yolanda Mackey-Barkers

Assistant Professor

Twentieth century African American Literature; Black Diasporic (Transnational) History; Black Women’s Intellectual History; Print Culture; Digital Humanities; Public Humanities

Thomas Mangano

Director of Student Teaching and Clinical Field Experience Lecturer

Celia Marshik

Professor Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education and Dean of the Graduate School

Modernism and cultural studies; literature and law; British modernism

Andrew Newman

Professor and Interim Chair of the English and Theatre Arts Departments

Early American studies; history of education; Native American studies; media and memory studies

Chelsea B.Osademe

PRODIG+ Postdoctoral Fellow

Black Studies, Gothic Studies, Visual Culture, twentieth and twenty-first century African-American Literature, Posthumanism, Black Feminist Theory

Patricia Park

Assistant Professor

Creative Writing, Adult Literary Fiction, Young Adult and Children’s Literature, Creative Nonfiction, Journalism, Publishing, American Literature, Diasporic Korean Literature, Asian American and Asian Latin American Studies.

Douglas Pfeiffer

Associate Professor

Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century English poetry; history of rhetorical and literary theory; Renaissance humanism

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Presidential Professor and Distinguished Professor of English

Poetry; nonfiction; translation; Black American and Caribbean literatures

Benedict Robinson

Professor and Interim Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs

Early modern literature, with interests that include the history of emotion, the history of literary theory, the history of science, and topics related to race and religion

Michael Rubenstein

Professor Director of Humanities Institute

James Joyce; 20th-century Irish literature; 20th-century British and Anglophone literature; postcolonial literature; Modernism; Psychoanalysis; the novel; film; environmentalism and the Humanities

Jeffrey Santa Ana

Associate Professor

Twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture; environmental humanities and ecocriticism; human migration and diaspora; decolonization and postcolonial criticism; critical ethnic studies; gender and sexuality (queer) studies; film studies and film narrative; memory studies

Susan Scheckel

Associate Professor

American literature and culture in the U.S. before 1900; history of race in the U.S.; U.S. visual and popular print cultures before 1900; history of medicine before 1900; theories of nationalism

E.K. Tan

Associate Professor

Intersection of Anglophone and Sinophone literature, cinema, and culture from Southeast Asia; diaspora studies; postcolonial studies; world literature and cinema; theories of cultural translation; Global Asia; Queer Asia; critical theory; film theory

Michael Tondre

Professor

Nineteenth-century British literature; energy and environmental humanities; history of science; critical theory

David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Professor

Native American literature; creative writing; fiction; creative nonfiction; Indigenous studies; ethnic studies; law and politics

Ken Weitzman

Associate Professor

*On Leave for '26-27 School Year* Dramatic Writing

Eric Wertheimer

Professor

early and nineteenth-century American literature and culture; cultural and literary theory; popular political discourses; new media; poetry

Neisha Terry Young

Assistant Professor

Critical pedagogies; multiliteracies and multimodal crafting in the digital age; Black diaspora and immigrant studies

Professor Emerita

Patricia Dunn

Professor Emerita

Professor Emeritus

E. Ann Kaplan

Distinguished Professor Emerita

Ken Lindblom

Professor Emeritus

Peter Manning

Professor Emeritus

Professor Emeritus

Adrienne Munich

Professor Emerita

Stacey Olster

John S. Toll Professor of English

Professor Emerita

Professor Emeritus

Business Administrator

Programming and Outreach

Undergraduate and Graduate Coordinator

PhD Candidate

Areas of Interest: Environmental humanities, ecofeminist criticism, modern drama, Shakespeare studies, and performance

PhD Candidate

Areas of Interest: anthropocene aesthetics, ecopoetics & ecotheory, ontology, phenomenology, media studies, film & television studies, 20th and 21st century poetry

PhD Student

Areas of Interest: Postcolonial Theory, 19th and 20th-Century British and Irish Literature, Modernism, Motherhood Studies, Joyce Studies, Irish Studies, Gender Studies, Migration Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Ecofeminism

PhD Candidate

Areas of Interest: Irish Studies, Modernism, Girlhood Studies, Disability Studies

PhD Candidate

Areas of Interest: African American literature and culture, nineteenth-century cultural production in black America, postcolonial literature in Africa and the African diaspora

PhD Candidate

Areas of Interest: Post-1945 American literature, medical humanities, narrative medicine, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory, digital humanities

PhD Candidate

Areas of Interest: Environmental humanities & justice, contemporary American literature, gender & sexuality studies, textual form, film studies, graphic narratives & comics

PhD Student

PhD Candidate

Areas of Interest: 20th century British andAmerican fiction, Modernism, literature of World War I and the interwar period, spatial studies, ecocriticism, philosophy and literature

PhD Student

Areas of Interest:

PhD Student

Areas of Interest:

PhD Student

Areas of Interest: 20th century American literature and media, Medical Humanities, Film, Critical Theory, Archive, Memory, Comedy, Slavic Studies, French Studies

PhD Candidate

Areas of Interest: queer studies, ecofeminism, disability studies, BIPOC feminist studies, popular culture, and film and media studies.

PhD Student

Area of Interest: Early Modern Drama

PhD Student

Areas of Interest:

PhD Candidate

Areas of Interest: post-1945 American literature, queer literature, mass market literature

PhD Student

Area of Interest: 19th and 20th-century British literature; film studies; affect theory; body studies; history of science; narrative studies

PhD Candidate

Areas of Interest: Ethnic literatures of the Americas, Irish literature, film, oppression, decolonial theory, satire

PhD Candidate

Areas of Interest: Critical Theory, Anthropocene Studies, New Materialism, Posthumanism, Gender Studies, 20th Century Literature

PhD Student

Areas of Interest: Early modern literature, feminist approaches to the Renaissance, history of rhetoric, historical linguistics, history of emotions, affect theory, gaze theory, poetry & poetics

PhD Candidate

Areas of Interest: Twentieth century American literature, depictions of grief in literature, psychoanalytic literary criticism, feminist theory, narrative theory, rhetoric and composition

PhD Student

Areas of Interest: Feminist and queer literature, fiction, and poetry; feminist theory; queer theory; Jewish feminism; diaspora studies; critical race theory; post-colonial theory; feminist artistic expression; environmental feminism

PhD Student

Areas of Interest: Simulated Agency, Classical and Modern Dialogue, Existentialist Literature and Philosophy, Computer Science, AI cognition and Experimental AI Architecture, Narrative World Modeling

PhD Candidate

Areas of Interest: War Literature and Culture, 20th-Century British Literature, Modernism/Modernity, Testimony, Rhetoric

PhD Student

Areas of Interest: post-45 American fiction and film, narrative theory, experimental fiction, life writing, critical theory, energy humanities

PhD Candidate

Areas of Interest: Post-45 American literature, film, and drama; queer studies; gender & sexuality studies; stardom & celebrity

PhD Student

Areas of Interest: 20th & 21st century literature, queer studies, media studies, adaptation studies, and affect theory.

PhD Student

Areas of Interest: Contemporary American literature, narratology, adaptation studies, psychoanalysis, composition and rhetoric, first-year writing

PhD Student

Areas of Interest: Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence, Digitality, critical data studies, rhetoric

PhD Student

Areas of Interest:

PhD Candidate

Areas of Interest: 20th and 21st century literature, posthumanism, gender & sexuality studies, popular culture studies, and digital humanities

PhD Candidate

Areas of Interest:Critical theory, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality, modernism, surrealism, 20th century literature, genre, transgressive/experimental literature

PhD Student

Areas of Interest: Ecofeminism, feminist film theory, speculative fiction, media studies, and theories of affect & embodiment

PhD Student

Areas of Interest: Speculative Fiction, Postcolonial Theory, Media & Film Studies, Posthumanism, Philosophy of Mind, Psychoanalysis

PhD Student

Areas of Interest: Contemporary U.S cultural studies, sociology of literature, bio politics, (counter) archival theory, counter narratives

PhD Student

Areas of Interest: Postcolonial Studies, Subalternity, Literature and Translation, Multilingualism, Diaspora and Migration, Transpacific Identities, Archival Studies, Inclusive Pedagogy

PhD Student

Areas of Interest: 20th and 21st century literature, disability studies, rhetoric and composition, fantasy literature, game studies

PhD Student

PhD Candidate

Areas of Interest: Asian American literature, global Asia, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory, food and consumption

Stony Brook Alumni, PhD in English, 2007

Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor of English, Suffolk County Community College, Riverhead

Stony Brook Alumni, PhD in English, 2021

Director of Summer and Intersession Programs at Adelphi University

Stony Brook Alumni, MA in English, 2019

Director of Network Impact, NPR, Former Director of Engagement & Communications, TED https://carolineeburke.com/

Stony Brook Alumni, PhD in English, 2010

Associate Professor of English, Boise State University

Stony Brook Alumni, PhD in English, 2012

Assistant Professor, English, SUNY Old Westbury, 2025 Long Island Poet of the Year

Stony Brook Alumni, PhD in English, 2017

Assistant Professor, English, Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC)

Stony Brook Alumni, PhD in English, 2024

Assistant Professor, English, University of Oklahoma

Stony Brook Alumni, PhD in English, 2022

English Teacher, Regis High School

Stony Brook Alumni, PhD in English, 2025

Assistant Professor, English, Fuyao University of Science and Technology (China)

Stony Brook Alumni, PhD in English, 2019

Director of Field Education, University of Albany

Stony Brook Alumni, PhD in English, 2016

Professor, English and American Studies, Ruhr-Universität Boch (Germany)

Stony Brook Alumni, PhD in English, 2021

Full-time Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Alumni, PhD in English, 2022

Author, https://www.kaysohini.com/

Stony Brook Alumni, PhD in English, 2018

English Teacher, Regis High School

Stony Brook Alumni, BA in English with Departmental Honors, 2025

Publications Coordinator, MCLE

Stony Brook Alumni, BA in English, 1996 Stony Brook Alumni, MBA in Finance, 2018

Owner and president of Financial and Insurance services firm, IntegraRisk Corp, NY Securities, provided through Omnia Financial, NY

Stony Brook Alumni, BA in English and economics, 1976 JD/MBA, SUNY Buffalo, 1980

Special Counsel, Katten Muchin Ronsenman, NY, Established the Lillian DeWaal Memorial Scholarship

Stony Brook Alumni, BA in English, 1987 Dowling College, MBA

Strategic Communications Manager, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, SBU

Stony Brook Alumni, BA in English with Departmental Honors, 2011

Editor of Edible Long Island and Edible East End, Sag Harbor, NY

Stony Brook Alumni, Honors B.A. in English, B.A. in Environmental Humanities, 2012

CEO of Adjacent, New York City, NY

Stony Brook Alumni, BA in English with Departmental Honors, 2016

Children’s Librarian Trainee: Emma S. Clark Memorial Library, Setauket, NY Children’s and Teen Librarian Trainee: Comsewogue Public Library, Port Jeff Station, NY

Stony Brook Alumni, BA in English, 2011

Author, https://www.kara-thomas.com/

Stony Brook Alumni, BA in English, 2018

Editor, Mariner Books, a HarperCollins imprint