Harry E. Shaw

Harry E. Shaw, Professor of English, has taught at Cornell since 1978. He concentrates on nineteenth-century British novels and narrative poetics. Before attending university, he had the good fortune to spend a fellowship year at Winchester College, a great and ancient secondary school in England, where at every turn he encountered the echoes of history, a subject which had previously held little interest for him. Much of his work since then has explored how the British novel contributed to the rise of historical consciousness in Europe and how novels can help us imagine our own place in history. The form of fiction has also been a concern: he is particularly fascinated by how novels address their readers and move them. Both interest inform The Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and His Successors (1983) and Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot (1999; paperback edition, 2004).

Michael Koch

Michael Koch was educated at LaSalle University (BA), Wichita State University (MFA), and Stanford University where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction and a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing. His teaching interests include creative writing (specifically the short story), the study of contemporary American short fiction, and the study of contemporary fiction of the American South. He has been editor of Epoch magazine since 1989.

Katherine Kiblinger Gottschalk

Retired Walter C. Teagle Director of First-Year Writing Seminars and Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Katherine K. Gottschalk became associate director of the program now known as the Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines in 1982 and director of First-Year Writing Seminars in 1988. As director, Gottschalk attended to the many administrative needs of this far-ranging program that encompasses over 30 departments. Gottschalk regularly taught a variety of courses, including the study and writing of memoir, and was a recipient of the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching. Her publications in the field of writing program administration and writing-in-the-disciplines includeThe Elements of Teaching Writing: A Resource for Instructors in All Disciplines(Bedford, 2004), co-authored with her colleague, Keith Hjortshoj, director of Cornell’s Writing in the Majors program.

Alice Fulton

Alice Fulton is the author of ten books, includingColoratura On A Silence Found In Many Expressive Systems, her most recent poetry; The Nightingales of Troy, a collection of linked stories; andCascade Experiment: Selected Poems(all from W.W. Norton). Her book Felt received the Bobbitt Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress, awarded to the best book of poems published within a two-year period. She is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and also has received fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Her other poetry books includeSensual Math,Powers of Congress,Palladium, andDance Script with Electric Ballerina.An essay collection,Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry,was published by Graywolf Press. Fulton’s poems have been set by composers William Bolcom, Anthony Cornicello, Joseph Klein, and Enid Sutherland, among others. Her poetry and fiction have appeared inThe Best American Poetry,The Best American Short Stories, andThe Pushcart Prize Anthology. She has taught at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA, among other institutions.

Debra Fried

Debra Fried teaches a wide range of English and American literature, with a focus on poetry. Courses include surveys of English literature (from Beowulf to Hardy); graduate and undergraduate seminars in poetic meter and rhythm; and special topics such as the language of lyric poetry; American Transcendentalism; and filmic adaptations of Henry James. Professor Fried’s work appears in On Puns; Tradition and the Poetics of Self in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry; and other collections. An abiding interest in ancient Greek and Latin poetry, nineteenth-century neoclassicism, and the history of poetic explication and commentary inform her current project: a study of what counts as a “detail” in poems and the shifting status of particularity as a poetic value.

Rhian Ellis

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Stuart Davis

Stuart Davis joined Cornell’s English Department in 1984, having taught at Yale, CUNY, and Orange County Community College. He teaches undergraduate courses in Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century, Apocalyptic Fictions, Crime Fiction, Reading as Writing, Philosophic Fictions, the Great Cornell American Novel, and The Mystery in the Story. He mentors graduate student instructors in their teaching of first-year and advanced writing courses.

Barbara Correll

Barbara Correll received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin. She is completing a book-length study, Divestments: The Character of Money in Shakespeare and Donne, on relationships among economic, literary and amatory discourses, especially in the drama and poetry of Shakespeare and Donne, and on the theoretical question of general and restricted economy. She has published essays on Erasmus, Shakespeare, Donne, film, and conceptual issues of gender and subject formation.

Shirley Samuels

Shirley Samuels is the Picket Family Chair of the Literatures in English Department. She is working on a book called Haunted by the Civil War. She teaches at Cornell in several departments, including American Studies, English, History of Art and Visual Studies, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her books include Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. (2019), The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln (2012), Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 (2012), Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War (2004); Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865 (2004); Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation (1996); and The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in 19th Century America (1992). In addition to Cornell, she has taught at Princeton University, Brandeis University, and the University of Delaware. She has held fellowships from The American Council of Learned Societies, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Huntington Library.

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Nick Salvato

Nick Salvato is the Frederic J. Whiton Professor of Liberal Studies in the Department of Performing and Media Arts. He teaches and writes about media and performance practices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with an increasing emphasis on late-twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century television. His numerous articles have appeared in such journals as Camera Obscura, Critical Inquiry, Discourse, Modern Drama, Qui Parle, and TDR: The Drama Review. His two most recent books are Obstruction (Duke University Press, 2016), which examines the surprising uses of embarrassment, laziness, slowness, cynicism, and digressiveness in intellectual life, and Television Scales (punctum books, 2019), a formally experimental work that argues for the necessary centrality of the concept of scale in understanding television as a medium. He is currently working on a monograph with the tentative title, Wallowing: On the Uses of Typical Television.

Juan Harmon

Juan Harmon was born in Augsburg, Germany. He is a poet and composer living in Ithaca, NY.

Esther Kondo Heller

Esther Kondo Heller (she/they) is a Kenyan-German poet, writer, and experimental filmmaker. They are a Barbican Young Poet 18/19, an Obsidian Foundation fellow, Ledbury Critic, and Image Text Ithaca Junior Fellow. They approach the filmmaking process as a poet. They focus on layering and unfurling to articulate memory, resonance, and language. They are particularly interested in Static as a portal of recollection, communion, and an archive of history. Their films have been selected and screened…

Sarah Iqbal

Sarah Iqbal is a poet from Queens, New York. She is an MFA candidate in Poetry at Cornell University, and has been published in Great Ape, Ambush Review, and NYSAI, among others. Her poem, My Muslim Father Seizes the Thing on My Nightstand, was featured on MasterClass as part of Billy Collins' course on poetry.

Winniebell Xinyu Zong

Winniebell Xinyu Zongis a Chinese poet and chapbook editor at Newfound Press. Her poems have appeared inPoetry,The Southern Review,swamp pink, andMeridian, among others.A recipient of the Mellon Fellowship for the Urban Justice Lab, she was a semi-finalist for the 92NY Discovery Poetry Prize in 2022. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize,Best New Poets,Best of Net,and AWP’s Intro Journals Project, Zong holds an English MA from Kansas State University and a poetry MFA from Cornell University, where she now teaches creative writing as a lecturer.

Arpita Chakrabarty

Arpita Chakrabarty is a writer from Calcutta.

Maz Do

Maz Do is an Indonesian-Vietnamese American writer originally from the Bay Area. Her fiction has been published online and in print in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, the Baffler and other venues. In 2023 she placed first runner-up in McSweeney’s inaugural Stephen Dixon prize for her short story, When the Moths Came. She is a Kundiman Fellow, a 2022 Asian Women Writers’ Mentee, a 2021 Tin House Workshop alumnus, and an MFA student in fiction at Cornell University. This year she was also granted a Fulbright Creative Arts Award for the 2024-25 academic year, which she will be spending in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She is currently revising her debut novel, Ordinary Fruit.

Sol Wooten

Sol X. Wooten was born in Thailand and raised in Texas. She is an associate editor at American Short Fiction and has receivedsupport for her writing from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam

Meet Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam, a lecturer in Cornell University's Creative Writing program. She teaches an intro. to creative writing seminar and a first-year writing seminar titled Exploring Happiness in Literature and Multimedia Storytelling. She writes fiction, academic essays, experimental poetry and/or creative non-fiction. Her research interests include maternal interiorities, immigration, mathematical research, and dance research. Her literary works have received several awards, including the Cecilia Unaegbu Prize for Fiction, the Voice of America Award for flash fiction, the James McConkey Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Award, and the David L. Picket '84 Summer Fellowship. A proud alumna of Cornell University's MFA in Creative Writing Program '23 and Chimamanda Adichie's Creative Writing Workshop, her works of literature have attracted the support of esteemed institutions like Fidelity bank, Goethe Institut, and FEMRITE. She is the founder of creativewritingnews.com, a non-profit educational platform she founded specifically to empower and nurture emerging writers. If you’d like to read some of her previous publications, scour the catalogues or forthcoming issues of Mukana Press Anthology 2023, Aster(ix) Journal, Ankara Press, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Flash Fiction Press, Fiction 365, Ebedi Review Anthology, and various others. Chioma is currently working on a novel that portrays the lives and struggles of a fractured immigrant family in a fictitious American town. Her Twitter handle is @ChiomaIwunze_ and her Facebook page is Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam

Neil Saccamano

Neil Saccamano is Associate Professor of English. He has published on eighteenth-century British and French literature and philosophy as well as on contemporary theory that addresses the legacy of the Enlightenment. Most recently, he has written on nationalism and cosmopolitics in Rousseau and Adam Smith, aesthetics and property in Hume and on faith, reason, and Enlightenment in Derrida, and he has co-edited a collection of essays on Politics and the Passions from Machiavelli to Bentham. He is at work on a critical study of force—as both affective transport and violence--in relation to political and aesthetic community in the eighteenth century, from Shaftesbury to Rousseau.

Amandla Thomas-Johnson

Amandla Thomas-Johnson is a PhD student in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, focusing on the literary activism and global solidarities that coalesced around the Grenadian revolution in the Caribbean. His research interests range from African studies, Black (Diaspora) studies, Islamic studies, the Black radical tradition and political economy to Caribbean literature, Gender studies, Black Britain and Panafricanism. He views Sylvia Wynter’s “rehumanization” project as foundational to his work. His teaching interests include the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and the ever-changing face of race and racism. Amandla’s work has been published in a special issue on Sylvia Wynter’s Hills of Hebron for Interviewing the Caribbean (April 2023) and in sx Salon (August 2023)

Stephanie Sang

Stephanie Sang is a PhD candidate in Literatures in English. She is currently reading and writing about Asian American imaginative histories especially attuned to material objects. Her dissertation, “Decomposing Asia America: An Emergent Method” develops a “decompositional” reading practice to analyze Asian American cultural production for its baser (and less transcendental) representations of the environment. Her research interests include Asian/American literature and culture, imaginative histories, material culture/object studies, and environmental humanities. Before coming to Cornell, Stephanie completed her MA in Anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa as an East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellow. She invites anyone with adjacent interests to connect!

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