English Faculty
Chair
Professor
Maxeiner Baumann-Payne Professor of English
Email: kapilas@grinnell.edu
Shuchi Kapila teaches literature in English from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. Her other teaching interests include transnational feminisms, the novel, and narrative theory. Her scholarly work focuses on nineteenth and twentieth-century British colonialism and literary and cultural...
Assistant Professor
Email: abdelkar@grinnell.edu
Sherif Abdelkarim specializes in English historical linguistics and Old English, Middle English, and classical and early postclassical Arabic literature. He is the author (with Katherine Jacka, Ahmad Kzzo, and Matt King) of Al-Idrisi's Norman Kingdom in the South: The Book of Roger in Translation...
Associate Professor
Email: allenleah@grinnell.edu
Leah Claire Allen is Associate Professor in Gender, Women鈥檚, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) and English at 海角社区黑料吃瓜. Professor Allen teaches Introduction to GWSS, Theory and Methods in GWSS, Masculinity in American Literature, the capstone Senior Seminar in GWSS, and Queer and Trans...
Associate Professor
Director, Center for the Humanities
Email: andrewss@grinnell.edu
I teach mostly 18th and 19th century American Literature, but I like to roam a little, especially if given the opportunity to team teach or supervise MAPs. During any four-year cycle I am likely to offer a seminar on Whitman and Dickinson; an American poetry seminar titled 鈥淏eat, Black, and...
Senior Faculty
Email: barlow@grinnell.edu
George Barlow is a poet who earned a B.A. in English from California State University, Hayward, an M.A. in American Studies and an M.F.A. in Poetry, both from the University of Iowa. He specializes in African-American literature, poetry, and teaches Craft of Poetry and the Poetry Seminar most...
Assistant Professor
Email: dantasbru@grinnell.edu
Bruna Dantas Lobato is a fiction writer, translator of Brazilian literature, and Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at 海角社区黑料吃瓜. Her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, was published in 2024 by Black Cat/Grove Atlantic in North America and is forthcoming in several languages...
Emerita
Email: dobbs@grinnell.edu
Elizabeth Dobbs regularly taught courses on rhetoric and historical linguistics, and seminars on Chaucer and other English and European medieval writers. She co-taught a MAP Seminar, 鈥淐onceptions of Space and Place in Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-1650,鈥 and has directed MAPs for the Linguistics...
Professor
Email: eklundhi@grinnell.edu
Hillary Eklund specializes in literatures of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and regularly teaches courses on Shakespeare, Renaissance poetry, and literature and environment. In her scholarship, she seeks to understand the moral attitudes and material practices of the era that gave rise to...
