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Office Hours
Hours by appointment

Julia Alvarez

Writer-in-Residence

Library 144C
Phone: (802) 443 - 5789
Email: alvarez@middlebury.edu

Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Middlebury College; M.A., Syracuse University

Specializations: Poetry & Fiction Writing

Office Hours
T & Th 2:45-4:00 p.m. & by appt.

David Bain

Lecturer in English & American Literatures

Axinn Center at Starr Library 201
Phone: (802) 443 - 5008
Email: bain@middlebury.edu

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Degrees & Specializations
B.S., Boston University

Specializations: Creative writing, contemporary literature, environmental journalism.

Office Hours
MWF 11:00-12:00 & 1:00-3:00 & by appt.

Cates Baldridge

Associate Professor of English, Department Chair

on leave academic year
Phone: (802) 443 - 5330
Email: baldridg@middlebury.edu

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Office Hours
Wednesday: 3:00-5:00
Friday: 10:00-12:00

James E Berg

Visiting Asst Professor of English & American Literatures

Axinn Center at Starr Library 314
Phone: (802) 443 - 5709
Email: berg@middlebury.edu

Office Hours
on leave spring term

John Bertolini

Professor of English and Film

Axinn Center at Starr Library 312
Phone: (802) 443 - 5273
Email: bertolin@middlebury.edu

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Degrees & Specializations
Graduated from Brooklyn Preparatory School, 6/65
B.A. Manhattan College, 6/69
M.A. Columbia University, 6/70
Ph.D. Columbia University, 5/75
Dissertation: "Dramaturgy in Italian and French Renaissance Tragedy"

Office Hours
Tuesday & Thursday: 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Friday: 10:15 -11:00 AM

and by appointment

Tutoring Hours:
Monday, Wednesday,& Friday by appointment

MaryEllen Bertolini

Lecturer, Tutor in Writing; Assoc. Director, Writing

Library 225E
Phone: (802) 443 - 3182
Email: mbertoli@middlebury.edu

Office Hours
Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday: 4:00-5:00pm

Timothy Billings

Associate Professor of English and American Literatures

Axinn Center at Starr Library 300

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Degrees & Specializations
Shakespeare; Early Modern Drama; Literature & Culture; Theory & Cultural Studies; Orientalism; Translation Studies; Travel Writing; Baroque Prose; Metaphysical Poetry

Office Hours
TR: 8:30-10:30am and by appt.

Daniel Brayton

Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Axinn Center at Starr Library 301
Phone: (802) 443 - 3264
Email: dbrayton@middlebury.edu

Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Williams College; M.A., University of North Carolina; Ph.D. Cornell University

Specializations: Tudor and Stuart Drama; Shakespeare; Literary and Cultural Theory; Maritime Literature

Office Hours
By appointment only

Alison Byerly

Professor of English

on leave academic year
Phone: (802) 443 - 5735
Email: byerly@middlebury.edu

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Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Wellesley; M.S., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Specializations: Victorian Literature; Gender Studies; Travel Literature; Literature and the Environment

Office Hours
on leave spring term

Robert Cohen

Professor of English & American Literatures

Axinn Center at Starr Library 205
Phone: (802) 443 - 2426
Email: cohen@middlebury.edu

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Degrees & Specializations
A.B., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., Columbia University

Office Hours
M/W 4:15 – 5:00

Claudia Cooper

Visiting Assistant Professor

Twilight Hall 109
Phone: (802) 443 - 3408
Email: ccooper@middlebury.edu

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Degrees & Specializations

A.B. Rice University
Ed.M. Boston University
Ed. M., Ed.D. Harvard University

Specializations
Children's and Young Adult Literature; Creative Writing; Literacy

Office Hours
on leave spring term

John Elder

College Professor

Hillcrest 216
Phone: (802) 443 - 5281
Email: elder@middlebury.edu

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Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Pomona College; Ph.D. Yale University

Specializations: Romantic & Modern Poetry; American Nature Writing; Japan's Haiku Tradition; Environmental Studies

Barbara Ganley

Lecturer, Tutor in Writing; Director, Project for Integrated Expression

Email: ganley@middlebury.edu

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Office Hours
On leave academic year.

Robert Hill

Henry Norman Hudson Professor Emeritus of English

Email: roberth@middlebury.edu

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Office Hours
On leave academic year.

Kathryn Kramer

Visiting Assistant Professor of English & American Literatures

Axinn Center at Starr Library 206
Phone: (802) 443 - 2433
Email: kkramer@middlebury.edu

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Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Marlboro College; M.A., Johns Hopkins University

Office Hours
Tuesday & Thursday:
10:45-12:00

Antonia Losano

Associate Professor of English & American Literatures

Axinn Center at Starr Library 303
Phone: (802) 443 - 3242
Email: alosano@middlebury.edu

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Degrees & Specializations
Ph.D. English Literature, Cornell University, August 1999.
M.A. English Literature, Cornell University, 1996.
M.A. English Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993.
B.A. English Literature and Classical Studies, Boston University, 1989, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

Specializations: 19th Century Literature; Women's Literature; Inter-disciplinary Literature

Gary Margolis

Exec Dir College Mental Health Srvcs/Psychologist; English, Asso

Centeno House
Phone: (802) 443 - 5141
Email: margolis@middlebury.edu

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Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Middlebury College; Ph.D., State University of N.Y. (Buffalo)

Office Hours
On leave academic year.

Brett Millier

Professor

Axinn Center at Starr Library 304
Phone: (802) 443 - 5026
Email: millier@middlebury.edu

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Degrees & Specializations
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. B.A. in American Studies awarded May, 1980, magna cum laude with Distinction in the Major.

Stanford University, Stanford, California. Ph.D in English and American Literature awarded June, 1986. Dissertation: "Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It"

Office Hours
Tuesday & Thursday
2:45-4:00 P.M.
& by appointment

Don Mitchell

Lecturer in Film and Media and English.

Axinn Center at Starr Library 213
Phone: (802) 443 - 5844
Email: mitchell@middlebury.edu

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Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Swarthmore College

Specializations: Fiction; Screenwriting; Sheepfarming

Office Hours
MWF 12:15-1:15 & by appt.

Elizabeth Napier

Professor of English

Hesselgrave House 22
Phone: (802) 443 - 5044
Email: enapier@middlebury.edu

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Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Kalamazoo College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

Specialization: Eighteenth-century literature; the novel; literature and the visual arts

Office Hours
T & Th 1:30-3:00pm & by appt.

Jay Parini

D. E. Axinn Professor of English & Creative Writing

Axinn Center at Starr Library 203
Phone: (802) 443 - 5042
Email: parini@middlebury.edu

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Degrees & Specializations
Director of Creative Writing Program
A.B., Lafayette College; B. Phil., Ph.D., University of St. Andrew

Office Hours
On leave spring term

David Price

C. A. Dana Professor of English & American Literatures

Axinn Center at Starr Library 310
Phone: (802) 443 - 5278
Email: price@middlebury.edu

Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Amherst College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Office Hours
Tuesday & Thursday: 11:00-1:00 & by appt.

Christopher Shaw

Vis Lect Engl & Amer Lit; Assoc Dir, Prgm Env Journalism

Axinn Center at Starr Library 309
Phone: (802) 443 - 5567
Email: cshaw@middlebury.edu

Office Hours
Monday & Wednesday:
4:10-5:00p.m. & by appt. on MTW

Yumna Siddiqi

Associate Professor of English & American Literatures

Axinn Center 202
Phone: (802) 443 - 3473
Email: ysiddiqi@middlebury.edu

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Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Brandeis University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University

Post-colonial Literature; Post-colonial Theory; Literary Theory; Gender Studies; Late 19th Century Literature

Office Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday:
2:00-4:00pm

Kathy Skubikowski

Director, CTLR; Assoc. Prof. of English; Asst. Dean for Instruct

Library 225C
Phone: (802) 443 - 5878
Email: skubikow@middlebury.edu

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Degrees & Specializations
Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington
Field: English Literature and Language
Thesis Director: E. Talbot Donaldson
Minors: Medieval Studies
Rhetoric and Composition Theory
M.A. Indiana University, Bloomington
B.A. University of Colorado, Boulder

Office Hours
Tu & Th 11:00-12:00 & by appt.

Marion Wells

Associate Professor of English & American Literatures

on leave academic year
Phone: (802) 443 - 2443
Email: mwells@middlebury.edu

Degrees & Specializations
B.A., Jesus College, Oxford University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University

Office Hours
M-F 8:00 a.m.-4 p.m.

Sue Coburn

Department Coordinator

Axinn Center at Starr Library 306
Phone: (802) 443 - 5276
Email: coburn@middlebury.edu