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Office Hours
Hours by appointment

Julia Alvarez

Writer-in-Residence

Axinn Center at Starr Library 306
Phone: 802.443.5789
Email: alvarez@middlebury.edu

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

Specializations: Poetry & Fiction Writing

Office Hours
Tuesday and Thursday
1:30-2:45 p.m. or by appointment

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
Monday and Wednesday: 9:00-10:00, 11:00-12:00, 2:30-3:30 and by appointment

Cates Baldridge

Associate Professor of English and American Literatures

Axinn Center at Starr Library 308
Phone: 802.443.5330
Email: baldridg@middlebury.edu

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Office Hours
Wednesdays: 3:00-5:00pm and by appointment.

David Barber

Robert Frost Fellow; Poetry Editor, The Atlantic

Axinn Center at Starr Library
Phone: 802.443.5276
Email: dbarber@middlebury.edu

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Degrees & Specializations
Stanford University: M. A. in English/Creative Writing

University of California, Santa Cruz: B.A. in English

Office Hours
Tuesday, Thursday: 12:30-2:00pm; Friday: 10:00-11:30am, or by appointment

James E Berg

Visiting Asst Professor of English & American Literatures

Axinn Center at Starr Library 314
Phone: 802.443.5709
Email: berg@middlebury.edu

Degrees & Specializations
Areas of Specialization:

Shakespeare, Tudor-Stuart Drama, Renaissance Prose and Poetry.

Office Hours
Monday and Wednesday: 1:30-2:30
Tuesday and Thursday: 3:00-4:00

John Bertolini

Professor of English and American Literatures 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 10:30-11:30, Friday 10:00-11:00, Many other times by appointment

MaryEllen Bertolini

Lecturer, Tutor in Writing; Assoc. Director, Writing

Library 225E
Phone: 802.443.3182
Fax: 802-443-2418
Email: mbertoli@middlebury.edu

Web Site

Office Hours
Tuesday and Thursday: 2:45-4:00pm; Wednesday: 3:45-5:00pm.

Timothy Billings

Associate Professor of English and American Literatures

Axinn Center at Starr Library 300
Phone: 802.443.2550

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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
Tuesday & Thursday: 9:00-10:30
Wednesday: 10:30-12:00 or by appointment

Daniel Brayton

Visiting Assistant Professor of English and American Literatures

on leave academic year
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

Old Chapel 202
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
Tuesday and Thursday: 2:00-3:00pm

Robert Cohen

Professor of English and 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
Tuesday Thursday 1:00 – 2:00 or by appointment.

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
Monday: 2:00-4:00pm Thursday: 1:00-3:00pm

John Elder

College Professor

Franklin Environmental Ctr 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

Office Hours
Retired

Robert Hill

Professor of English and American Literatures

Email: roberth@middlebury.edu

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Office Hours
Monday & Wednesday: 10:30-12:00pm or by appointment

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 and Thursday:
9:30-11:30 or by appointment

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 3rd Floor
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
Monday and Wednesday: 2:00-4:00pm

Tuesday: 1:30-3:00pm

Brett Millier

Reginald L. Cook Professor of American Literature and Chair, English and American Literatures

Axinn Center at Starr Library 304
Phone: 802.443.5026
Email: millier@middlebury.edu

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Degrees & Specializations
B.A. Yale University; PhD Stanford University

Twentieth-century American poetry and prose, Canadian literature, critical writing and pedagogy.

Office Hours
Monday & Wednesday: 1:00-3:00pm
& by appointment

Don Mitchell

Lecturer in Film and Media and English.

Email: mitchell@middlebury.edu

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Degrees & Specializations
A.B., Swarthmore College

Specializations: Fiction; Screenwriting; Sheepfarming

Office Hours
Monday, Wedneday and Friday: 12:15-1:15pm, or by appointment.

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
Wednesday: 2:00- 4:30pm and by appointment

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
Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 12:30-2:00pm

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 and Thursday: 11:00-1:00pm, or by appointment.

Christopher Shaw

Visiting Lecturer, English & American Literatures; Associate Director, Program in Environmental Journalism

Axinn Center at Starr Library 309
Phone: 802.443.5567
Email: cshaw@middlebury.edu

Office Hours
Monday: 4:15-6:00pm and by appointment Monday and Tuesday.

Yumna Siddiqi

Associate Professor of English & American Literatures

Axinn Center at Starr Library 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
Monday & Wednesday
2:30-4:30 PM

or by appointment

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
Tuesday and Thursday: 11:00-12:00 or by appointment

Marion Wells

Associate Professor of English & American Literatures

Axinn Center at Starr Library 313
Phone: 802.443.2443
Email: mwells@middlebury.edu

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

Office Hours
8:15 -- 5:00

Anna Harlan

Department Coordinator

Axinn Center at Starr Library 306
Phone: 802.443.5276
Email: aharlan@middlebury.edu