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AMHERST COLLEGE
Michele Barale -- gender and lesbian literature
John Cameron -- literature of sexuality
Howell Chickering -- age of chivalry
Rhonda Cobham-Sander -- Black women writers (United States, Africa, West Indies)
Judith Frank -- gender and represnetations of women in literature
Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez -- American literature, Latina/o studies
Barry O'Connell -- gender, race, class in American literature
Marissa Parham -- culture; gender and memory
Andrew Parker -- feminist literary theory; psychoanalysis and linguistics
Andrea Benton Rushing -- images of Black women in Caribbean, African, and American literature
Karen Sanchez-Eppler -- domestic fiction; women's movements and period reforms; women and health
Susan Snively -- Emily Dickinson; creative writing; women writers

HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE
Lynne Hanley -- English and American women writers; short-story writing; women and war
L. Brown Kennedy -- women writers; gender and politics in early modern literature; Renaissance literature; Southern literature
Jill Lewis -- French literature; women writers cross-culturally; Marxist criticism; theories of gender subordination; language and gender
Mary Russo -- semiotics; feminist literary criticism; media and film criticism; women in European political culture
Lise Shapiro Sanders -- nineteenth and twentieth-century British literature and culture; feminist theory; women's socialhistory; film studies and early film history; mass culture
Ellie Siegel -- women writers, Midwestern literature
Thomas C. Jones -- Poetry, feminist/queer theory, film studies and cultural obscurity

MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
Martha Ackmann -- U.S. women writers; feminist biography; U.S. women's movements
Christopher Benfey -- Emily Dickinson; 20th-century American women poets
Carolyn Collette -- women in medieval English literature; women writers of the 19th century
Penny Gill -- women's work; women's narrative
Leah Glasser -- American women writers, 19th and early 20th century
William Quillian -- George Eliot
Elizabeth Young -- feminist theory; American literature; film

SMITH COLLEGE
Ann Boutelle -- American women writers
Nancy Mason Bradbury -- Medieval women writers
Floyd Cheung -- Asian American women writers
Ambreen Hai -- 19th- and 20th-century British and post-colonial literature; critical theory
Elizabeth Harries -- Romanticism; 18th-century women writers; fairy tales and gender
Bob Hosmer -- British women novelists of the 20th-century
Katwiwa Mule -- African Women's Drama
Cornelia Pearsall -- Victorian women writers
Sharon Seelig -- Renaissance women writers
Susan Van Dyne -- American women poets; feminist theory; 19th-century American women writers

UMASS
Joseph Bartolomeo -- 18th-century women writers
Madeline Blais -- women's biography; journals and diaries
Deborah Carlin -- American studies
Steven Clingman -- African literature; Nadine Gordimer
Christine Cooper -- British Romanticism; narrating feminist theory and gender studies; cultural studies/materialism; political literature
Suzanne Daly -- Victorian studies, empire studies, feminist theory, colonial and post-colonial literature, history and theory of the novel
Laura Doyle -- Virginia Woolf; modernism, women writers, and the novel; literary and cultural theory, race studies, the body, modernism
Lee Edwards -- feminist criticism; Virginia Woolf
Ruth Jennison -- determinate relations between structures of class, race and gender and the experimental forms of 20th Century American poetry
Donna LeCourt -- critical and cultural approaches to rhetoric and composition, including critical pedagogy, feminism, and cultural studies
Sara Lennox -- women's writing; feminist theory; literary theory; women and activism
Jenny Spencer -- feminist theatre
Charlotte Spivak -- phantasy
Esther Terry -- Southern women writers; Black women
Dara Weir -- creative writing