CHAIR

Jennie Votava
Frederick F. Seely Chair of English Literature; Associate Professor of English
Renaissance literature and culture; Shakespeare performance and adaptation; race studies; queer studies; literature and medicine
jvotava@allegheny.edu
Office: (814) 332-4334
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FACULTY

Christopher Bakken
Professor of English
Creative Writing: Poetry, Nonfiction
cbakken@allegheny.edu
Office: (814) 332-4338
Odd Fellows 220
M. Soledad Caballero
Professor of English; WGSS Co-Chair
British Romanticism; travel; writing; Interdisciplinary and Post-colonialism
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Mari Christmas
Writer in Residence
Fiction Writing; American Literature; Black Studies; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
mchristmas@allegheny.edu
Office: (814) 332 4337
Odd Fellows 233
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Matthew J. Ferrence
Associate Professor of English
Nonfiction Writing; Fiction Writing; Appalachian Studies; American Literature
mferrence@allegheny.edu
Office: (814) 332-4339
Odd Fellows 225
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D. Alexis Hart
Professor of English; Director of Writing
Writing Studies; Writing Centers; Undergraduate Research; Veteran Studies
ahart@allegheny.edu
Office: (814) 332-6296
Odd Fellows 231
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Benjamin Slote
Professor of English
American Literature and Culture
bslote@allegheny.edu
Office: (814) 332-4322
Odd Fellows 235
Allison Wilkins Bakken
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Creative Writing: Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, American Literature, Animal Studies, 20th C. British and Anglophone Literature
awbakken@allegheny.edu
Office: (814) 332-3237
Odd Fellows 208