Faculty

Tenure and Tenure Track Faculty

Ross Lerner, chair; designated transfer adviser 

Associate Professor

B.A., Haverford College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

James Ford III

Associate Professor 

B.A., Morehouse College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

Claire Grossman
Assistant Professor
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Mills College; Ph.D., Stanford University

Warren Montag

Louis M. Brown Family Professor in Literature in English

B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School

Leila Neti

Professor

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine  

Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Jae Yeun Choi
Visiting Assistant Professor

Chekwube O. Danladi
Visiting Assistant Professor; Writer in Residence

B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

Promise Li

Zachary M. Mann
Visiting Assistant Professor
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., California State University, Long Beach; Ph.D., University of Southern California