2025-2026 Catalog

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

Professor 

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

 

Claire Grossman
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Mills College; Ph.D., Stanford University 

Leila Neti

Irma M. and Jay F. Price Professor in English

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

Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Chekwube O. Danladi
Visiting Assistant Professor; Writer in Residence

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