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Faculty and Staff

Lyell Asher

Associate Professor of English
Renaissance English Literature, Shakespeare
Miller 426
503-768-7411
asher@lclark.edu
Office Hours:

Fall 2025: Monday and Wednesday 2:30-3:00pm and by appointment

Phillip Barron

Adjunct Professor
John R. Howard Hall 229
503-768-7469
pbarron@lclark.edu
Office Hours:

Fall 2025

Rachel Cole

Associate Professor of English
American Literature
Miller 413
503-768-7408
rcole@lclark.edu
Office Hours:

Fall 2025: Thursdays 12-5 and by appointment

Hannah Crummé

Head of Watzek Library Special Collections and College Archivist
English Renaissance, History of the Book
Watzek Library 336
(503) 768-7259
hcrumme@lclark.edu
Office Hours:

Fall 2024: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 1:50-3, or by appointment.

Kurt Fosso

Professor of English
British Romanticism, Literary Theory, Animal Studies
Miller 428
503-768-7415
fosso@lclark.edu
Office Hours:

Fall 2025: Mondays and Fridays 12:30-1:30, Wednesdays 5-6, and by appointment

Kristin Fujie

Associate Professor of English and Department Chair
20th-century American Literature
Miller 411
503-768-7353
kfujie@lclark.edu
Office Hours:

Fall 2025: Tuesdays 1:10-2:30 & Thursdays 10-11:20 (Google calendar sign-up required). Drop-in hours are Friday 9-10 or by emailing to arrange.

Karen Gross

Professor of English
Medieval Literature, History of the Book
Miller 408
503-768-7406
kegross@lclark.edu
Office Hours:

Fall 2025: Wednesday 2-4:30 and by appointment.

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Jerry Harp

Associate Professor with Term of the Humanities
Renaissance Literature, Contemporary Poetry, Poetry Writing
Miller 417
503-768-7747
harp@lclark.edu
Office Hours:

Fall 2025: Tuesday 11:30-1:30 and by appointment

Andrea Hibbard

Associate Professor with Term of English
Victorian Literature and Culture, Law and Literature, Adventure Narratives, Gender Studies
Miller 422
503-768-7776
ahibbard@lclark.edu
Office Hours:

Fall 2025: Mondays 10-11 and by appointment

Michael Mirabile

Assistant Professor with Term
Film Studies, Post-World War II American Literature
Miller 433
503-768-7137
mirabile@lclark.edu
Office Hours:

Fall 2025: Mondays 3-4, Fridays 3-4:30, and by appointment

Will Pritchard

Associate Professor of English
17th/18th Century British Literature
Miller 412
503-768-7412
wjp@lclark.edu
Office Hours:

Returning Spring 2026

Robin Romm

Adjunct Professor
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing
Miller 405
robinromm@lclark.edu
Office Hours:

Fall 2025: Available after class or before class & by appointment

Mary Szybist

Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities
Poetry Writing
Miller 429
503-768-7414
szybist@lclark.edu
Office Hours:

Returning Spring 2026

Pauls Toutonghi

Professor of English
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing
Miller 425
503-768-7404
paulst@lclark.edu
Office Hours:

Fall 2025: Available by appointment.

Don Waters

Visiting Professor and Director, Fir Acres Writing Workshop
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing
Miller 405
503-768-7262
dwaters@lclark.edu
Office Hours:

Fall 2025: Returning Spring 2026

Rishona Zimring

Professor of English
British and Irish Modernism, Postcolonial Literature, Literature and Visual/Performing Arts
Miller 423
503-768-7409
zimring@lclark.edu
Office Hours:

Fall 2025:  Wednesday 1-3, and by appointment.

Staff

Amy Baskin

Amy Baskin

Administrative Coordinator, English/History/Fir Acres Summer Writing Workshop
Miller Center 430
503-768-7405
amy@lclark.edu

Faculty Emeriti

John Callahan
Morgan S. Odell Professor Emeritus of Humanities

Michaela Paasche Grudin
Professor Emerita of English

Jack Hart
Professor Emeritus of English

Susan Kirschner
Senior Lecturer Emerita of Humanities

In Memoriam

Dorothy Berkson
Professor Emerita of English

Steve Knox
 Professor Emeritus of English

Vern Rutsala

Professor Emeritus of English

English is located in Miller Center on the Undergraduate Campus.
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Chair Kristin Fujie
Administrative Coordinator Amy Baskin

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