Faculty Designated to Approve MA and PhD Orals Lists
Period exams are generally approved by the chair of the relevant area committee. In cases where the designated person is on leave and unavailable either for spring consultation or fall approval, another appropriate faculty member may be called on for either or both of these roles. Any questions about approval should be referred to the Director of Graduate Studies.
Note: All MA orals lists should have ten primary and two secondary works;
All PhD orals lists should have forty primary and six or so secondary works (except Theory and Textual Studies, which should each have forty works in all).
Medieval / Renaissance: Elizabeth Fowler / Dan Kinney
Restoration and 18th Century: David Vander Meulen
19th Century British: Mark Edmundson
19th Century American: Emily Ogden
Modern and Contemporary: Vicki Olwell
American: Sylvia Chong
African-American Studies: Marlon Ross
Autobiography: Alison Booth
Drama: John O'Brien
Epic: Dan Kinney
History of Criticism: Walter Jost
Latinx: Carmen Lamas
Literature and Environmental Studies: Mary Kuhn
Lyric: Herbert Tucker / Jahan Ramazani
Multiethnic American: Caroline Rody
Novel: Stephen Arata
Poetry and Poetics: Herbert Tucker / Jahan Ramazani
Romance: Clare Kinney
Textual Studies/History of the Book: David Vander Meulen
Theory and Criticism: Nasrin Olla
- Cultural Studies: Rita Felski
- Feminist Theory: Susan Fraiman
- Film/Media: Sylvia Chong
- Marxism: Rita Felski
- Postcolonial Studies: Mrinalini Chakravorty
- Poststructuralism: Bruce Holsinger
- Psychoanalysis: Mark Edmundson
- Queer Theory: Marlon Ross
- Race/Ethnicity: Marlon Ross