University of San Francisco (USF)

Carolyn Brown

Associate Professor

Carolyn Brown received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California-Davis. Her specialization is Shakespeare and Renaissance / Early Modern literature, from a feminist, psychoanalytic, historicist, and /or political perspective. She has published in several anthologies on Shakespeare and the following journals: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900; Texas Studies in Literature and Language; Studies in Philology; American Imago; Literature and Psychology; Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History; English Literary Renaissance; and Shakespeare Studies. Her forthcoming book is on Shakespeare and psychoanalytic theory, to be published by Arden Shakespeare.

Tel:(415) 422-6337
crawfordr@usfca.edu

Rachel Crawford

Professor

Rachel Crawford received her PhD from the University of Washington in 1989. She teaches the British Long Eighteenth Century, with emphasis on the Romantic decades; Gender and Sexualities; and Critical Analysis, a departmental Methods course. Her publications include articles, book chapters, and collaborative editorial work, while her book, a monograph on British poetry and landscape (Cambridge 2002), won the National Jesuit Award; her current book project focuses on the potential role of cartographic analysis in literature. Her primary vision, however, is for the fullest potential in student-teacher relationships, especially to enable students to understand the meaning of the scholarly life.

Tel:422-2426
elder@usfca.edu

Katherine Elder

Assistant Professor

Kate Elder teaches courses in women's literature, law and literature, gothic literature, and contemporary literature. She has won awards for Teaching Excellence from USF and UC Davis. Her research interests include global cinemas, postmodern ethics, and the literatures of the Cold War. Her current project focuses on the representation of torture in contemporary American law and literature.

Tel:(415) 422-6083
fung@usfca.edu

Eileen Fung

Associate Professor

Eileen Fung earned her PhD in medieval literature with a secondary expertise in Asian American literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests lie in examining the intersection of literature and identity through cultural practices. She helped start the Asian American Studies program at USF and has served as both the co-chair and chair of the English Department. At present, she is the Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities.

Tel:(415) 422-6454
heinemana@usfca.edu

Alan Heineman

Professor

Alan Heineman (BA Stanford, 1966, MA and PhD. Brandeis, 1974) joined the English Dept. in 1970. He focuses on 19th-21st Century U.S. literature, especially fiction. A former editor of the now-defunct S.F. Review of Books, he has published scholarly articles and reviews on modern writers such as DeLillo, Didion, and Hawkes. He also teaches in the Honors Program in Humanities, and has been its Director since 1990. From 1966 to the early 1980's he published scores of articles and reviews on jazz, blues and rock. A founding officer of the USF Faculty Assn. (AFT Local 4269) in 1975, he served as President from 1988-2005. In 2012, he received the prestigious Sarlo Prize, recognizing excellence in teaching based on the ethical values at the core of USF's identity.

Tel:(415) 422-6837
hillp@usfca.edu

Patricia Hill

Professor

Patricia Liggins Hill earned her Ph.D. in English from Stanford. She is the general editor of the groundbreaking anthology, Call & Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition. She has also published articles on Etheridge Knight and Francis Watkins Harper. She teaches African American Literature and curates student involvement in the African American Art and Culture Complex in San Francisco.

Tel:(415) 422-4184
rader@usfca.edu

Dean Rader

Professor

Dean Rader has published widely in the fields of poetry, literary studies, American Indian studies, and visual/popular culture. His newest book Engaged Resistance: American Indian Art, Literature, and Film From Alcatraz to the NMAI (University of Texas Press, 2011) won the Beatrice Medicine Award for Excellence in American Indian Scholarship. His recent collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the Bush Memorial First Book Prize, and won the Writer's League of Texas Book Award. He recently curated the blog 99 Poems for the 99 Percent, and his work appears in the 2012 Best American Poetry. He is the recipient of USF's Distinguished Research Award for 2011, and he is funnier than his photo might suggest.

Tel:
arrojas@usfca.edu

Ana Rojas

Assistant Professor

Ana Rojas holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from The University of California, Irvine, and an M.A. & Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. She specializes in Decadent literature and representations of feminine sexuality in late-nineteenth-century fiction. Her scholarly interests also include the first-year student experience in Jesuit higher education. Before joining the faculty at USF, she taught composition and literature at The University of Scranton, in Pennsylvania.

Tel:
pjschwieterman@usfca.edu

Patrick Schwieterman

Assistant Professor

Pat Schwieterman earned BS degrees in Environmental Science and Plant Science at UC Riverside, and MA and PhD degrees in medieval English literature at UC Berkeley. At USF, he has taught courses on Middle English literature, children's literature, science fiction, and the Arthurian legend. His research focuses on the use of supernatural beings in constructions of cultural and political identity in medieval Britain. Other interests include medieval Wales, Old Icelandic and Old French, and the history of the English language.

Tel:(415) 422-6410
seeleyt@usfca.edu

Tracy Seeley

Professor

Tracy Seeley earned her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. She publishes and teaches in the fields of 19th- and -20th- British Literature, with a particular focus on early Modernism and Virginia Woolf. In addition, she teaches Literature and the Environment, and writes and teaches literary nonfiction. Her book My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas was published in 2011 by the University of Nebraska Press, and was recognized as a Kansas Notable Book for 2012. Her essay "Cartographies of Change" was named a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2011. She is also the founding co-director the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of San Francisco.

Tel:(415) 422-5106
ssteinberg@usfca.edu

Susan Steinberg

Professor

Susan Steinberg is the author of the story collections Spectacle (Graywolf, 2013), Hydroplane (FC2), and The End of Free Love (FC2). She was the 2010 United States Artists Ziporyn Fellow in Literature. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney's, Conjunctions, The Gettysburg Review, American Short Fiction, Boulevard, Quarterly West, Denver Quarterly, Columbia, The Massachusetts Review, and other journals and magazines, and she has been the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a National Magazine Award. She has held residencies at The MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, the Wurlitzer Foundation, the Blue Mountain Center, Ledig House, Yaddo, and NYU. She earned a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in English from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Tel:(415) 422-4298
rwvanmeter@usfca.edu

Ryan Van Meter

Assistant Professor

Ryan Van Meter is the author of the essay collection, If You Knew Then What I Know Now (2011). His work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, The Normal School Magazine, Ninth Letter, and Fourth Genre, among others, and has been selected for anthologies including Best American Essays 2009. A recent finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, he has also been awarded residencies by The MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.