Faculty

Tel:(415) 422-6749
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Carolyn Brown

Associate Professor

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

Eileen Fung

Associate Professor

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.

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

Patricia Hill

Professor

Tel:(415) 422-5314
michaelsons@usfca.edu

Sean Michaelson

Assistant Professor

Tel:(415) 422-6076
dapowell@usfca.edu

D.A. Powell

Associate Professor

D. A. Powell's books include Cocktails (2004) and Chronic (2009), both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Powell's awards include the Kingsley Tufts Prize, a Pushcart Prize and the California Book Award. He has taught at Columbia University, University of Iowa, and Harvard University.

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

Dean Rader

Associate Professor

Dean Rader has published widely in the fields of poetry, literary studies, American Indian studies, and visual/popular culture. He co-edited Speak To Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry (2003), and his pop culture reader, The World Is A Text, is going into its fourth edition. In 2011, his book Engaged Resistance: American Indian Art, Literature, and Film From Alcatraz to the NMAI will be published by the University of Texas Press.  Most recently, he is the recipient of the 2009 Sow's Ear Poetry Prize for his poem "Hesiod in Oklahoma, 1934" and the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize for his first book of poems, Works & Days. He teaches in the writing emphasis, the literature emphasis, and in the Honors Program in the Humanities.

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

Tracy Seeley

Professor

Tracy Seeley teaches 19th- and -20th- British Literature, Creative Nonfiction and Literature and the Environment.  Her nonfiction book My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas will be published in 2011 by the University of Nebraska Press.

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

Susan Steinberg

Associate Professor

Susan Steinberg is the 2010 United States Artists Ziporyn Fellow in Literature. She is the author of the short story collections, Hydroplane (2006) and The End of Free Love (2003). Her third collection is forthcoming from Graywolf. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney's, The Better of McSweeney's Volume Two, Conjunctions, The Gettysburg Review, American Short Fiction, Boulevard, The Massachusetts Review, Quarterly West, Denver Quarterly, Columbia, and other literary journals and magazines. She is the recipient of a 2011 Pushcart Prize. She has held residencies at The MacDowell Colony, The Vermont Studio Center, The Wurlitzer Foundation, the Blue Mountain Center, Yaddo, and NYU.

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.