Faculty

Regular Faculty

Erica Ball, chair

Professor, American Studies 

B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Courtney Baker

Associate Professor, American Studies

B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University

Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, American Studies

A.B., Occidental College; M.A., California State University, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Xiao-huang Yin

Professor, American Studies; Affiliated Faculty, East Asian Languages and Cultures; Affiliated Faculty, History

B.A., Nanjing University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

On Special Appointment

Adrienne Tien

Non-Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, American Studies

B.A., Wellesley College; M.S., Syracuse University

Advisory Committee

Sharla Fett

Professor, History

B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., Rutgers University

James Ford III

Assistant Professor, English

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

Eric Newhall

Professor, English

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

Jaclyn Rodríguez

Professor, Latino/a and Latin American Studies

A.B., Occidental College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan

John Swift

Professor, English

B.A., Middlebury College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

Raul Villa

Professor, English; Advisory Committee, Latino/a and Latin American Studies

B.A., Yale University; M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz