Department Chair

  • Lisa Nevarez                                                                                                                                                 Associate Professor of English
    KiernanHall 226
    (518) 782-6878
    lnevarez@siena.edu

Faculty

 

clements

Dr. Pamela Clements
Professor of English
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Office: 408 Siena Hall
Phone #: 783-2359
Medieval Language and Literature, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Women's Literature, Culture Studies

 dollar

Dr. J. Gerard Dollar
Professor of English
Ph.D., Princeton University
Office: 226 Kiernan
Phone #: 783-4266 Literature and Environment, Nature Writing
Literature of the American West

 Farnan image

Dr. Christiane Farnan 
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., State University at Albany
Office: 218 Kiernan
Phone #: 783-4268
Early American Literature, 19th-Century American Literature, and Fiction and Non-Fiction Writing

fitz hoyt

Dr. Mary K. Fitzgerald-Hoyt
Professor of English
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Office: 109 Hines
Phone #: 783-4267
Irish Literature, British Literature (Victorian to Contemporary), and the Short Story

 hannay

Dr. Margaret P. Hannay
Professor of English
Ph.D., State University at Albany
Office: 230 Kiernan
Phone #: 783-4282
Elizabethan and Early Modern Literature

 hertz

Dr. Erich Hertz
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Office: 214 Kiernan
Phone #: 782-6896
Modern and Contemporary British Literature, Film, Music, and Literary Theory

 leslie

 

Dr. Naton Leslie
Professor of English
Ph.D., Ohio University
Office: 215 Kiernan
Phone #: 783-2954
Writing Fiction, Writing Poetry, Writing Nonfiction, The Short Story, Contemporary Literature, Classics and Contemporary Literature

 mayer

Dr. Chingyen Mayer
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., Indiana University of
       Pennsylvania
Office: 230 Kiernan
Phone #: 782-6879
20th Century American Literature, Asian American and Multicultural Literature

 nevarez

 

Dr. Lisa Nevárez

Department Chair
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Office: 226 Kiernan
Phone #: 782-6878
Romanticism, the Gothic, Latino/a Literature

 

 stein

Dr. Rachel Stein
Professor of English
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Office: 226 Kiernan
Phone #: 783-2546
20th and 21st Century American Multicultural Literature:
Issues of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Nature

 

 

Dr. Todd Snyder 
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., Ohio University
Office: 216 Kiernan
Phone #: 783-4251
Rhetoric and Composition, Critical Theory/Pedagogy, Community Literacy Studies

 trainor

Dr. Charles R. Trainor
Professor of English
Ph.D., Yale University
Office: 216 Kiernan
Phone #: 783-4258
Eighteenth-century English Literature, Shakespeare, and Drama

 
 

Dr. Keith Wilhite
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Office: 214 Kiernan
Phone #: 783-2324
Modern and Contemporary US Literature, Regionalism, Cultural Geography, Cold War Culture and Politics, and Sexuality and Gender Studies

 woolbright

Dr. Meg Woolbright
Professor of English
D.A., State University at Albany
Office: 218 Kiernan
Phone #: 782-6593
Composition, Advanced Essay Writing, Adolescent Literature, Literature of the War in Vietnam