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Pamela Bromberg

Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Director of Graduate Program in English
B.A., Wellesley College
Ph.D., Yale University
pamela.bromberg@simmons.edu

Pamela Bromberg currently teaches the following courses: 18th century literature, Romanticism, Contemporary English Fiction, Women in Literature.

Renee Bergland

Associate Professor of English
B.A., St. John’s College
Ph.D., Columbia University
renee.bergland@simmons.edu

Renee Bergland’s diverse literary background enables her to teach a wide range of cultural and critical American Literature, Native American Literature, Culture Studies, Visual Culture, Gender Studies, Critical Theory.

Sheldon George

Assistant Professor
sheldon.george@simmons.edu

David G. Gullette

Professor of English
A.B., Harvard College
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
david.gullette@simmons.edu

Kelly Hager

Assistant Professor of English, Director of Gender/Cultural Studies
B.A., Rice University
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
kelly.hager@simmons.edu

Kelly Hager is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Gender/Cultural Studies. She specializes in Victorian literature, children’s literature, and television studies and has published essays on David Copperfield and The Old Curiosity Shop. She is currently working on a project that examines how reading practices for young girls are dictated in children’s literature and the effect of that disciplinary move on canon formation. A portion of this project, “Betsy and the Canon,” is included in The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader (Rutgers 2003). Professor Hager is also a contributor to the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature, a co-author of the Instructor’s Guide for the Norton Introduction to Literature, and a judge for The Lion and the Unicorn Poetry Award (an annual award for the best book of children’s poetry published in North America).

Professor Hager teaches Victorian Literature and Culture, The English Novel from Victorians to Moderns, Victorian Children’s Literature, Women in Literature, and Critical Interpretations. She also teaches the introductory seminar in the Gender/Cultural Studies program and a graduate course in narrative theory and television. She has directed an honors thesis on Charlotte Mary Yonge’s bestselling Victorian novel The Daisy Chain and capstone projects in Gender/Cultural Studies on the queerness of L.M. Montgomery’s "Emily" books, on the portrayal of the “normal” gay on prime time television, and on the representation of online, computer-mediated selves in blogs, email, and bots.

Cathryn Mercier

Assistant Professor
cathryn.mercier@simmons.edu

Lowry Pei

Professor of English
A.B., Harvard College
M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
lowry.pei@simmons.edu

Douglas Perry, Jr.

Associate Professor of English
B.A., Yale College
M.A., Ph.D., Temple University
douglas.perry@simmons.edu

Afaa Michael Weaver

Alumnae Professor of English
B.A., University of the State of New York
M.A., Brown University
weaver@simmons.edu

Richard Wollman

Associate Professor of English
B.A., Brandeis University
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
richard.wollman@simmons.edu

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Poet and playwright Alumnae Professor of English Afaa Michael Weaver was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at National Taiwan University and Taipei National University of the Arts.

Associate Professor Renee Bergland, the author of The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects, completed a year as Fulbright Senior Scholar in American Studies at the University of Bergen in Norway.

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