| Pam Bromberg | Currently Chair of the English Department, teaches courses in 18th century literature, Romanitc poetry, the English nobel, women's studies, and postmodern and postcolonial studies. Her scholarly work focuses on women writers, and she has published articles on Jane Austen, Lillian Hellman, Margaret Atwood, and Margaret Drabble |
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| Renee Bergland | Teaches American literature and culture. She specializes in 19th century American poetry and prose, literary theory, women's writing, Native American studies, and visual cultural studies. Her first book, The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects, was published in 1999. |
| David Gullette | Teaches Shakespeare, creative writing, the English novel, and Irish literature, is also a poet, novelist, and actor; he has published a book of poems written by newly lietare Nicaraguan peasants. Among his outside activities is his job as Literary Director of the Poets; Theatre in Gambridge. He is faculty advisor to Sidelines, the Simmons literary magazine. His book, Gaspar! A Spanish Poet/Priest in the Nicaraguan Revoloution was published in 1993. |
| Kelly Hagar | Specializes in Victorian literature, children's literature, film, the 19th century novel, British Feminism, and composition. Kelly recived her Ph.D from the University of California, Irvine. |
| Lowry Pei | Has taught writing and literature for 25 years; he has written nocels, short stories, essays, and other non-fiction. To sample his work, see the novel Family Resemblances in Beatley. |
| J. Douglas Perry | Teaches courses in creative writing and 19th and 20th century American literature. |
| Della Scott | Teaches Black Fiction and the Harlem Renaissance and is the co-editor of Abafazi, a black women's studies journal. Her own fiction has been pulished in Callaloo, The Writer's Haven Journal, Jam,and The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal. She recieved a finalist award in fiction from the Massachuesttes Artists Foundation, and her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. |
| Afaa Michael Weaver | Is a playwrite and poet. He has also worked as a freelance journalist for The Baltimore Sunpapers, The Baltimore Afro-American, The Boston Globe, and The Chicago Tribune, and has had his short fiction published in the anthology Children of the Night. He has nine published collections of poetry. He has recieved fellowships from the National Endowments or the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Pew Foundation. He recieved his M.F.A from Brown University. |
| Richard Wollman | Director of the Simmons Graduate Program in English, is also a poet and a scholar of 17th century English literature, Biblical studies, Renaissance and Medieval literature. He is a contributing editor to The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, he has published articles in Studies in English Literature, The Ben Jonson Journal, and The John Donne Journal. |