Faculty Designated to Approve MA and PhD Orals Lists
Period exams are generally approved by the chair of the relevant area committee. In cases where the designated person is on leave and unavailable either for spring consultation or fall approval, another appropriate faculty member may be called on for either or both of these roles. Any questions about approval should be referred to the Director of Graduate Studies.
Note: All MA orals lists should have ten primary and two secondary works;
All PhD orals lists should have forty primary and six or so secondary works (except Theory and Textual Studies, which should each have forty works in all).
Medieval / Renaissance: Elizabeth Fowler
Restoration and 18th Century: John O'Brien
19th Century: Emily Ogden
Modern and Contemporary: Walter Jost
American: Victoria Olwell
African-American Studies: Deborah Mcdowell
Autobiography: Alison Booth
Drama: John O'Brien
Epic: Dan Kinney
History of Criticism: Walter Jost
Literature and Environmental Studies: Dan Kinney
Lyric: Jerry McGann
Multiethnic American: Caroline Rody
Novel: Karen Chase
Poetry and Poetics: Herbert Tucker
Romance: Clare Kinney
Textual Studies/History of the Book: David Vander Meulen
Theory and Criticism:
- Cultural Studies: Rita Felski
- Feminist Theory: Susan Fraiman
- Film/Media: Sylvia Chong
- Marxism: Rita Felski
- Postcolonial Studies: Mrinalini Chakravorty
- Poststructuralism: Bruce Holsinger
- Psychoanalysis: Mark Edmundson
- Queer Theory: Marlon Ross
- Race/Ethnicity: Maurice Wallace