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Faculty
Literary and Cultural Studies

Badia Ahad
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and African American Studies

Valerie Babb
Andrew Mellon Professor of Humanities in African American Studies and English -- On Leave 2026-2027
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Martine W. Brownley
Goodrich C. White Professor of English -- On Leave 2026-2027
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Elizabeth S. Goodstein
Professor of English and the Liberal Arts -- On Leave 2026-2027




Paul Kelleher
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions
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Emil' Keme
Professor of English and Indigenous Studies -- On Leave 2026-2027



Marina Magloire
Assistant Professor -- On Leave Fall 2026




Geovani Ramírez
Assistant Professor -- On Leave Fall 2026
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Dan Sinykin
Winship Distinguished Research Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
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Michelle Wright
Emory College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English
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Meina Yates-Richard
Associate Professor of African American Studies and English
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Creative Writing

Kimberly Belflower
Assistant Professor
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Jericho Brown
Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing and Interim Director of Creative Writing
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Heather Christle
Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing
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T Cooper
Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing
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Tayari Jones
Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing
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Joseph Skibell
Professor of English and Creative Writing
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Writing Program
Post Doctoral Fellows
Emeriti Faculty

Mark Bauerlein
Professor of English, Emeritus

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Professor of English, Emerita

Jim Grimsley
Professor of Practice, Emeritus

Barbara Ladd
Professor of English, Emerita

Laura Otis
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of English, Emerita

Walter Reed
William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor of English, Emeritus

Harry Rusche
Professor of English, Emeritus

W. Ronald Schuchard
Goodrich C. White Professor of English, Emeritus

John Sitter
Charles Howard Candler Professor of English, Emeritus

Frances Smith Foster
Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies, Emerita

Joonna Smitherman Trapp
Associate Teaching Professor Emerita of English

Sheila Tefft
Senior Lecturer in English, Emerita

Deborah Elise White
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emerita











