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Regular Faculty

Professor Ross Lerner

Ross Lerner, Chair

Associate Professor, English
B.A., Haverford College; M.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., Princeton University
Ross Lerner specializes in medieval and Renaissance British literature, especially poetry.
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James Ford III

Mary Jane Hewitt Department Chair in Black Studies; Associate Professor, English and Black Studies
B.A., Morehouse College; M.A., Ph.D, University of Notre Dame
James Edward Ford III鈥檚 teaching and scholarship focus on three fields: The Aesthetics of Black Radicalism; Black Popular Culture; and Western Political Thought.
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Claire Grossman

Assistant Professor, English
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Mills College; Ph.D., Stanford University
Claire Grossman specializes in multiethnic US literature with a focus on Asian American literature, critical race and ethnic studies, and political economy. 
Professor Warren Montag

Warren Montag

Louis M. Brown Family Professor in Literature in English
B.A., UC Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School
Warren Montag teaches 18th-century British and European literature with particular reference to political philosophy; he also teaches 20th-century European critical theory.
Leila Neti

Leila Neti

Irma M. and Jay F. Price Professor in English
B.A., UCLA; M.A., Ph.D., UC Irvine
Leila Neti teaches in the fields of postcolonial Anglophone literature and theory, 19th and 20th century British literature, and literary and cultural criticism.

Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Jae Yeun Choi

Visiting Assistant Professor, English
B.A. Portland State University; M.F.A University of Iowa
Jae Yeun Choi is currently visiting faculty in poetry at Occidental. She has taught at Reed College, Portland State University, and the University of Iowa. Her previous workshops and seminars have offered intensive study of the long poem, ekphrasis, the subversive power of chance, and the economic livelihood of the poet, among others. Her writing is informed by her engagement with her peers across disciplines, many of whom share practices grounded in an abiding respect for the smaller gesture. Her poems have appeared in PRESENCE, The Volta, NY Tyrant, A Plume Annual, Tin House, The Iowa Review, and Flying Object's It's My Decision series. Her chapbook Woman Carrying Thing was published by The Song Cave, and the split zine HONESTY/COMPLEY with Ethan Swan was published by F Magazine. Her poems have been presented also in exhibitions at 356 Mission, 3 Days Awake, Adams and Ollman, Lumber Room, Fourteen30 Contemporary, and Good Press Glasgow.

Chekwube O. Danladi

Writer in Residence; Visiting Assistant Professor, English
B.A., Oberlin College; M.F.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Promise Li

Visiting Instructor, Critical Theory & Social Justice
A.B., 色情视频; M., A., Princeton University; Ph.D., Princeton University (in progress)

Affiliated Faculty

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Yumi Pak

Associate Professor, Black Studies
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., P.h.D, University of California, San Diego
Yumi Pak is a student, scholar and instructor of Black literary and cultural studies, particularly within the overlaps and interstices between the United States, Scotland and Jamaica.

Emeriti/ae Faculty

Professor, English Emeritus (1976-2020)
English

Daniel Fineman鈥檚 primary fields of interest are American literature and literary theory.

Irma and Jay Price Professor of English Literature, English, Emerita
English

A 2007 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, she has published a number of poetry and fiction books and chapbooks, including Vertigo (2008), which was a National Poetry Series selection, and In a Landscape of Having to Repeat (2004), which received the PEN USA 2005 poetry award.

Her...

Professor, English, Emeritus (1981-2019)
English
Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies
Interdisciplinary Writing

Swift's main field of teaching and research was late 19th- and early 20th-century British and American literature. He also taught for many years an interdisciplinary course on Los Angeles in Occidental's cultural studies program.

Professor, English; Emerita
English
Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies

Research Fields

Jean Wyatt鈥檚 main research field is contemporary women writers of color, with a special focus on African American and Black British women writers.

Contact English
Swan Hall 233