Dorri Beam
Assistant Professor of English

B.A. University of Virginia ’90
Ph.D. University of Virginia ’01

Expertise: Assessing the uses of highly wrought style as an erotic modality exploited by women writers, tracing its discursive affinities with 19th-century flower language and its conceptual borrowings from mesmeric theories of the body's relation to the soul.

Lynn Hejinian
Professor of English

B.A. Harvard University ’63

Expertise: Poetry writing and analysis; modern and post-modern literature; American literature.

Heather McHugh
Professor of English

B.A. Harvard University ’70
M.A. University of Denver ’72

Expertise: Creative writing; poetry; poetry in English and translation; interdisciplinary arts including film, electronic, graphic, visual and musical.