The English Department is part of Humanities at Wagner with office[s] located on the [2nd and 3rd] floors of Parker Hall. This faculty listing does not include part time or adjunct professors.

Dr. Anne Schotter, Professor
B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., City University of New York
Academic interests: Middle English literature, medieval Latin comedies, Gender in medieval literature.
Courses taught: Medieval Literature, Chaucer, Homer to Castiglione, British Literature Survey, Modern English and Irish Literature, European literature in translation, Women Writers, the city in literature.
Dr. Schotter's Website  

Dr. Susan Bernardo, Department Chair, Professor
B.A., Gordon College; M.A., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College
Academic interests: Victorian novel, fairy tale, gothic literature, science fiction and fantasy.
Research: Victorian versions of "Beauty and the Beast," Oscar Wilde's fairy tales, The fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
Courses taught: Victorian Literature, Romantic Period, The Study of Fairy Tales, English Gothic and Detective Fiction .
Dr. Bernardo's Website  

Dr. Christopher Hogarth, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University; BA, University of Bath, UK
Academic Interests:  Comparative Literature, Modern Languages, African Literature (especially Senegal), Literary theory, 19 & 20 Century European Literature (especially France, Italy and the UK), Cinema.
Courses taught:  World Literature, Introduction to Literary Theory, Italian Literature and Cinema, Advanced French Composition. 
Dr.  Hogarth's Website  

Dr. Ann Hurley, Professor
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Brown University; Ph.D., S.U.N.Y. Albany
Academic Interests- Early Modern studies, intersections of literature with the visual arts and visual culture, 17th century nondramatic literature, Donne studies, women writers of the 17th century, rare book and manuscript studies.
Courses Taught- Renaissance and Restoration literature; Shakespeare; Advanced Drama: Renaissance and Modern; Western Canon II
Dr. Hurley's Web site 

Dr. Erica Johnson, Assistant Professor
B.A., Carleton College; M.A., University of Washington; Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Academic interests: postcolonial literature and theory, transnational modernism,Caribbean literature, comparative literature
Courses Taught: Modernism, Postcolonial Literature, World Literature, Literary Migrations
Dr. Johnson's Website  

Dr. Peter Sharpe, Professor
B.A., University of Massachusetts; M.A.,University of Michigan; Ph.D., New York University
Academic Interests: literature of the modern American South; African American literature; Native American literature; contemporary Irish literature; modern poetry (American and British); creative writing; journalism.
Research interests: Metaphor theory and meditative modern American poetry; Native American literature; the grotesque and Gothic in literature of the modern American South
Courses taught: Feature Writing; Sports Journalism; Reviewing; Creative Writing; American Literature WWI to Present; African American Literature; American Mosaic; Contemporary Irish Literature; Growin' Up In Dixie 
Dr. Sharpe's Website  

Departmental Contact:
Ms. Rosemary Anarumo, Secretary
Parker Hall, Room 313
(718) 390-3256 | Fax:  (718) 420-4158 | E-mail: ranarumo@wagner.edu