Regular Faculty
James Ford III, Chair
Associate Professor, English and Black Studies
B.A., Morehouse College; M.A., Ph.D, University of Notre Dame
James Edward Ford III’s teaching and scholarship focus on three fields: The Aesthetics of Black Radicalism; Black Popular Culture; and Western Political Thought.
Ross Lerner
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. Read his Oxy Story profile.
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
Professor, 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.
On Special Appointment
Mrinalini Chakravorty
Non Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, English
B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Jennifer Espinoza
Non Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, English
B.A., M.F.A., University of California, Riverside
Christopher D. Soto
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, English
B.A., California State University, Long Beach; M.F.A., New York University
