Contact us

  • Administrative Faculty

  • Chair
    Margaret Russett
    russett@usc.edu
    (213) 740-2808
    THH 404A

  • Director of Undergraduate Studies
    Lawrence Green
    lgreen@usc.edu
    (213) 740-3731
    THH 426

  • Director of Graduate Studies
    Emily Anderson
    ehanders@usc.edu
    (213) 740-3744
    THH 402J

  • Director of Graduate Studies, Creative Writing
    Aimee Bender
    abender@usc.edu
    (213) 740-3742
    THH 408

  • Director of Graduate Placement
    Karen Tongson
    tongson@usc.edu
    (213) 740-2817
    THH 416

  • Administrative Staff

  • Administrative Manager
    Nellie Ayala-Reyes
    ayala@dornsife.usc.edu
    (213) 740-3726
    THH 404B

  • Administrative Assistant
    B. K. Watson
    bwatson@usc.edu
    (213) 740-2810
    THH 404

  • Undergraduate Student Coordinator
    Rebecca Woods
    rrwoods@usc.edu
    (213) 740-3725
    THH 404H

  • Graduate Student Coordinator, Ph.D. Literature
    Flora Ruiz
    fruiz@dornsife.usc.edu
    (213) 740-3728
    THH 404C

  • Graduate Student Coordinator, Ph.D. Literature & Creative Writing
    Janalynn Bliss
    cwphd@usc.edu
    (213) 821-0477
    THH 431

Faculty directory

For a complete list of current faculty contact information, please click here.

Faculty publications pictured above:
Mark Irwin, Tall If New Issues Poetry & Prose 2008; Thomas Gustafson, Representative Words: Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776-1865 Cambridge UP 1993; Bruce R. Smith, Phenomenal Shakespeare Wiley-Blackwell 2010; Alice Gambrell, Women Intellectuals, Modernism, and Difference: Transatlantic Culture, 1919-1945 Cambridge UP 1997; Cecilia Woloch, Carpathia BOA Editions Ltd. 2009.


  • USC Dornsife Department of English
  • 3501 Trousdale Parkway
  • Taper Hall of Humanities 404
  • University Park
  • Los Angeles, CA 90089-0354
  • Fax: (213) 741-0377