
Professor Hungerford has been a member of the faculty at Yale since 1999. Previously she taught at Middlebury College in Vermont. Professor Hungerford is the author of The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification (University of Chicago Press, 2003) and Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960 (Princeton University Press, 2010).
Professor Hungerford holds a bachelor’s degree in political science, master’s degrees in humanities, poetry, and literature, and a Ph.D. in English and American literature, all from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.


