Emily A. Haddad

Emily Haddad, Dean and Professor of English, oversees the departments, interdisciplinary programs, and centers that make up the multi-faceted College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She supports the College’s faculty, staff, and students in their teaching, scholarly, and service pursuits, while promoting the liberal arts and sciences as fundamental to an educated citizenry and modern workforce.

Professor Haddad came to the University of Maine in the summer of 2014 after serving as a faculty member and administrator at the University of South Dakota. A graduate of Harvard University, she is a specialist in nineteenth-century British literature and the author of Orientalist Poetics (Ashgate, 2002).