Current Title: Associate Professor of English

Megan Burke Witzleben is an Associate Professor of English. Specializing in material aspects of Victorian literature, she examines domestic environments as tools depicting interiority in the works of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and E.M. Forster. In addition to teaching literature courses such as The City in Literature and The Novel, she has presented and published on such topics as homelessness in Victorian literature, women’s voices in architectural discourse, and teaching Dickens’s short stories. Current academic projects include articles on the British home during the age of Empire.

Department:  English

Office Location:   115 Bogel Hall

Email:   mwitzleben@hilbert.edu

Phone:   716-926-8838 ext. 387

Education/Degrees:

Ph.D., Fordham University (2012)

MA, SUNY Buffalo (2003)

BA, Georgetown University (2000)

Additional Facts and Honors:

Rowed competitively for 6 years (1993-1999) 

Canadian Henley Women's flyweight 4+ : 1st place (1996)

Georgetown University Women's Novice 8: stroke or 2 seat, Coach's Award (1997)

Georgetown University Lightweight Men's Varsity 8 and 4+: coxwain, Greg Carrol Spirit Award (1998)

University of Dublin/ Trinity College Ladies' Boat Club: 2 seat or coxwain (1998-99)

Buffalo Seminary crew coach (2003-2006)

Athletic Hall Of Fame, Buffalo Seminary - 2007 Induction: 1994 Crew Team Member   

Member of Checkers Athletic Club 

2021 Philadelphia Marathon

local 5k, 8k, and half-marathon road races

2023 Boston Marathon