People

Standing Literature Faculty

John M. Archer Renaissance drama; early modern literature and culture; the history of subjectivity; literary theory; colonial and postcolonial studies
Thomas Augst American literature and culture; material and cultural history of literacy; literary practices of everyday life; ethics and civic life in American liberalism.
Jennifer J. Baker American literature; colonial, early national and antebellum literary and intellectual history; American Romanticism
Christopher Cannon Grammar and grammar school learning; early Middle English; Chaucer; Langland; problems of literary history; language and theories of language
Mary J Carruthers Medieval literature and rhetoric; memory and mnemonic technique; the history of spirituality
Una Chaudhuri Modern Drama; theatre history; performance theory; animal studies
Patricia Crain Nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture; history of books and reading; literacy studies; childhood studies; critical pedagogy and civic engagement
Patrick H Deer Modernism; war culture and war literature; the twentieth century British novel; the novel and film; Anglophone literature; postcolonial and cultural studies.
Carolyn L. Dinshaw Medieval literature and culture; feminist studies; lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies; history of sexuality; theories of history and historiography; mysticism; theories and experiences of temporality
Denis Donoghue Modern English, Irish, and American Literature; aesthetics and the practice on reading
Juliet Fleming Renaissance literature and culture; history of the book; literary theory.
Elaine Freedgood Victorian literature and culture; critical theory; history of the novel
Toral Gajarawala Postcolonial studies; Anglophone and Francophone literatures; contemporary Hindi literature; realism
Ernest B Gilman English Renaissance literature; interrelationships of literature and the visual arts; literature and disease
Lisa Gitelman Media history; American print culture; new media in historical context; techniques of inscription
John Guillory Renaissance poetry and prose; Shakespeare; Milton; literature and science in the Renaissance; the history of rhetoric; the history of criticism; the sociology of literary study; twentieth-century literary theory
Phillip Brian Harper Modern and contemporary U.S. literary and cultural studies; African-American literature and culture; gender and sexuality studies
Martin Harries Modern theater and mass culture; film; Shakespeare; theory; spectatorship
Anselm Haverkamp critical theory; rhetoric and law; literature and philosophy; metaphorology; canon formation 16th- to 20th C. Shakespeare, Keats, Joyce.
Josephine Gattuso Hendin Contemporary American literature and culture; psychology and literature; ethnicity and literature; creative writing
David L. Hoover authorship attribution, linguistic stylistics, statistical stylistics, corpus stylistics, humanities computing, English language, animal language and cognition, Old English meter
Laurence S Lockridge Romantic literature; philosophical criticism; biography; American cultural studies
John Maynard reader theory; biography; sexuality and literature; cultural studies; Victorian literature; modern literature
Paula McDowell Eighteenth-century British literature and cultural history; history of the book; media history and theory
Elizabeth McHenry African-American literature, culture, and intellectual history; nineteenth and twentieth-century United States literature; History of the Book
Maureen N. McLane British romanticism; English and Scottish literature and culture, 1750-1830; twentieth-century and contemporary North American poetry; modernism; postmodernism; media studies; Anglophone poetries/poetics; human sciences and literature
Perry Meisel modern literature; critical theory
Haruko Momma Old English language, literature, and culture; medieval literature and culture; history of the English language; philology and historical linguistics; history of language studies; medievalism
Karen Newman Shakespeare and Renaissance drama; early modern literature and culture, English and continental; literary theory; gender studies; cultural translation
Peter Nicholls Twentieth-century British and American literature; international modernism; modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
Crystal Parikh Asian American literature and studies; Latino/Chicano literature and studies; feminist and critical race theory; postcolonial studies; twentieth century American literature
Cyrus R. K. Patell American literature and culture; minority discourse; cultural studies; literary historiography
Mary Poovey Victorian Literature and Culture, Economic history of Great Britain and History of Financial Institutions
Martha Dana Rust Medieval literature and culture; technologies of writing; gender studies; literary representations of illness and disease.
S.S. Sandhu Toil; avant pulp; off-kilter Englishness; popular and techno cultures; metropolitan and immigrant history; cinema studies; black and Asian literatures; poetics and sociology of sport
Lytle Shaw Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Contemporary Poetry; Art History; Theory, Urbanism
Clifford Siskin Literary, social, and technological change, 1700-1850 (British); print culture and digital culture; literary theory and genre theory; the organization of knowledge.
Jeffrey L Spear Victorian studies;visual culture
Gabrielle Starr Eighteenth-Century literature; the interrelationship of novel and lyric; neural aesthetics; imagination and aesthetics
Catharine R Stimpson modern literature; women in culture and society; and education
Bryan Waterman 18th- and 19th-century American literary and cultural history; New York City literary, performance, and intellectual cultures; the Revolutionary Atlantic World
Jini Kim Watson Asia-Pacific literature and cultural studies; postcolonial studies; spatial and architectural theory; comparative modernities; feminist and critical theory
Robert J.C. Young Postcolonial literatures and cultures; the history of colonialism and anti-colonialism; cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries; literary and cultural theory.

Director of the Expository Writing Program

Pat Hoy the essay; writing pedagogy; Forster, Woolf, Lawrence, and Conrad

Permanent Creative Writing Faculty

E.L. Doctorow Fiction writing; literature
Yusef Komunyakaa Creative writing; poetry
Sharon Olds poetry; community outreach; writing workshops

Visiting Faculty

Jacqueline Goldsby 19th- and 20th-century American literary and cultural history; African-American literature and culture
George Levine Victorian fiction; Victorian prose; narrative and Science; narrative and epistemology; science and culture.
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Postcolonial studies; feminist theory; gender and culture in South Asia; Indian writing in English; British Victorian literature
Jennifer Williams Twentieth-century Black Diasporic literature and culture; women, gender, and sexuality; trauma and migration; visual culture