People

Standing Literature Faculty
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    John M. Archer
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    Research/Interest: Renaissance drama; early modern literature and culture; the history of subjectivity; literary theory; colonial and postcolonial studies
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    Thomas Augst
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    Research/Interest: American literature and culture; material and cultural history of literacy; literary practices of everyday life; ethics and civic life in American liberalism.
  • Photo of Jennifer J. Baker
    Jennifer J. Baker
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    Research/Interest: American literature; colonial, early national and antebellum literary and intellectual history; American Romanticism
  • Photo of Bill Blake
    Bill Blake
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    Research/Interest: 17th- and 18th-century British literature and cultural history; theater history; wartime and postwar cultures; public arts controversies; humanities computing; text mining
  • Photo of Christopher Cannon
    Christopher Cannon
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    Research/Interest: Grammar and grammar school learning; early Middle English; Chaucer; Langland; problems of literary history; language and theories of language
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    Una Chaudhuri
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    Research/Interest: Modern Drama; theatre history; performance theory; animal studies; eco-criticism
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    Patricia Crain
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    Research/Interest: Nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture; history of books and reading; literacy studies; childhood studies; critical pedagogy and civic engagement
  • Photo of Patrick Deer
    Patrick H Deer
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    Research/Interest: Modernism; war culture and war literature; contemporary British literature and culture; the novel and film; cultural studies; Anglophone literature and postcolonial studies.
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    Carolyn Dinshaw
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    Research/Interest: 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
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    Denis Donoghue
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    Research/Interest: Modern English, Irish, and American Literature; aesthetics and the practice on reading
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    Juliet Fleming
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    Research/Interest: Renaissance literature and culture; history of the book; literary theory; theories of writing.
  • Elaine Freedgood
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    Research/Interest: Victorian literature and culture; critical theory; history of the novel
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    Toral Gajarawala
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    Research/Interest: Postcolonial and subaltern studies; theories of the novel; narrative theory, realisms, modernisms, contemporary Anglophone and vernacular fiction.
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    Ernest B Gilman
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    Research/Interest: English Renaissance literature; interrelationships of literature and the visual arts; literature and disease
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    Lisa Gitelman
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    Research/Interest: Media history; American print culture; new media in historical context; techniques of inscription
  • John Guillory
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    Research/Interest: 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
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    Phillip Brian Harper
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    Research/Interest: Modern and contemporary U.S. literary and cultural studies; African-American literature and culture; gender and sexuality studies
  • Martin Harries
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    Research/Interest: Modern theater and mass culture; film; Shakespeare; theory; spectatorship
  • Anselm Haverkamp
    Research/Interest: literature and philosophy; metaphorology; law and literature; canon formation. Shakespeare, Keats, Joyce.
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    Josephine Gattuso Hendin
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    Research/Interest: Contemporary American literature and culture; psychology and literature; ethnicity and literature; creative writing
  • Photo of David L. Hoover
    David L. Hoover
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    Research/Interest: authorship attribution, linguistic stylistics, statistical stylistics, corpus stylistics, humanities computing, English language, animal language and cognition, Old English meter
  • Laurence S Lockridge
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    Research/Interest: Romantic literature; philosophical criticism; biography; American cultural studies
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    John Maynard
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    Research/Interest: Victorian literature and culture; literary theory; reader theory; biography; sexuality and literature; cultural studies; modern literature
  • Photo of Paula McDowell
    Paula McDowell
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    Research/Interest: Eighteenth-century British literature and cultural history; history of the book; media history and theory
  • Photo of Elizabeth McHenry
    Elizabeth McHenry
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    Research/Interest: African-American literature, culture, and intellectual history; nineteenth and twentieth-century United States literature; History of the Book
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    Maureen N. McLane
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    Research/Interest: 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
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    Research/Interest: Modern literature; critical theory
  • Haruko Momma
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    Research/Interest: Old English language, literature, and culture; medieval literature and culture; history of the English language; philology and historical linguistics; history of language studies; medievalism
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    Peter Nicholls
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    Research/Interest: Twentieth-century British and American literature; international modernism; modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
  • Photo of Crystal Parikh
    Crystal Parikh
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    Research/Interest: Asian American literature and studies; Latino/Chicano literature and studies; feminist and critical race theory; postcolonial studies; twentieth-century American literature
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    Cyrus R. K. Patell
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    Research/Interest: American literature and culture; history and culture of New York City; theory and practice of cosmopolitanism; minority discourse; cultural studies; literary historiography
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    Mary Poovey
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    Research/Interest: Victorian Literature and Culture, Economic history of Great Britain and History of Financial Institutions
  • Photo of Catherine Robson
    Catherine Robson
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    Research/Interest: 19th-century British Literature, Victorian Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
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    Martha Dana Rust
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    Research/Interest: Medieval literature and culture; technologies of writing; phenomenology of reading; picture theory; cognitive linguistics; literary representations of illness and disease.
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    S.S. Sandhu
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    Research/Interest: Toil; avant pulp; Asiatica; off-kilter Englishness; artist’s books; topographics; listening; the cinematical; migrant aesthetics; poetics and sociology of sport; Sweden.
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  • Lytle Shaw
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    Research/Interest: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Contemporary Poetry; Art History; Theory, Urbanism
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    Clifford Siskin
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    Research/Interest: Literary, social, and technological change, 1700-1850 (British); print culture and digital culture; literary theory and genre theory; the organization of knowledge.
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    Jeffrey L Spear
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    Research/Interest: Victorian studies; visual culture; Victorian art movements and British India
  • Gabrielle Starr
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    Research/Interest: Eighteenth-Century literature; neuroaesthetics; materialism and aesthetics; imagination; the interrelationship of novel and lyric; Ovid and the eighteenth century
  • Catharine R Stimpson
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    Research/Interest: modern literature; women in culture and society; and education
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    Bryan Waterman
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    Research/Interest: 18th- and 19th-century American literary and cultural history; New York City literary, performance, and intellectual cultures; the Revolutionary Atlantic World
  • Photo of Jini Kim Watson
    Jini Kim Watson
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    Research/Interest: Asia-Pacific literature and cultural studies; postcolonial studies; spatial and architectural theory; comparative modernities; feminist and critical theory
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    Robert J.C. Young
    Research/Interest: Postcolonial literatures and cultures; the history of colonialism and anti-colonialism; cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries; literary and cultural theory.
Associated Faculty
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    Jacques Lezra
    Research/Interest: Comparative literature and literary theory; Shakespeare; the literary and visual culture of Early Modern Europe.
  • Photo of Mark Sanders
    Mark Sanders
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    Research/Interest: African Literature, Literary Theory, Law and Literature, Philosophy and Literature, South African Literature and Intellectual History, Testimony, Autobiography, Ethics, Psychoanalysis.
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    Susanne Wofford
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    Research/Interest: Shakespeare, Spenser, Renaissance and classical epic, comparative European drama, and narrative and literary theory
  • Edward Ziter
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    Research/Interest: 19th-century British theatre and popular entertainment, Romantic drama, the history of acting, Arab theatre
Director of the Expository Writing Program
  • Pat Hoy
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    Research/Interest: the essay; writing pedagogy; Forster, Woolf, Lawrence, and Conrad
Senior Creative Writing Faculty
Visiting Faculty
  • Erin B Mee
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    Research/Interest: Contemporary Indian performance, Theories of acting and directing, Spectatorship, Neuroperformance, Contemporary Remakings of Greek tragedy
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    Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
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    Research/Interest: Postcolonial studies; feminist theory; gender and culture in South Asia; Indian writing in English; British Victorian literature
  • Photo of Elizabeth Twitchell
    Elizabeth Twitchell
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    Research/Interest: 19th- and 20th-century American literature; the American novel since 1945; Africa in American fiction; postcolonial studies; humanitarianism; critical theory; visual arts
Emeritus Faculty