Literature Faculty


  • Photo of John M. Archer
    John M. Archer
    Professor of English
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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
    Associate Professor of English; Director of Graduate Studies for English
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    Research/Interest: American literature and culture; literacy, print culture, and the history of the book; 19th century social reform and the development of mass media; the cultural geography of humanist enterprise; graduate training and program development in digital humanities
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    Jennifer J. Baker
    Associate Professor of English; Director of Undergraduate Studies for English
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    Research/Interest: American literature; colonial, early national and antebellum literary and intellectual history; American Romanticism
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    Bill Blake
    Assistant Professor of English, Drama; Adviser for Dramatic Literature
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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
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    Nicholas T Boggs
    Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Student Research and Advisement, Department of English;
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    Research/Interest: Twentieth and twenty-first century American literature; African American literature, especially James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison; gender and sexuality studies; creative non-fiction.
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    Christopher Cannon
    Professor of English; Chair
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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
  • Photo of Una Chaudhuri
    Una Chaudhuri
    Collegiate Professor; Professor of English, Drama; Professor, Environmental Studies
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    Research/Interest: Modern Drama; theatre history; performance theory; animal studies; eco-criticism
  • Photo of Patricia Crain
    Patricia Crain
    Associate Professor of English
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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
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    Patrick H Deer
    Associate Professor of English
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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
    Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, English; Chair of Social and Cultural Analysis
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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
  • Photo of Denis Donoghue
    Denis Donoghue
    Professor of English
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    Research/Interest: Modern English, Irish, and American Literature; aesthetics and the practice on reading
  • Photo of Juliet Fleming
    Juliet Fleming
    Associate Professor of English
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    Research/Interest: Renaissance literature and culture; history of the book; literary theory; theories of writing.
  • Photo of Elaine Freedgood
    Elaine Freedgood
    Professor of English
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    Research/Interest: Victorian literature and culture; critical theory; history of the novel
  • Photo of Toral Gajarawala
    Toral Gajarawala
    Assistant Professor of English, Comparative Literature; Graduate Job Placement Coordinator for English
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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
    Professor of English
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    Research/Interest: English Renaissance literature; interrelationships of literature and the visual arts; literature and disease
  • Photo of Lisa Gitelman
    Lisa Gitelman
    Professor of English; Professor of Media Culture and Communication (Steinhardt)
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    Research/Interest: Media history; American print culture; new media in historical context; techniques of inscription
  • Photo of John Guillory
    John Guillory
    Silver Professor of English; Professor of English
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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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    Richard  Halpern
    Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature; Professor of English; Recruitment Officer for English
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    Research/Interest: Renaissance literature; Shakespeare; literary theory; modernism; Greek drama
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    Phillip Brian Harper
    Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature; Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, English
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    Research/Interest: Modern and contemporary U.S. literary and cultural studies; African-American literature and culture; gender and sexuality studies
  • Photo of Anselm Haverkamp
    Anselm Haverkamp
    Professor of English
    Research/Interest: literature and philosophy; metaphorology; law and literature; canon formation. Shakespeare, Keats, Joyce.
  • Photo of Josephine Gattuso Hendin
    Josephine Gattuso Hendin
    Tiro A Segno Professor of Italian American Studies; Professor of English
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    Research/Interest: Contemporary American literature and culture; psychology and literature; ethnicity and literature; creative writing
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    David L. Hoover
    Professor of English
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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
  • Photo of Laurence S. Lockridge
    Laurence S Lockridge
    Professor of English
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    Research/Interest: Romantic literature; philosophical criticism; biography; American cultural studies
  • Photo of John Maynard
    John Maynard
    Professor of English
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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
    Associate Professor of English; Deputy Chair of English
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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
    Associate Professor of English
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    Research/Interest: African-American literature, culture, and intellectual history; nineteenth and twentieth-century United States literature; History of the Book
  • Photo of Maureen McLane
    Maureen N. McLane
    Associate Professor of English; Director of Undergraduate Honors for English
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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
  • Photo of Perry Meisel
    Perry Meisel
    Professor of English
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    Research/Interest: Modern literature; critical theory
  • Photo of Haruko Momma
    Haruko Momma
    Professor of English
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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
  • Photo of Peter Nicholls
    Peter Nicholls
    Henry James Professor; Professor of English
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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
    Associate Professor of English, Social and Cultural Analysis
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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
    Associate Professor of English; American Studies (affiliate); Associate Dean of Humanities, NYU Abu Dhabi
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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
  • Photo of Mary Poovey
    Mary Poovey
    Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities; Professor of English
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    Research/Interest: Victorian Literature and Culture, Economic history of Great Britain and History of Financial Institutions
  • Photo of Sonya Posmentier
    Sonya  Posmentier
    Assistant Professor, Department of English
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    Research/Interest: Black diasporic literature Poetry and poetics Ecological and environmental theory Global Anglophone literatures Sound studies
  • Photo of Catherine Robson
    Catherine Robson
    Associate Professor of English
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    Research/Interest: 19th-century British Literature, Victorian Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
  • Photo of Martha Dana Rust
    Martha Dana Rust
    Associate Professor of English; Director, Medieval and Renaissance Center
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    Research/Interest: Medieval literature and culture; technologies of writing; phenomenology of reading; picture theory; cognitive science of reading; literary representations of illness and disease; memory studies.
  • S.S. Sandhu
    Associate Professor of English, Social and Cultural Analysis
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    Research/Interest: Toil; avant pulp; Asiatica; off-kilter Englishness; artists' books; topographics; listening; the cinematical; migrant aesthetics; poetics and sociology of sport; Sweden.
  • Photo of Lytle Shaw
    Lytle Shaw
    Associate Professor of English; Director of Graduate Admissions for English
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    Research/Interest: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Contemporary Poetry; Art History; Theory, Urbanism
  • Photo of Clifford Siskin
    Clifford Siskin
    Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English and American Literature; Director, The Re:Enlightenment Project at New York University and the New York Public Library;
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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.
  • Photo of Jeffrey L. Spear
    Jeffrey L Spear
    Associate Professor of English
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    Research/Interest: Victorian studies; visual culture; Victorian art movements and British India
  • Photo of G. Gabrielle Starr
    Gabrielle Starr
    Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science; Professor of English
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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
  • Photo of Catharine R. Stimpson
    Catharine R Stimpson
    University Professor; Professor of English
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    Research/Interest: modern literature; women in culture and society; and education
  • Photo of Bryan Waterman
    Bryan Waterman
    Associate Professor of English
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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
    Associate Professor of English, Comparative Literature
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    Research/Interest: Asia-Pacific literature and cultural studies; postcolonial studies; spatial and architectural theory; comparative modernities; feminist and critical theory
  • Photo of Robert Young
    Robert J.C. Young
    Silver Professor; Professor of English, Comparative Literature
    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.