People
Standing Literature Faculty
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John M. Archer
Email: john.archer@nyu.edu
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
Email: tom.augst@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: American literature and culture; material and cultural history of literacy; literary practices of everyday life; ethics and civic life in American liberalism.
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Jennifer J. Baker
Email: jbaker@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: American literature; colonial, early national and antebellum literary and intellectual history; American Romanticism
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Bill Blake
Email: billblake@nyu.edu
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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Christopher Cannon
Email: christopher.cannon@nyu.edu
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
Email: uc1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Modern Drama; theatre history; performance theory; animal studies; eco-criticism
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Patricia Crain
Email: patcrain@nyu.edu
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
Email: patrick.deer@nyu.edu
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
Email: carolyn.dinshaw@nyu.edu
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
Email: dd1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Modern English, Irish, and American Literature; aesthetics and the practice on reading
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Juliet Fleming
Email: jf102@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Renaissance literature and culture; history of the book; literary theory; theories of writing.
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Elaine Freedgood
Email: ef38@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Victorian literature and culture; critical theory; history of the novel
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Toral Gajarawala
Email: tqg1828@nyu.edu
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
Email: ernest.gilman@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: English Renaissance literature; interrelationships of literature and the visual arts; literature and disease
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Lisa Gitelman
Email: gitelman@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Media history; American print culture; new media in historical context; techniques of inscription
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John Guillory
Email: john.guillory@nyu.edu
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
Email: phil.harper@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Modern and contemporary U.S. literary and cultural studies; African-American literature and culture; gender and sexuality studies
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Martin Harries
Email: martin.harries@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Modern theater and mass culture; film; Shakespeare; theory; spectatorship
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Anselm Haverkamp
Research/Interest: literature and philosophy; metaphorology; law and literature; canon formation. Shakespeare, Keats, Joyce.
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Josephine Gattuso Hendin
Email: jh6@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Contemporary American literature and culture; psychology and literature; ethnicity and literature; creative writing
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David L. Hoover
Email: david.hoover@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: authorship attribution, linguistic stylistics, statistical stylistics, corpus stylistics, humanities computing, English language, animal language and cognition, Old English meter
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Laurence S Lockridge
Email: ll3@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Romantic literature; philosophical criticism; biography; American cultural studies
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John Maynard
Email: jrm4@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Victorian literature and culture; literary theory; reader theory; biography; sexuality and literature; cultural studies; modern literature
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Paula McDowell
Email: paula.mcdowell@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Eighteenth-century British literature and cultural history; history of the book; media history and theory
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Elizabeth McHenry
Email: elizabeth.mchenry@nyu.edu
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
Email: maureen.mclane@nyu.edu
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
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Haruko Momma
Email: hal.momma@nyu.edu
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
Email: pn18@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Twentieth-century British and American literature; international modernism; modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
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Crystal Parikh
Email: crystal.parikh@nyu.edu
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
Email: cyrus.patell@nyu.edu
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
Email: mary.poovey@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Victorian Literature and Culture, Economic history of Great Britain and History of Financial Institutions
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Catherine Robson
Email: catherine.robson@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: 19th-century British Literature, Victorian Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
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Martha Dana Rust
Email: martha.rust@nyu.edu
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
Email: ss162@nyu.edu
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
Email: lds2@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Contemporary Poetry; Art History; Theory, Urbanism
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Clifford Siskin
Email: clifford.siskin@nyu.edu
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
Email: jls1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Victorian studies; visual culture; Victorian art movements and British India
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Gabrielle Starr
Email: ggs3@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Eighteenth-Century literature; neuroaesthetics; materialism and aesthetics; imagination; the interrelationship of novel and lyric; Ovid and the eighteenth century
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Catharine R Stimpson
Email: catharine.stimpson@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: modern literature; women in culture and society; and education
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Bryan Waterman
Email: bryan.waterman@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: 18th- and 19th-century American literary and cultural history; New York City literary, performance, and intellectual cultures; the Revolutionary Atlantic World
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Jini Kim Watson
Email: jkw1@nyu.edu
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.
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Mark Sanders
Email: ms130@nyu.edu
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
Email: susanne.wofford@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Shakespeare, Spenser, Renaissance and classical epic, comparative European drama, and narrative and literary theory
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Edward Ziter
Email: ted.ziter@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: 19th-century British theatre and popular entertainment, Romantic drama, the history of acting, Arab theatre
Director of the Expository Writing Program
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Pat Hoy
Email: ph3@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: the essay; writing pedagogy; Forster, Woolf, Lawrence, and Conrad
Senior Creative Writing Faculty
Visiting Faculty
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Erin B Mee
Email: ebm2049@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Contemporary Indian performance, Theories of acting and directing, Spectatorship, Neuroperformance, Contemporary Remakings of Greek tragedy
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Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Email: rs191@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Postcolonial studies; feminist theory; gender and culture in South Asia; Indian writing in English; British Victorian literature
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Elizabeth Twitchell
Email: elizabeth.twitchell@nyu.edu
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
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Mary J Carruthers
Email: mary.carruthers@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Medieval literature and rhetoric; memory and mnemonic technique; the history of spirituality
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Christopher Collins
Email: cc3@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Psychology of literature and rhetoric; American poetry and poetics
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Dustin Griffin
Email: dustin.griffin@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Restoration and 18th-century British literature; authorship; satire; Milton
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