19th Century

Affiliated Faculty

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Full-time Faculty

James Adams

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

19th Century British Literature and Culture

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Interdisciplinary History of Victorian Britain

Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

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Full-time Faculty

Joseph Albernaz

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

British Romantic Poetry

Comparative Literature

Francophone and German

The Enlightenment

Literature and Philosophy

Critical Theory

Political Theory

Restoration and 18th Century

Poetry and Poetics

Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge

Science and Environmental Studies

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Full-time Faculty

Branka Arsić

Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

19-Century Literatures of the Americas

History of American Life Sciences

Religious History of the Americas

Material Culture/ Object Studies

Theories of the Archive

American and the Americas

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Full-time Faculty

Nicholas Dames

Director of Undergraduate Studies; Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities

Research Interests

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

History of the Book and Manuscript Studies

Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

History of Reading

The Contemporary Novel

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Full-time Faculty

Andrew Delbanco

Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies

Research Interests

American Literature from the Colonial Period through the Nineteenth-Century

American and the Americas

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Full-time Faculty

T. Austin Graham

Director of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century

American and the Americas

African American and African Diaspora

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

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Full-time Faculty

Erik Gray

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Poetry and Poetics

English literature and the Classics

Restoration and 18th Century

British Romantic Poetry

Comparative Literature

19th Century British Literature and Culture

Victorian Literature

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Full-time Faculty

Saidiya V Hartman

University Professor

Research Interests

African American and American Literature and Cultural History

Law and Literature

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Law and Humanities

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

20th and 21st Century

American and the Americas

African American and African Diaspora

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

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Full-time Faculty

Carlos Alonso Nugent

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

American and the Americas

Latinx Literature and Culture

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Science and Environmental Studies

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge

20th and 21st Century

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Full-time Faculty

Aaron J Ritzenberg

Senior Lecturer in Discipline in English and Comparative Literature, Associate Director of the Undergraduate Writing Program, Director of First-Year Writing

Research Interests

Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American Literature

20th and 21st Century

Rhetoric and Composition

Writing Studies and Pedagogy

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

American and the Americas

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Full-time Faculty

Gauri Viswanathan

Class of 1933 Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Cultural and Intellectual History

Religious Studies

19th Century British and Colonial Cultural Studies

History of Disciplines

20th and 21st Century

Postcolonial and Global South

Asia/South Asia