20th and 21st Century
Affiliated Faculty
Full-time Faculty
Rachel Adams
Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Provost's Senior Faculty Teaching Scholar
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Sarah Cole
Dean of Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Denise Cruz
Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature; Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Brent Hayes Edwards
Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
T. Austin Graham
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Farah Jasmine Griffin
William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies and Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies
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Matthew Hart
Director of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature & Director of Graduate Studies
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Saidiya V Hartman
University Professor
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Full-time Faculty
Sue Mendelsohn
Director of Writing Center, Associate Director of First Year Writing, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Ross Posnock
Anna S. Garbedian Professor of the Humanities
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Full-time Faculty
Shana L. Redmond
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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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
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Full-time Faculty
Joseph R. Slaughter
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights
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Colm Tóibín
Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities
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Full-time Faculty
Gauri Viswanathan
Director of the South Asia Institute; Class of 1933 Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Nicole B. Wallack
Director of Undergraduate Writing Program; Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature
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Full-time Faculty
Jennifer Wenzel
Director of PhD Careers Advising; Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
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Affiliated Graduate Students
On the Market
Therese Anne Cox
PhD Student
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Dissertation / Thesis Title
Structures of Feeling: Architecture and Literature in Postwar Britain and Ireland
