American and the Americas
Affiliated Faculty
Full-time Faculty
Rachel Adams
Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Provost's Senior Faculty Teaching Scholar
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Branka Arsić
Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Denise Cruz
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Andrew Delbanco
Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies
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Brent Hayes Edwards
Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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T. Austin Graham
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Farah Jasmine Griffin
University Professor
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Matthew Hart
Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature; Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Saidiya V Hartman
University Professor
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Rebecca Kastleman
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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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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Carlos Alonso Nugent
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Robert O'Meally
Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Shana L. Redmond
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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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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Dustin D. Stewart
Associate Director of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Nicole B. Wallack
Director of Undergraduate Writing Program; Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature
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Affiliated Graduate Students
Sophia Houghton
PhD Student
Research Interests
American and the Americas, Early American, 19th Century American Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Aesthetics, Ecocriticism, Philosophy, Postcolonial Studies
Sophia Kathleen Houghton
PhD Student
Research Interests
American and the Americas, Early American, 19th Century American, Poetry and Poetics, Aesthetics and Humanism, Ecocriticism, Philosophy, Postcolonial Studies
Pranav Menon
PhD Student
Research Interests
Studies legal and literary imaginations of space and place, American empire, Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies, American and the Americas, Global Anglophone Literature, Postcolonial and Global South, 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Poetry and Poetics, Cultural Studies, Ecocriticism, Science and Environmental Studies, Public Humanities, Law and Humanities, Marxism
Nathan Motulsky
PhD Student
Research Interests
Ethnicity, Race, Indigenous Studies, American and the Americas, Caribbean, Early Modern, Early American, 19th Century American, Ecocriticism, Science and Environmental Studies
Elena Rotzokou
PhD Student
Research Interests
Britain, American and the Americas, Caribbean, 18th Century British, 19th Century British, Romanticism, Poetry and Poetics, Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Ecocriticism
Lilith Todd
PhD Student
Research Interests
18th-Century English Literature, Ethnicity and Race, Poetry and Poetics, Medical and Health Humanities, Indigenous Studies, American and the Americas, Caribbean Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Early American Literature, Aesthetics, Marxism, Public Humanities
Chloe Tsolakoglou
PhD Student