Britain

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

Full-time Faculty

Julie Crawford

Associate Director of Graduate Studies; Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities

Research Interests

16th and 17th Century English Literature

Women's Literature

Protestant Culture

Cultural Studies

Feminist Theory

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Renaissance / Early Modern

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

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Full-time Faculty

Patricia Dailey

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Medieval Literature

Medieval Women's Poetry and Prose

Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Critical Theory

Psychoanalytic Theory

Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Studies

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

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Full-time Faculty

Jenny Davidson

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Eighteenth-century British Literature and Culture

Cultural and Intellectual History

History of Science

The Contemporary Novel

Restoration and 18th Century

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

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Affiliated Faculty

Eileen Gillooly

Executive Director, Heyman Center for the Humanities and Society of Fellows; Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Research Interests

19th Century British Literature and Culture

Gender and Psychoanalytic Studies

19th-Century Moral Psychology

19th-Century British Colonial Literature and Culture, including Ireland

Medical Humanities

Public Humanities

Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Studies

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

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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

Matthew Hart

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

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century

Poetry and Poetics

Postcolonial and Global South

Political Theory

The Contemporary Novel

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Law and Humanities

American and the Americas

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

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Faculty Emeriti

Marianne Hirsch

William Peterfield Trent Professor of English

Research Interests

Comparative Literature

20th-Century French, German, British, American

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Feminist Theory

Cultural Memory

Holocaust Studies

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

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Full-time Faculty

Jean E. Howard

George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities

Research Interests

Renaissance / Early Modern

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

New Historicism

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

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Full-time Faculty

Rebecca Kastleman

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

20th and 21st Century Modernism and Postmodernism

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

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

American and the Americas

Postcolonial and Global South

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

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Full-time Faculty

Sharon Marcus

Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

19th Century British Literature

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

Material Culture/ Object Studies

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Full-time Faculty

Edward Mendelson

Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities

Research Interests

19th-Century British Literature

20th-Century British and American Literature

Poetry and Poetics

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Full-time Faculty

Molly Murray

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

Research Interests

16th-and 17th-Century English Literature and Culture

The History of Poetics

Political Theory

The Reception of St. Augustine in Early Modern England

The English Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Metaphysical Wit

Renaissance / Early Modern

Poetry and Poetics

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Full-time Faculty

Maura Spiegel

Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Medical Humanities

20th-Century British and American Literature

19th Century British Literature and Culture

19th-Century European Novel

European Modernism

American Studies

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

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Full-time Faculty

Alan Stewart

Associate Chair; Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Early Modern English Literature

History and Culture

Manuscript Studies

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Renaissance / Early Modern

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

History of the Book and Manuscript Studies

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Full-time Faculty

Hannah M. Weaver

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Medieval Literature

Multilingualism

Manuscript Studies

Early Middle English

French of England

History of the Book and Manuscript Studies

Affiliated Graduate Students

On the Market

Therese Anne Cox

PhD Student

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century British and Irish Literature

The Contemporary Novel

Architecture and Urban Planning

Public Humanities

Poetry and Poetics

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

20th and 21st Century

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Structures of Feeling: Architecture and Literature in Postwar Britain and Ireland