Britain

Erik Gray

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

19th Century

English literature and the Classics

Restoration and 18th Century

19th Century British Literature and Culture

British Romantic Poetry

Comparative Literature

Victorian Literature

Matthew Hart

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century

Modernism

Postcolonial and Global South

Political Theory

The Contemporary Novel

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Law and Humanities

American and the Americas

20th-Century French, German, British, American

Faculty Emeriti

Marianne Hirsch

William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of English

Research Interests

Comparative Literature

Feminist Theory

Cultural Memory

Holocaust Studies

Renaissance / Early Modern

Faculty Emeriti

Jean E. Howard

George Delacorte Professor Emerita in the Humanities

Research Interests

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

Rebecca Kastleman

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century Modernism and Postmodernism

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

American and the Americas

Postcolonial and Global South

19th Century British Literature

Sharon Marcus

Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

Material Culture/ Object Studies

19th-Century British Literature

Edward Mendelson

Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities

Research Interests

20th-Century British and American Literature

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

Molly Murray

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

Research Interests

The History of Poetics

Political Theory

The Reception of St. Augustine in Early Modern England

The English Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Metaphysical Wit

Autobiography

Renaissance / Early Modern

Maura Spiegel

Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

20th-Century British and American Literature

Medical Humanities

19th Century British Literature and Culture

19th-Century European Novel

European Modernism

American Studies

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Early Modern English Literature

Alan Stewart

Associate Chair; Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

History and Culture

Manuscript Studies

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Renaissance / Early Modern

History of the Book and Manuscript Studies

History of the Book and Manuscript Studies

Hannah M. Weaver

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century British and Irish Literature

Affiliated Graduate Students

On the Market

Therese Anne Cox

PhD Student

Research Interests

The Contemporary Novel

Architecture and Urban Planning

20th and 21st Century

Asian American and Asian Diaspora

Dissertation / Thesis Title

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

Jay Gao

PhD Student

Research Interests

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Experimental and Avant-Garde

20th and 21st Century

World Literature