The Contemporary Novel

Affiliated Faculty

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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

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

Mia Cecily Florin-Sefton

Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century American and the Americas

Prose Fiction/History of the Novel

The Contemporary Novel

Gender & Sexuality Studies

Political Economy

Marxism and Critical Social Theory

Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Studies

History of Ideas

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Full-time Faculty

Matthew Hart

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

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