Critical Theory

Affiliated Faculty

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Visiting Faculty

C Riley Snorton

Visiting Professor of English and Comparative Literature and ISSG

Research Interests

African American and African Diaspora Literature

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Critical Theory

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Transgender Studies

Film and Media Studies

Theater and Performance

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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

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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

Early Medieval English Poetry

Critical Theory

Psychoanalytic Theory

Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Studies

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Affiliated Graduate Students

Amy S. Barenboim

PhD Student

Research Interests

African American and African Diaspora

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Caribbean Studies

20th and 21st-Century British Literature

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Critical Theory

Wesley Cornwell

PhD Student

Research Interests

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Critical Theory

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Winona Guo

PhD Student

Research Interests

Asian American and Asian Diaspora

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

20th and 21st Century American Literature

Comparative Literature

Translation Studies

Critical Theory

experimental writing

Deeva Gupta

PhD Student

Research Interests

Postcolonial and Global South

Critical Theory

Justin Huwe

PhD Student

Research Interests

20th-Century British literature and culture

20th and 21st Century American Literature

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Critical Theory

Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Theory

Elena Rotzokou

PhD Student

Research Interests

18th- and 19th- Century British Poetry

British Romantic Poetry

Victorian Literature

Poetry and Poetics

Critical Theory

Caribbean Studies

Channelle Russell

PhD Student

Research Interests

African American and African Diaspora

Caribbean Studies

20th and 21st Century American Literature

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Creative Writing and Creative-Critical

Critical Theory

Cultural and Intellectual History

Feminist Theory

Connor Spencer

PhD Student

Research Interests

Critical Theory

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Emma Styles-Swaim

PhD Student

Research Interests

Early Medieval Literature

Medieval Literature

Critical Theory

Early Medieval Grammar

Chloe Tsolakoglou

PhD Student

Research Interests

Global Anglophone Literature

World Literature

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Comparative Literature and Translation

Creative Writing and Creative-Critical

Poetry and Poetics

Critical Theory

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Modern Greek Literature