Critical Theory

Affiliated Faculty

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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

Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Critical Theory

Psychoanalytic Theory

Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Studies

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Affiliated Graduate Students

Julia Therese Bannon

PhD Student

Research Interests

Comparative Literature

Critical Theory

African American and African Diaspora

20th and 21st Century Literature

Irish Literature

French and Francophone

Amy Barenboim

PhD Student

Research Interests

African American and African Diaspora Literature

Afro-Jewish Studies

Black-Jewish Atlantic

Black Radicalism

Caribbean Studies

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

Critical Theory

Diaspora Studies

History of Capitalism

Theories of the Novel

The Holocaust and Colonialism

Marx and Marxisms

Racial Capitalism

Slavery Studies

Whiteness Studies

Mia Cecily Florin-Sefton

PhD Student

Research Interests

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Social Reproduction Theory

Feminist and Queer Marxisms

Critical Theory

Connor Spencer

PhD Student

Research Interests

Critical Theory

Film, Media, and Visual Studies