Cultural and Intellectual History

Affiliated Faculty

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Full-time Faculty

Jenny Davidson

Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature; 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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Full-time Faculty

Julie Stone Peters

H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Law and Humanities

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Cultural and Intellectual History

Popular Culture

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

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

Comparative Literature

Renaissance/ Early Modern

Restoration and 18th Century

20th and 21st Century Modernism and Postmodernism

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Full-time Faculty

Gauri Viswanathan

Director of the South Asia Institute; Class of 1933 Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Cultural and Intellectual History

Religious Studies

19th Century British and Colonial Cultural Studies

History of Disciplines

20th and 21st Century

Postcolonial and Global South

Asia/South Asia