Europe

Affiliated Faculty

Full-time Faculty

James Adams

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interest

19th Century British Literature and Culture

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Aestheticism

Interdisciplinary History of Victorian Britain

19th Century

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

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Europe

Full-time Faculty

Joseph Albernaz

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interest

British Romantic Poetry

Comparative Literature

Francophone and German

The Enlightenment

Literature and Philosophy

Ecology

Critical Theory

Political Theory

Restoration and 18th Century

Europe

Poetry and Poetics

19th Century

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

Science and Environmental Studies

Full-time Faculty

Christopher Baswell

Professor, English, Barnard College

Research Interest

History of the Book and Manuscript Studies

Full-time Faculty

Sarah Cole

Dean of Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interest

20th-Century British, Irish and Global Literature and Culture

War and Peace

Science and Literature

Violence and Literature

20th and 21st Century

Europe

Full-time Faculty

Julie Crawford

Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities

Research Interest

16th and 17th Century English Literature

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Renaissance / Early Modern

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Europe

Full-time Faculty

Patricia Dailey

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interest

Medieval Literature

Medieval Women's Poetry and Prose

Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Critical Theory

Psychoanalytic Theory

Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Studies

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Europe

Full-time Faculty

Nicholas Dames

Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities

Research Interest

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

19th Century

Europe

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

Full-time Faculty

Jenny Davidson

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interest

Eighteenth-century British Literature and Culture

Cultural and Intellectual History

History of Science

The Contemporary Novel

Restoration and 18th Century

Europe

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Full-time Faculty

Brent Hayes Edwards

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interest

African American and African Diaspora

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

Francophone Literature

Poetry and Poetics

Twentieth-Century Poetry

Translation Studies

Black Radical Historiography

Archive Theory

20th and 21st Century

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

American and the Americas

Postcolonial and Global South

Africa

Europe

Full-time Faculty

Erik Gray

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interest

19th Century

Poetry and Poetics

English literature and the Classics

Restoration and 18th Century

Europe

Full-time Faculty

Marianne Hirsch

William Peterfield Trent Professor of English

Research Interest

Comparative Literature

20th-Century French, German, British, American

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Feminist Theory

Cultural Memory

Holocaust Studies

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Europe

Full-time Faculty

Jean E. Howard

George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities

Research Interest

Renaissance / Early Modern

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

New Historicism

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Europe

Full-time Faculty

Eleanor B Johnson

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interest

Poetry and Poetics

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Ancient and Medieval Myth and Epic

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Science and Environmental Studies

Law and Humanities

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

Europe

Full-time Faculty

Sharon Marcus

Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interest

19th Century British Literature

Europe

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

Material Culture/ Object Studies

Full-time Faculty

Edward Mendelson

Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities

Research Interest

19th-Century British Literature

20th-Century British and American Literature

Poetry and Poetics

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Europe

Full-time Faculty

Julie Stone Peters

M. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interest

Europe

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Law and Humanities

Full-time Faculty

Austin E. Quigley

Dean Emeritus of Columbia College; Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature

Research Interest

19th- and 20th-Century Drama

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Literary Theory

Linguistic Theory

Modernism and Postmodernism

Europe

Full-time Faculty

James Shapiro

Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interest

Shakespeare

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Poetry and Poetics

The Book Review

Renaissance / Early Modern

Europe

Full-time Faculty

Maura Spiegel

Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interest

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Medical Humanities

20th-Century British and American Literature

19th Century British Literature and Culture

19th-Century European Novel

European Modernism

American Studies

Europe

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Full-time Faculty

Alan Stewart

Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature; Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interest

Early Modern English Literature

History and Culture

Manuscript Studies

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Renaissance / Early Modern

Europe

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

History of the Book and Manuscript Studies

Full-time Faculty

Dustin D. Stewart

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interest

Restoration and 18th Century

Renaissance / Early Modern

Europe

America and the Americas

Poetry and Poetics

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

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

Full-time Faculty

Colm Tóibín

Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities

Research Interest

Irish Literature

Europe

20th and 21st Century

Full-time Faculty

Hannah M. Weaver

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interest

History of the Book and Manuscript Studies

Full-time Faculty

William B. Worthen

Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts Dramatic Literature, Performance Theory

Research Interest

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Europe

Full-time Faculty

David Yerkes

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interest

English language, including Anglo-Saxon and Middle English

Bibliography

Textual Criticism

English Translations of the Bible

Medieval Literature

Europe

Europe

Affiliated Faculty

James Adams

Research Interest

Joseph Albernaz

Research Interest

Christopher Baswell

Research Interest

Sarah Cole

Research Interest

Julie Crawford

Research Interest

Patricia Dailey

Research Interest

Nicholas Dames

Research Interest

Jenny Davidson

Research Interest

Brent Hayes Edwards

Research Interest

Erik Gray

Research Interest

Marianne Hirsch

Research Interest

Jean E. Howard

Research Interest

Eleanor B Johnson

Research Interest

Sharon Marcus

Research Interest

Edward Mendelson

Research Interest

Julie Stone Peters

Research Interest

Austin E. Quigley

Research Interest

James Shapiro

Research Interest

Maura Spiegel

Research Interest

Alan Stewart

Research Interest

Dustin D. Stewart

Research Interest

Colm Tóibín

Research Interest

Hannah M. Weaver

Research Interest

William B. Worthen

Research Interest

David Yerkes

Research Interest

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