Executive Director, Heyman Center for the Humanities and Society of Fellows; Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Research Interests

19th Century British Literature and Culture

Gender and Psychoanalytic Studies

19th-Century Moral Psychology

19th-Century British Colonial Literature and Culture, including Ireland

Medical Humanities

Public Humanities

Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Studies

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Britain

Full-time Faculty

Stathis Gourgouris

Professor of Classics, English, and Comparative Literature & Society Director || Director of the Program of Hellenic Studies, Department of Classics

Research Interests

Contemporary Greek Poetry

Enlightenment Thought

Experimental music

Literary Theory

Modernist poetics

Pre-Socratic philosophy

Full-time Faculty

T. Austin Graham

Director of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

19th Century

20th and 21st Century

American and the Americas

African American and African Diaspora

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

Full-time Faculty

Erik Gray

Director of Undergraduate Studies; Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

19th Century

Poetry and Poetics

English literature and the Classics

Restoration and 18th Century

Europe

British Romantic Poetry

Comparative Literature

19th Century British Literature and Culture

Victorian Literature

Britain

Full-time Faculty

Farah Jasmine Griffin

University Professor

Research Interests

African American Literature

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

History and Politics

20th and 21st Century

American and the Americas

African American and African Diaspora

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Full-time Faculty

Jack Halberstam

Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality; David Feinson Professor of Humanities

Research Interests

Cultural Studies

Queer Theory

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Gothic Literature and the Horror Film

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Popular Culture

Feminist Theory

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Faculty Emeriti

Robert W. Hanning

Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature

Full-time Faculty

Matthew Hart

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

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century

Modernism

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

Europe

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Britain

Full-time Faculty

Saidiya V Hartman

University Professor

Research Interests

African American and American Literature and Cultural History

Slavery

Law and Literature

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Law and Humanities

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

19th Century

20th and 21st Century

American and the Americas

African American and African Diaspora

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Africa

Lecturers

Arden A. Hegele

Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

19th-Century Literature

Romanticism

Poetry and Poetics

Women's Literature

Medical Humanities

Literary Technology

Full-time Faculty

Zoë L. Henry

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

African American Literature/ Diaspora Studies

20th and 21st Century Literature

Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Theory

Dance and Performance Studies

Modernism

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

Law and Literature

Feminism

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Psychoanalysis

Critical Social Theory

Faculty Emeriti

Marianne Hirsch

William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of English

Research Interests

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

Britain

Faculty Emeriti

Jean E. Howard

George Delacorte Professor Emerita in the Humanities

Research Interests

Renaissance / Early Modern

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Europe

Britain

Prison Literature

Full-time Faculty

Amy E. Hungerford

Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Ruth Fulton Benedict Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Full-time Faculty

Eleanor B Johnson

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

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

Rebecca Kastleman

Associate Director of Graduate Studies; Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

20th and 21st Century Modernism and Postmodernism

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

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

American and the Americas

Britain

Europe

Postcolonial and Global South

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Lecturers

Christopher Cañete Rodriguez Kelly

Mellon Teaching Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature, English & Comp Literature

Full-time Faculty

Sharon Marcus

Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

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

Britain

Faculty Emeriti

Martin Meisel

Brander Matthews Professor Emeritus of English and Dramatic Literature

Full-time Faculty

Sue Mendelsohn

Director of Writing Center, Associate Director of First Year Writing, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

20th and 21st Century

Writing Studies and Pedagogy

American and the Americas

Full-time Faculty

Edward Mendelson

Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities

Research Interests

19th-Century British Literature

20th-Century British and American Literature

Poetry and Poetics

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Europe

Britain

Full-time Faculty

Molly Murray

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

16th-and 17th-Century English Literature and Culture

The History of Poetics

Political Theory

The Reception of St. Augustine in Early Modern England

The English Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Metaphysical Wit

Autobiography

Renaissance / Early Modern

Poetry and Poetics

Britain

Full-time Faculty

Frances Negron-Muntaner

Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities

Research Interests

19th- and 20th-century Caribbean and U.S Latino Literatures and Cultures

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Popular Culture

Ethnicity and Race

Full-time Faculty

Carlos Alonso Nugent

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

American and the Americas

Latinx Literature and Culture

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Border Studies

Science and Environmental Studies

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

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

19th Century

20th and 21st Century

Full-time Faculty

Robert O'Meally

Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

19th- and 20th-Century American and African-American Literature

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

African American and African Diaspora

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Painting

Photography

American and the Americas

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Full-time Faculty

Julie Stone Peters

H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director of Academic Careers Advising; Co-Chair, PhD in Theater and Performance

Research Interests

Law and Humanities

Human Rights

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Cultural and Intellectual History

Popular Culture

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

Comparative Literature

Ancient/Medieval

Renaissance / Early Modern

Restoration and 18th Century

20th and 21st Century Modernism and Postmodernism

Lecturers

Mark L. Phillipson

Director of Graduate Student Programs and Services, Center for Teaching & Learning; Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

19th-Century British Literature

Byron and Exile

Publication Histories

New Media Technology

Full-time Faculty

Ethan A. Plaue

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

American Literature from the Colonial Period through the Nineteenth-Century

History of Media and Technology

Intellectual History

Media Studies

Infrastructure

Full-time Faculty

Ross Posnock

Anna S. Garbedian Professor of the Humanities

Research Interests

US and European Literature and Intellectual History of the 19th- and 20th-Century

Pragmatism

Henry James

William James

W.E.B Du Bois

Aestheticism

US Postwar Visual and Literary Culture

20th and 21st Century

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

American and the Americas

Full-time Faculty

Austin E. Quigley

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

Research Interests

19th to 21st Century Drama

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Literary Theory

Linguistic Theory

Modernism and Postmodernism

Europe

Full-time Faculty

Shana L. Redmond

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century

American and the Americas

Postcolonial and Global South

Africa

African American and African Diaspora

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

Black Radical Historiography

History and Politics

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

Popular Culture

Cultural Studies

Nationalism

Social Movements

Carcerality

Full-time Faculty

Aaron J Ritzenberg

Senior Lecturer in Discipline in English and Comparative Literature, Associate Director of the Undergraduate Writing Program, Director of First-Year Writing