Feminist Theory

Affiliated Faculty

Full-time Faculty

Julie Crawford

Director of Graduate Studies; Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities

Research Interests

16th and 17th Century English Literature

Women's Literature

Protestant Culture

Cultural Studies

Feminist Theory

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Renaissance / Early Modern

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

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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

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Gothic Literature and the Horror Film

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Popular Culture

Feminist Theory

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

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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

Affiliated Graduate Students

Alec Joyner

PhD Student

Research Interests

19th and 20th Century American Literature, the Novel, Modernism, Affect Theory, Feminist Theory, African American and African Diaspora Literature, Humor, Comedy, and Laughter, Francophone Literature

Dissertation / Thesis Title

"Going to Pieces: The Laughter of the Other in US Novels of the 1930s"

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, Aesthetics, Affect Theory, Critical Theory, Black Studies, Cultural and Intellectual History, Feminist Theory, Slavery, Film, Media, Visual Studies, Slavery, Feminist Theory