Law and Humanities

Affiliated Faculty

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Full-time Faculty

Matthew Hart

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century

Poetry and Poetics

Postcolonial and Global South

Political Theory

The Contemporary Novel

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Law and Humanities

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Full-time Faculty

Saidiya V Hartman

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

African American and American Literature and Cultural History

Law and Literature

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Law and Humanities

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

20th and 21st Century

American and the Americas

African American and African Diaspora

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

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Full-time Faculty

Eleanor B Johnson

Associate 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

Full-time Faculty

Julie Stone Peters

M. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Law and Humanities

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Full-time Faculty

Joseph R. Slaughter

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Comparative Literature

African, Latin American, and Third-World Literatures

Postcolonialism

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

The Global South

Critical and Narrative Theory

Intellectual Property

Law and Literature

Law and Humanities

Postcolonial and Global South

20th and 21st Century