Material Culture/ Object Studies

Affiliated Faculty

photo of Branka Arsić

Full-time Faculty

Branka Arsić

Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

19-Century Literatures of the Americas

History of American Life Sciences

Religious History of the Americas

Material Culture/ Object Studies

Theories of the Archive

American and the Americas

photo of Sharon Marcus

Full-time Faculty

Sharon Marcus

Director of Undergraduate Studies; Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

19th Century British Literature

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

Affiliated Graduate Students

Sophia Featherstone

PhD Student

Research Interests

19th Century British Literature, Environmental Humanities, Disability Studies, Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism, Material Culture/ Object Studies

Kit Pyne-Jaeger

PhD Student

Research Interests

Classical Reception, 19th-Century Literature, Queer Theory, Comparative Literature , Material Culture/ Object Studies