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Material Culture/ Object Studies

Affiliated Faculty

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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
Vitalism
Ecology
Material Culture/ Object Studies
Theories of the Archive
19th Century
American and the Americas
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photo of Sharon Marcus
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

Affiliated Graduate Students

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Sophia Featherstone

PhD Student

Research Interests

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

PhD Student

Research Interests

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