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

Material Culture/ Object Studies

Theories of the Archive

American and the Americas

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Full-time Faculty

Sharon Marcus

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

Bernadette Myers

PhD Student

Research Interests

Early Modern and Medieval Drama

Environmental Humanities

Material Culture/ Object Studies

Dissertation / Thesis Title

Urban Ecology and the Early Modern English Stage

Kit Pyne-Jaeger

PhD Student

Research Interests

Classical Reception

19th-Century Literature

Comparative Literature

Material Culture/ Object Studies