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Full-time Faculty

Matthew Hart

Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature; Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century
Modernism
Poetry and Poetics
Postcolonial and Global South
Political Theory
The Contemporary Novel
Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel
Law and Humanities
American and the Americas
Europe
Narrative and Rhetorical Theory
Britain
photo of Zoë L. Henry
photo of Zoë L. Henry
Full-time Faculty

Zoë L. Henry

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

African American Literature/ Diaspora Studies
20th and 21st Century Literature
Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Theory
Dance and Performance Studies
Modernism
Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies
Law and Literature
Feminism
Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies
Psychoanalysis
Critical Social Theory

Affiliated Graduate Students

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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"
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