Modernism

Affiliated Faculty

Full-time Faculty

Matthew Hart

Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature; 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

American and the Americas

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

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

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

Law and Literature

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Critical Social Theory

Affiliated Graduate Students

Ramathi Bandaranayake

PhD Student

Research Interests

Britain, Europe, 20th/21st Century British,, Comparative , Literature and Translation, Modernism, Medical Humanities, Philosophy, 20th Century Russian, Literature and War, Literature and Science

Kristin Perkins

PhD Student

Research Interests

American and the Americas, 19th Century American, 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies, Modernism, Aesthetics, Cultural Studies, Queer Theory