Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Affiliated Faculty

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Full-time Faculty

Nicholas Dames

Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities

Research Interests

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

History of the Book and Manuscript Studies

Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

History of Reading

The Contemporary Novel

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Full-time Faculty

Matthew Hart

Associate 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

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Full-time Faculty

Marianne Hirsch

William Peterfield Trent Professor of English

Research Interests

Comparative Literature

20th-Century French, German, British, American

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Feminist Theory

Cultural Memory

Holocaust Studies

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

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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

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Affiliated Faculty

Deborah Martinsen

Associate Dean, Columbia College; Adjunct Associate Professor of Slavic Languages

Research Interests

Nineteenth-Century Russian Prose

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Shame Studies and the Novel

Full-time Faculty

Sue Mendelsohn

Director of Writing Center, Associate Director of First Year Writing, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

20th and 21st Century

Writing Studies and Pedagogy

American and the Americas

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Full-time Faculty

Edward Mendelson

Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities

Research Interests

19th-Century British Literature

20th-Century British and American Literature

Poetry and Poetics

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

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Full-time Faculty

Julie Stone Peters

H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Law and Humanities

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Cultural and Intellectual History

Popular Culture

Material Culture/ Object Studies

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge

History of the Book and Manuscript Studies

Comparative Literature

American and the Americas

Renaissance/ Early Modern

Restoration and 18th Century

19th Century Romantic and Victorian Literature

20th and 21st Century Modernism and Postmodernism

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Full-time Faculty

Aaron J Ritzenberg

Senior Lecturer in Discipline in English and Comparative Literature, Associate Director of the Undergraduate Writing Program, Director of First-Year Writing

Research Interests

Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American Literature

20th and 21st Century

Rhetoric and Composition

Writing Studies and Pedagogy

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

American and the Americas

Richard Sacks

Adjunct Research Scholar in the Department of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Old English and Old Norse Poetry

Ancient and Medieval Myth and Epic

Historical Linguistics

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

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Full-time Faculty

Joseph R. Slaughter

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Comparative Literature

African, Latin American, and Third-World Literatures

Postcolonialism

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

The Global South

Critical and Narrative Theory

Intellectual Property

Law and Literature

Law and Humanities

Postcolonial and Global South

20th and 21st Century

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Full-time Faculty

Maura Spiegel

Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Medical Humanities

20th-Century British and American Literature

19th Century British Literature and Culture

19th-Century European Novel

European Modernism

American Studies

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel