Poetry and Poetics

Literature and Philosophy

Joseph Albernaz

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

British Romantic Poetry

Comparative Literature

Francophone and German

The Enlightenment

Ecology

Critical Theory

Political Theory

Restoration and 18th Century

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

19th Century

African American and African Diaspora

Brent Hayes Edwards

Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

Francophone Literature

Black Radical Historiography

Twentieth-Century Poetry

Translation Studies

Archive Theory

20th and 21st Century

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

Postcolonial and Global South

Africa

Erik Gray

Director of Undergraduate Studies; Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

19th Century

English literature and the Classics

Restoration and 18th Century

19th Century British Literature and Culture

British Romantic Poetry

Comparative Literature

Victorian Literature

Matthew Hart

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

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century

Modernism

Postcolonial and Global South

Political Theory

The Contemporary Novel

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Lecturers

Arden A. Hegele

Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

19th-Century Literature

Eleanor B Johnson

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Ancient and Medieval Myth and Epic

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

19th-Century British Literature

Edward Mendelson

Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities

Research Interests

20th-Century British and American Literature

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

16th-and 17th-Century English Literature and Culture

Molly Murray

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

The History of Poetics

Political Theory

The Reception of St. Augustine in Early Modern England

The English Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Metaphysical Wit

Autobiography

Renaissance / Early Modern

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

James Shapiro

Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Shakespeare

Renaissance / Early Modern

The Book Review

Restoration and 18th Century

Dustin D. Stewart

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Renaissance / Early Modern

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

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

Affiliated Graduate Students

Laurie Bashford

PhD Student

Research Interests

Asian American and Asian Diaspora

Global Anglophone

World Literature

Postcolonial and the Global South

Asia/South Asia

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Comparative Literature and Translation,

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Andy Chan Lisheng

PhD Student

Research Interests

Sophia Houghton

PhD Student

Research Interests

19th Century American Literature

Early American

Sophia Kathleen Houghton

PhD Student

Research Interests

Early American

19th Century American

Theatricality and Performance

Aesthetics and Humanism

Ecocriticism

Philosophy

Postcolonial Studies

Geoffrey Mustafa Lokke

PhD Student

Research Interests

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

20th and 21st Century Modernism and Postmodernism

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Megan Maldonado (née Lonsinger)

PhD Student

Research Interests

World Literature

Comparative Literature and Translation

Pranav Menon

PhD Student

Research Interests

Studies legal and literary imaginations of space and place

American empire

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Global Anglophone Literature

Postcolonial and Global South

20th and 21st Century American Literature

Contemporary Literature and Culture

Cultural Studies

Ecocriticism

Public Humanities

Asian American and Asian Diaspora

Marxism

Jed Munson

PhD Student

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century American Literature

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Jessica Lee Orluck

PhD Student

Research Interests

Medieval

African American and African Diaspora

Zoe Elena Pollak

PhD Student

Research Interests

Manuscript Studies

19th Century American Literature

Romanticism

Creative Writing and Creative-Critical

Aesthetics

Ecocriticism

Isabel Realyvasquez

PhD Student

Research Interests

Caribbean

18th Century British

Elena Rotzokou

PhD Student

Research Interests

18th-Century English Literature

Lilith Todd

PhD Student

Research Interests

Ethnicity and Race

Medical and Health Humanities

Indigenous Studies

Caribbean Studies

Early American Literature

Aesthetics

Marxism

Public Humanities

Chloe Tsolakoglou

PhD Student

Research Interests

Jane Walker

PhD Student

Research Interests

Early Modern

Affect Theory