Political Theory

Affiliated Faculty

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Full-time Faculty

Joseph Albernaz

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

British Romantic Poetry

Comparative Literature

Francophone and German

The Enlightenment

Literature and Philosophy

Critical Theory

Political Theory

Restoration and 18th Century

Poetry and Poetics

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

Science and Environmental Studies

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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

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

Molly Murray

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

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

The History of Poetics

Political Theory

The Reception of St. Augustine in Early Modern England

The English Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Metaphysical Wit

Renaissance / Early Modern

Poetry and Poetics

Affiliated Graduate Students

Steven Glavey

PhD Student

Research Interests

Britain, Europe

Early Modern English Literature

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Political Theory