Renaissance / Early Modern

16th and 17th Century English Literature

Julie Crawford

Associate Director of Graduate Studies; Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities

Research Interests

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Britain

History of Classical Scholarship

Kathy Eden

Chavkin Family Professor of English Literature and Professor of Classics

Research Interests

Renaissance Humanism

History of Rhetoric

Hermeneutics

Ancient Literary Theory

Faculty Emeriti

Jean E. Howard

George Delacorte Professor Emerita in the Humanities

Research Interests

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Molly Murray

Director of Undergraduate Studies; 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

Autobiography

Poetry and Poetics

Britain

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

James Shapiro

Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Shakespeare

Poetry and Poetics

The Book Review

Early Modern English Literature

Alan Stewart

Associate Chair; Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

History and Culture

Manuscript Studies

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

History of the Book and Manuscript Studies

Britain

Restoration and 18th Century

Dustin D. Stewart

James P. Shenton Associate Professor of the Core Curriculum; Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests