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The Department of English and Comparative Literature logo The Department of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Historical Periods

  • Ancient/Medieval
  • Renaissance/ Early Modern
  • Restoration and 18th Century
  • 19th Century (Romantic and Victorian Literature)
  • 20th and 21st Century (Modernism and Postmodernism)

Geographies

  • American and the Americas
  • Postcolonial and Global South
  • Asia/South Asia
  • Africa
  • Europe
  • Britain

Identities

  • African American and African Diaspora
  • Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies
  • Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism
  • Disability Studies

Genre and Medium

  • Poetry and Poetics
  • Prose Fiction/History of the Novel
  • Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies
  • Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Domains / Objects of Knowledge

  • Law and Humanities
  • Medical Humanities
  • Science and Environmental Studies
  • Literature and Music / Jazz Studies
  • History of the Book and Manuscript Studies
  • Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge

Methodologies

  • Narrative and Rhetorical Theory
  • Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory
  • Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Studies
  • Digital Humanities / Computational Methods
  • Material Culture / Object Studies
  • Writing Studies and Pedagogy
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