Faculty
Associate Professor of English
African American literature and culture;
The Harlem Renaissance;
American modernism;
race, gender, and modernity;
history of the novel;
literature and medicine;
literature and legal studies;
race and visual culture;
detective fiction.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Nineteenth-century fiction,
nineteenth-century drama,
Victorian material culture,
Romantic and Victorian poetry.
Visiting Instructor
Fiction writing, especially contemporary;
creative Writing;
screenwriting and film studies;
humor writing;
the contemporary novel.
Assistant Professor of English
Nineteenth-century British literature;
economic literary criticism;
cosmopolitanism and globalization studies;
history of liberalism;
interdisciplinary studies in literature and economics, literature and the philosophy of aesthetics.
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
American poetry,
nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature,
genre studies,
public culture,
history of the book.
Associate Professor of English
American literature;
countercultures;
human rights;
literary and language theory;
violence and trauma;
literature and philosophy.
Visiting Instructor
Creative writing poetry, nonfiction, fiction;
creative writing history, theory, pedagogy;
20th & 21st century American literature;
composition.
Visiting Instructor
Creative Writing,
fiction,
post colonial literature,
southern literature,
Latin American fiction,
criticism and blogs.
Assistant Professor of English
Twentieth-century British and Irish literature;
diasporic Irish studies;
transnational modernism;
post-colonial studies;
comparative film studies;
postwar visual and popular culture;
British cultural studies;
youth subcultures;
working-class studies;
masculinity studies;
prison literature;
theories of the grotesque;
cultures of violence.
Professor of English
Medieval and Renaissance narrative and poetry;
feminist and gender theory;
mythology;
story-collections around the world;
poetry of the natural world;
history of poetry;
Shakespeare;
Spenser;
romance.
Visiting Instructor
Poetry, especially contemporary American;
surrealist poetry and surrealist theory;
creative writing, poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
Associate Professor of International Studies and English
Literary interactions in the Black Atlantic world, notably Africa, the Caribbean, and African America;
post-colonial and/as the post-Soviet;
comparative literature;
cultural theory;
globalization.
Visiting Instructor, CFD Fellow
Poetics;
20th century, ethnic and avant-garde poetry;
creative writing: poetry, fiction, non-fiction;
latin American, surrealist, border poetry.
Associate Professor of English
Medieval and Renaissance drama, particularly Marlowe, Jonson and Shakespeare;
classics;
the New Testament;
patristic to late medieval exegesis and theology;
Luther;
German philosophy after Kant, particularly Marx, Nietzsche and Adorno;
lyric poetry.
Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and English
Feminist and literary theories;
cultural studies of globalization as it intersects with nationalism, democracy, and imperialism;
"minoritized" literatures, with a transnational comparative basis in Western Europe and Asia.
Visiting Instructor
Publishing poetry, fiction, and critical and creative nonfiction;
contemporary literature;
creative writing, with an emphasis in poetry, lyric essay, and literary hybrids.
Associate Professor of English
Creative writing, poetry and fiction;
the Chinese-American immigrant experience;
footbinding, sexuality and eroticism in Chinese culture;
women in modern China;
Chinese migrant workers and industrialization;
environmental issues;
photography.
Visiting Instructor
Early modern English literature of the Renaissance through Restoration;
topographical poetry;
cultural geography;
genre studies;
nation-building and nationalism.
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