Faculty by Areas of Specialty
African American Studies
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Curry, Ramona | Associate Professor |
Ramona Curry teaches histories, theories, and strategies for writing about cinema and other forms of popular media and culture. Her research focuses ...
Ramona Curry teaches histories, theories, and strategies for writing about cinema and other forms of popular media and culture. Her research focuses on the sociocultural impact of media institutions, including film stars and cinema distribution and exhibition historically. She is author to date of a book on the shifting cultural functions of Mae West's image over eight decades and of numerous essays that have appeared in anthologies and journals in the US, Europe, and Asia. Prof. Curry has written extensively about German cinema and also about films made in Hong Kong. Her most recent publications draw heavily on census and genealogical records, shipping manifests, and other newly digitized government and newspaper archives, to reveal fresh facets of early trans-Pacific film distribution and reception.
Prof. Curry is currently completing a monograph entitled "Trading in Cultural Spaces: How Chinese Film Came to America," which takes an urban cultural geographic and historiographic approach to rewriting American cinema history “from the margins.” She received a 2011 National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship for work on the project, which the NEH has recognized as advancing the goals of its "We the People" initiative.
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Freeburg, Christopher | Assistant Professor |
American and African American Literature; The Idea of Black Culture and Diaspora; The American Novel after 1850; Slavery in the Atlantic World; Histor ...
American and African American Literature; The Idea of Black Culture and Diaspora; The American Novel after 1850; Slavery in the Atlantic World; History of Ideas
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Petty, Audrey | Associate Professor | |
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Somerville, Siobhan | Associate Professor | |
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Wright, David | Associate Professor | African-American Literature |
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Harrington, Janice | Assistant Professor | Poetry |
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Rothberg, Michael | Professor |
Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Diasporas and G ...
Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Diasporas and Globalization; Theories of Trauma, Memory, and Justice
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American Indian Studies
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Parker, Robert | James M. Benson Professor |
American literature, especially fiction and poetry, especially after 1900. Critical theory. American Indian literature. Interested in bringing histori ...
American literature, especially fiction and poetry, especially after 1900. Critical theory. American Indian literature. Interested in bringing historicist, socio-cultural criticism together with formalist criticism.
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Howe, LeAnne | Director of Creative Writing, Professor | Fiction, poetry, plays. American Indian Literature. Native Theater. Native Film Studies. Screenwriting. |
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Byrd, Jodi | Assistant Professor | Indigenous studies and governance, indigenous and postcolonial literatures, cultural studies, film, theory |
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Warrior, Robert | Professor |
Asian American Studies
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Curry, Ramona | Associate Professor |
Ramona Curry teaches histories, theories, and strategies for writing about cinema and other forms of popular media and culture. Her research focuses ...
Ramona Curry teaches histories, theories, and strategies for writing about cinema and other forms of popular media and culture. Her research focuses on the sociocultural impact of media institutions, including film stars and cinema distribution and exhibition historically. She is author to date of a book on the shifting cultural functions of Mae West's image over eight decades and of numerous essays that have appeared in anthologies and journals in the US, Europe, and Asia. Prof. Curry has written extensively about German cinema and also about films made in Hong Kong. Her most recent publications draw heavily on census and genealogical records, shipping manifests, and other newly digitized government and newspaper archives, to reveal fresh facets of early trans-Pacific film distribution and reception.
Prof. Curry is currently completing a monograph entitled "Trading in Cultural Spaces: How Chinese Film Came to America," which takes an urban cultural geographic and historiographic approach to rewriting American cinema history “from the margins.” She received a 2011 National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship for work on the project, which the NEH has recognized as advancing the goals of its "We the People" initiative.
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Cacho, Lisa | Associate Professor | |
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Koshy, Susan | Associate Professor |
Creative Writing
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Petty, Audrey | Associate Professor | |
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Wright, David | Associate Professor | African-American Literature |
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Howe, LeAnne | Director of Creative Writing, Professor | Fiction, poetry, plays. American Indian Literature. Native Theater. Native Film Studies. Screenwriting. |
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Harrington, Janice | Assistant Professor | Poetry |
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Graham, Philip | Professor | |
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Powers, Richard | Professor | |
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Shakar, Alex | Associate Professor | |
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Kelly, Brigit | Professor | |
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Madonick, Michael | Associate Professor |
Drama
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Barrett, Robert | Associate Professor |
Medieval British literature (esp. Middle English literature); early English drama (up to 1642); ecocriticism; region and locality (esp. Cheshire and C ...
Medieval British literature (esp. Middle English literature); early English drama (up to 1642); ecocriticism; region and locality (esp. Cheshire and Chester)
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Markley, Robert | W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor | |
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Newcomb, Lori | Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor | Early modern prose fiction and drama; popular print culture; theories of representation, performance, and difference |
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Stevens, Andrea | Assistant Professor |
My published research focuses on theater history, early modern materiality, performance studies, and methods of original practices staging. My book MS ...
My published research focuses on theater history, early modern materiality, performance studies, and methods of original practices staging. My book MS titled *Inventions of the Skin: The Painted Body in Early English Drama 1400-1642* examines a crucial aspect of the visual field of the early modern stage: the painted body of the actor.
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Perry, Curtis | Department Head, Professor |
Early modern English literature and culture, with an emphasis upon literature's participation in political debate; Senecan tragedy; classical receptio ...
Early modern English literature and culture, with an emphasis upon literature's participation in political debate; Senecan tragedy; classical reception; historicist criticism; drama.
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Early American
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Freeburg, Christopher | Assistant Professor |
American and African American Literature; The Idea of Black Culture and Diaspora; The American Novel after 1850; Slavery in the Atlantic World; Histor ...
American and African American Literature; The Idea of Black Culture and Diaspora; The American Novel after 1850; Slavery in the Atlantic World; History of Ideas
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Parker, Robert | James M. Benson Professor |
American literature, especially fiction and poetry, especially after 1900. Critical theory. American Indian literature. Interested in bringing histori ...
American literature, especially fiction and poetry, especially after 1900. Critical theory. American Indian literature. Interested in bringing historicist, socio-cultural criticism together with formalist criticism.
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Hutner, Gordon | Professor | |
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Loughran, Trish | Associate Professor | |
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Michelson, Bruce | Professor |
Based on lectures I gave in Germany in 2011, I am writing two essays on the evolving predicament of biographical and autobiographical narrative, the v ...
Based on lectures I gave in Germany in 2011, I am writing two essays on the evolving predicament of biographical and autobiographical narrative, the verbal reconstruction of personal identity, in a context where the inscription and and collation of electronically-gathered data, on nearly every aspect of public and private life, poses an unprecedented challenge – an immense and ever-accumulating alternative biography, possibly accelerating beyond our own agency, as subjects and interpreters, to edit or escape. For the American Humor Studies Association, I am preparing a more-conventional essay called “Humor Studies, Humor Research,” which describes and differentiates these scholarly practices, addresses the habit of using these terms interchangeably, and advocates for a stronger relationship between our study of the comic and our broader critical and theoretical discourses. At the University of Rochester in Spring 2012 I gave a paper called “American Realism in the First Virtual Age,” describing how technological and aesthetic developments in the middle of the 19th century posed an ontological challenge for young American authors taking up the realist project.
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Murison, Justine | Assistant Professor |
Nineteenth-Century American Literature;
Early American Literature;
Medicine and Literature;
Religion and Literature;
Eighteenth-Century Atlantic W ...
Nineteenth-Century American Literature;
Early American Literature;
Medicine and Literature;
Religion and Literature;
Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World;
History of the Novel
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Eighteenth Century
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Markley, Robert | W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor | |
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Nazar, Hina | Associate Professor |
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction; Enlightenment moral and political theory (especially Kant, Rousseau, and the Scottish Enlightenmen ...
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction; Enlightenment moral and political theory (especially Kant, Rousseau, and the Scottish Enlightenment); feminist theory; critical theory
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Pollock, Anthony | Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor | |
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Underwood, Ted | Associate Professor | 18c. British Literature |
Fiction
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Petty, Audrey | Associate Professor | |
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Parker, Robert | James M. Benson Professor |
American literature, especially fiction and poetry, especially after 1900. Critical theory. American Indian literature. Interested in bringing histori ...
American literature, especially fiction and poetry, especially after 1900. Critical theory. American Indian literature. Interested in bringing historicist, socio-cultural criticism together with formalist criticism.
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Graham, Philip | Professor | |
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Hutner, Gordon | Professor | |
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Courtemanche, Eleanor | Associate Professor |
Economic and political approaches to Victorian fiction; history of economic theory in Europe and America; socialism and anarchism; history of urban pl ...
Economic and political approaches to Victorian fiction; history of economic theory in Europe and America; socialism and anarchism; history of urban planning; narrative theory; irony and comedy.
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Markley, Robert | W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor | |
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Newcomb, Lori | Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor | Early modern prose fiction and drama; popular print culture; theories of representation, performance, and difference |
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Michelson, Bruce | Professor |
Based on lectures I gave in Germany in 2011, I am writing two essays on the evolving predicament of biographical and autobiographical narrative, the v ...
Based on lectures I gave in Germany in 2011, I am writing two essays on the evolving predicament of biographical and autobiographical narrative, the verbal reconstruction of personal identity, in a context where the inscription and and collation of electronically-gathered data, on nearly every aspect of public and private life, poses an unprecedented challenge – an immense and ever-accumulating alternative biography, possibly accelerating beyond our own agency, as subjects and interpreters, to edit or escape. For the American Humor Studies Association, I am preparing a more-conventional essay called “Humor Studies, Humor Research,” which describes and differentiates these scholarly practices, addresses the habit of using these terms interchangeably, and advocates for a stronger relationship between our study of the comic and our broader critical and theoretical discourses. At the University of Rochester in Spring 2012 I gave a paper called “American Realism in the First Virtual Age,” describing how technological and aesthetic developments in the middle of the 19th century posed an ontological challenge for young American authors taking up the realist project.
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Murison, Justine | Assistant Professor |
Nineteenth-Century American Literature;
Early American Literature;
Medicine and Literature;
Religion and Literature;
Eighteenth-Century Atlantic W ...
Nineteenth-Century American Literature;
Early American Literature;
Medicine and Literature;
Religion and Literature;
Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World;
History of the Novel
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Nazar, Hina | Associate Professor |
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction; Enlightenment moral and political theory (especially Kant, Rousseau, and the Scottish Enlightenmen ...
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction; Enlightenment moral and political theory (especially Kant, Rousseau, and the Scottish Enlightenment); feminist theory; critical theory
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Pollock, Anthony | Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor | |
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Foote, Stephanie | Associate Professor | |
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Rothberg, Michael | Professor |
Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Diasporas and G ...
Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Diasporas and Globalization; Theories of Trauma, Memory, and Justice
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Littlefield, Melissa | Assistant Professor | literature and science |
Film/Visual Culture
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Curry, Ramona | Associate Professor |
Ramona Curry teaches histories, theories, and strategies for writing about cinema and other forms of popular media and culture. Her research focuses ...
Ramona Curry teaches histories, theories, and strategies for writing about cinema and other forms of popular media and culture. Her research focuses on the sociocultural impact of media institutions, including film stars and cinema distribution and exhibition historically. She is author to date of a book on the shifting cultural functions of Mae West's image over eight decades and of numerous essays that have appeared in anthologies and journals in the US, Europe, and Asia. Prof. Curry has written extensively about German cinema and also about films made in Hong Kong. Her most recent publications draw heavily on census and genealogical records, shipping manifests, and other newly digitized government and newspaper archives, to reveal fresh facets of early trans-Pacific film distribution and reception.
Prof. Curry is currently completing a monograph entitled "Trading in Cultural Spaces: How Chinese Film Came to America," which takes an urban cultural geographic and historiographic approach to rewriting American cinema history “from the margins.” She received a 2011 National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship for work on the project, which the NEH has recognized as advancing the goals of its "We the People" initiative.
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Somerville, Siobhan | Associate Professor | |
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Markley, Robert | W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor | |
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Newcomb, Lori | Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor | Early modern prose fiction and drama; popular print culture; theories of representation, performance, and difference |
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Newcomb, Tim | Associate Professor | |
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Rodríguez, Richard | Associate Professor |
Contemporary American literature; Latino/a literature and culture; poetry; film and visual culture; gender and sexuality studies; race and ethnic stud ...
Contemporary American literature; Latino/a literature and culture; poetry; film and visual culture; gender and sexuality studies; race and ethnic studies; literary theory; cultural studies.
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Rothberg, Michael | Professor |
Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Diasporas and G ...
Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Diasporas and Globalization; Theories of Trauma, Memory, and Justice
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Gender/Sexuality Studies
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Curry, Ramona | Associate Professor |
Ramona Curry teaches histories, theories, and strategies for writing about cinema and other forms of popular media and culture. Her research focuses ...
Ramona Curry teaches histories, theories, and strategies for writing about cinema and other forms of popular media and culture. Her research focuses on the sociocultural impact of media institutions, including film stars and cinema distribution and exhibition historically. She is author to date of a book on the shifting cultural functions of Mae West's image over eight decades and of numerous essays that have appeared in anthologies and journals in the US, Europe, and Asia. Prof. Curry has written extensively about German cinema and also about films made in Hong Kong. Her most recent publications draw heavily on census and genealogical records, shipping manifests, and other newly digitized government and newspaper archives, to reveal fresh facets of early trans-Pacific film distribution and reception.
Prof. Curry is currently completing a monograph entitled "Trading in Cultural Spaces: How Chinese Film Came to America," which takes an urban cultural geographic and historiographic approach to rewriting American cinema history “from the margins.” She received a 2011 National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship for work on the project, which the NEH has recognized as advancing the goals of its "We the People" initiative.
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Somerville, Siobhan | Associate Professor | |
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Parker, Robert | James M. Benson Professor |
American literature, especially fiction and poetry, especially after 1900. Critical theory. American Indian literature. Interested in bringing histori ...
American literature, especially fiction and poetry, especially after 1900. Critical theory. American Indian literature. Interested in bringing historicist, socio-cultural criticism together with formalist criticism.
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Cacho, Lisa | Associate Professor | |
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Hawisher, Gail | Professor Emeritus | |
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Newcomb, Lori | Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor | Early modern prose fiction and drama; popular print culture; theories of representation, performance, and difference |
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Stevens, Andrea | Assistant Professor |
My published research focuses on theater history, early modern materiality, performance studies, and methods of original practices staging. My book MS ...
My published research focuses on theater history, early modern materiality, performance studies, and methods of original practices staging. My book MS titled *Inventions of the Skin: The Painted Body in Early English Drama 1400-1642* examines a crucial aspect of the visual field of the early modern stage: the painted body of the actor.
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Foote, Stephanie | Associate Professor | |
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Rodríguez, Richard | Associate Professor |
Contemporary American literature; Latino/a literature and culture; poetry; film and visual culture; gender and sexuality studies; race and ethnic stud ...
Contemporary American literature; Latino/a literature and culture; poetry; film and visual culture; gender and sexuality studies; race and ethnic studies; literary theory; cultural studies.
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Bauer, Dale | Professor | |
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Gray, Catharine | Associate Professor | |
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Nelson, Cary | Professor | |
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Mahaffey, Vicki | Kirkpatrick Professor |
Irish Studies
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Hansen, Jim | Associate Professor | |
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Mahaffey, Vicki | Kirkpatrick Professor | |
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Gaedtke, Andrew | Assistant Professor | British and Irish Modernism, Contemporary Literature, Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science, Disability Studies, New Media Studies |
Later American
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Somerville, Siobhan | Associate Professor | |
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Parker, Robert | James M. Benson Professor |
American literature, especially fiction and poetry, especially after 1900. Critical theory. American Indian literature. Interested in bringing histori ...
American literature, especially fiction and poetry, especially after 1900. Critical theory. American Indian literature. Interested in bringing historicist, socio-cultural criticism together with formalist criticism.
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Cacho, Lisa | Associate Professor | |
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Koshy, Susan | Associate Professor | |
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Hutner, Gordon | Professor | |
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Michelson, Bruce | Professor |
Based on lectures I gave in Germany in 2011, I am writing two essays on the evolving predicament of biographical and autobiographical narrative, the v ...
Based on lectures I gave in Germany in 2011, I am writing two essays on the evolving predicament of biographical and autobiographical narrative, the verbal reconstruction of personal identity, in a context where the inscription and and collation of electronically-gathered data, on nearly every aspect of public and private life, poses an unprecedented challenge – an immense and ever-accumulating alternative biography, possibly accelerating beyond our own agency, as subjects and interpreters, to edit or escape. For the American Humor Studies Association, I am preparing a more-conventional essay called “Humor Studies, Humor Research,” which describes and differentiates these scholarly practices, addresses the habit of using these terms interchangeably, and advocates for a stronger relationship between our study of the comic and our broader critical and theoretical discourses. At the University of Rochester in Spring 2012 I gave a paper called “American Realism in the First Virtual Age,” describing how technological and aesthetic developments in the middle of the 19th century posed an ontological challenge for young American authors taking up the realist project.
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Foote, Stephanie | Associate Professor | |
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Newcomb, Tim | Associate Professor | |
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Rodríguez, Richard | Associate Professor |
Contemporary American literature; Latino/a literature and culture; poetry; film and visual culture; gender and sexuality studies; race and ethnic stud ...
Contemporary American literature; Latino/a literature and culture; poetry; film and visual culture; gender and sexuality studies; race and ethnic studies; literary theory; cultural studies.
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Bauer, Dale | Professor | |
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Nelson, Cary | Professor | |
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Rothberg, Michael | Professor |
Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Diasporas and G ...
Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Diasporas and Globalization; Theories of Trauma, Memory, and Justice
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Latina/o Studies
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Cacho, Lisa | Associate Professor | |
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Rodríguez, Richard | Associate Professor |
Contemporary American literature; Latino/a literature and culture; poetry; film and visual culture; gender and sexuality studies; race and ethnic stud ...
Contemporary American literature; Latino/a literature and culture; poetry; film and visual culture; gender and sexuality studies; race and ethnic studies; literary theory; cultural studies.
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Vieira, Kate | Assistant Professor | migrant and transnational literacies, multilingual writing, composition pedagogy, qualitative research methodologies, community literacies |
Medieval
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Baron, Dennis | Professor | |
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Barrett, Robert | Associate Professor |
Medieval British literature (esp. Middle English literature); early English drama (up to 1642); ecocriticism; region and locality (esp. Cheshire and C ...
Medieval British literature (esp. Middle English literature); early English drama (up to 1642); ecocriticism; region and locality (esp. Cheshire and Chester)
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Camargo, Martin | Professor | Medieval rhetoric and poetics; Middle English literature |
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Trilling, Renée | Associate Professor | Old and Middle English literature; theories of historiography and nationalism; linguistics and philology; new materialisms and body studies |
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Wright, Charles | Professor |
Modern British
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Nelson, Cary | Professor | |
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Hansen, Jim | Associate Professor | |
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Mahaffey, Vicki | Kirkpatrick Professor | |
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Gaedtke, Andrew | Assistant Professor | British and Irish Modernism, Contemporary Literature, Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science, Disability Studies, New Media Studies |
Philology/Linguistics/Grammar
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Baron, Dennis | Professor | |
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Hawisher, Gail | Professor Emeritus | |
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Prior, Paul | Professor | |
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Camargo, Martin | Professor | Medieval rhetoric and poetics; Middle English literature |
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Wright, Charles | Professor |
Poetry
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Parker, Robert | James M. Benson Professor |
American literature, especially fiction and poetry, especially after 1900. Critical theory. American Indian literature. Interested in bringing histori ...
American literature, especially fiction and poetry, especially after 1900. Critical theory. American Indian literature. Interested in bringing historicist, socio-cultural criticism together with formalist criticism.
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Harrington, Janice | Assistant Professor | Poetry |
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Michelson, Bruce | Professor |
Based on lectures I gave in Germany in 2011, I am writing two essays on the evolving predicament of biographical and autobiographical narrative, the v ...
Based on lectures I gave in Germany in 2011, I am writing two essays on the evolving predicament of biographical and autobiographical narrative, the verbal reconstruction of personal identity, in a context where the inscription and and collation of electronically-gathered data, on nearly every aspect of public and private life, poses an unprecedented challenge – an immense and ever-accumulating alternative biography, possibly accelerating beyond our own agency, as subjects and interpreters, to edit or escape. For the American Humor Studies Association, I am preparing a more-conventional essay called “Humor Studies, Humor Research,” which describes and differentiates these scholarly practices, addresses the habit of using these terms interchangeably, and advocates for a stronger relationship between our study of the comic and our broader critical and theoretical discourses. At the University of Rochester in Spring 2012 I gave a paper called “American Realism in the First Virtual Age,” describing how technological and aesthetic developments in the middle of the 19th century posed an ontological challenge for young American authors taking up the realist project.
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Newcomb, Tim | Associate Professor | |
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Rodríguez, Richard | Associate Professor |
Contemporary American literature; Latino/a literature and culture; poetry; film and visual culture; gender and sexuality studies; race and ethnic stud ...
Contemporary American literature; Latino/a literature and culture; poetry; film and visual culture; gender and sexuality studies; race and ethnic studies; literary theory; cultural studies.
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Saville, Julia | Associate Professor |
Nineteenth-century British Literature; Victorian Poetry, Poetics and Politics; Cosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Transnationalism; Nineteenth-cen ...
Nineteenth-century British Literature; Victorian Poetry, Poetics and Politics; Cosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Transnationalism; Nineteenth-century Republicanism; Poetry and the Visual Arts; Gender and Women's Studies
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Nelson, Cary | Professor | |
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Trilling, Renée | Associate Professor | Old and Middle English literature; theories of historiography and nationalism; linguistics and philology; new materialisms and body studies |
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Perry, Curtis | Department Head, Professor |
Early modern English literature and culture, with an emphasis upon literature's participation in political debate; Senecan tragedy; classical receptio ...
Early modern English literature and culture, with an emphasis upon literature's participation in political debate; Senecan tragedy; classical reception; historicist criticism; drama.
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Mohamed, Feisal | Associate Professor |
Feisal Mohamed specializes in non-dramatic British literature of the seventeenth century, and has an especial interest in religious liberty in the ear ...
Feisal Mohamed specializes in non-dramatic British literature of the seventeenth century, and has an especial interest in religious liberty in the early modern period and our own time. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Milton Society of America.
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Post-Colonial
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Parker, Robert | James M. Benson Professor |
American literature, especially fiction and poetry, especially after 1900. Critical theory. American Indian literature. Interested in bringing histori ...
American literature, especially fiction and poetry, especially after 1900. Critical theory. American Indian literature. Interested in bringing historicist, socio-cultural criticism together with formalist criticism.
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Koshy, Susan | Associate Professor | |
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Markley, Robert | W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor | |
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Goodlad, Lauren | Associate Professor |
My work centers on Victorian literature and culture; gothic genres; critical, feminist, postcolonial and political theory; cultural studies; and liter ...
My work centers on Victorian literature and culture; gothic genres; critical, feminist, postcolonial and political theory; cultural studies; and literature in relation to contemporary understandings of liberalism, globalization, internationalism and development. I am the Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, the Victorianist Review Editor for Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN), Co-Head of the Victorian Editorial Board for NINES; a member of the Executive Council for NAVSA, and a member of the Advisory Board for Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies.
My first book, Victorian Literature and the Victorian State, came out with Johns Hopkins in 2003. Since that time I have co-edited Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke 2007) and "Victorian Internationalisms," a November 2007 special issue of RaVoN. Recent publications include
"Trollopian 'Foreign Policy,'" an abridged chapter from my current book project which appeared in the March 2009 issue of PMLA; an essay on John Stuart Mill in a 2008 issue of Victorians Institute Journal; a chapter in a forthcoming collection of essays on Harriet Martineau; a position paper, "Toward a Theory of the Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic," in a forthcoming special issue of Victorian Literature and Culture; and an August 2009 essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education on the television show, Mad Men. Please see the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory website for links to some of my published work as well as detailed information about the Unit's programs.http://criticism.english.illinois.edu/index.htm
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Rothberg, Michael | Professor |
Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Diasporas and G ...
Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Diasporas and Globalization; Theories of Trauma, Memory, and Justice
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Byrd, Jodi | Assistant Professor | Indigenous studies and governance, indigenous and postcolonial literatures, cultural studies, film, theory |
Romantic
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Murison, Justine | Assistant Professor |
Nineteenth-Century American Literature;
Early American Literature;
Medicine and Literature;
Religion and Literature;
Eighteenth-Century Atlantic W ...
Nineteenth-Century American Literature;
Early American Literature;
Medicine and Literature;
Religion and Literature;
Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World;
History of the Novel
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Nazar, Hina | Associate Professor |
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction; Enlightenment moral and political theory (especially Kant, Rousseau, and the Scottish Enlightenmen ...
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction; Enlightenment moral and political theory (especially Kant, Rousseau, and the Scottish Enlightenment); feminist theory; critical theory
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Underwood, Ted | Associate Professor | 18c. British Literature |
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Saville, Julia | Associate Professor |
Nineteenth-century British Literature; Victorian Poetry, Poetics and Politics; Cosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Transnationalism; Nineteenth-cen ...
Nineteenth-century British Literature; Victorian Poetry, Poetics and Politics; Cosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Transnationalism; Nineteenth-century Republicanism; Poetry and the Visual Arts; Gender and Women's Studies
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Science, Technology, and Digital Media
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Hawisher, Gail | Professor Emeritus | |
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Courtemanche, Eleanor | Associate Professor |
Economic and political approaches to Victorian fiction; history of economic theory in Europe and America; socialism and anarchism; history of urban pl ...
Economic and political approaches to Victorian fiction; history of economic theory in Europe and America; socialism and anarchism; history of urban planning; narrative theory; irony and comedy.
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Markley, Robert | W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor | |
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Underwood, Ted | Associate Professor | 18c. British Literature |
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Schaffner, Spencer | Associate Head, Associate Professor | writing studies, environmental criticism, comics and graphic narratives, emerging media, writing pedagogy |
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Prior, Paul | Professor | |
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Littlefield, Melissa | Assistant Professor | literature and science |
Seventeenth Century
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Barrett, Robert | Associate Professor |
Medieval British literature (esp. Middle English literature); early English drama (up to 1642); ecocriticism; region and locality (esp. Cheshire and C ...
Medieval British literature (esp. Middle English literature); early English drama (up to 1642); ecocriticism; region and locality (esp. Cheshire and Chester)
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Markley, Robert | W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor | |
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Newcomb, Lori | Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor | Early modern prose fiction and drama; popular print culture; theories of representation, performance, and difference |
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Stevens, Andrea | Assistant Professor |
My published research focuses on theater history, early modern materiality, performance studies, and methods of original practices staging. My book MS ...
My published research focuses on theater history, early modern materiality, performance studies, and methods of original practices staging. My book MS titled *Inventions of the Skin: The Painted Body in Early English Drama 1400-1642* examines a crucial aspect of the visual field of the early modern stage: the painted body of the actor.
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Gray, Catharine | Associate Professor | |
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Perry, Curtis | Department Head, Professor |
Early modern English literature and culture, with an emphasis upon literature's participation in political debate; Senecan tragedy; classical receptio ...
Early modern English literature and culture, with an emphasis upon literature's participation in political debate; Senecan tragedy; classical reception; historicist criticism; drama.
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Mohamed, Feisal | Associate Professor |
Feisal Mohamed specializes in non-dramatic British literature of the seventeenth century, and has an especial interest in religious liberty in the ear ...
Feisal Mohamed specializes in non-dramatic British literature of the seventeenth century, and has an especial interest in religious liberty in the early modern period and our own time. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Milton Society of America.
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Sixteenth Century
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Barrett, Robert | Associate Professor |
Medieval British literature (esp. Middle English literature); early English drama (up to 1642); ecocriticism; region and locality (esp. Cheshire and C ...
Medieval British literature (esp. Middle English literature); early English drama (up to 1642); ecocriticism; region and locality (esp. Cheshire and Chester)
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Newcomb, Lori | Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor | Early modern prose fiction and drama; popular print culture; theories of representation, performance, and difference |
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Stevens, Andrea | Assistant Professor |
My published research focuses on theater history, early modern materiality, performance studies, and methods of original practices staging. My book MS ...
My published research focuses on theater history, early modern materiality, performance studies, and methods of original practices staging. My book MS titled *Inventions of the Skin: The Painted Body in Early English Drama 1400-1642* examines a crucial aspect of the visual field of the early modern stage: the painted body of the actor.
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Gray, Catharine | Associate Professor | |
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Perry, Curtis | Department Head, Professor |
Early modern English literature and culture, with an emphasis upon literature's participation in political debate; Senecan tragedy; classical receptio ...
Early modern English literature and culture, with an emphasis upon literature's participation in political debate; Senecan tragedy; classical reception; historicist criticism; drama.
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Mohamed, Feisal | Associate Professor |
Feisal Mohamed specializes in non-dramatic British literature of the seventeenth century, and has an especial interest in religious liberty in the ear ...
Feisal Mohamed specializes in non-dramatic British literature of the seventeenth century, and has an especial interest in religious liberty in the early modern period and our own time. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Milton Society of America.
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Teacher Training
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Baron, Dennis | Professor | |
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Hawisher, Gail | Professor Emeritus | |
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Schaffner, Spencer | Associate Head, Associate Professor | writing studies, environmental criticism, comics and graphic narratives, emerging media, writing pedagogy |
Theory & Criticism
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Curry, Ramona | Associate Professor |
Ramona Curry teaches histories, theories, and strategies for writing about cinema and other forms of popular media and culture. Her research focuses ...
Ramona Curry teaches histories, theories, and strategies for writing about cinema and other forms of popular media and culture. Her research focuses on the sociocultural impact of media institutions, including film stars and cinema distribution and exhibition historically. She is author to date of a book on the shifting cultural functions of Mae West's image over eight decades and of numerous essays that have appeared in anthologies and journals in the US, Europe, and Asia. Prof. Curry has written extensively about German cinema and also about films made in Hong Kong. Her most recent publications draw heavily on census and genealogical records, shipping manifests, and other newly digitized government and newspaper archives, to reveal fresh facets of early trans-Pacific film distribution and reception.
Prof. Curry is currently completing a monograph entitled "Trading in Cultural Spaces: How Chinese Film Came to America," which takes an urban cultural geographic and historiographic approach to rewriting American cinema history “from the margins.” She received a 2011 National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship for work on the project, which the NEH has recognized as advancing the goals of its "We the People" initiative.
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Freeburg, Christopher | Assistant Professor |
American and African American Literature; The Idea of Black Culture and Diaspora; The American Novel after 1850; Slavery in the Atlantic World; Histor ...
American and African American Literature; The Idea of Black Culture and Diaspora; The American Novel after 1850; Slavery in the Atlantic World; History of Ideas
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Somerville, Siobhan | Associate Professor | |
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Parker, Robert | James M. Benson Professor |
American literature, especially fiction and poetry, especially after 1900. Critical theory. American Indian literature. Interested in bringing histori ...
American literature, especially fiction and poetry, especially after 1900. Critical theory. American Indian literature. Interested in bringing historicist, socio-cultural criticism together with formalist criticism.
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Koshy, Susan | Associate Professor | |
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Courtemanche, Eleanor | Associate Professor |
Economic and political approaches to Victorian fiction; history of economic theory in Europe and America; socialism and anarchism; history of urban pl ...
Economic and political approaches to Victorian fiction; history of economic theory in Europe and America; socialism and anarchism; history of urban planning; narrative theory; irony and comedy.
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Markley, Robert | W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor | |
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Newcomb, Lori | Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor | Early modern prose fiction and drama; popular print culture; theories of representation, performance, and difference |
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Murison, Justine | Assistant Professor |
Nineteenth-Century American Literature;
Early American Literature;
Medicine and Literature;
Religion and Literature;
Eighteenth-Century Atlantic W ...
Nineteenth-Century American Literature;
Early American Literature;
Medicine and Literature;
Religion and Literature;
Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World;
History of the Novel
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Nazar, Hina | Associate Professor |
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction; Enlightenment moral and political theory (especially Kant, Rousseau, and the Scottish Enlightenmen ...
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction; Enlightenment moral and political theory (especially Kant, Rousseau, and the Scottish Enlightenment); feminist theory; critical theory
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Foote, Stephanie | Associate Professor | |
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Rodríguez, Richard | Associate Professor |
Contemporary American literature; Latino/a literature and culture; poetry; film and visual culture; gender and sexuality studies; race and ethnic stud ...
Contemporary American literature; Latino/a literature and culture; poetry; film and visual culture; gender and sexuality studies; race and ethnic studies; literary theory; cultural studies.
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Saville, Julia | Associate Professor |
Nineteenth-century British Literature; Victorian Poetry, Poetics and Politics; Cosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Transnationalism; Nineteenth-cen ...
Nineteenth-century British Literature; Victorian Poetry, Poetics and Politics; Cosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Transnationalism; Nineteenth-century Republicanism; Poetry and the Visual Arts; Gender and Women's Studies
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Bauer, Dale | Professor | |
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Nelson, Cary | Professor | |
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Trilling, Renée | Associate Professor | Old and Middle English literature; theories of historiography and nationalism; linguistics and philology; new materialisms and body studies |
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Rothberg, Michael | Professor |
Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Diasporas and G ...
Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Diasporas and Globalization; Theories of Trauma, Memory, and Justice
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Perry, Curtis | Department Head, Professor |
Early modern English literature and culture, with an emphasis upon literature's participation in political debate; Senecan tragedy; classical receptio ...
Early modern English literature and culture, with an emphasis upon literature's participation in political debate; Senecan tragedy; classical reception; historicist criticism; drama.
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Mohamed, Feisal | Associate Professor |
Feisal Mohamed specializes in non-dramatic British literature of the seventeenth century, and has an especial interest in religious liberty in the ear ...
Feisal Mohamed specializes in non-dramatic British literature of the seventeenth century, and has an especial interest in religious liberty in the early modern period and our own time. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Milton Society of America.
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Littlefield, Melissa | Assistant Professor | literature and science |
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Hansen, Jim | Associate Professor | |
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Byrd, Jodi | Assistant Professor | Indigenous studies and governance, indigenous and postcolonial literatures, cultural studies, film, theory |
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Mahaffey, Vicki | Kirkpatrick Professor | |
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Gaedtke, Andrew | Assistant Professor | British and Irish Modernism, Contemporary Literature, Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science, Disability Studies, New Media Studies |
Victorian
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Courtemanche, Eleanor | Associate Professor |
Economic and political approaches to Victorian fiction; history of economic theory in Europe and America; socialism and anarchism; history of urban pl ...
Economic and political approaches to Victorian fiction; history of economic theory in Europe and America; socialism and anarchism; history of urban planning; narrative theory; irony and comedy.
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Nazar, Hina | Associate Professor |
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction; Enlightenment moral and political theory (especially Kant, Rousseau, and the Scottish Enlightenmen ...
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction; Enlightenment moral and political theory (especially Kant, Rousseau, and the Scottish Enlightenment); feminist theory; critical theory
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Goodlad, Lauren | Associate Professor |
My work centers on Victorian literature and culture; gothic genres; critical, feminist, postcolonial and political theory; cultural studies; and liter ...
My work centers on Victorian literature and culture; gothic genres; critical, feminist, postcolonial and political theory; cultural studies; and literature in relation to contemporary understandings of liberalism, globalization, internationalism and development. I am the Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, the Victorianist Review Editor for Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN), Co-Head of the Victorian Editorial Board for NINES; a member of the Executive Council for NAVSA, and a member of the Advisory Board for Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies.
My first book, Victorian Literature and the Victorian State, came out with Johns Hopkins in 2003. Since that time I have co-edited Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke 2007) and "Victorian Internationalisms," a November 2007 special issue of RaVoN. Recent publications include
"Trollopian 'Foreign Policy,'" an abridged chapter from my current book project which appeared in the March 2009 issue of PMLA; an essay on John Stuart Mill in a 2008 issue of Victorians Institute Journal; a chapter in a forthcoming collection of essays on Harriet Martineau; a position paper, "Toward a Theory of the Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic," in a forthcoming special issue of Victorian Literature and Culture; and an August 2009 essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education on the television show, Mad Men. Please see the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory website for links to some of my published work as well as detailed information about the Unit's programs.http://criticism.english.illinois.edu/index.htm
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Saville, Julia | Associate Professor |
Nineteenth-century British Literature; Victorian Poetry, Poetics and Politics; Cosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Transnationalism; Nineteenth-cen ...
Nineteenth-century British Literature; Victorian Poetry, Poetics and Politics; Cosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Transnationalism; Nineteenth-century Republicanism; Poetry and the Visual Arts; Gender and Women's Studies
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Women's Literature
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Curry, Ramona | Associate Professor |
Ramona Curry teaches histories, theories, and strategies for writing about cinema and other forms of popular media and culture. Her research focuses ...
Ramona Curry teaches histories, theories, and strategies for writing about cinema and other forms of popular media and culture. Her research focuses on the sociocultural impact of media institutions, including film stars and cinema distribution and exhibition historically. She is author to date of a book on the shifting cultural functions of Mae West's image over eight decades and of numerous essays that have appeared in anthologies and journals in the US, Europe, and Asia. Prof. Curry has written extensively about German cinema and also about films made in Hong Kong. Her most recent publications draw heavily on census and genealogical records, shipping manifests, and other newly digitized government and newspaper archives, to reveal fresh facets of early trans-Pacific film distribution and reception.
Prof. Curry is currently completing a monograph entitled "Trading in Cultural Spaces: How Chinese Film Came to America," which takes an urban cultural geographic and historiographic approach to rewriting American cinema history “from the margins.” She received a 2011 National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship for work on the project, which the NEH has recognized as advancing the goals of its "We the People" initiative.
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Newcomb, Lori | Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor | Early modern prose fiction and drama; popular print culture; theories of representation, performance, and difference |
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Saville, Julia | Associate Professor |
Nineteenth-century British Literature; Victorian Poetry, Poetics and Politics; Cosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Transnationalism; Nineteenth-cen ...
Nineteenth-century British Literature; Victorian Poetry, Poetics and Politics; Cosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Transnationalism; Nineteenth-century Republicanism; Poetry and the Visual Arts; Gender and Women's Studies
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Bauer, Dale | Professor | |
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Gray, Catharine | Associate Professor | |
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Mahaffey, Vicki | Kirkpatrick Professor |
Writing Studies
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Baron, Dennis | Professor | |
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Hawisher, Gail | Professor Emeritus | |
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Schaffner, Spencer | Associate Head, Associate Professor | writing studies, environmental criticism, comics and graphic narratives, emerging media, writing pedagogy |
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Mortensen, Peter | Associate Professor | History of rhetoric and literacy in the U.S. |
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Prior, Paul | Professor | |
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Vieira, Kate | Assistant Professor | migrant and transnational literacies, multilingual writing, composition pedagogy, qualitative research methodologies, community literacies |