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.

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

Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Diasporas and Globalization; Theories of Trauma, Memory, and Justice

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.

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.

Medieval British literature (esp. Middle English literature); early English drama (up to 1642); ecocriticism; region and locality (esp. Cheshire and Chester)

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.

Early modern English literature and culture, with an emphasis upon literature's participation in political debate; Senecan tragedy; classical reception; historicist criticism; drama.

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

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.

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.

Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Early American Literature; Medicine and Literature; Religion and Literature; Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World; History of the Novel

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction; Enlightenment moral and political theory (especially Kant, Rousseau, and the Scottish Enlightenment); feminist theory; critical theory

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.

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.

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.

Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Early American Literature; Medicine and Literature; Religion and Literature; Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World; History of the Novel

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction; Enlightenment moral and political theory (especially Kant, Rousseau, and the Scottish Enlightenment); feminist theory; critical theory

Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Diasporas and Globalization; Theories of Trauma, Memory, and Justice

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.

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.

Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Diasporas and Globalization; Theories of Trauma, Memory, and Justice

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Diasporas and Globalization; Theories of Trauma, Memory, and Justice

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.

Medieval British literature (esp. Middle English literature); early English drama (up to 1642); ecocriticism; region and locality (esp. Cheshire and Chester)

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.

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.

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.

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

Early modern English literature and culture, with an emphasis upon literature's participation in political debate; Senecan tragedy; classical reception; historicist criticism; drama.

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.

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.

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

Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Diasporas and Globalization; Theories of Trauma, Memory, and Justice

Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Early American Literature; Medicine and Literature; Religion and Literature; Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World; History of the Novel

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction; Enlightenment moral and political theory (especially Kant, Rousseau, and the Scottish Enlightenment); feminist theory; critical theory

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

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.

Medieval British literature (esp. Middle English literature); early English drama (up to 1642); ecocriticism; region and locality (esp. Cheshire and Chester)

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.

Early modern English literature and culture, with an emphasis upon literature's participation in political debate; Senecan tragedy; classical reception; historicist criticism; drama.

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.

Medieval British literature (esp. Middle English literature); early English drama (up to 1642); ecocriticism; region and locality (esp. Cheshire and Chester)

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.

Early modern English literature and culture, with an emphasis upon literature's participation in political debate; Senecan tragedy; classical reception; historicist criticism; drama.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Early American Literature; Medicine and Literature; Religion and Literature; Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World; History of the Novel

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction; Enlightenment moral and political theory (especially Kant, Rousseau, and the Scottish Enlightenment); feminist theory; critical theory

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.

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

Critical Theory; Comparative Twentieth-Century Literatures; Holocaust Studies; Contemporary American Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Diasporas and Globalization; Theories of Trauma, Memory, and Justice

Early modern English literature and culture, with an emphasis upon literature's participation in political debate; Senecan tragedy; classical reception; historicist criticism; drama.

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.

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.

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction; Enlightenment moral and political theory (especially Kant, Rousseau, and the Scottish Enlightenment); feminist theory; critical theory

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

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

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.

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