American Literature (Colonial to Present)
Zinzi Clemmons, M.F.A., Columbia
Creative writing (fiction & nonfiction); contemporary fiction; African-American literature; African literature; print culture; experimental literature.
Joshua Clover, M.F.A., University of Iowa
Critical Theory; Marxism, political theory, and political economy; 20/21st Century Poetry and Poetics.
Lucy Corin, M.F.A., Brown; B.A. Duke
Creative writing (novel & short story); contemporary fiction.
Pam Houston, M.A., University of Utah; B.A., Denison University, Granville, Ohio
Creative writing (fiction, non-fiction & plays); modernism; contemporary fiction; the short story; wilderness literature.
Hsuan Hsu, Ph.D., UC Berkeley; A.B, Harvard University
American literature and culture, Asian American literature, cultural geography, visual culture, cultural studies; environmental humanities.
Mark Jerng, Ph.D., Harvard University; B.A. English, Princeton University
Asian American literature; American literature & culture; narrative theory; transnationalism; psychoanalytic theory; law & literature.
Desireé Martín, Ph.D., Duke University; B.A. UC Berkeley
U.S. -Mexico border studies; Chicano/a & Latino/a literature & culture; literature of the Americas; 19th & 20th-c. Mexican literature; performance art & theater; subaltern studies.
Colin Milburn, Ph.D., Harvard University; M.A. Stanford University; B.S. Stanford University; B.A. Stanford University
Relations of literature & science; science fiction; gothic horror; history of biology; history of physics; post-humanism.
Katie Peterson, Ph.D., Harvard University; B.A. Stanford University
Creative writing (poetry); gender & feminist studies; 19th-c. British & American literature; Victorian poetry; Emily Dickinson.
Margaret Ronda, Ph.D., UC Berkeley; M.F.A (Poetry), Indiana University; B.A., Beloit College
American literature; literature & the environment; feminism/gender studies; creative writing.
Mathew Stratton, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.A. Pitzer College
20th-c. American literature and literary culture; literary theory, aesthetics, political theory, and visual culture.
Matthew Vernon, Ph.D., Yale University; M. Phil. Yale University; M.A. Yale University; B.A. Cornell University
Medieval literature, 19th-c. English literature.
Ruben Zecena, Ph.D., University of Arizona (Gender & Women's Studies, with a minor in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory)
Latinx literature & culture; queer of color critique; migration studies; border studies; affect theory; queer & feminist theory; film & media studies.
Michael Ziser, Ph.D., Harvard University; B.A. UC Berkeley
American literature; literature & the environment; ecocriticism.
British Modernism & 20th-Century Literature
Gregory Dobbins, Ph.D., Duke University; B.A. University of California, Berkeley
20th-c. Irish & British literature; modernism; post-colonial theory & literature; cultural studies; critical theory.
John Marx, Ph.D., Brown
Modernism; post-colonial theory & literature; the novel.
Comparative Literature
Akua Banful, Ph.D., Columbia University
Her research interests include colonial and postcolonial literary studies, African and black diasporic and cultural production, translation, climate arts, marine mammals, and political theory and philosophy.
Seeta Chaganti, Ph.D., Yale
Old & Middle English poetry; late medieval drama; English & French Arthurian romance; medieval, religious & material culture.
Xavier Lee, Ph.D., Yale University (Comparative Literature); B.A. Swarthmore College (Comparative Literature)
A scholar of comparative literature, critical theory and the history of ideas.
Desireé Martín, Ph.D., Duke University; B.A. UC Berkeley
U.S.-Mexico border studies; Chicano/a & Latino/a literature & culture; literature of the Americas; 19th & 20th-c. Mexican literature; performance art & theater; subaltern studies.
Claire Waters, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Medieval religious literature and culture: Anglo-Norman, Middle English, Old French; manuscript studies; Latin and vernacular preaching and teaching literature; hagiography; Arthurian romance; gender studies.
Creative Writing
Zinzi Clemmons, M.FA., Columbia
Creative writing (fiction & nonfiction); contemporary fiction; African-American literature; African literature; print culture; experimental literature.
Lucy Corin, M.F.A., Brown; B.A. Duke
Creative writing (novel & short story); contemporary fiction.
Pam Houston, M.A., University of Utah; B.A., Denison University, Granville, Ohio
Creative writing (fiction, non-fiction & plays); modernism; contemporary fiction; the short story; wilderness literature.
Andre Naffis-Sahely, Ph.D., University of Leicester
Strong interests in transnational and diasporic literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Katie Peterson, Ph.D., Harvard University; B.A. Stanford University
Creative writing (poetry); gender & feminist studies; 19th-c. British & American literature; Victorian poetry; Emily Dickinson.
Margaret Ronda, Ph.D., UC Berkeley; M.F.A (Poetry), Indiana University; B.A., Beloit College
American literature; literature & the environment; feminism/gender studies; creative writing.
Digital Humanities
Gina Bloom, M.A., Ph.D., and Certificate in Women's Studies, University of Michigan
Early modern drama; performance studies; gender and feminist theory; embodiment; digital arts and humanities.
John Marx, Ph.D., Brown
Modernism; post-colonial theory & literature; the novel.
Colin Milburn, Ph.D., Harvard University; M.A. Stanford University; B.S. Stanford University; B.A. Stanford University
Relations of literature & science; science fiction; gothic horror; history of biology; history of physics; post-humanism.
Carl G. Stahmer, Ph.D., UCSB
History of print; early modern broadside ballads; digital archives; text mining and natural language processing; image recognition; digital theory.
Early Modern Literature (See Early Modern Studies)
Gina Bloom, M.A., Ph.D., and Certificate in Women's Studies, University of Michigan
Early modern drama; performance studies; gender and feminist theory; embodiment; digital arts and humanities.
Frances E. Dolan, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Early modern literature & culture; Shakespeare and drama; law, crime & violence; histories of the book, the printing press, and reading; history of agriculture and food production; gender & feminist theory; research methods and standards of evidence; children’s literature; environmental humanities.
Carl G. Stahmer, Ph.D., UCSB
History of print; early modern broadside ballads; digital archives; text mining and natural language processing; image recognition; digital theory.
Tiffany Jo Werth, Ph.D., Columbia
Renaissance literature (especially prose and poetry) and culture; the long Reformation in England; print history and book culture; environmental humanities and the non/human.
Eighteenth Century Literature
Tobias Menely, Ph.D., Indiana University; B.A., Beloit College
18th-c. British literature; romanticism; literature & the environment; animal studies; literary theory.
Sal Nicolazzo, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Scholar of law and literature in the eighteenth-century British Empire and Atlantic world, with a particular focus on how legal and literary tropes, practices, rhetorics, and genres, taken together, can reveal new histories of colonial racial capitalism and its imbrication in the material histories of gender and sexuality.
Ethnic Studies
Zinzi Clemmons, M.F.A., Columbia
Creative writing (fiction & nonfiction); contemporary fiction; African-American literature; African literature; print culture; experimental literature.
Xavier Lee, Ph.D., Yale University (Comparative Literature); B.A. Swarthmore College (Comparative Literature)
A scholar of comparative literature, critical theory and the history of ideas.
Hsuan Hsu, Ph.D., UC Berkeley; A.B, Harvard University
American literature and culture, Asian American literature, cultural geography, visual culture, cultural studies; environmental humanities.
Mark Jerng, Ph.D., Harvard University; B.A. English, Princeton University
Asian American literature; American literature & culture; narrative theory; transnationalism; psychoanalytic theory; law & literature.
Desireé Martín, Ph.D., Duke University; B.A. UC Berkeley
U.S. -Mexico border studies; Chicano/a & Latino/a literature & culture; literature of the Americas; 19th & 20th-c. Mexican literature; performance art & theater; subaltern studies.
Matthew Vernon, Ph.D., Yale University; M. Phil. Yale University; M.A. Yale University; B.A. Cornell University
Medieval literature, 19th-c. English literature.
Ruben E. Zecena, Ph.D., University of Arizona (Gender & Women's Studies, with a minor in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory)
Latinx literature & culture; queer of color critique; migration studies; border studies; affect theory; queer & feminist theory; film & media studies.
Feminism, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Gina Bloom, M.A., Ph.D., and Certificate in Women's Studies, University of Michigan
Early modern drama; performance studies; gender and feminist theory; embodiment; digital arts and humanities.
Frances Dolan, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Early modern literature & culture; Shakespeare and drama; law, crime & violence; histories of the book, the printing press, and reading; history of agriculture and food production; gender & feminist theory; research methods and standards of evidence; children’s literature; environmental humanities.
Kathleen Frederickson, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Victorian Studies and culture; feminist and queer studies; history of biology, psychology and the social sciences; Marxism; and psychoanalysis.
Desireé Martín, Ph.D., Duke University; B.A. UC Berkeley
U.S. -Mexico border studies; Chicano/a & Latino/a literature & culture; literature of the Americas; 19th & 20th-c. Mexican literature; performance art & theater; subaltern studies.
Elizabeth Miller, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
19th- and early-20th-century British literature; feminism/gender studies; film and visual culture; media studies; print culture; popular culture; literature and the environment.
Sal Nicolazzo, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Scholar of law and literature in the eighteenth-century British Empire and Atlantic world, with a particular focus on how legal and literary tropes, practices, rhetorics, and genres, taken together, can reveal new histories of colonial racial capitalism and its imbrication in the material histories of gender and sexuality.
Katie Peterson, Ph.D., Harvard University; B.A. Stanford University
Creative writing (poetry); gender & feminist studies; 19th-c. British & American literature; Victorian poetry; Emily Dickinson.
Margaret Ronda, Ph.D., UC Berkeley; M.F.A (Poetry), Indiana University; B.A., Beloit College
American literature; literature & the environment; feminism/gender studies; creative writing.
Claire Waters, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Medieval religious literature and culture: Anglo-Norman, Middle English, Old French; manuscript studies; Latin and vernacular preaching and teaching literature; hagiography; Arthurian romance; gender studies.
Ruben E. Zecena, Ph.D., University of Arizona (Gender & Women's Studies, with a minor in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory)
Latinx literature & culture; queer of color critique; migration studies; border studies; affect theory; queer & feminist theory; film & media studies.
Film, Media, Print Culture, Performance, Visual Studies & Popular Culture
Gina Bloom, M.A., Ph.D., and Certificate in Women's Studies, University of Michigan
Early modern drama; performance studies; gender and feminist theory; embodiment; digital arts and humanities.
Stephanie Boluk, Ph.D., University of Florida
Game studies, game design, computer history, media studies
Seeta Chaganti, Ph.D., Yale
Old & Middle English poetry; late medieval drama; English & French Arthurian romance; medieval, religious & material culture.
Joshua Clover, M.F.A., University of Iowa
Critical Theory; Marxism, political theory, and political economy; 20/21st Century Poetry and Poetics.
Frances Dolan, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Early modern literature & culture; Shakespeare and drama; law, crime & violence; histories of the book, the printing press, and reading; history of agriculture and food production; gender & feminist theory; research methods and standards of evidence; children’s literature; environmental humanities.
Hsuan Hsu, Ph.D., UC Berkeley; A.B, Harvard University
American literature and culture, Asian American literature, cultural geography, visual culture, cultural studies; environmental humanities.
Colin Milburn, Ph.D., Harvard University; M.A. Stanford University; B.S. Stanford University; B.A. Stanford University
Relations of literature & science; science fiction; gothic horror; history of biology; history of physics; post-humanism.
Elizabeth Miller, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
19th- and early-20th-century British literature; feminism/gender studies; film and visual culture; media studies; print culture; popular culture; literature and the environment.
Mathew Stratton, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.A. Pitzer College
20th-c. American literature and literary culture; literary theory, aesthetics, political theory, and visual culture.
Matthew Vernon, Ph.D., Yale University; M. Phil. Yale University; M.A. Yale University; B.A. Cornell University
Medieval literature, 19th-c. English literature.
Ruben E. Zecena, Ph.D., University of Arizona (Gender & Women's Studies, with a minor in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory)
Latinx literature & culture; queer of color critique; migration studies; border studies; affect theory; queer & feminist theory; film & media studies.
Literature and the Environment
Akua Banful, Ph.D., Columbia University
Her research interest include colonial and postcolonial literary studies, African and black diasporic and cultural production, translation, climate arts, marine mammals, and political theory and philosophy.
Frances Dolan, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Early modern literature & culture; Shakespeare and drama; law, crime & violence; histories of the book, the printing press, and reading; history of agriculture and food production; gender & feminist theory; research methods and standards of evidence; children’s literature; environmental humanities.
Hsuan Hsu, Ph.D., UC Berkeley; A.B, Harvard University
American literature and culture, Asian American literature, cultural geography, visual culture, cultural studies; environmental humanities.
Tobias Menely, Ph.D., Indiana University; B.A., Beloit College
18th-c. British literature; romanticism; literature & the environment; animal studies; literary theory
Elizabeth Miller, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
19th- and early-20th-century British literature; feminism/gender studies; film and visual culture; media studies; print culture; popular culture; literature and the environment.
Margaret Ronda, Ph.D., UC Berkeley; M.F.A (Poetry), Indiana University; B.A., Beloit College
American literature; literature & the environment; feminism/gender studies; creative writing.
Tiffany Jo Werth, Ph.D., Columbia
Renaissance literature (especially prose and poetry) and culture; the long Reformation in England; print history and book culture; environmental humanities and the non/human.
Michael Ziser, Ph.D., Harvard University; B.A. UC Berkeley
American literature; literature & the environment; ecocriticism.
Medieval Literature
Seeta Chaganti, Ph.D., Yale
Old & Middle English poetry; late medieval drama; English & French Arthurian romance; medieval, religious & material culture.
Matthew Vernon, Ph.D., Yale University; M. Phil. Yale University; M.A. Yale University; B.A. Cornell University
Medieval literature, 19th-c. English literature.
Claire Waters, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Medieval religious literature and culture: Anglo-Norman, Middle English, Old French; manuscript studies; Latin and vernacular preaching and teaching literature; hagiography; Arthurian romance; gender studies.
Postcolonial/Global Anglophone
Akua Banful, Ph.D., Columbia University
Her research interest include colonial and postcolonial literary studies, African and black diasporic and cultural production, translation, climate arts, marine mammals, and political theory and philosophy.
Gregory Dobbins, Ph.D., Duke University; B.A. University of California, Berkeley
20th-c. Irish & British literature; modernism; post-colonial theory & literature; cultural studies; critical theory.
Xavier Lee, Ph.D., Yale University (Comparative Literature); B.A. Swarthmore College (Comparative Literature)
A scholar of comparative literature, critical theory and the history of ideas.
John Marx, Ph.D., Brown
Modernism; post-colonial theory & literature; the novel.
Tiffany Jo Werth, Ph.D., Columbia
Renaissance literature (especially prose and poetry) and culture; the long Reformation in England; print history and book culture; environmental humanities and the non/human.
Nineteenth-Century British Literature -- Romanticism and Victorian
Kathleen Frederickson, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Victorian Studies and culture; feminist and queer studies; history of biology, psychology and the social sciences; Marxism; and psychoanalysis.
Tobias Menely, Ph.D., Indiana University; B.A., Beloit College
18th-c. British literature; romanticism; literature & the environment; animal studies; literary theory
Elizabeth Miller, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
19th- and early-20th-century British literature; feminism/gender studies; film and visual culture; media studies; print culture; popular culture; literature and the environment.
Katie Peterson, Ph.D., Harvard University; B.A. Stanford University
Creative writing (poetry); gender & feminist studies; 19th-c. British & American literature; Victorian poetry; Emily Dickinson.
Theory
Joshua Clover, M.F.A.,University of Iowa
Critical Theory; Marxism, political theory, and political economy; 20/21st Century Poetry and Poetics.
Kathleen Frederickson, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Victorian Studies and culture; feminist and queer studies; history of biology, psychology and the social sciences; Marxism; and psychoanalysis.
Tobias Menely, Ph.D., Indiana University; B.A., Beloit College
18th-c. British literature; romanticism; literature & the environment; animal studies; literary theory
Margaret Ronda, Ph.D., UC Berkeley; M.F.A (Poetry), Indiana University; B.A., Beloit College
American literature; literature & the environment; feminism/gender studies; creative writing.
Mathew Stratton, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.A. Pitzer College
20th-c. American literature and literary culture; literary theory, aesthetics, political theory, and visual culture.