William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies and Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies

Research Interests

African American Literature

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

History and Politics

20th and 21st Century

American and the Americas

African American and African Diaspora

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Full-time Faculty

Jack Halberstam

Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality; David Feinson Professor of Humanities

Research Interests

Cultural Studies

Queer Theory

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Gothic Literature and the Horror Film

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Popular Culture

Feminist Theory

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Full-time Faculty

Matthew Hart

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century

Modernism

Poetry and Poetics

Postcolonial and Global South

Political Theory

The Contemporary Novel

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Law and Humanities

American and the Americas

Europe

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Britain

Full-time Faculty

Saidiya V Hartman

University Professor

Research Interests

African American and American Literature and Cultural History

Slavery

Law and Literature

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Law and Humanities

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

19th Century

20th and 21st Century

American and the Americas

African American and African Diaspora

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Africa

Full-time Faculty

Zoë L. Henry

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

African American Literature/ Diaspora Studies

20th and 21st Century Literature

Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Theory

Dance and Performance Studies

Modernism

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

Law and Literature

Feminism

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Psychoanalysis

Critical Social Theory

Full-time Faculty

Amy E. Hungerford

Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Ruth Fulton Benedict Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Full-time Faculty

Eleanor B Johnson

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Poetry and Poetics

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Ancient and Medieval Myth and Epic

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Science and Environmental Studies

Law and Humanities

Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge

Europe

Full-time Faculty

Rebecca Kastleman

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

20th and 21st Century Modernism and Postmodernism

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge

American and the Americas

Britain

Europe

Postcolonial and Global South

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Full-time Faculty

Sharon Marcus

Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

19th Century British Literature

Europe

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

Material Culture/ Object Studies

Britain

Full-time Faculty

Sue Mendelsohn

Director of Writing Center, Associate Director of First Year Writing, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

20th and 21st Century

Writing Studies and Pedagogy

American and the Americas

Full-time Faculty

Edward Mendelson

Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities

Research Interests

19th-Century British Literature

20th-Century British and American Literature

Poetry and Poetics

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Europe

Britain

Full-time Faculty

Molly Murray

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

16th-and 17th-Century English Literature and Culture

The History of Poetics

Political Theory

The Reception of St. Augustine in Early Modern England

The English Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Metaphysical Wit

Autobiography

Renaissance / Early Modern

Poetry and Poetics

Britain

Full-time Faculty

Frances Negron-Muntaner

Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities

Research Interests

19th- and 20th-century Caribbean and U.S Latino Literatures and Cultures

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Popular Culture

Ethnicity and Race

Full-time Faculty

Carlos Alonso Nugent

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

American and the Americas

Latinx Literature and Culture

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Border Studies

Science and Environmental Studies

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge

19th Century

20th and 21st Century

Full-time Faculty

Robert O'Meally

Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

19th- and 20th-Century American and African-American Literature

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

African American and African Diaspora

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Painting

Photography

American and the Americas

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Full-time Faculty

Julie Stone Peters

H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director of Academic Careers Advising; Co-Chair, PhD in Theater and Performance

Research Interests

Law and Humanities

Human Rights

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Cultural and Intellectual History

Popular Culture

Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge

Comparative Literature

Ancient/Medieval

Renaissance/ Early Modern

Restoration and 18th Century

20th and 21st Century Modernism and Postmodernism

Full-time Faculty

Ross Posnock

Anna S. Garbedian Professor of the Humanities

Research Interests

US and European Literature and Intellectual History of the 19th- and 20th-Century

Pragmatism

Henry James

William James

W.E.B Du Bois

Aestheticism

US Postwar Visual and Literary Culture

20th and 21st Century

Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge

American and the Americas

Full-time Faculty

Austin E. Quigley

Dean Emeritus of Columbia College; Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature

Research Interests

19th to 21st Century Drama

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Literary Theory

Linguistic Theory

Modernism and Postmodernism

Europe

Full-time Faculty

Shana L. Redmond

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century

American and the Americas

Postcolonial and Global South

Africa

African American and African Diaspora

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

Black Radical Historiography

History and Politics

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

Popular Culture

Cultural Studies

Nationalism

Social Movements

Carcerality

Full-time Faculty

Aaron J Ritzenberg

Senior Lecturer in Discipline in English and Comparative Literature, Associate Director of the Undergraduate Writing Program, Director of First-Year Writing

Research Interests

Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American Literature

20th and 21st Century

Rhetoric and Composition

Writing Studies and Pedagogy

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

19th Century

American and the Americas

Full-time Faculty

Bruce Robbins

Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities

Research Interests

Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Fiction

Transnational Literature

Literary and Cultural Theory

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

Full-time Faculty

Lauren Robertson

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Renaissance/ Early Modern

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Shakespeare

Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge

Britain, Europe

Full-time Faculty

James Shapiro

Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Shakespeare

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Poetry and Poetics

The Book Review

Renaissance / Early Modern

Europe

Full-time Faculty

Joseph R. Slaughter

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights

Research Interests

Comparative Literature

African, Latin American, and Third-World Literatures

Postcolonialism

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

The Global South

Globalization

Modernity

Critical and Narrative Theory

Human Rights

Intellectual Property

Law and Literature

Law and Humanities

Postcolonial and Global South

Africa

20th and 21st Century

Full-time Faculty

Maura Spiegel

Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

Medical Humanities

20th-Century British and American Literature

19th Century British Literature and Culture

19th-Century European Novel

European Modernism

American Studies

Europe

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Britain

Full-time Faculty

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

University Professor in the Humanities

Research Interests

19th and 20th Century Literature

Marxism

Feminism

Deconstruction

General French Theory

Globalization and Postcolonial

Political Theory and Critical Social Theory

Planetarity

Full-time Faculty

Alan Stewart

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Early Modern English Literature

History and Culture

Manuscript Studies

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Renaissance / Early Modern

Europe

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

History of the Book and Manuscript Studies

Britain

Full-time Faculty

Dustin D. Stewart

James P. Shenton Associate Professor of the Core Curriculum; Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Restoration and 18th Century

Renaissance / Early Modern

Europe

American and the Americas

Poetry and Poetics

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge

Full-time Faculty

Colm Tóibín

Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities

Research Interests

Irish Literature

Europe

20th and 21st Century

Full-time Faculty

Gauri Viswanathan

Class of 1933 Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Cultural and Intellectual History

Education

Religious Studies

19th Century British and Colonial Cultural Studies

History of Disciplines

20th and 21st Century

Postcolonial and Global South

19th Century

Asia/South Asia

Full-time Faculty

Nicole B. Wallack

Director of Undergraduate Writing Program; Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

History

Writing Studies and Pedagogy

Aesthetics of the American essay

Rhetoric and Composition

Manuscript Studies

Writing Program Administration

Teacher Education

American Literature and Film

Creative Nonfiction and Literatures of Fact

American and the Americas

20th and 21st Century

Full-time Faculty

Hannah M. Weaver

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Medieval Literature

Multilingualism

Manuscript Studies

Historiography

Genre

Early Middle English

French of England

Europe

History of the Book and Manuscript Studies

Britain

Full-time Faculty

Jennifer Wenzel

Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies

Research Interests

Postcolonial Theory and Decolonization

African and South Asian Literatures

Environmental Humanities

Energy Studies

Science and Environmental Studies

Postcolonial and Global South

Africa

20th and 21st Century

Full-time Faculty

W. B. Worthen

Co-Chair, PhD in Theater and Performance; Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts Dramatic Literature, Performance Theory

Research Interests

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Europe

Full-time Faculty

David Yerkes

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

English language, including Anglo-Saxon and Middle English

Bibliography

Textual Criticism

English Translations of the Bible

Medieval Literature

Europe

Full-time Faculty

Dennis Yi Tenen

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Literary Theory

Sociology of Literature

History of the Book and Manuscript Studies

Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Formal Methods

Computational Narratology

Visiting Faculty

C Riley Snorton

Visiting Professor of English and Comparative Literature and ISSG

Research Interests

African American and African Diaspora Literature

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Ecology

Critical Theory

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Transgender Studies

Queer Theory

Feminism

Film and Media Studies

Theater and Performance

Affiliated Faculty

Eileen Gillooly

Executive Director, Heyman Center for the Humanities and Society of Fellows; Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender