American Literature (Colonial to Present)

Zinzi Clemmons, MFA (Columbia): creative writing (fiction & nonfiction); contemporary fiction; African-American literature; African literature; print culture; experimental literature.

Joshua Clover, MFA (University of Iowa): Critical Theory; Marxism, political theory, and political economy; 20/21st Century Poetry and Poetics.

Lucy Corin, MFA (Brown): creative writing (novel & short story); contemporary fiction.

Elizabeth Freeman, PhD (University of Chicago): 19^th-c. American literature; gender & sexuality; critical theory; cultural studies.

Pam Houston, B.A. (Denison): creative writing (fiction, non-fiction & plays); modernism; contemporary fiction; the short story; wilderness literature.

Hsuan Hsu, PhD (UC Berkeley): American literature and culture, Asian American literature, cultural geography, visual culture, cultural studies; environmental humanities. 

Mark Jerng, PhD (Harvard): Asian American literature; American literature & culture; narrative theory; transnationalism; psychoanalytic theory; law & literature.

Desireé Martín, PhD (Duke): U.S. -Mexico border studies; Chicano/a & Latino/a literature & culture; literature of the Americas; 19^th & 20^th-c. Mexican literature; performance art & theater; subaltern studies.

Colin Milburn, PhD (Harvard): relations of literature & science; science fiction; gothic horror; history of biology; history of  physics; post-humanism.

Katie Peterson, PhD (Harvard): Creative writing (poetry); gender & feminist studies; 19^th-c. British & American literature; Victorian poetry; Emily Dickinson. 

Margaret Ronda, Ph.D (UC Berkeley): American literature; literature & the environment; feminism/gender studies; creative writing.

Mathew Stratton, PhD (University of Wisconsin):  20th-c. American literature and literary culture; literary theory, aesthetics, political theory, and visual culture.

Matthew Vernon, PhD (Yale): Medieval literature, 19th-c. English literature.

Joe Wenderoth, MFA (Warren Wilson College): creative writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essay); Wallace Stevens, Paul Celan, Toni Morrison.

Michael Ziser, PhD (Harvard): American literature; literature & the environment; ecocriticism.

 

British Modernism & 20th-Century Literature

Greg Dobbins, PhD (Duke): 20^th-c. Irish & British literature; modernism; post-colonial theory & literature; cultural studies; critical theory.

John Marx, PhD (Brown): modernism; post-colonial theory & literature; the novel.

Elizabeth Miller, PhD (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.

 

Comparative Literature

Seeta Chaganti, PhD (Yale): Old & Middle English poetry; late medieval drama; English & French Arthurian romance; medieval, religious & material culture.

Alessa Johns, PhD (UC Berkeley): 18^th-c. British literature & cultural studies; women writers; utopianism; disaster; British-German cultural exchange; Jane Austen.

Desireé Martín, PhD (Duke): U.S. -Mexico border studies; Chicano/a & Latino/a literature & culture; literature of the Americas; 19^th & 20^th-c. Mexican literature; performance art & theater; subaltern studies.

Claire Waters, PhD (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, MFA (Columbia): creative writing (fiction & nonfiction); contemporary fiction; African-American literature; African literature; print culture; experimental literature.

Lucy Corin, MFA (Brown): creative writing (novel & short story); contemporary fiction.

Pam Houston, B.A. (Denison): creative writing (fiction, non-fiction & plays); modernism; contemporary fiction; the short story; wilderness literature.

Katie Peterson, PhD (Harvard): Creative writing (poetry); gender & feminist studies; 19^th-c. British & American literature; Victorian poetry; Emily Dickinson. 

Margaret Ronda, Ph.D (UC Berkeley): American literature; literature & the environment; feminism/gender studies; creative writing.

Joe Wenderoth, MFA (Warren Wilson College): creative writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essay); Wallace Stevens, Paul Celan, Toni Morrison.

 

Digital Humanities

Gina Bloom, PhD (University of Michigan): early modern drama; performance studies; gender and feminist theory; embodiment; digital arts and humanities.

John Marx, PhD (Brown): modernism; post-colonial theory & literature; the novel.

Colin Milburn, PhD (Harvard): relations of literature & science; science fiction; gothic horror; history of biology; history of  physics; post-humanism.

Carl G. Stahmer, PhD (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, PhD (University of Michigan): early modern drama; performance studies; gender and feminist theory; embodiment; digital arts and humanities.

Frances E. Dolan, PhD (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. 

Scott Shershow, PhD (Harvard): critical theory; cultural studies; history & theory of drama; Renaissance.

Carl G. Stahmer, PhD (UCSB): history of print; early modern broadside ballads; digital archives; text mining and natural language processing; image recognition; digital theory.

Tiffany Jo Werth, PHD (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

Alessa Johns, PhD (UC Berkeley): 18^th-c. British literature & cultural studies; women writers; utopianism; disaster; British-German cultural exchange; Jane Austen.

Tobias Menely, PhD (Indiana): 18th-c. British literature; romanticism; literature & the environment; animal studies; literary theory

 

Ethnic Studies

Zinzi Clemmons, MFA (Columbia): creative writing (fiction & nonfiction); contemporary fiction; African-American literature; African literature; print culture; experimental literature.

Erin Gray, PhD (UC Santa Cruz): Visual and performance studies; aesthetics and experimental poetics; gender studies and feminist epistemology; critical race studies; the black radical tradition and critiques of racial capitalism; historiography and history from below; affect, sentiment, sensation, and biopolitics.

Hsuan Hsu, PhD (UC Berkeley): American literature and culture, Asian American literature, cultural geography, visual culture, cultural studies; environmental humanities. 

Mark Jerng, PhD (Harvard): Asian American literature; American literature & culture; narrative theory; transnationalism; psychoanalytic theory; law & literature.

Desireé Martín, PhD (Duke): U.S. -Mexico border studies; Chicano/a & Latino/a literature & culture; literature of the Americas; 19^th & 20^th-c. Mexican literature; performance art & theater; subaltern studies.

 

Feminism, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Gina Bloom, PhD (University of Michigan): early modern drama; performance studies; gender and feminist theory; embodiment; digital arts and humanities.

Frances Dolan, PhD (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, PhD (University of Chicago): Victorian Studies and culture; feminist and queer studies;  history of biology, psychology and the social sciences; Marxism; and psychoanalysis.

Elizabeth Freeman, PhD (University of Chicago): 19^th-c. American literature; gender & sexuality; critical theory; cultural studies.

Erin Gray, PhD (UC Santa Cruz): Visual and performance studies; aesthetics and experimental poetics; gender studies and feminist epistemology; critical race studies; the black radical tradition and critiques of racial capitalism; historiography and history from below; affect, sentiment, sensation, and biopolitics.

Alessa Johns, PhD (UC Berkeley): 18^th-c. British literature & cultural studies; women writers; utopianism; disaster; British-German cultural exchange; Jane Austen.

Desireé Martín, PhD (Duke): U.S. -Mexico border studies; Chicano/a & Latino/a literature & culture; literature of the Americas; 19^th & 20^th-c. Mexican literature; performance art & theater; subaltern studies.

Elizabeth Miller, PhD (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, PhD (Harvard): Creative writing (poetry); gender & feminist studies; 19^th-c. British & American literature; Victorian poetry; Emily Dickinson. 

Margaret Ronda, Ph.D (UC Berkeley): American literature; literature & the environment; feminism/gender studies; creative writing.

Parama Roy, PhD (University of Rochester): post-colonial theory & literature; Victorian literature; cultural studies; feminist studies.

Claire Waters, PhD (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.

 

Film, Media, Print Culture, Performance, Visual Studies & Popular Culture

Gina Bloom, PhD (University of Michigan): early modern drama; performance studies; gender and feminist theory; embodiment; digital arts and humanities.

Stephanie Boluk, PhD (University of Florida): game studies and game design, computer history, media studies, electronic literature, disability studies.

Seeta Chaganti, PhD (Yale): Old & Middle English poetry; late medieval drama; English & French Arthurian romance; medieval, religious & material culture.

Joshua Clover, MFA (University of Iowa): Critical Theory; Marxism, political theory, and political economy; 20/21st Century Poetry and Poetics.

Frances Dolan, PhD (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. 

Elizabeth Freeman, PhD (University of Chicago): 19^th-c. American literature; gender & sexuality; critical theory; cultural studies.

Erin Gray, PhD (UC Santa Cruz): Visual and performance studies; aesthetics and experimental poetics; gender studies and feminist epistemology; critical race studies; the black radical tradition and critiques of racial capitalism; historiography and history from below; affect, sentiment, sensation, and biopolitics.

Hsuan Hsu, PhD (UC Berkeley): American literature and culture, Asian American literature, cultural geography, visual culture, cultural studies; environmental humanities. 

Colin Milburn, PhD (Harvard): relations of literature & science; science fiction; gothic horror; history of biology; history of  physics; post-humanism.

Elizabeth Miller, PhD (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.

Scott Shershow, PhD (Harvard): critical theory; cultural studies; history & theory of drama; Renaissance.

Mathew Stratton, PhD (University of Wisconsin):  20th-c. American literature and literary culture; literary theory, aesthetics, political theory, and visual culture. 

 

Literature & the Environment

Frances Dolan, PhD (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, PhD (UC Berkeley): American literature and culture, Asian American literature, cultural geography, visual culture, cultural studies; environmental humanities. 

Tobias Menely, PhD (Indiana): 18th-c. British literature; romanticism; literature & the environment; animal studies; literary theory

Elizabeth Miller, PhD (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): American literature; literature & the environment; feminism/gender studies; creative writing.

Michael Ziser, PhD (Harvard): American literature; literature & the environment; ecocriticism.

 

Medieval Literature

Seeta Chaganti, PhD (Yale): Old & Middle English poetry; late medieval drama; English & French Arthurian romance; medieval, religious & material culture.

Matthew Vernon, PhD (Yale): Medieval literature, 19th-c. English literature.

Claire Waters, PhD (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 Literature

Greg Dobbins, PhD (Duke): 20^th-c. Irish & British literature; modernism; post-colonial theory & literature; cultural studies; critical theory.

John Marx, PhD (Brown): modernism; post-colonial theory & literature; the novel.

Parama Roy, PhD (University of Rochester): post-colonial theory & literature; Victorian literature; cultural studies; feminist studies.

 

Nineteenth-Century British Literature -- Romanticism and Victorian

Kathleen Frederickson, PhD (University of Chicago): Victorian Studies and culture; feminist and queer studies;  history of biology, psychology and the social sciences; Marxism; and psychoanalysis.

Tobias Menely, PhD (Indiana): 18th-c. British literature; romanticism; literature & the environment; animal studies; literary theory

Elizabeth Miller, PhD (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, PhD (Harvard): Creative writing (poetry); gender & feminist studies; 19^th-c. British & American literature; Victorian poetry; Emily Dickinson. 

Parama Roy, PhD (University of Rochester): post-colonial theory & literature; Victorian literature; cultural studies; feminist studies.

 

Theory

Joshua Clover, MFA (University of Iowa): Critical Theory; Marxism, political theory, and political economy; 20/21st Century Poetry and Poetics.

Kathleen Frederickson, PhD (University of Chicago): Victorian Studies and culture; feminist and queer studies;  history of biology, psychology and the social sciences; Marxism; and psychoanalysis.

Elizabeth Freeman, PhD (University of Chicago): 19^th-c. American literature; gender & sexuality; critical theory; cultural studies.

Erin Gray, PhD (UC Santa Cruz): Visual and performance studies; aesthetics and experimental poetics; gender studies and feminist epistemology; critical race studies; the black radical tradition and critiques of racial capitalism; historiography and history from below; affect, sentiment, sensation, and biopolitics.

Tobias Menely, PhD (Indiana): 18th-c. British literature; romanticism; literature & the environment; animal studies; literary theory

Margaret Ronda, Ph.D (UC Berkeley): American literature; literature & the environment; feminism/gender studies; creative writing.

Scott Shershow, PhD (Harvard): critical theory; cultural studies; history & theory of drama; Renaissance.

Mathew Stratton, PhD (University of Wisconsin):  20th-c. American literature and literary culture; literary theory, aesthetics, political theory, and visual culture.