Faculty Fields of Interest
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): 19th-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; 19th & 20th-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; 19th-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): 20th-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): 18th-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; 19th & 20th-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; 19th-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): 18th-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; 19th & 20th-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): 19th-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): 18th-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; 19th & 20th-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; 19th-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): 19th-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): 20th-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; 19th-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): 19th-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.