Faculty Directory Faculty Profiles Recent PublicationsDepartment Faculty Adams, James Eli
Adams, Rachel
Baswell, Christopher
Biers, Katherine
Blount, Marcellus
Claybaugh, Amanda
Cole, Sarah
Crane, Susan
Crawford, Julie
Dailey, Patricia
Dames, Nicholas
Davidson, Jenny
Delbanco, Andrew
Douglas, Ann
Eden, Kathy
Edwards, Brent
Gamber, John
Golston, Michael
Gray, Erik
Griffin, Farah
Hart, Matt
Hartman, Saidiya
Hirsch, Marianne
Horejsi, Nicole
Howard, Jean
Jin, Wen
Johnson, Eleanor
Marcus, Sharon
Mendelson, Edward
Murray, Molly
Negrón-Muntaner, Frances
O'Meally, Robert
Posnock, Ross
Puchner, Martin
Quigley, Austin
Robbins, Bruce
Rosenthal, Michael
Shapiro, James
Slaughter, Joseph
Spiegel, Maura
Spivak, Gayatri
Stewart, Alan
Strand, Mark
Strohm, Paul
Tawil, Ezra
Viswanathan, Gauri
Yerkes, David
Emeritus FacultyFerrante, Joan
Franco, Jean
Hanning, Robert
Kroeber, Karl
Marcus, Steven
Meisel, Martin
Mirollo, James
Rosenberg, John
Seidel, Michael
Stade, George
Tayler, Edward
Associated Faculty Cloud, Gerald
Ferguson, Robert
Gillooly, Eileen
Gourgouris, Stathis
Hamilton, Ross
Jaanus, Maire
Martinsen, Deborah
Prescott, Anne
Worthen, W.B.

LecturersLeMay, Eric
Wallack, Nicole

Adjunct FacultyAckerman, Ondrea Brietzke, Zander
Cohen, Monica
Giordani, Marianne
Kucukalic, Lejla
Lamb, Kevin
Massimilla, Stephen
Matto, Michael
Phillipson, Mark
Rosner, Victoria
Sacks, Richard
Slade, Carol
Violi, Paul



FACULTY DIRECTORY
Note: faculty office hours begin the first week of a semester's classes and end the last week of classes (no office hours are held during the summer or the winter break).

FACULTY:


Contact Information Specialization
Adams, James Eli

jea2139@columbia.edu
404 Philosophy Hall
(212) 854-2472
M 1:30-3 & Th 2-3 or by appointment

19th century British literature and culture; gender and sexuality; aestheticism; interdisciplinary history of Victorian Britain
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Adams, Rachel

rea15@columbia.edu
(212) 854-3831
405 Philosophy Hall
On Leave Spring 2010

19th- and 20th-century American literature; media studies; theories of gender and sexuality; disability studies; cultural studies; theories of transnationalism and globalization
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Baswell, Christopher
cbaswell@barnard.edu
410 Barnard Hall
Contact Barnard English Dept at 4-2116
Medieval literature and manuscript studies; Classical tradition; disability studies
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Biers, Katherine

klb2134@columbia.edu
(21) 851-2490
408b Philosophy Hall
Th 4-6
19th- and 20th-century American literature and culture; media studies; cultural studies; theories of gender and sexuality; African-American literature; modernism
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Blount, Marcellus
mb33@columbia.edu
(212) 854-3227
606a Philosophy Hall
Tu & Th 4-5
African American and American Studies; poetry; popular culture; gender studies
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Claybaugh, Amanda
ac602@columbia.edu
(212) 854-0142
408j Philosophy Hall
On Leave Spring 2010
The postbellum US novel; the Victorian novel; trans-atlantic literary studies; narrative theory
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Cole, Sarah
sc891@columbia.edu
(212) 854-5212
511a Philosophy Hall
W 2:30-4 & Th 12:30-2
20th-century British literature; modernism and empire; gender studies; war
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Crane, Susan
sc2298@columbia.edu
616 Philosophy Hall
(212) 854-5789
Tu 5:30-6:30 & Th 2-3
Medieval English and French genres; history of sexuality; social implications of literature
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Crawford, Julie
jc830@columbia.edu
613c Philosophy Hall
(212) 854-5779
M 4-5:30 in 763 Schermerhorn
16th- and 17th-century English literature; Protestant culture; women's literature; cultural studies; feminist theory; gay and lesbian studies
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Dailey, Patricia
pd2132@columbia.edu
(212) 854-1667
602b Philosophy Hall
W 9-11
Medieval Literature, medieval women's poetry and prose, Anglo-Saxon poetry, critical theory, psychoanalytic theory
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Dames, Nicholas
nd122@columbia.edu
(212) 854-3079
603 Philosophy Hall
Tu 10-12
19th-century British literature; history and theory of the novel; critical theory and theories of narrative; Victorian cultural history
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Davidson, Jenny
jmd204@columbia.edu
(212) 854-1204
511b Philosophy Hall
On Leave Spring 2010
Eighteenth-century British literature and culture; cultural and intellectual history, especially history of science; the contemporary novel in English
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Delbanco, Andrew
ad19@columbia.edu
(212) 854-3985
407 Philosophy Hall
M 2-4 in Hamilton 415/418 & by appointment: contact Angela Darling at amd44@columbia.edu or 4-6698 to set up an appointment
Early American literature, religion; American studies; history of education
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Douglas, Ann
ad34@columbia.edu
(212) 854-5960
408g Philosophy Hall
W 5:30-7 and by appointment
20th-century American literatures and history; popular culture, especially film; race and ethnicity; postcolonial theory
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Eden, Kathy
khe1@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6432
401a Philosophy Hall
On Leave Spring 2010
Renaissance humanism; history of rhetoric; hermeneutics; ancient literary theory; history of classical scholarship
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Edwards, Brent
bhe2@columbia.edu
(212) 854-2912
606a Philosophy Hall
On Leave Spring 2009
African-American and African diasporic literature; 20th-century poetry; Francophone literature; translation theory; jazz
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Gamber, John
jbg2134@columbia.edu
(212) 854-2058
416 Hamilton
Th 1:30-2:30
Ecocriticism, transnationalism, immigration, relocation, American Indian, Asian American, African American, and Chicana/o and Latina/o literatures, and literature of the Americas
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Golston, Michael
mg2242@columbia.edu
(212) 854-4707
408h Philosophy Hall
On Leave Spring 2010
20th-century British and American poetry and poetics; the avant-garde; modernism and postmodernism
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Gray, Erik
eg2155@columbia.edu
(212) 854-1668
408k Philosophy Hall
M 12-1 & Tu 11-12
Romantic and Victorian poetry; poetry and poetics; English literature and the classics
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Griffin, Farah
fjg8@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6411
508b Philosophy Hall
On Leave Spring 2010
African American literature, music, history and politics
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Hart, Matt
mh2968@columbia.edu



Twentieth and twenty-first century Anglophone culture, with an emphasis on modernist poetry, contemporary British fiction, political theory, and the visual arts
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Hartman, Saidiya
svh2102@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6421
618 Philosophy Hall
W 1:30-3
African American literature; cultural studies
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Hirsch, Marianne
mh2349@columbia.edu
(212) 854-5121
508a Philosophy Hall
Tu 2-4 & by appointment
Comparative Literature (20th century French, German, British, American); feminist theory, narrative; cultural memory; Holocaust studies, visual culture
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Horejsi, Nicole
njh2115@columbia.edu
(212) 854-2623
408e Philosophy Hall
M & W 11-1
Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature; the classical tradition in the eighteenth century; eighteenth-century women's writing and feminist theory
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Howard, Jean
jfh5@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6225
602 Philosophy Hall
W 1-3 and by appointment
Renaissance literature; history of drama; feminism; new historicism; Marxism
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Jin, Wen
wj2130@columbia.edu
(212) 854-5184
408d Philosophy Hall
M & W 5-6
Asian American and Asian diasporic literature and culture; American literature since 1900; Sinophone literature; critical race, transnational, and translation studies
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Johnson, Eleanor
ebj2117@columbia.edu
(212) 854-0142
408j Philosophy Hall
Tu 4-7
Late medieval English prose and poetry, medieval poetics and philosophy, law and literature in the Middle Ages, early autobiography, and vernacular theology
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Marcus, Sharon
sm2247@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6403
308 Philosophy Hall
Tu 2:30-4:30 and by appointment
19th-century British and French literature; feminist and sexual theory; urban and architectural history
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Mendelson, Edward

em36@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6417
613c Philosophy Hall
Tu 3-4 & Th 4-6

19th-century British literature; 20th-century British and American literature; narrative; poetry
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Murray, Molly
mpm7@columbia.edu
(212) 854-4016
408c Philosophy Hall
On Leave Spring 2010
16th- and 17th-century poetry and prose; early modern intellectual history, especially theology and political thought
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Negrón-Muntaner, Frances

fn2103@columbia.edu
(212) 854-2058
425 Hamiliton Hall
M & W 4-5

19th- and 20th-century Caribbean and U.S Latino literatures and cultures; film studies; popular culture; the essay
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O'Meally, Robert
rgo1@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6428
611 Philosophy Hall
W 2-4
19th- and 20th-century American literature as well as African American literature and jazz culture—including music, literature, painting, film, photography, theater, and dance
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Posnock, Ross
rp2045@columbia.edu
610 Philosophy Hall
Th 1-4
Literature and intellectual history of 19th- and 20th-century United States; pragmatism, Henry James, W.E.B Du Bois
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Puchner, Martin
hmp10@columbia.edu
(212) 854-3872
406 Philosophy Hall
On Leave Spring 2010
19th- and 20th-century drama and performance; modernism; continental and language philosophy
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Quigley, Austin

aeq1@columbia.edu
(212) 854-2441
208 Hamilton Hall
contact 4-2441

19th- and 20th-century drama; theatre history; literary theory; performance theory; linguistic theory; modernism and postmodernism

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Robbins, Bruce
bwr2001@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6463
605 Philosophy Hall
Tu 2-4
19th- and 20th-century fiction; transnational literature; literary and cultural theory
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Rosenthal, Michael
mr60@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6404
613b Philosophy Hall
Tu & Th 4-5:30
Late Victorian and Edwardian popular culture; Bloomsbury; the modern British novel
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Shapiro, James
js73@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6227
606b Philosophy Hall
M & W 10:30-12
Shakespeare; medieval and early modern drama; Jewish studies; British poetry; the book review
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Slaughter, Joseph
jrs272@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6433
511a Philosophy Hall
On Leave Spring 2010
Postcolonial literatures of Africa and Latin America; human rights and narrative theory; 20th-century ethnic and third world literatures
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Spiegel, Maura
mls37@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6418
402 Philosophy Hall
M 3-4 & Tu 6-7 & by appointment
19th-century British and European novel; 20th-century American fiction and cultural studies; film, film theory; gender theory; European modernism
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Spivak, Gayatri
gcs4@columbia.edu
(212) 870-3990
303 Earl
On Leave Spring 2010
19th-and 20th-century literature; Marxism; feminism; deconstruction; poststructuralism; globalization
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Stewart, Alan
ags2105@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6420
617 Philosophy Hall
M 1-2 & Tu 2-4
16th-century literature, history, and culture; lesbian and gay studies
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Strand, Mark
ms3091@columbia.edu
(212) 854-7468
305 Philosophy Hall
On Leave Spring 2010
 Poetry and modern fiction
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Strohm, Paul
ps2143@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6430
604 Philosophy Hall
On Leave Spring 2010
Medieval literature; textuality and history; genre and social change
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Tawil, Ezra
eft2001@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6439
408i Philosophy Hall
Th 2-4
American literature before 1900; cultural and literary theory; the history and theory of race
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Viswanathan, Gauri

gv6@columbia.edu
(212) 854-5440
508c Philosophy Hall
Tu 2-4

Intellectual history; education, religion, and culture; 19th-century British and colonial cultural studies; history of disciplines
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Yerkes, David
dmy1@columbia.edu
(212) 854-5280
615 Philosophy Hall
Tu & Th 2:30-4
American language; English language, including Anglo-Saxon and Middle English; bibliography; textual criticism
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EMERITUS FACULTY:

Ferrante, Joan. M

jmf2@columbia.edu

Comparative medieval literature, including Dante, provençal poetry, allegory, romance, women; also human rights, specifically women, religion and human rights
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Hanning, Robert

rwh2@columbia.edu

English and French medieval literature and culture; Chaucer; Cinquecento Italian courtly literature; issues of race, ethnicity, and identity construction in the U.S.
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Kroeber, Karl
kk17@columbia.edu
Romantic literature; Native American literature; film and literature; ecological science and literature
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Marcus, Steven

sm50@columbia.edu

19th- and 20th-century literature; literature and society; psychoanalysis; Marxism, history and theory; cultural criticism
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Meisel, Martin

mm28@columbia.edu

European and American drama, 1500 to present; 19th-century fictions; literature and painting; Anglo-Irish and Scottish literature; 19th-century popular theater
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Mirollo, James

jm36@columbia.edu
(212) 854-1936
Heyman Center


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Rosenberg, John

jdr6@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6407

Victorian poetry and non-fiction prose; 19th-century autobiography
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Seidel, Michael

mas8@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6405
609 Philosophy Hall

History of the novel; narrative theory; satire; James Joyce; 18th-century literature
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Stade, George

ggs3@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6410
604 Philosophy Hall


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Tayler, Edward

ewt1@columbia.edu

16th- and 17th-century poetry and prose; Milton; Shakespeare
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ASSOCIATED FACULTY:


Cloud, Gerald

gc2339@columbia.edu
Butler Library
6th Floor East
By appointment
History of the Book and print culture, especially 19th and 20th century
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Ferguson, Robert

ferguson@law.columbia.edu
(212) 854-0522
Jerome Greene 521[Law School]

M 3-5 by appointment only: Contact Gabriel Soto (gsoto@law.columbia.edu or 854-0522 orcubicle 7W2 in JG)

Interdisciplinary study of American culture with particular emphases on literature, law, and history
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Gillooly, Eileen

eg48@columbia.edu
(212) 854-9031
H-21 Heyman Center
TBA

19th-century British literature and culture; gender and psychoanalytic studies; 19th-century moral psychology; 19th-century British colonial literature and culture
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Gourgouris, Stathis

ssg93@columbia.edu
608 Hamilton
TBA
Comparative literature (French, German, Ancient Greek, Modern Greek); literary theory; modernity and modernism; poetics; secular criticism; contemporary music
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Hamilton, Ross
rhamilto@barnard.edu
(212) 854-3453
419 Barnard Hall
Contact Barnard English Dept. for Office Hours
Comparative romanticisms, poetics, literature & philosophy
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Jaanus, Maire
mj35@columbia.edu
(212) 854-2106
402 Barnard Hall
W 4:10-6:10
19th-century comparative literature (English, German, French), esp. romantic and the novel; 20th-century global English literature; literary theory, esp. psychoanalytic (Lacanian); postmodernism; modern and postmodern Estonian literature
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Martinsen, Deborah
dm387@columbia.edu
202 Hamilton
TBA
Dostoevsky, 19th-century Russian prose, narrative theory, shame studies, and the novel
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Prescott, Anne
alp11@columbia.edu
(212) 854-2107
408c Barnard Hall
M 3-4 & W 1-2
English Renaissance; Spenser; Satire; Anglo-French relations; Renaissance humanism; women in the early modern period
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Worthen, W.B.
wworthen@barnard.edu
(212) 854-2757
506 Milbank Hall
W 12-1

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LECTURERS:


Lemay, Eric
ecl12@columbia.edu
310 Philosophy Hall


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Wallack, Nicole
nw2108@columbia.edu
(212) 854-3886
310 Philosophy Hall
Rhetoric and composition; history of the essay; 19th-century Scottish literature and ethnography; memoirs; diversity studies
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ADJUNCT FACULTY:

Ackerman, Ondrea
oea2101@columbia.edu
408h Philosophy Hall
Tu 5-6
20th-century transatlantic literature; modernism and the avant-garde; poetry and visual culture; critical issues of space
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Brietzke, Zander
zb2120@columbia.edu
406 Philosophy Hall
Tu & Th 11:30-12:30
Modern and American drama; Eugene O'Neill; directing and stagecraft
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Cohen, Monica
mlf1@columbia.edu
408c Philosophy Hall
Th 3:30-5 & by appointment
Late 18th- and 19th-century English narrative; Victorian cultural studies; narrative and genre theory; gender studies
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Giordani, Marianne

mg2644@columbia.edu
408i Philosophy Hall
Tu & Th 5-6 & 7:30-8pm & by appointment

The literature, culture, and intellectual history of the long 18th century (Restoration to Romanticism)
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Kukukalic, Lejla

lk2380@columbia.edu
608 Philosophy Hall
W 3-5
Science fiction; 20-th and 21-st century American Literature; world literature; literature of Bosnia and Herzegovina, digital culture
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Lamb, Kevin
kml2104@columbia.edu
Heyman Center
Th 11-12 & by appointment
Anglo-American and European modernism; aesthetics; critical theory; queer studies; continental philosophy
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Massimilla, Stephen
sm106@columbia.edu
305 Philosophy Hall
M & W 5:30-6:30
19th- and 20th-century poetry and novel; poetry and poetics; myth and epic; postcolonialism; comparative literature; film; postmodernism
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Matto, Michael
mm3719@columbia.edu
TBA
Old English Language and Literature; History of the English Language; History of Rhetoric; Cognitive poetics
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Phillipson, Mark
mlp55@columbia.edu
408c Philosophy Hall
W 5-6:30
19th-century British literature; Byron and exile; publication histories; new media technology
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Rosner, Victoria
vpr4@columbia.edu
613a Philosophy Hall
Tu 4-5 & Th 1:30-2:30
Twentieth-century British literature, with particular interests in the modern novel, modernist interarts aesthetics, contemporary British fiction, life writing, and gender studies
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Sacks, Richard
sacks@columbia.edu
(212) 854-3917
Note: 854-4707 during office hours
408h Philosophy Hall
W 10-11:30 & Th 5-6:30 and by appointment

Homeric poetry; Old English and Old Norse poetry; ancient and medieval myth and epic (especially Greek, Germanic and Celtic); historical linguistics; narrative
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Slade, Carol
cas7@columbia.edu
401b Philosophy Hall
Tu & Th 6:15-7:30
Comparative medieval studies; gender studies; literary and psychoanalytic theory; religion and literature
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Violi, Paul
prv8@columbia.edu
Poetry
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