Faculty Directory Faculty Profiles Department Faculty Adams, Rachel
Bizup, Joseph
Blount, Marcellus
Claybaugh, Amanda
Cole, Sarah
Crane, Susan
Crawford, Julie
Dailey, Patricia
Dames, Nicholas
Damrosch, David
Davidson, Jenny
Delbanco, Andrew
Douglas, Ann
Eden, Kathy
Edwards, Brent
Golston, Michael
Gray, Erik
Griffin, Farah
Hartman, Saidiya
Hirsch, Marianne
Horejsi, Nicole
Howard, Jean
Jin, Wen
Kastan, David
Kroeber, Karl
Marcus, Sharon
Mendelson, Edward
Murray, Molly
Negrón-Muntaner, Frances
O'Meally, Robert
Peters, Julie
Posnock, Ross
Puchner, Martin
Quigley, Austin
Robbins, Bruce
Rosenberg, John
Rosenthal, Michael
Seidel, Michael
Shapiro, James
Slaughter, Joseph
Spiegel, Maura
Spivak, Gayatri
Stewart, Alan
Strand, Mark
Strohm, Paul
Tayler, Edward
Tawil, Ezra
Viswanathan, Gauri
Yerkes, David
Associated and Barnard Faculty Ferguson, Robert
Garrett, Shawn-Marie
Gillooly, Eileen
Guibbory, Achsah
Hamilton, Ross
Jaanus, Maire
Prescott, Anne
Savini, Catherine
Slade, Carole
Wallack, Nicole
Visiting and Adjunct Faculty Brietzke, Zander
Bugg, John
Charon, Rita
Chism, Christine
Cohen, Monica
Derno, Maiken
Fleischer, Georgette
Giordani, Marianne
Hardesty, Michele
Legassie, Shayne
Massimilla, Stephen
Montas, Roosevelt
Muller, Jill
Phillipson, Mark
Sacks, Richard
Stein, Robert
Taylor, Stuart
Violi, Paul
Emeritus Faculty Ferrante, Joan
Franco, Jean
Hanning, Robert
Marcus, Steven
Meisel, Martin
Mirollo, James
Prior, Sandra Pierson
Stade, George
Tayler, Edward

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).

Contact Information Specialization

Adams, Rachel
rea15@columbia.edu
(212) 854-3831
405 Philosophy Hall
ON LEAVE SPRING 08
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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Bizup, Joseph
jb2223@columbia.edu
(212) 854-3886
310 Philosophy Hall
Check with the UWP at 4-3886
Rhetoric and composition; literacy; rhetorical theory; 19th-century British literature, especially nonfiction prose
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Blount, Marcellus
mb33@columbia.edu
(212) 854-3227
606a Philosophy Hall
Tu 4:30-6 and by appt.
African American and American Studies; poetry; popular culture; gender studies
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Brietzke, Zander
zb2120@columbia.edu
406 Philosophy Hall
M & W 1-2 & by appt.
Modern and American drama; Eugene O'Neill; directing and stagecraft
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Bugg. John
jwb2133@columbia.edu
(212) 854-8443
H2-2 Heyman Center
W 3-5 & Th 3-5
18th- and 19th-century British literature, with a focus on Romanticism
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Charon, Rita
rac5@columbia.edu
(212) 305-4942
630 W. 168 St, PH 9E-105 (College of Physicians & Surgeons)
F 12-1
Narrative medicine; narrative theory; psychoanalytic theory; the ethics of reading; autobiographical theory; 19th-century American fiction; Henry James
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Chism, Christine
chism@rci.rutgers.edu
604 Philosophy Hall
Tu 1-2
Medieval literature; theories of history and historicism; women's studies; cultural studies; performance theory
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Claybaugh, Amanda
ac602@columbia.edu
(212) 854-0142
408j Philosophy Hall
ON LEAVE 07-08
The postbellum US novel; the Victorian novel; trans-atlantic literary studies; narrative theory
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Cohen, Monica
mlf1@columbia.edu
408j Philosophy Hall
Th 3-6 & by appt.
Late 18th- and 19th-century English narrative; Victorian cultural studies; narrative and genre theory; gender studies
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Cole, Sarah
sc891@columbia.edu
(212) 854-5212
408d Philosophy Hall
W 4-5 & Th 4-5
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 1-2 & Th 5:30-6:30 & by appt.
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 1:30-3:30 in 763 Schermerhorn
Tu 10-12 in 613c Philosophy
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
M 4-5 & Tu 5-6
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
408f Philosophy Hall
W 10-12 & Th 10-11
19th-century British literature; history and theory of the novel; critical theory and theories of narrative; Victorian cultural history
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Damrosch, David
dnd2@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6099
613a Philosophy Hall
M 4-6:30
20th-century literature and criticism; theory and methods of comparative literature; Bible and ancient Near Eastern literatures
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Davidson, Jenny
jmd204@columbia.edu
(212) 854-1204
408b Philosophy Hall
Tu 4-5 & W 11-12
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
W 2:30-4 in 418 Hamilton; call Angela Darling (4-6698) for an appointment
Early American literature, religion; American studies; history of education
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Derno, Maiken
mtd2106@columbia.edu
408j Philosophy Hall
Tu 9:30-10:30 & by appt.
Genre Theory; Shakespeare; early modern drama; gender studies; poststructuralist theory; urban and cultural studies
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Douglas, Ann
ad34@columbia.edu
(212) 854-5960
408g Philosophy Hall
W 5:30-7 & by appt.
20th-century American literatures; popular culture, especially film; race and ethnicity; postcolonial theory
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Eden, Kathy
khe1@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6432
401a Philosophy Hall
W 1-2:30 & Th 3-4:30
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
609 Philosophy Hall
Tu 2-4 & W 3-4 & by appt.
African-American and African diasporic literature; 20th-century poetry; Francophone literature; translation theory; jazz
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Ferguson, Robert

raf2@columbia.edu
(212) 854-0522
JG 637 (at the Law School)
Contact Gabriel Soto (gsoto@law.columbia.edu or 854-0522) for appointments

Interdisciplinary study of American culture with particular emphases on literature, law, and history
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Ferrante, Joan
jmf2@columbia.edu
Emerita
Comparative medieval literature, including Dante, provençal poetry, allegory, romance, women; also human rights, specifically women, religion and human rights
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Garrett, Shawn-Marie
sg488@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6863
508 Milbank Hall
Tu 4:15-5:15; Th 10-11
History and theory of European and American theatre; African American theatre; contemporary theatre and performance; dramaturgy; criticism
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Gillooly, Eileen

eg48@columbia.edu
(212) 854-9031
H2-1 Heyman Center
Th 2-3 & by appt.

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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Giordani, Marianne

mg2644@columbia.edu
408c Philosophy Hall
TBA

The literature, culture, and intellectual history of the long 18th century (Restoration to Romanticism)
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Golston, Michael
mg2242@columbia.edu
(212) 854-4707
408h Philosophy Hall
Tu 10-11:30 & Th 4-5:30
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
ON LEAVE 07-08
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
Tu 2-5
African American literature, music, history and politics
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Guibbory, Achsah
aguibbor@barnard.edu
(212) 854-2113
408b Barnard Hall
Tu & Th 2-3:30
Seventeenth-century literatures and culture; Milton; Donne
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Hamilton, Ross
rh174@columbia.edu
(212) 854-3453
419 Barnard Hall
W 4-5:30
Comparative romanticisms, poetics, literature & philosophy
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Hanning, Robert
rwh2@columbia.edu
Emeritus
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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Hardesty, Michele
mlh44@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6415
408e Philosophy Hall
Tu 2-3 & F 1-2
Twentieth-century literatures and cultures, especially literature and politics, US countercultures, transnationalism, and travel
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Hartman, Saidiya
svh2102@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6421
618 Philosophy Hall
ON LEAVE 07-08
African American literature; cultural studies
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Hirsch, Marianne
mh2349@columbia.edu
(212) 854-5121
508a Philosophy Hall
M 4-6 in 763 Schermerhorn Ext & Tu 2-4 in 508a Phil
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
306 Philosophy Hall
M 11-1 & Tu 12-2
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
608 Philosophy Hall
W 1-3 & Th 10:30-12
Renaissance literature; history of drama; feminism; new historicism; Marxism
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Jaanus, Maire
mj35@columbia.edu
(212) 854-2106
402 Barnard Hall
W 4-6
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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Jin, Wen
wj2130@columbia.edu
(212) 854-5184
306 Philosophy Hall
T 10-11:30 & Th 3-4 & by appt.
Asian American and Asian diasporic literature and culture; American literature since 1900; Sinophone literature; critical race, transnational, and translation studies
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Kastan, David
dsk1@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6257
602 Philosophy Hall
Tu 10-12 & W 10-12
16th- and 17th-century literature and culture; Shakespeare; history of the book
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Kroeber, Karl
kk17@columbia.edu
(212) 854-5210
401b Philosophy Hall
Tu 2:10-3:40 & by appt.
Romantic literature; Native American literature; film and literature; ecological science and literature
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Marcus, Sharon
sm2247@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6403
308 Philosophy Hall
M 3-4:30 & W 1:30-3
19th-century British and French literature; feminist and sexual theory; urban and architectural history
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Marcus, Steven
sm50@columbia.edu
Emeritus
19th - and 20th-century literature; literature and society; psychoanalysis; Marxism, history and theory; cultural criticism
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Massimilla, Stephen
sm106@columbia.edu
406 Philosophy Hall
M, W, & Th 6-7
19th- and 20th-century poetry and novel; poetry and poetics; myth and epic; postcolonialism; comparative literature; film; postmodernism
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Meisel, Martin
mm28@columbia.edu
Emeritus
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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Mendelson, Edward

em36@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6417
614 Philosophy Hall
ON LEAVE SPRING 08

19th-century British literature; 20th-century British and American literature; narrative; poetry
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Montas, Roosevelt
rm63@columbia.edu
418 Hamilton Hall
W 4-6

Antebellum American literature and culture; abolitionism; American religion; African-American language and literature; race and American citizenship; national/ethnic identity
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Muller, Jill
jem34@columbia.edu
408g Philosophy Hall
Tu & Th 2-3:45
Victorian literature and culture; Dickens; literature and religion; 19th and 20th century British drama and theatre history
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Murray, Molly
mpm7@columbia.edu
(212) 854-4016
408c Philosophy Hall
Tu 4-5:30 & W 2-3:30
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
ON LEAVE SPRING 08

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
ON LEAVE 07-08
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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Peters, Julie
jsp2@columbia.edu
(212) 854-2472
404 Philosophy Hall
Tu 9:30-10:30 & Th 4-6 & by appt.
Drama and theatre history; dramatic theory; law and literature; human rights
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Phillipson, Mark
mlp55@columbia.edu
603 Philosophy Hall
Tu 5-6:30
19th-century British literature; Byron and exile; publication histories; new media technology
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Posnock, Ross
rp2045@columbia.edu
610 Philosophy Hall
M 2:30-4:30 & W 2:30-4
Literature and intellectual history of 19th- and 20th-century United States; pragmatism, Henry James, W.E.B Du Bois
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Prescott, Anne
alp11@columbia.edu
(212) 854-2107
408c Barnard Hall
TBA
English Renaissance; Spenser; Satire; Anglo-French relations; Renaissance humanism; women in the early modern period
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Puchner, Martin
hmp10@columbia.edu
(212) 854-3872
406 Philosophy Hall
ON LEAVE 07-08
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
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
W 10-12 or by appt.
19th- and 20th-century fiction; transnational literature; literary and cultural theory
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Rosenberg, John

jdr6@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6407
603 Philosophy Hall
ON LEAVE SPRING 08

Victorian poetry and non-fiction prose; 19th-century autobiography
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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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Sacks, Richard
sacks@columbia.edu
(212) 854-3917
(x4-1668 during office hours)
408k Philosophy Hall
Tu 1-2 & W 12-2 & by appt

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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Seidel, Michael
mas8@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6405
609 Philosophy Hall
ON LEAVE SPRING 08
History of the novel; narrative theory; satire; James Joyce; 18th-century literature
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Shapiro, James
js73@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6227
606b Philosophy Hall
M & Tu 11-12:30
Shakespeare; medieval and early modern drama; Jewish studies; British poetry; the book review
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Slade, Carole
cas7@columbia.edu

Comparative medieval studies; gender studies; literary and psychoanalytic theory; religion and literature
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Slaughter, Joseph
jrs272@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6433
ON LEAVE 07-08
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
W 5-7 & F 11-12
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
rh2330@columbia.edu
gcs4@columbia.edu
(212) 870-3990
516 Interchurch
ON LEAVE SPRING 08
19th-and 20th-century literature; Marxism; feminism; deconstruction; poststructuralism; globalization
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Stein, Robert
rms9@columbia.edu
Medieval comparative literature; historiography and narrative genres; critical theory
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Stewart, Alan
ags2105@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6420
617 Philosophy Hall
M 3-4 & 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
TBA
 
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Strohm, Paul
ps2143@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6430
604 Philosophy Hall
ON LEAVE SPRING 08
Medieval literature; textuality and history; genre and social change
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Tawil, Ezra
eft2001@columbia.edu
(212) 854-6439
408i Philosophy Hall
W 2:30-4:30
American literature before 1900; cultural and literary theory; the history and theory of race
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Tayler, Edward W.
ewt1@columbia.edu
Not teaching 2007-08
16th- and 17th-century poetry and prose; Milton; Shakespeare
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Taylor, Stuart
swt1@columbia.edu
408k Philosophy Hall
Fall 2007
Psychoanalytic theory, Freud, science and society
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Van der Woude, Joanne
jv2285@columbia.edu
(212) 854-4089
Heyman Center 3-7
M & W 10-11 & by appt.
Early American literature and culture
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Violi, Paul
prv8@columbia.edu
407 Philosophy Hall
Th 4:30-6
Poetry
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Viswanathan, Gauri

gv6@columbia.edu
(212) 854-5440
508c Philosophy Hall
ON LEAVE 07-08

Intellectual history; education, religion, and culture; 19th-century British and colonial cultural studies; history of disciplines
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Wallack, Nicole
nw2108@columbia.edu
(212) 854-3886
310 Philosophy Hall
Rhetoric and composition; teacher education; history of the essay; Modernist essays; 19th-century Scottish literature and ethnography; memoirs; diversity studies; ESL; writing center theory; aesthetics
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Yerkes, David
dmy1@columbia.edu
(212) 854-5280
615 Philosophy Hall
Tu & Th 4:30-6 & by appt.

American language; English language, including Anglo-Saxon and Middle English; bibliography; textual criticism