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RACHEL ADAMS
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Associate Professor of English and Comparative
Literature |
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| Specialization: |
19th- and 20th-century American literature; media
studies; theories of gender and sexuality; disability studies;
cultural studies; theories of transnationalism and globalization |
| Email: |
rea15@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-3831 |
| Office: |
408g Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
ON LEAVE SPRING 08 |
| B.A, University of California,
Berkeley (1990); M.A., University of Michigan (1992); Ph.D.,
University of California, Santa Barbara (1997). Professor Adams
specializes in 19th- and 20th-century literatures of the United
States and the Americas, media studies, theories of race, gender,
and sexuality, and disability studies. She is currently writing
a book on cultures of the North American continent, which includes
materials from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Her first book,
Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination,
was published by the University of Chicago Press in Fall 2001.
She is also co-editor (with David Savran) of The Masculinity
Studies Reader, which was published by Blackwell Press in
2001. She is editor of a critical edition of Kate Chopin's The
Awakening (Fine Publications, 2002). Recent articles have
appeared in journals such as American Literature, American
Literary History, American Quarterly, Minnesota
Review, Camera Obscura, GLQ, and Signs.
For three years she served as Managing Editor of Camera Obscura:
Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies. For 2004-2005 she
was a Global Fellow at UCLA's International Institute. With
Prof. Carol Levander of Rice University, Prof. Adams will convene
a 2007 NEH Summer Seminar on Hemispheric
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JOSEPH BIZUP
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Associate Professor of English, Director of the
Undergraduate Writing Program |
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| Specialization: |
Rhetoric and composition; literacy; rhetorical
theory; 19th-century British literature, especially nonfiction
prose |
| Email: |
jb2223@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-3886 |
| Office: |
310 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Check with the UWP at 4-3886 |
B.A., University of Virginia
(1988); M.A. University of Maryland (1991); Ph.D., Indiana University
(1996). Joseph Bizup, who directs the Undergraduate Writing
Program, specializes in rhetoric and composition and Victorian
studies. He is the author of Manufacturing Culture: Vindications
of Early Victorian Industry (Virginia 2003) and essays in
Prose Studies, English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920,
Victorian Poetry, Renascence, and College English.
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MARCELLUS BLOUNT
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| Title: |
Associate Professor of English and Comparative
Literature |
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| Specialization: |
African-American and American Studies; poetry;
popular culture; gender studies |
| Email: |
mb33@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-3227 |
| Office: |
606a Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu 4:30-6 and by appt. |
| B.A., Williams College (1980);
Ph.D., Yale (1987). At Columbia since 1985, Prof. Blount teaches
American and African American literary and cultural studies.
He has been a Research Fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute
at the University of Virginia, a Visiting Fellow at Wesleyan's
Center for Afro-American Studies, a Rockefeller Fellow at the
Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture at the
University of Pennsylvania, and a Visiting Fellow at the W.E.B.
Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. He has published essays
in PMLA, Callaloo, American Literary History,
and Southern Review. He co-edited Representing Black
Men with George Cunningham. His first study is entitled "In
a Broken Tongue: Rediscovering African American Poetry." His
current project is entitled Listening for My Name: African
American Men and the Politics of Friendship. For spring
2006 he will be the Sterling Brown '22 Visiting Professor of
English at Williams College. |
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ZANDER BRIETZKE
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Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Comparative
Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Modern and American drama; Eugene O'Neill; directing
and stagecraft |
| Email: |
zb2120@columbia.edu |
| Office: |
406 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
M & W 1-2 & by appt. |
| B.A. Missouri Southern
(1982), M.F.A. Alabama (1985), Ph.D. Stanford (1993). Zander
Brietzke is delighted to join the adjunct faculty at Columbia
after having taught and directed plays in theater departments
at Lehigh University, The College of Wooster, and Montclair
State. He is the editor of the Eugene O'Neill Review,
an annual scholarly journal published by Suffolk University
in Boston, and the author of one book on O'Neill, The Aesthetics
of Failure (McFarland 2001). His new book, American Drama
in the Age of Film, is forthcoming (2007) from the University
of Alabama Press. |
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JOHN BUGG
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| Title: |
Mellon Teaching Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer in
English and Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
18th- and 19th-century British literature, with
a focus on Romanticism |
| Email: |
jwb2133@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854 8443 |
| Office: |
H2-2 Heyman Center |
| Office Hours: |
W 3-5 & Th 3-5 |
| B.A. St. Mary's University (1996);
M.A. Fordham (2000); PhD Princeton (2007). John Bugg specializes
in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, with
a focus on Romanticism. Among his interests are legal and political
history, Romantic-era print culture, Olaudah Equiano and abolitionism,
the New Criticism, folk hero literature, and the cultural history
of charisma. His essays and reviews have appeared in PMLA,
Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Huntington Library
Quarterly, and European Romantic Review. He is currently
at work on two book projects. The first, Five Long Winters,
is developed from his dissertation, and studies the relations
between literary culture and political repression at the end
of the eighteenth century; the second, The Romantic Midlands,
traces the cultural life of the industrial north in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. He is also conducting research for
an ongoing project on the correspondence of the political activist
John Thelwall. |
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RITA CHARON
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Professor of Clinical Medicine |
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| Specialization: |
Narrative medicine; narrative theory; psychoanalytic
theory; the ethics of reading; autobiographical theory; 19th-century
American fiction; Henry James |
| Email: |
rac5@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 305-4942 |
| Office: |
630 W. 168 St, PH 9E-105 (College of Physicians
& Surgeons) |
| Office Hours: |
F 12-1 |
| B.A. Fordham (1970); M.D. Harvard (1978);
Ph.D. Columbia (1999). At Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons
since 1981, Rita Charon is a general internist in practice at Presbyterian
Hospital and Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia.
She specializes in the narrative dimensions of illness and medical practice,
bringing literary and narratological methods to bear on the study of
medical texts, conversations, and practice. Her literary work focuses
on the late late works of Henry James. She received fellowships from
the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation in General Internal Medicine,
a Guggenheim, a residence at the Bellagio Study Center of Rockefeller
Foundation, an NEH Exemplary Education Project award, and multiple research
awards from the NIH and private foundations for narrative research in
medicine. She has published on narrative medicine in The New England
Journal of Medicine, Lancet, JAMA, and Narrative.
She is co-editor-in-chief, with Maura Spiegel, of Literature and
Medicine. She co-edited Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative
in Medical Ethics (Routledge, 2003) and Psychoanalysis and Narrative
Medicine (forthcoming, SUNY) and authored Narrative Medicine:
Honoring the Stories of Illness (Oxford, 2006). She is currently
developing intensive narrative training for health care professionals. |
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CHRISTINE CHISM
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Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Comparative
Literature |
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Medieval literature; theories of history and
historicism; women's studies; cultural studies; performance
theory |
| Email: |
chism@rci.rutgers.edu |
| Office: |
604 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu 1-2 |
| B.A. Reed College (1985), M.A.
Duke University (1987), Ph.D. Duke University (1992). Chris
Chism is an associate professor of English, visiting from Rutgers
University, New Brunswick. She specializes in Middle English
literature, romance, and drama, and her current interests include
performance theory, friendship in Middle English writing, and
medieval intercultural and interreligious encounter. Her book,
Alliterative Revivals, was published by the University
of Pennsylvania Press in 2002. Shortly thereafter she received
a Mellon New Directions grant to study the Arabic language and
medieval Islamic history, literature, and culture at Notre Dame,
Princeton, and Middlebury College. She has published articles
in JMEMS and in a number of collections on medieval literature
and the law, women and epic, text and territory, and Tolkien
and medieval iterature. Her current project explores the politics
of friendship as both intense personal connection and public
associational form in variety of Middle English texts, and she
is also beginning research on a second project which investigates
Arabic and English travel narratives, translations, and cultural
encounters. |
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AMANDA CLAYBAUGH
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| Title: |
Associate Professor of English and Comparative
Literature |
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| Specialization: |
the postbellum US novel; the Victorian novel;
transatlantic literary studies; narrative theory |
| Email: |
ac602@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-0142 |
| Office: |
408j Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
ON LEAVE 07-08 |
| B.A., Yale (1993) Ph.D., Harvard
(2001). Amanda Claybaugh’s research focuses on Victorian
literature, on postbellum U.S. literature, and on the trans-Atlantic
nineteenth century. She is the author of The Novel of Purpose:
Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World
(Cornell, 2007), and she is currently at work on a new manuscript
about the Reconstruction era and its depiction in US literature.
She has published articles on Mark Twain and the Civil War (Mark
Twain Studies), on William Dean Howells and the Civil War
(The Yale Journal of Criticism), on Charles Dickens and
temperance reform (Novel), and on the new trans-Atlanticism
(Victorian Studies); she is currently at work on review
essays about the recent re-evaluation of liberalism in Victorian
Studies (The Minnesota Review) and about the emergence
of trans-Atlanticism as a field (American Literary History),
as well as a chapter on “Trollope and America” for
The Cambridge Companion to Anthony Trollope. She has
also written for the London Review of Books. In 2004,
Amanda Claybaugh was one of five faculty members to receive
Columbia’s Presidential Teaching Prize. Amanda Claybaugh's
website. |
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MONICA COHEN
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and Comparative
Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Late 18th- and 19th-century English narrative; Victorian
cultural studies; narrative and genre theory; gender studies |
| Email: |
mlf1@columbia.edu |
| Office: |
408j Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Th 3-6& by appt. |
| B.A., Yale (1987); Ph.D., Columbia (1994). Monica Cohen
specializes in late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century English
narrative and is interested in Victorian cultural studies, narrative
and genre theory, and gender studies. Her book, Professional Domesticity
in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home was published by Cambridge
University Press in 1998. Her articles have appeared in Novel,
Studies in the Novel, Victorian Literature and Culture
and The Dickens Quarterly. She has contributed to The Encyclopedia
of the Novel (Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998) and to Victorian Women
Novelists and the "Woman Question" (Cambridge University
Press, 1999). She is currently working on a manuscript entitled, Circulating
Type: Jews, Gypsies and Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth-century
European Imagination. |
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SARAH COLE
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Associate Professor of English and Comparative
Literature |
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| Specialization: |
20th-century British literature; modernism and
empire; gender studies; war |
| Email: |
sc891@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-5212 |
| Office: |
408d Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
W 4-5 & Th 4-5 |
| B.A., Williams College (1989);
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1997). Sarah Cole
specializes in British literature of the 19thand 20th centuries,
with an emphasis on the modernist period. Areas of interest
include war; violence, sexuality and the body; history and memory;
and post-colonial studies. Her book, Modernism, Male Friendship,
and the First World War, was published by Cambridge University
Press in 2003. She has published articles in ELH and
Modern Fiction Studies, and has an essay in the volume
Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature
(University of Minnesota Press 2003). She is currently working
on a project that investigates the interrelations between violence
and art in the modernist period. |
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SUSAN CRANE
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| Title: |
Professor of English and Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Medieval English and French genres; history of
sexuality; social implications of literature |
| Email: |
sc2298@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-5789 |
| Office: |
616 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu 1-2 & Th 5:30-6:30 & by appt. |
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B.A., Wisconsin; M.A., Ph.D., Berkeley.
Susan Crane specializes in English and French medieval literature
and culture. The consequences of the Norman conquest for Britain's
linguistic, literary, and social history are the focus of
Insular Romance: Politics, Faith, and Culture in Anglo-Norman
and Middle English Literature (California UP 1986) and
subsequent articles on insular bilingualism. Gender and
Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Princeton UP 1992)
argues for interrelations between literary genres and ideologies
of sexuality. Her most recent book, The Performance of
Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years
War (Pennsylvania UP 2002) investigates premodern identity
as it is expressed in secular rituals such as tournaments,
weddings, and mummings. Current projects explore the purposes
of translation in the late Middle Ages, and relations between
humans and animals in several medieval genres.
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JULIE CRAWFORD
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Associate Professor of English and Comparative
Literature |
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| Specialization: |
16th- and 17th-century English literature; women's
literature; Protestant culture; cultural studies; feminist theory;
gay and lesbian studies |
| Email: |
jc830@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-5779 |
| Office: |
613c Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
M 1:30-3:30 in 763 Schermerhorn &
Tu 10-12 in 613c Philosophy |
| B.A. McGill University (1990);
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (1999). Julie Crawford works
on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and
culture. She has written on Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Margaret
Cavendish, the Sidneys, Anne Clifford and Lady Mary Wroth, as
well as on post-Reformation religious and literary culture.
Her articles have appeared in Studies in English Literature,
English Literary History, Renaissance Drama, PMLA,
Early Modern Culture, and the Blackwell Companion
to Shakespeare, as well is in a wide range of edited collections.
Her book, Marvelous Protestantism: Monstrous Births in Post-Reformation
England, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press
in 2005, and she is currently completing a project about women
and the production of coterie literature in early modern England. |
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PATRICIA DAILEY
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Assistant Professor of English and Comparative
Literature |
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Medieval Literature, medieval women's poetry
and prose, Anglo-Saxon poetry, critical theory, psychoanalytic
theory |
| Email: |
pd2132@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-1667 |
| Office: |
602b Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
M 4-5 & Tu 5-6 |
| B.A. Sarah Lawrence College (1988);
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine (2002); LMS, Pontifical
Institute of Mediaeval Studies (2005). Patricia Dailey joins
Columbia faculty in fall 2004 after a holding a Woodrow Wilson
Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University (2002-2004).
She specializes in medieval literature and culture (English,
Dutch, French, and Italian) and critical theory, focusing on
women's mystical texts, dream visions, Anglo-Saxon poetry and
prose, and medieval rhetoric. Patricia Dailey has written on
Hadewijch, Julian of Norwich, Marguerite Porete, Hildegard von
Bingen, Old English riddles, The Letter from Alexander to
Aristotle, The Ruin, Beowulf, among others. Her articles
appeared in New Medieval Literatures (vol 8, 2006) and
Le Secret: Motif et Moteur de la Litterature; she is
also a contributor to Routledge's Encyclopedia of Women and
Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, and Cambridge's
forthcoming Companion to Christian Mysticism, and the
PMLA's special issue on Derrida. She is currently working
on her manuscript Promised Bodies which focuses on temporality,
embodiment, and inscription in medieval women's visionary texts
and Anglo-Saxon poetry. In addition to her work in medieval
literature, she has translated works by Giorgio Agamben (The
Time That Remains, Stanford 2005), Jean-François
Lyotard, and Antonio Negri. She is the founder of the Anglo-Saxon
Studies Colloquium (www.columbia.edu/cu/assc)
and co-founder of the Theory Reading Group (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/posters/theory_reading_group.htm). |
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NICHOLAS DAMES
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Theodore Kahan Professor in the Humanities |
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| Specialization: |
19th-century British literature; history and
theory of the novel; critical theory and theories of narrative;
Victorian cultural history |
| Email: |
nd122@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-3079 |
| Office: |
408f Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
W 10-12 & Th 10-11 |
| B.A. Washington University (1992);
Ph.D. Harvard (1998). Nicholas Dames is a specialist in nineteenth-century
British fiction, with interests in Victorian cultural history,
Victorian critical practices and protocols, nineteenth-century
theories of mind, the classical European novel, the history
and theory of the novel, relations between the nineteenth-century
novel and operatic and symphonic music, and cognitive, sociological,
and historical theories of the reading subject. His book, Amnesiac
Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810-1870
(Oxford, 2001), was awarded the Sonya Rudikoff Prize by the
Northeast Victorian Studies Association. His articles on British
and French literature of the nineteenth century have appeared
in The Henry James Review, Representations, Novel,
Nineteenth-Century Literature, Narrative, and
Victorian Studies; he is also a contributor to Blackwell's
Companion to the Victorian Novel, Oxford's forthcoming
Encyclopedia of British Literature (on "The Novel"),
and Cambridge's History of Literary Criticism (on "Theories
of the Novel"). His edition of Thackeray's Vanity Fair
was issued by Barnes and Noble Press in 2003. He is co-editor
of the Victorian section of Literature Compass, Blackwell
Publishing's online meta-journal, and was elected to serve on
the MLA's Executive Committee on Prose Fiction starting in 2006.
His second book, The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural
Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction, is forthcoming
from Oxford in 2007. He was awarded Columbia's Presidential
Teaching Award in 2005. In 2005-2006 he is a Charles Ryskamp
Research Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. |
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DAVID DAMROSCH
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Professor of English and Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
20th-century literature and criticism; theory
and methods of comparative literature; Bible and ancient Near
Eastern literatures |
| Email: |
dnd2@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6099 |
| Office: |
613a Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
M 4-6:30 |
| B.A., Yale (1975); Ph.D., Yale
(1980). A specialist in modern literature, Professor Damrosch
is also interested in narrative theory, hermeneutics, ancient
literature, and the Bible. He is the author of The Narrative
Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical
Literature (Harper and Row, 1987; Cornell, 1991); We
Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University (Harvard
UP, 1995); a study of academic culture, Meetings of the Mind;
What Is World Literature? (Princeton UP, 2003); and articles
on Freud, Kenneth Burke, Kleist, Wordsworth, Norse sagas, Bernard
of Clarivaux, and Aztec poetry. He is general editor of The
Longman Anthology of British Literature and of The Longman
Anthology of World Literature (2004). For 2001-2003 he was
President of the American Comparative Literature Association. |
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JENNY DAVIDSON
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Associate Professor of English and Comparative
Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Eighteenth-century British literature and culture;
cultural and intellectual history, especially history of science;
the contemporary novel in English |
| Email: |
jmd204@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-1204 |
| Office: |
408b Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu 4-5 & W 11-12 |
| A.B., Harvard-Radcliffe (1993);
Ph.D., Yale (1999). Jenny Davidson writes about eighteenth-century
literature and culture; other interests include British cultural
and intellectual history and the contemporary novel in English.
She is the author of a novel, Heredity (U.S., Soft Skull,
2003; U.K., Serpent's Tail, 2005). Her book Hypocrisy and
the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to
Austen was published by Cambridge UP in 2004, and she is
now at work on a new book called Breeding: Nature and Nurture
Before Biology. In 2005-2006, she is a Guggenheim Fellow
and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
in Cambridge, MA. |
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ANDREW DELBANCO
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| Title: |
Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities |
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| Specialization: |
American literature from the colonial period
through the nineteenth century, religion, history of education |
| Email: |
ad19@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-3985 |
| Office: |
407 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
W 2:30-4 in 418 Hamilton; call Angela Darling
(4-6698) for an appointment |
A.B., Harvard (1973); Ph.D.,
Harvard (1980). Professor Andrew Delbanco, winner of the 2006
Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates,
is the author of Melville: His World and Work (2005),
which won the Lionel Trilling Award and was a finalist for the
Los Angeles Times Book Award in biography. The Death
of Satan (1995), Required Reading: Why Our American Classics
Matter Now (1997), and The Real American Dream (1999)
were named notable books by the editors of The New York Times
Book Review. The Puritan Ordeal (1989) won the Lionel
Trilling Award. Among his edited books are Writing New England
(2001), The Portable Abraham Lincoln (1992), volume two
of The Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson (with Teresa Toulouse),
and, with Alan Heimert, The Puritans in America (1985).
Andrew Delbanco's essays appear regularly in The New York
Review of Books, The New Republic, Raritan,
and other journals, on topics ranging from American literary
and religious history to contemporary issues in higher education.
In 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and named by Time Magazine as "America's
Best Social Critic." In 2003, he was named New York State
Scholar of the Year by the New York Council for the Humanities.
Professor Delbanco has received fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the
National Endowment for the Humanities, and was a member of the
inaugural class of fellows at the New York Public Library Center
for Scholars and Writers. He is a trustee of the National Humanities
Center and the Library of America, and has served as Vice President
of PEN American Center. Since 1995 he has held the Julian Clarence
Levi Professor Chair in the Humanities at Columbia University.
With Professor Casey Blake of the History Department, he teaches
the Colloquium on American Higher Education, supported by the
Mellon Foundation. In 2005, he became Director of American Studies
at Columbia, and welcomes student interest in the program.
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MAIKEN DERNO
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and Comparative
Literature |
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Genre Theory; Shakespeare; early modern drama;
gender studies; poststructuralist theory; urban and cultural
studies |
| Email: |
mtd2106@columbia.edu |
| Office: |
408j Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu 9:30-10:30 & by appt. |
| B.A. (1995), M.A. (1997), and
Magister Dissertation (2001), University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University (1997-98), Research
Fellowship from the Danish State Research Councils for the Humanities
(2001-2005). Maiken Derno specializes in twentieth-century genre
theory and early modern drama. She is currently writing a book
on Shakespeare's problem plays and the textualization of genre
in English Renaissance drama. Other interests include poststructuralist
theory, German Romantic philosophy, gender theory, urban studies,
and modernist poetry and prose fiction. She is also a contributor
and co-editor of numerous books and journals, including Bad
Music: The Music We Love to Hate (Routledge, 2004), Trafficking
Boundaries/ Women and Performance (NYU, 2002), Det Onde
i Litteraturen (Akademisk Forlag) 2003), Brøndum's
Danske Lov (Brøndum, 2000), and Manus (Copenhagen,
1997). |
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ANN DOUGLAS
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| Title: |
Parr Professor of Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
20th-century American literatures; popular culture,
especially film; race and ethnicity; post-colonial theory |
| Email: |
ad34@columbia.edu |
| Office: |
408g Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
W 5:30-7 & by appt. |
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| B.A., Harvard (1964); B.Phil.,
Oxford (1966); Ph.D., Harvard (1970). Before Columbia, Professor
Douglas taught at Princeton from 1970-74—the first woman
to teach in its English Department. She received a Bicentennial
Preceptorship from Princeton for distinguished teaching in 1974,
and a fellowship from the National Humanities Center in 1978-79
after publishing The Feminization of American Culture
(1977). She received an NEH and Guggenheim fellowship for 1993-94.
Her study Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920's
(Farrar, Straus, 1995) received, among other honors, the Alfred
Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association, the
Lionel Trilling Award from Columbia University, and the Merle
Curti Intellectual History Award from the Organization of American
Historians. She has published numerous essays, articles and
book reviews on American culture in papers and periodicals such
as The New York Times, The Nation and Slate,
and introductions for Little Women, Uncle Tom's Cabin,
Charlotte Temple, Minor Characters, The Subterraneans,
Studs Lonigan, and Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs
Reader . Prof. Douglas teaches twentieth-century American
literature, film, music, and politics, with an emphasis on the
Cold War era, African-American culture, and post-colonial approaches.
She is currently at work on a book, Noir Nation: Cold War
U.S. Culture 1945-1960. In Spring 2002, she was elected
to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for her work in
History. |
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KATHY EDEN
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| Title: |
Chavkin Family Professor of English Literature
and Professor of Classics |
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| Specialization: |
Renaissance humanism; history of rhetoric; hermeneutics;
ancient literary theory; history of classical scholarship |
| Email: |
khe1@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6432 |
| Office: |
401a Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
W 1-2:30 & Th 3-4:30 |
| B.A., Smith (1974); Ph.D., Stanford
(1980). Professor Eden began teaching at Columbia in 1980. She
studies the history of rhetorical and poetic theory in antiquity,
including late antiquity, and the Renaissance, within the larger
context of intellectual history and with an emphasis on the
problems of reception. Her books include Poetic and Legal
Fiction in The Aristotelian Tradition (Princeton,1986),
Hermeneutics and the Rhetorical Tradition: Chapters in the
Ancient Legacy and its Humanist Reception (New Haven, 1997),
and Friends Hold All Things in Common: Tradition, Intellectual
Property and the 'Adages' of Erasmus (New Haven, 2001).
Her articles appear in Journal of the History of Ideas,
Rhetorica, Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities,
Studies in the Literary Imagination, Erasmus of Rotterdam
Society Yearbook and Traditio. Her current project
explores epistolary theory and the construction of letter collections
in antiquity and the Renaissance. In 1981-82 she received a
fellowship from the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington,
D.C. and in 1998-99 a Guggenheim fellowship. In 1998 she won
the Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates
and in 2001 the Mark Van Doren Award and the Award for Distinguished
Service to the Core Curriculum. |
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BRENT EDWARDS
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Professor of English and Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
African-American and African diasporic literature;
20th-century poetry; Francophone literature; translation theory;
jazz |
| Email: |
bhe2@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-2912 |
| Office: |
609 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu 2-4 & W 3-4 & by appt. |
| B.A., Yale (1990); M.A., Columbia
(1992); Ph.D., Columbia (1998). Professor Edwards is the author
of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and
the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard UP, 2003), which
was awarded the John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies
Association, the Gilbert Chinard prize of the Society for French
Historical Studies, and runner-up for the James Russell Lowell
Prize of the Modern Language Association. With Robert G. O'Meally
and Farah Jasmine Griffin, he co-edited the collection Uptown
Conversation: The New Jazz Studies (Columbia UP, 2004).
He has published essays and articles on topics including African
American literature, Francophone literature, theories of the
African diaspora, black radical intellectuals, cultural politics
in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, surrealism, 20th-century poetics,
and jazz. His translations include essays, poems, and fiction
by authors including Edouard Glissant, Jacques Derrida, Jean
Baudrillard, Sony Labou Tansi, and Monchoachi. He is co-editor
of the journal Social Text, and serves on the editorial
boards of Transition and Callaloo. He is currently
working on two book projects: a study of the interplay between
jazz and literature in African American culture; and a cultural
history of the jazz scene in New York in the 1970s. |
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ROBERT FERGUSON
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| Title: |
George Edward Woodberry Professor in Law, Literature,
and Criticism |
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| Specialization: |
American literature, law, and history |
| Email: |
raf2@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-0522 |
| Office: |
JG 637 (main building of the Law School) |
| Office Hours: |
Contact Gabriel Soto (gsoto@law.columbia.edu
or 854-0522) for appointments |
| A.B., Harvard
College (1964); J.D., Harvard Law School (1968),
Ph.D., Harvard (1974). Prof. Ferguson taught in both the English
Department and the Law School at the University
of Chicago as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities,
and also at Stanford and Harvard before joining Columbia. He
has also taught in American Studies at Princeton University
and the Yale Law School. His primary interest
is the interdisciplinary study of American culture with particular
emphases on literature, law, and history. Prof. Ferguson has
received fellowships from the N.E.H., the National Humanities
Center, and Guggenheim foundation. He is the author of numerous
articles as well as Law and Letters in American Culture
(1984), which won the Willard Hurst Award from the Law and Society
Association, The American Enlightenment, 1750-1829 (1994),
and, forthcoming in 2004, Reading The Early Republic.
His current project is a study of the courtroom trial as a central
ceremony in American life. |
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SHAWN-MARIE GARRETT
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Assistant Professor of Theatre, Barnard College |
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| Specialization: |
History and theory of European and American theatre;
African American theatre; contemporary theatre and performance;
dramaturgy; criticism |
| Email: |
sg488@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6863 |
| Office: |
508 Milbank Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu 4:15-5:15; Th 10-11 |
| B.A., Duke University (1989);
M.F.A., Yale School of Drama (1996); D.F.A., Yale School of
Drama (2006). Professor Garrett is a theatre scholar and contributing
editor of Theater as well as a professional dramaturg
and critic. Her first book, Suzan-Lori Parks' History Plays,
is under consideration at the University of Michigan Press.
Shorter publications, from scholarly articles to features and
reviews aimed at general readers, have analyzed a wide range
contemporary plays and productions as well as censorship in
contemporary American theatre, Kafka adaptations for the stage,
and the ironic revival of blackface and other tropes of minstrelsy
in contemporary American performance, among other subjects.
Professor Garrett has received a Truman Capote Literary Fellowship,
the John W. Gassner Memorial Prize, and a Gilder Fellowship.
She is currently working on a history and theory of experimental
theatre in New York, tentatively titled "Experimental New
York." |
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EILEEN GILLOOLY
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| Title: |
Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Comparative
Literature |
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| Specialization: |
19th-century British literature and culture;
gender and psychoanalytic studies; 19th-century moral psychology;
19th-century British colonial literature and culture |
| Email: |
eg48@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-9031 |
| Office: |
H2-1 Heyman Center |
| Office Hours: |
Th 2-3 & by appt. |
| B.A., Scripps College (1977);
Ph.D., Columbia (1993) Professor Gillooly's interests include
nineteenth-century literature and culture in Britain and its
colonies, the history of the English novel, and gender, feminist,
and psychoanalytic theory. She is the author of Smile of
Discontent: Humor, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
(University of Chicago Press, 1999), which was awarded the Perkins
Prize by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature,
and of articles and reviews in such publications as Victorian
Studies, ELH, and The New York Times Book Review.
She has edited the poetry of Robert Browning and Rudyard Kipling
(Sterling Publishing: 2000 and 2001) and is currently co-editing
(with James Buzard and Joseph Childers) Victorian Prism:
Refractions of the Crystal Palace (forthcoming
from University of Virginia Press). She has
been awarded research fellowships by the American Council of
Learned Societies (1996-97) and the National Endowment for the
Humanities (2003-04). In 2002, she received the Award for Distinguished
Service to the Core Curriculum. She is currently working on
a book about parental feeling in nineteenth-century middle-class
Britain. |
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MARIANNE GIORDANI
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
and Comparative Literature |
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The literature, culture, and intellectual
history of the long 18th century (Restoration to Romanticism) |
| Email: |
mg2644@columbia.edu |
| Office: |
408c Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
TBA |
B.A., Hunter College (1992);
Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY (2004), Marianne Giordani specializes
in the literature, culture, and intellectual history of the
long 18th century, with interests in rhetoric, poetics, and
criticism encompassing other periods as well. Specific areas
include the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns; natural
psychology, aesthetics, and moral philosophy; the Bible and
post-Reformation historiography; Christian epic and the modern
novel; ekphrastic poetry and the visual arts. She is currently
revising for publication her dissertation, "The Sublime:
A Modern Trope for Literary Value and Poetic Reform."
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MICHAEL GOLSTON
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Assistant Professor of English and Comparative
Literature |
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| Specialization: |
20th-century British and American poetry and
poetics; the avant-garde; modernism and postmodernism |
| Email: |
mg2242@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-4707 |
| Office: |
408h Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu 10-11:30 & Th 4-5:30 |
| B.A., University of New Mexico
(1979); M.A., University of California , Berkeley (1989); Ph.D.,
Stanford University (1998). Michael Golston specializes in 20th-century
poetry and poetics and modern cultural history. He is especially
interested in avant-garde and experimental writing, and has
published articles and reviews in American Literary History,
Paideuma, and Modernism/Modernity. He also has
essays in two collections: American Modernism Across the
Arts and The New Lyric. |
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ERIK GRAY
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Assistant Professor of English and Comparative
Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Romantic and Victorian poetry; poetry and poetics;
English literature and the classics |
| Email: |
eg2155@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-1668 |
| Office: |
408k Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
ON LEAVE 07-08 |
| B.A., Cambridge (1994); Ph.D.,
Princeton (2000). Erik Gray specializes in poetry, particularly
of nineteenth-century Britain. He is the author of The Poetry
of Indifference: From the Romantics to the Rubáiyát
(Massachusetts, 2005) and the editor of Tennyson's In Memoriam
(Norton, 2004) and Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book
2 (Hackett, 2006). He has also published articles on a range
of poets including Virgil, Sidney, Donne, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson, the Brownings, and Christina Rossetti.
He is currently completing a book on Milton and the Victorians. |
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FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN
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| Title: |
Professor of English and Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
African American literature, music, history and
politics |
| Email: |
fjg8@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6411 |
| Office: |
508b Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu 2-5 |
| B.A., Harvard (1985); Ph.D.,Yale
(1992). Professor Griffin's major fields of interest are African
American literature, music, history and politics. The recipient
of numerous honors and awards for her teaching and scholarship,
in 1996-97 Professor Griffin was a fellow at the Bunting Institute
of Radcliffe College. She is the author of Who Set You Flowin’:
The African American Migration Narrative (Oxford, 1995)
and If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of
Billie Holiday (Free Press, 2001). She is also the editor
of Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Addie
Brown and Rebecca Primus (Knopf, 1999) co-editor, with Cheryl
Fish, of Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African
American Travel Writing (Beacon, 1998)and co-editor with
Brent Edwards and Robert O'Meally of Uptown Conversations:
The New Jazz Studies (Columbia University Press, 2004).
She is currently Director of the Institute for Research in African
American Studies. |
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ACHSAH GUIBBORY
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Professor of English, Barnard College |
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| Specialization: |
Seventeenth-century literatures and culture;
Milton; Donne |
| Email: |
aguibbor@barnard.edu |
| Office: |
408b Barnard Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu & Th 2-3:30 |
| Ph.D., UCLA (1970). A recipient
of many honors and awards including a National Endowment for
the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship (2001-02) and the
Harriet and Charles Luckman Undergraduate Distinguished Teaching
Award at the University of Illinois (1995), Achsah Guibbory
has served as the President of the Milton Society of America
and the John Donne Society. Her published books include The
Map of Time: Seventeenth-Century English Literature and Ideas
of Pattern in History; Ceremony and Community from Herbert
to Milton: Literature, Religion and Cultural Conflict in Seventeenth-Century
English Literature; and The Cambridge Companion to John
Donne. She is currently working on a book entitled Imagined
Identities: The Uses of Judaism in Seventeenth-Century England. |
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ROSS HAMILTON
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Associate Professor of English and Director of
Film Studies, Barnard College |
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Comparative romanticisms, poetics, literature
& philosophy |
| Email: |
rh174@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-3453 |
| Office: |
419 Barnard Hall |
| Office Hours: |
W 4-5:30 |
B.A. Queen's University, Ph.D,
Yale University (1997), Diplôme, École des Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Ross Hamilton specializes
in metahistorical patterns from the Reformation to Romanticism,
as well as the shift from natural philosophy to early modern
science. He is also interested in the Annales historians, especially
Braudel, as well as Foucault's later work. He was a prize teaching
fellow at Yale, and held a post-doctorate fellowship at Johns
Hopkins University. His first book, Accident: A Literary
and Philosophical History (forthcoming from the University
of Chicago Press), traces the transformations and mutations
of Aristotle's notion of the accidental or inessential from
Sophocles to late 20th century film. A second book, Falling:
Literature, Science and Social Change, explores literary
analogues to the paradigm shift from natural philosophy to early
modern science described by Thomas Kuhn, among others. In addition
to editing Tom Jones, he has written articles on Wordsworth,
Erasmus Darwin, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the eighteenth century
culture of gambling, theater and the rise of the novel, and
the paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
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ERIC HARALSON
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| Title: |
Adjunct Professor of English and Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
19th- and 20th-century American literature; British modernism; gender and sexuality studies |
| Email: |
elh3@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
TBA |
| Office: |
TBA |
| Office Hours: |
TBA |
| B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison (1976); M.A., Columbia University (1985); Ph.D., Columbia (1993). Eric Haralson enjoys teaching and writing on Henry James and his period, extending into modernism; American poetry; and sexuality and gender studies. His book Henry James and Queer Modernity, which also addresses the work of Hemingway, Willa Cather and Gertrude Stein, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2003. He is co-editor, with John Carlos Rowe, of A Historical Guide to Henry James (forthcoming from Oxford UP). He has published articles on the gender and sexual politics of late-Victorian and modern writing in such journals as American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Arizona Quarterly, as well as in collections such as the Cambridge Companion to Henry James, Queer Forster (U of Chicago P, 1997), and Victorian Sexual Dissidence (U of Chicago P, 1999). He also has essays forthcoming in American Literary History and the Blackwell Companion to American Studies. He is the editor of Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth-Century American Poetry (U of Iowa P, 2006) and, with John Hollander, of an acclaimed encyclopedia of American poetry (Routledge, 1998/2003). Professor Haralson is now at work on a book about representations of China in U.S. literature and film during the first half of the 20th century, tentatively entitled “Modern American Culture, Dreaming in Chinese.” He has served as president of the Henry James Society and as an executive board member of the Modernist Studies Association. He is currently book review editor of The Henry James Review. |
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MICHELE HARDESTY
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Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Twentieth-century U.S. literatures and cultures,
transnationalism, travel |
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