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FACULTY:
JAMES ELI
ADAMS 
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Professor of English and
Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
19th century British literature and
culture; gender and sexuality; aestheticism; interdisciplinary history
of Victorian Britain
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| Email: |
jea2139@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-2472 |
| Office: |
404 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
M 11-12 & Th 11-12:30 or by
appointment
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S.B.,
Literature and Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1977); B.A., Oxford (Rhodes Scholar, 1979); Ph.D., Cornell
(1987). James Eli Adams came to Columbia in 2009 from Cornell; he
previously taught at Indiana University and the University of
Rochester. He writes on a wide range of Victorian literature and
culture, but he is best known for his work on gender and sexuality in
Victorian literature. He is the author of Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of
Victorian Masculinity (Cornell, 1995), named a Choice
Outstanding Academic Book, and A
History of Victorian Literature (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
He co-edited, with Andrew Miller, Sexualities
in
Victorian
Britain (Indiana, 1996), and served as general
editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia
of
the
Victorian
Era (Grolier, 2004). His essays,
articles, and reviews have appeared in many journals and collections,
including Victorian Studies, ELH, Studies in English Literature, Victorian Poetry, Journal of the History of Ideas, the Blackwell Companion to Victorian
Literature and Culture, Concise
Companion
to
the
Victorian
Novel, Contemporary
Dickens, and Muscular
Christianity: Embodying the
Victorian Age. He is a past Chair of the Executive
Committee of the MLA Division for the Victorian Period, and a past
President of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association. From
1993-2000 he co-edited Victorian
Studies, where he remains a member of the Advisory Board.
He is currently at work on a project entitled The Uses of Inheritance: Identity and
Agency in Britain, 1789-1895.
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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: |
405 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
T 1-2 in 405 Philosophy / W 1-2 in
418 Hamilton / On Leave Spring 2010
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| 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. Her most recent book, Continental
Divides:
Reframing
the
Cultures
of
North
America, will be
published by the University of Chicago Press in Fall 2009. She is
also the author of Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American
Cultural Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2001).
She is 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.
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CHRISTOPHER
BASWELL
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| Title: |
Professor of English and Comparative
Literature, Columbia University and Anne Whitney Olin Professor of
English, Barnard College |
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| Specialization: |
Medieval literature and manuscript studies;
Classical tradition; disability studies
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| Email: |
ccb13@columbia.edu
or cbaswell@barnard.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-9011 |
| Office: |
410 Barnard Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Contact Barnard English Dept at
4-2116 |
B.A. Oberlin,
in Classics and English, 1975; Fulbright Scholar at New College Oxford
and the Warburg Institute, London 1978-80; Ph. D. Yale, in English,
1983. Professor Baswell rejoins the faculty at Barnard and
Columbia after a period as Professor of English and Associate Director
of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA,
2001-2008. Baswell’s earliest research was in the reception and
transformation of classical literature, especially narratives of empire
and dynastic foundation, in the vernacular cultures of the European
Middle Ages. He has approached these issues through the optic of
original manuscripts, and in the light of the multilingualism of
medieval France and England. Some of this research resulted in Virgil
in
Medieval
England:
Figuring
the
Aeneid
from
the
Twelfth
Century
to
Chaucer (Cambridge UP 1995), which won the 1998 Beatrice White
Prize of the English Association. Further work on foundation
narratives has led to articles and a forthcoming monograph on
narratives of female foundation and their challenge to a dominant
tradition of founding fathers. Baswell is also at work on new
research on the cultural imagination of disability in the Middle
Ages. He has held fellowships from the NEH, the ACLS, the
National Humanities Center, and the Institute for Advanced Study.
Baswell is co-editor of the medieval volume of the Longman
Anthology of British Literature. He is General Editor of the
series Cursor Mundi: Viator
Studies of the Medieval and Early Modern World (Brepols).
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KATHERINE BIERS
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| Title: |
Assistant Professor of English and
Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
19th- and 20th-century American
literature and culture; media studies; cultural studies; theories of
gender and sexuality; African-American literature; modernism |
| Email: |
klb2134@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(21) 851-2490
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| Office: |
408b Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
W 4:15-6:15 [in 754 Schermerhorn
Ext.] |
B.A. (1993)
and Ph.D. (2002), Cornell University. Katherine Biers specializes in
19th- and 20th-century American literature, culture and media studies.
Fields of interest also include theatre, pragmatism, aesthetics,
political theory and theories of emotion. She is currently writing a
book on the idea of the virtual in pre-WWI American philosophy and
media culture entitled The Promise of the Virtual: Writing and
Media in the Progressive Era. She has recently published an
article in Representations on James Weldon Johnson and
ragtime, and has an essay in the volume Women’s Experience of
Modernity (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002) on Djuna Barnes
and illustrated journalism.
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MARCELLUS BLOUNT
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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: |
On Leave Fall 2009
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| 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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AMANDA CLAYBAUGH
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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 Fall 2009 & Spring 2010
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| 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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SARAH COLE
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Associate Professor of English and
Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
20th-century British literature and
culture; modernism and empire; war |
| Email: |
sc891@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-5212 |
| Office: |
511a Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
On Leave Fall 2009
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| B.A., Williams
College (1989); Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1997). Sarah
Cole specializes in British literature of the 19th and 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 articles published or forthcoming in ELH, Modern
Fiction
Studies, Modernism/Modernity, and PMLA,
and has written essays for a variety of edited collections. She is
currently working on a book, forthcoming from Oxford University Press
(Modernist Literature and Culture series), that investigates the
interrelations between violence and literature in the modernist period.
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SUSAN CRANE
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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: |
On Leave Fall 2009
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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. The Performance of
Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War
(Pennsylvania UP 2002) investigates pre-modern 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 the relations between humans and animals in
medieval thought and practice. Susan Crane's website.
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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: |
On Leave Fall 2009 |
| 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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| Title: |
Assistant Professor of English and
Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
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: |
On Leave Fall 2009
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| B.A. Sarah Lawrence
College; Ph.D. University of California, Irvine (2002); LMS, Pontifical
Institute of Mediaeval Studies (2005). Patricia Dailey joined 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, medieval rhetoric and theology. 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. Recent
articles include, “Questions of Dwelling in Anglo-Saxon
Poetry and Medieval Mysticism: Inhabiting Landscape, Body,
Mind,” New Medieval Literatures (vol 8, 2006), "The Body and
its Senses" and "Time and Memory" in the Cambridge Companion to
Christian Mysticism (forthcoming). Other articles have appeared
in Women's Studies Quarterly , Witness Issue (2007), Le
Secret:
Motif
et
Moteur
de
la
Litterature (1999), Les
Imaginaires du Mal (2000), the PMLA's special issue
on Derrida (2005), and Routledge's Encyclopedia of
Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia. 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,
Antonio Negri, and Eric Alliez. 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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| Title: |
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: |
Tu 4-5 & Th 10-12 |
B.A. Washington
University (1992); Ph.D. Harvard (1998). Nicholas Dames is a
specialist in nineteenth-century British fiction, with interests in
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 the history of reading. He is the author of
two books: Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British
Fiction, 1810-1870 (Oxford, 2001), which was awarded the Sonya
Rudikoff Prize by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association; and The
Physiology
of
the
Novel:
Reading,
Neural
Science,
and
the
Form
of
Victorian
Fiction (Oxford, 2007). 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,
as well as edited volumes such as Blackwell’s Companion to the
Victorian Novel, Oxford’s Encyclopedia of British Literature
(on “The Novel”), Cambridge’s History of Literary Criticism
(on “Theories of the Novel”), the Cambridge Companion to English
Novelists, and the Blackwell Companion to Jane Austen.
He
was
awarded
Columbia’s
Presidential
Teaching
Award
in
2005,
and
in
2008
he
was
named
a
recipient
of
the
Gerry
Lenfest
Distinguished
Faculty
Award.
In
2005-2006
he
was
a
Charles
Ryskamp
Fellow
of
the
American
Council
of
Learned
Societies.
His
current
project
is
a
history
of
the
chapter,
from
manuscript
Bibles
to the modern novel.
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JENNY DAVIDSON
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| Title: |
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: |
511b Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu 2:30-4 & W 4-5 or by
appointment / On Leave Spring 2010
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| 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 two novels, Heredity (2003)
and
The Explosionist (2008), and two academic
books, Hypocrisy
and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen
(Cambridge, 2004) and Breeding: A Partial History of the
Eighteenth Century (Columbia, 2009). In 2005-2006, she was 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: |
M 2-4 in 415 Hamilton and other
times by appointment; contact Angela Darling at 4-6698 to set up an
appointment.
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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. His most recent book, Melville: His World and Work, was
published in the United States (2005) by Alfred A. Knopf. It appeared
in Britain under the Picador imprint, and has been translated into
German and Spanish.
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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
and history;
popular culture, especially film; race and ethnicity; post-colonial
theory |
| Email: |
ad34@columbia.edu |
| Office: |
408g Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
W 5:30-7 and by appointment
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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. In 2008, she became a member of the New York
Academy of Historians. |
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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: |
M 6:05-7:15 &
Tu 2:15-3:45
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| 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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| Title: |
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: |
On Leave Fall 2009 & Spring 2010
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| 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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JOHN
GAMBER
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| Title: |
Assistant Professor of English and
Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Ecocriticism,
transnationalism, immigration, relocation, American Indian, Asian
American, African American, and Chicana/o and Latina/o literatures, and
literature of the Americas |
| Email: |
jbg2134@columbia.edu
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| Phone: |
(212) 854-2058
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| Office: |
416 Hamilton |
| Office Hours: |
TBA
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B.A., University of
California, Davis, M.A., California State University, Fullerton (both
in Comparative Literature), Ph.D., (English) University of California,
Santa Barbara. John Gamber’s research interests in ethnic and literary
studies include ecocriticism, transnationalism, immigration,
relocation, American Indian, Asian American, African American, and
Chicana/o and Latina/o literatures, and literature of the
Americas. He has co-edited Transnational
Asian
American
Literature:
Sites
and
Transits, and published
articles about the novels of Gerald Vizenor (Anishinaabe), Louis Owens
(Choctaw/Cherokee), and Craig Womack (Creek) among others in several
edited collections and journals including PMLA and MELUS. His
current book project, entitled Positive
Pollutions
and
Cultural
Toxins examines the role of waste and
contamination in late-twentieth century U.S. ethnic literatures.
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MICHAEL GOLSTON
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| Title: |
Associate 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: |
On Leave Fall 2009 & Spring 2010
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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,
Textual Practice, and Modernism/Modernity. He also has essays in two
collections: American Modernism Across the Arts and New Definitions of
Lyric: Theory, Technology, and Culture. His first book, Rhythm and Race
in Modernist Poetry and Science (Columbia University Press), won the
Louis Martz Prize for 2007. He will be on leave during the academic
year 2009-2010, at which time he will be a Fellow at the Cullman Center
for Scholars and Writers at the New York City Public Library. He is
currently working on a book about allegory, surrealism, and postmodern
poetic form.
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ERIK GRAY
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| Title: |
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: |
W & Th 1-2
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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 Milton and the Victorians (Cornell,
2009), as
well
as
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, and recently
guest-edited a special issue of Victorian Poetry on
Edward FitzGerald.
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FARAH JASMINE
GRIFFIN
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| Title: |
William B. Ransford Professor of
English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies
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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: |
Email sh2004@columbia.edu to schedule
an appointment / On Leave Fall 2009 & Spring 2010
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| 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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MATT HART
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| Title: |
Assistant Professor of English and
Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Twentieth and twenty-first century
Anglophone culture, with an emphasis
on modernist poetry, contemporary British fiction, political theory,
and the visual arts. |
| Email: |
mh2968@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
TBA
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| Office: |
TBA
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| Office Hours: |
TBA
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M.A. (Hons.),
Edinburgh University (1996); M.A., Sussex University (1997); Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania (2004). Matt Hart comes to Columbia in
Fall 2009 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he
was an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Unit for
Criticism and Interpretive Theory. In 2006-07 he was a Fellow of
the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. Matt
specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century Anglophone culture,
with an emphasis on modernist poetry, contemporary British fiction,
political theory, and the visual arts. His first book, Nations of
Nothing But Poetry will be published in Oxford U. P.’s Modernist
Literature and Culture Series in 2010. He is currently at work on
Late Britain,
a
“hauntology”
of
British
artistic,
political,
and
literary
culture
around
the
millennium.
Matt
is
the
editor,
with
Jim
Hansen,
of
Contemporary
Literature and the State, a Winter 2008
special issue of Contemporary
Literature, which he also serves as
Associate Editor. His essays and reviews have appeared in venues
like ALH, The Cambridge Companion to the
Twentieth-Century English
Novel, JML, Modernism/Modernity, and Postmodern Culture.
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SAIDIYA HARTMAN
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| Title: |
Professor of English and
Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
African American and American
literature and cultural history; slavery; law and literature; and
performance studies |
| Email: |
svh2102@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6421 |
| Office: |
618 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
By appointment only. Please contact
Mfoniso Udofia at mu2183@columbia.edu
to set up an appointment. |
B. A., Wesleyan
University (1984); Ph.D., Yale University (1992). Professor Hartman's
major fields of interest are African American and American literature
and cultural history, slavery, law and literature, and performance
studies. She is on the editorial board of Callaloo. She has
been a Fulbright, Rockefeller, Whitney Oates, and University of
California President's Fellow. She is the author of Scenes of
Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-making in Nineteenth Century
America (Oxford University Press,1997) and Lose Your Mother: A
Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Farrar,Straus and Giroux,
2007). She has published essays on photography, film and feminism. She
is beginning a new project on photography and ethics. Saidiya Hartman website.
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MARIANNE HIRSCH
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| Title: |
William Peterfield Trent Professor
of English
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| Specialization: |
Comparative Literature (20th century
French, German, British, American); feminist theory, narrative;
cultural memory; Holocaust studies, visual culture |
| Email: |
mh2349@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-5121 |
| Office: |
508a Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu 3-5 |
| B.A./M.A. Brown
University (1970); Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Brown University
(1975). Marianne Hirsch has a joint appointment with the Institute for
Research on Women and Gender at Columbia and is the Co-director of the
Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference. She is the
author of four books Beyond the Single Vision: Henry
James, Michel Butor, Uwe Johnson (1981); The Mother /
Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism (1989); Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory
(1997); and, co-authored with Leo Spitzer, Ghosts of Home:
The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (2010). She has edited
or co-edited nine volumes: Feminist Readings: French
Texts/American Contexts, Special Issue of Yale French Studies
(1982); The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development (1983);
Conflicts in Feminism (1991); Ecritures de femmes: Nouvelles cartographies (1996); The Familial Gaze (1999); Time and the
Literary: Essays from the 1999 English Institute (2002); Gender and Cultural Memory (2002), a special issue of Signs; Teaching the Representation of the
Holocaust (2004); and Grace Paley Writing the World
(2009), a special issue of Contemporary Women’s Writing. Her book The Generation of
Postmemory: Gender and Visuality After the Holocaust, and her
co-edited volume Rites of Return are forthcoming.
Professor Hirsch has been a Guggenheim, ACLS, National Humanities
Center, Rockefeller Foundation, and Mary Ingraham Bunting, Fellow. She
served on the MLA Executive Council (1992-95); the ACLA, Advisory Board
(1993-97); the Board of Supervisors of The English Institute
(1997-2000); and the Executive Board of the Society for the Study of
Narrative Literature, (1998-2001). She was the Editor of PMLA
from 2003 to 2006 and is on the advisory boards of two new journals, Memory Studies and Contemporary Women's
Writing. |
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NICOLE HOREJSI
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| Title: |
Assistant Professor of English and
Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Restoration and eighteenth-century
British literature; the classical tradition in the eighteenth century;
eighteenth-century women's writing and feminist theory |
| Email: |
njh2115@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-2623 |
| Office: |
408e Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
M & W 2:30-4 and by appointment
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Ph.D., UCLA (2006).
Professor Horejsi specializes in eighteenth-century British literature
and culture. She is particularly interested in romance and epic in the
eighteenth century, the drama, oriental tales, feminist theory, and
eighteenth-century engagements with classical, especially Roman,
antiquity, as well as the voluminous seventeenth-century French
romances written by authors such as Scudéry and La
Calprenède. She has published articles in Eighteenth-Century
Studies and Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theater Research,
and
her
current
project,
Retelling Neoclassicism: The Limits of the
Classical Tradition in the Eighteenth Century, explores the ways in
which eighteenth-century authors rewrote their classical heritage to
more egalitarian and democratic ends.
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JEAN E. HOWARD
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| Title: |
George Delacorte Professor in the
Humanities and Chair of the Department of English and Comparative
Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Renaissance literature; history of
drama; feminism; new historicism; Marxism |
| Email: |
jfh5@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6225 |
| Office: |
602 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
W 1-3 and by appointment
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B.A. Brown (1970);
M.Phil., University of London (Marshall Fellow 1972); Ph.D., Yale
(Danforth Fellow 1975). Professor Howard began teaching at Syracuse in
1975, where she received the first University-wide Wasserstrom Prize
for excellence as teacher and mentor of graduate students; she has also
received Guggenheim, NEH, Mellon, Folger and Newberry Library
fellowships. In 2003-04 she was the Avery Distinguished Fellow at the
Huntington Library in Pasadena, California. Her teaching interests
include Shakespeare, Tudor and Stuart drama, Early Modern poetry,
modern drama, feminist and Marxist theory, and the history of feminism.
Prof. Howard is on the editorial board of Shakespeare
Studies and Renaissance Drama. She has published essays on
Shakespeare, Pope, Ford, Heywood, Dekker, Marston, and Jonson, as well
as on aspects of contemporary critical theory including new
historicism, Marxism, and issues in feminism. Her books include Shakespeare's
Art
of
Orchestration (1984); Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text
in History and Ideology, edited with Marion O'Connor (1987); The
Stage
and
Struggle
in
Early
Modern
England (1994); with Phyllis
Rackin, Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's
English Histories (1997); Marxist Shakespeares, edited with
Scott Shershow (2000); and four generically organized Companions to
Shakespeare, edited with Richard Dutton (2001). She is co-editor of The
Norton
Shakespeare (1997; second edition forthcoming December 2007)
and General Editor of the Bedford Contextual Editions of Shakespeare.
Her most recent book, entitled Theater of a City: The Places of
London Comedy 1598-1642 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007)
won the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Work in Theater History
for 2008. She is currently working on a book on the contemporary
feminist dramatist Caryl Churchill and another book on the development
of Renaissance tragedy. From 1996 to 1999 Professor Howard directed the
Institute for Research on Women and Gender and in 1999-2000 she was as
President of the Shakespeare Association of America. From 2004 to 2007,
Professor Howard served as Columbia's first Vice Provost for Diversity
Initiatives. She is currently chair of the Department of English and
Comparative Literature.
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WEN JIN
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| Title: |
Assistant Professor of English and
Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Asian American and Asian diasporic
literature and culture; American literature since 1900; Sinophone
literature; critical race, transnational, and translation studies |
| Email: |
wj2130@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-5184 |
| Office: |
408d Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
On Leave Fall 2009
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B.A., Fudan
University, Shanghai (2000); PhD, Northwestern
(2006). Prof. Jin specializes in Asian American
literature, twentieth-century American literature, and theories of
race, ethnicity, and (trans)nationalism. She is also interested
in Sinophone literature and twentieth-century Chinese literature.
She is completing a book manuscript comparing fictions of
multiculturalism from the U.S. and China in the post-Cold War
era. She has published in Contemporary Literature and
has an essay forthcoming in the edited collection Minority Serial
Fictions. She has published articles in Chinese as well, and
is a Chinese co-translator of Hemingway’s True at First Light
(2000 Yiwen).
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ELEANOR JOHNSON
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| Title: |
Assistant Professor of English and
Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
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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| Email: |
ebj2117@columbia.edu
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| Phone: |
(212) 854-0142 |
| Office: |
408j Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu 11-12:30 &
5:30-7 |
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B.A, Yale University (2001);
M.A., University of California,
Berkeley (2006); Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (2009).
Professor
Johnson specializes in late medieval English prose and poetry, medieval
poetics
and philosophy, law and literature in the Middle Ages, early
autobiography, and
vernacular theology. She is working on a
book entitled Sensible Prose and the
Sense of Meter: Boethian Prosimetrics in Fourteenth-Century England,
concerning
the
literary-theoretical
underpinnings
of
the
efflorescence
of
prose
and
verse
in
late
fourteenth-century
England. She
is also working on a project on the Cloud of Unknowing and
another on the medieval law of
waste. A recent article on the Canterbury
Tales, focusing on fragment eight, has appeared in The
Chaucer Review, and two collections
of her poetry, The Dwell (Scrambler
Books) and Her Many Feathered Bones
(Achiote Press) are forthcoming in 2009.
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SHARON MARCUS
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| Title: |
Orlando Harriman Professor of
English and Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
19th-century British and French
literature; feminist theory and LGBT studies; urban and architectural
history |
| Email: |
sm2247@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6403 |
| Office: |
308 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu 2:30-4:30 and by appointment
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B.A. Brown
University (1986); Ph.D. Johns Hopkins (1995). Sharon Marcus
specializes in nineteenth-century British and French fiction, and has
taught courses on the novel, Victorian genres, narrative theory, Oscar
Wilde, theories of gender and sexuality, the city in nineteenth-century
literature, and the year 1857 in England and France. Her
first book, Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century
Paris and London (University of California Press, 1999), won
honorable mention for the MLA Scaglione Prize for best book in
comparative literature. Her second book, Between Women:
Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton:
2007), is appearing in French and Spanish translations, and won the
Perkins Prize for best study of narrative, the Albion prize for best
book on Britain after 1800, the Alan Bray Memorial award for best book
in queer studies, and a Lambda Literary award for best book in LGBT
studies. She has published articles on Trollope, Charlotte
Brontë, comparative sapphism, same-sex domesticity in Victorian
England, Victorian fashion plates, Rosemary's Baby,
sentimentality and cosmopolitanism in the writings of Anne Frank and
Hannah Arendt, and the theory and practice of rape prevention, as well
as overviews of the state of the three fields in which she works: queer
studies, feminist criticism, and Victorian studies. She has been the
recipient of Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, and ACLS fellowships, and, at
Columbia, of a Gerry Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award. She is
currently writing a book about Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, and
theatrical celebrity in the nineteenth century.
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EDWARD MENDELSON
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| Title: |
Professor of English and Comparative
Literature and Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities |
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| Specialization: |
19th-century British literature;
20th-century British and American literature; narrative; poetry |
| Email: |
em36@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6417 |
| Office: |
614 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu 4-6 & Th 11-12
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| B.A., University of
Rochester (1966); Ph.D., Johns Hopkins (1969). At Columbia since 1981,
Professor Mendelson has also taught at Yale and Harvard. A recipient of
American Council of Learned Societies, NEH, and Guggenheim fellowships,
he is chiefly interested in 19th-and 20th-century literature, formal
and social aspects of poetry and narrative, and biographical criticism.
He is Auden's literary executor; his book Later Auden (1999) is
a sequel to his Early Auden (1981). His book The Things
That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of
Life was published by Pantheon in 2006. He has edited a volume of
essays on Thomas Pynchon and, with Michael Seidel, Homer to Brecht:
The European Epic and Dramatic Traditions. He has prepared editions
of novels by Hardy, Bennett, Meredith, Wells, and Trollope, the first
four volumes of a complete edition of Auden, and selections of Auden's
poems and prose. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New
York Review of Books, London Review of Books, TLS,
the New York Times Book Review, and many other journals and
collections, and he wrote an introduction for a new edition of Gravity's
Rainbow. He has also written about computers, music, and the
visual arts. He was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature. |
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MOLLY MURRAY
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| Title: |
Associate Professor of English and
Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Interests: 16th- and 17th-century English
literature and culture; the history of poetics; political theory; the
reception of St. Augustine in early modern England; the English
Reformation and Counter-Reformation; metaphysical wit; autobiography.
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| Email: |
mpm7@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-4016 |
| Office: |
408c Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
On Leave Fall 2009 & Spring 2010
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B.A. Columbia, 1994; M.Phil. (Intellectual History
and Political Thought) Cambridge, 1996; Ph.D. (English) Yale,
2004. Molly Murray teaches and writes about the non-dramatic
literature of early modern England. Her main scholarly interests
lie at the intersection of religion, politics, and poetic form;
additional interests include autobiography, intellectual history, and
the history of criticism. Her articles have appeared or are
forthcoming in English Literary History, Studies in English
Literature, Huntington Library Quarterly, and Catholic
Culture
in
Early
Modern
England
(Notre Dame, 2007). She is
also a contributor to the Blackwell Companion to English
Renaissance Literature and Culture, and the Oxford Guide to
the Historical Reception of St. Augustine. Her book The
Poetics of Conversion: Verse and Change from Donne to Dryden, is
forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. She is currently at
work on a study of literature and imprisonment from Chaucer to
Milton.
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FRANCES
NEGRÓN-MUNTANER
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| Title: |
Associate Professor of English and
Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
19th- and 20th-century Caribbean and
U.S Latino literatures and cultures; film studies; popular culture; the
essay |
| Email: |
fn2103@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-2058 |
| Office: |
425 Hamilton Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu 2-4 & Th 2-4 |
M.A. in Visual
Anthropology and Fine Arts, Temple; Ph.D. in Comparative Literature,
Rutgers. Frances Negrón-Muntaner is an award-winning filmmaker,
writer, and scholar. She is the recipient of Ford, Truman, Scripps
Howard, Rockefeller, and Pew fellowships as well as a Social Science
Research Council grant. She is the editor of several books, including Puerto
Rican
Jam:
Rethinking
Nationalism
and
Colonialism; None of
the Above: Puerto Ricans in the Global Era, and Sovereign
Acts. She is the author of Anatomy of a Smile and Other Poems
and Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American
Culture (winner, 2004 CHOICE Award). Among
Negrón-Muntaner's films are AIDS in the Barrio, and Brincando
el
charco:
Portrait
of
a
Puerto
Rican. She is currently completing
two documentaries on the relationship between the military and
civilians in Guam and Vieques, and writing a social history of the
reggaeton genre. Negrón-Muntaner is also the founder of Miami
Light Project's Filmmakers Workshop, and a founding board member and
current chair of NALIP, the National Association of Latino Independent
Producers. In 2005, she was named as 1 of "100 Most Influential
Hispanics" by Hispanic Business magazine, and in 2008, the United
Nations' Rapid Response Media Mechanism recognized her as a “global
expert."
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ROBERT O'MEALLY
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| Title: |
Zora Neale Hurston Professor of
English |
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| Specialization: |
19th- and 20th-century American
literature as well as African American literature and jazz
culture—including music, literature, painting, film, photography,
theater, and dance |
| Email: |
rgo1@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6428 |
| Office: |
611 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
W 2-4 |
| B.A., Stanford
(1970); Ph.D., Harvard (1975). Professor O'Meally is Zora Neale Hurston
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and founder and former
director of the Center for Jazz Studies. His major interests are
American literature, music, and painting. He has written extensively on
Ralph Ellison, including The Craft of Ralph Ellison (Harvard,
1980), and a collection of papers for which he served as editor, New
Essays
on
Invisible
Man (Cambridge, 1989). Professor O'Meally has
written a biography of Billie Holiday entitled Lady Day: The Many
Faces of Billie Holiday (Little, Brown, 1989) and a documentary on
Holiday (which has been shown on public TV). He also is the author of The
Jazz
Singers (Smithsonian, 1997) and principal writer of the
monograph, Seeing Jazz (Smithsonian, 1997). He edited Tales
of the Congaree (University of North Carolina, 1990), and The
Jazz Cadence of American Culture (Columbia, 1998); and co-edited History
and
Memory
in
African
American
Culture (Oxford, 1994), the Norton
Anthology of African American Literature, and Uptown
Conversation: The New Jazz Studies (Columbia, 2003). His production
of the recording The Jazz Singers was nominated for a Grammy
Award. His Holiday book and his liner notes for Louis Armstrong and
Duke Ellington collections won Ralph Gleason Awards. O'Meally's new
book is Romare Bearden: Black Odyssey--A Search for Home,
catalogue for a show opening this fall at D.C. Moore Gallery on Fifth
Avenue. His new project is a full study of Bearden's uses of literary
subjects. |
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ROSS POSNOCK
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| Title: |
Professor of English and
Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Literature and intellectual history
of 19th- and 20th-century United States; pragmatism, Henry James, W.E.B
Du Bois |
| Email: |
rp2045@columbia.edu |
| Office: |
610 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
M 2:30-4 & W 4-6 or by
appointment
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| B.A. Kenyon, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins. Professor Posnock was Andrew Hilen Professor of American
Literature at the University of Washington before teaching in the
English department at New York University from 2000 to 2004. His books
include Henry James and the Problem of Robert Browning (1985,
University of Georgia Press); The Trial of Curiosity: Henry James,
William James and the Challenge of Modernity (1991, Oxford UP);
and Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern
Intellectual (Harvard UP, 1998). He has edited The Cambridge
Companion to Ralph Ellison (2005) and his book Philip Roth's
Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity will be published by Princeton UP
in 2006. He is series editor of Cambridge Studies in American
Literature and Culture and is a contributing editor of Raritan
and American Literary History. In 1994 he was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship. |
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MARTIN PUCHNER
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| Title: |
H. Gordon Garbedian Professor in
English and Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
19th- and 20th-century drama and
performance; modernism; continental and language philosophy |
| Email: |
hmp10@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-3872 |
| Office: |
406 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
On Leave Fall 2009 & Spring 2010
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B.A.,
Konstanz University/University of Bologna (1993); M.A., University of
California, Santa Barbara (1994); Ph.D., Harvard (1998). Professor
Puchner is author of Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality,
and Drama (Hopkins, 2002; expanded German edition, Rombach, 2006)
and Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes
(Princeton, 2006). His edited books and introductions include Six
Plays of Henrik Ibsen (Barnes and Noble, 2003), Lionel Abel's Tragedy
and
Metatheater (Holmes and Meier, 2003), The Communist
Manifiesto and Other Writings (Barnes and Noble, 2005), and Modern
Drama:
Critical
Concepts (Routledge, forthcoming). He is co-editor
of Against Theatre: Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage (Palgrave,
2006)
and
of
the Norton Anthology of Drama (Norton,
forthcoming). His essays have appeared in such venues as The London
Review of Books, The Journal of the History of Ideas, The
Yale
Journal
of
Criticism, New Literary History, The
Drama Review, Theatre Research International, Modern
Drama, and Theatre Journal. He will serve as editor of Theatre
Survey from 2007-2009. Martin Puchner's website.
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AUSTIN E. QUIGLEY
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| Title: |
H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of
English and Comparative Literature. Dean of Columbia College 1995- . |
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| Specialization: |
19th- and 20th-century drama;
theatre history; literary theory; performance theory; linguistic
theory; modernism and postmodernism |
| Email: |
aeq1@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-2441 |
| Office: |
208 Hamilton Hall |
| Office Hours: |
contact 4-2441 |
| B.A., University of
Nottingham (1967); M.A. (Linguistics), University of Birmingham (1969);
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz (1971). In 1990, Professor
Quigley came to Columbia from the University of Virginia where he was
department chair; he has also taught at the universities of Nottingham,
Geneva, Konstanz, and Massachusetts. His interests are drama, modern
literature, literary theory, and linguistics. Author of The Pinter
Problem and The Modern Stage and Other Worlds, he has
published many articles on modern drama and literary theory, and is at
work on two books, Language, Linguistics, and Literature and Postmodernism
and
the
Drama. He has received Danforth and NEH Fellowships and an
Associateship at the University of Virginia. Former chair of MLA's
Drama Division Executive Committee, Prof. Quigley chairs Columbia's
Doctoral Subcommittee on Theatre and Film and the Interdepartmental
Committee on Drama and Theatre Arts. He is a member of the editorial
boards of New Literary History, Modern Drama, and The
Pinter
Review. |
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BRUCE ROBBINS
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| Title: |
Old Dominion Foundation Professor in
the Humanities |
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| Specialization: |
19th- and 20th-century fiction;
transnational literature; literary and cultural theory |
| Email: |
bwr2001@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6463 |
| Office: |
605 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu 2-4
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| B.A., Harvard
(1971); M.A., Harvard (1976); Ph.D., Harvard (1980). Bruce Robbins
works mainly in the areas of nineteenth and twentieth century fiction,
literary and cultural theory, and postcolonial studies. He is the
author of Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress (NYU,
1999), The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below
(Columbia, 1986; Duke pb 1993) and Secular Vocations:
Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture (Verso, 1993). He has
edited Intellectuals: Aesthetics, Politics, Academics
(Minnesota, 1990) and The Phantom Public Sphere (Minnesota,
1993) and co-edited Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the
Nation (Minnesota, 1998). He was co-editor of the journal Social
Text from 1991 to 2000. He has a book coming out from Princeton
University Press on upward mobility stories and is working on another
about cosmopolitan fiction. Bruce Robbins's website.
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MICHAEL ROSENTHAL
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| Title: |
Professor of English |
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| Specialization: |
Late Victorian and Edwardian popular
culture; Bloomsbury; the modern British novel |
| Email: |
mr60@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6404 |
| Office: |
613b Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu & Th 4-5:30
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| B.A., Harvard
(1958); M.A., University of Wisconsin (1959); Ph.D., Columbia (1967).
Professor Rosenthal is interested in British literature and culture of
the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is the author of Virginia
Woolf and The Character Factory: Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts and
the Imperatives of Empire. |
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JAMES S. SHAPIRO
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| Title: |
Larry Miller Professor of English
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| Specialization: |
Shakespeare; medieval and early
modern drama; Jewish studies; British poetry; the book review |
| Email: |
js73@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6227 |
| Office: |
606b Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
M & W 10:30-12 and by appointment
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| B.A., Columbia
(1977); Ph.D., University of Chicago (1982). Professor Shapiro is
author of Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare
(1991); Shakespeare and the Jews (1995), which was awarded the
Bainton Prize for best book on sixteenth-century literature; Oberammergau:
The
Troubling
Story
of
the
World's
Most
Famous
Passion
Play (2000);
and 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (2005),
winner of the Theatre Book Prize as well as the BBC Samuel Johnson
Prize, awarded to the best nonfiction book published in the UK. He has
co-edited the Columbia Anthology of British Poetry and served
as the associate editor of the Columbia History of British Poetry.
He
has
taught
as
a
Fulbright
lecturer
at
Bar
Ilan
and
Tel
Aviv
Universities
and
has
received
fellowships
from
the
Guggenheim
Foundation,
the
NEH,
the
Cullman
Center
for
Scholars
and
Writers
at
the
New
York
Public
Library,
and
the
Huntington
Library.
He
is
currently
at
work
on
two
books:
Contested Will: The Shakespeare Authorship
Controversy and The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606. |
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JOSEPH SLAUGHTER
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| Title: |
Associate Professor of English and
Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Postcolonial literatures of Africa
and Latin America; human rights and narrative theory; 20th-century
ethnic and third world literatures |
| Email: |
jrs272@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6433 |
| Office: |
511c Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
One Leave Fall 2009 & Spring 2010
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| Joseph Slaughter
teaches and publishes in the fields of postcolonial literature and
theory, African, Caribbean, and Latin American literatures,
postcolonialism, narrative theory, human rights, and 20th-century
ethnic and third world literatures. His many publications include
articles on the narrative foundations of human rights in Human
Rights
Quarterly, "Humanitarian Reading" in Humanitarianism
and
Suffering, torture and Latin American literature in Tulsa
Studies
in
Women's
Literature, ethnopsychiatry, Nigerian
literature, and globalization in African
Writers
and
Their
Readers, colonial narratives of invoice in Emerging
Perspectives
on
Chinua
Achebe, city space and the national
allegory in Research
in
African
Literatures, human rights, multiculturalism, and the
contemporary Bildungsroman in Politics
and
Culture, a short story translation of Argentine Elvira
Orphée's "Descomedido" in The
Southwest
Review, as well as a co-authored article on
contemporary epistolary fiction and women's rights in Women,
Gender,
and
Human
Rights. His essay, "Enabling
Fictions
and
Novel
Subjects:
The
Bildungsroman and
International Human Rights Law," appeared in a special issue on
human rights of PMLA (October 2006) and was honored as one of
the two best articles published in the journal in 2006-7; another, "The Textuality of Human Rights:
Founding Narratives of Human Personality," was named a winner in
the Interdisciplinary Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop held
at UCLA in 2004. He has co-edited a special issue on "Human Rights and
Literary Form" of Comparative
Literature
Studies. His book, Human
Rights,
Inc.:
The
World
Novel,
Narrative
Form,
and
International
Law
(Fordham UP, 2007), which explores the narrative logics and
co-operative social work of international human rights law and the Bildungsroman,
was
awarded
the
2008
René
Wellek
prize for comparative literature and cultural theory. He
is currently working on a second manuscript, "New Word Orders:
Plagiarism, Postcolonialism, and the Globalization of the Novel," that
considers the role of plagiarism (and other piratical textual
practices) in the circulation and development of the novel form. |
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MAURA SPIEGEL
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| Title: |
Associate Professor, Columbia
University and Barnard College |
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| Specialization: |
19th-century British and European
novel; 20th-century American and British fiction; American Studies;
film, film theory; gender theory; European modernism |
| Email: |
mls37@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6418 |
| Office: |
402 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Th 5:30-7 & F 1-2 or by
appointment
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B.A. Bennington
College; Ph.D., Columbia University. Professor Spiegel has taught at
Bennington College, City College, City University of New York, and the
92nd Street Y. Part of the Core Faculty of the Program in
Narrative Medicine, she teaches film to second-year medical students at
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and provides writing
workshops for the staff of the NYU/Bellevue Program for Survivors of
Torture. She is the co-author of The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying
and Living On (Anchor/ Doubleday), The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious
History (Workman), which was a Book-of-the-Month Club-Quality
Paperbacks selection; she has recently edited editions of Upton
Sinclair’s The Jungle and
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the
Apes for the Barnes & Noble Classics Series. She
co-edited the journal Literature and
Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press) for seven years, has
written for The New York Times,
and
has
published
essays
on
the
history
of
the
emotions,
Charles
Dickens,
on
diamonds
in
the
movies,
fashion
in
film,
among
many
other
topics. She is currently writing a book about the films of Sidney
Lumet.
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GAYATRI
CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK
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| Title: |
University Professor
Director, Center for Comparative Literature and Society |
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| Specialization: |
19th- and 20th-century literature;
Marxism; feminism; deconstruction; poststructuralism; globalization |
| Email: |
gcs4@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 851-0231 |
| Office: |
303 Earl Hall |
| Office Hours: |
By appointment (call 851-0231) |
| Gayatri Chakravorty
Spivak is University Professor and the Director of the Institute for
Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. B.A.
English (Honors), Presidency College, Calcutta, 1959. Ph.D.
Comparative Literature, Cornell University, 1967. D. Litt,
University of Toronto, 1999; D. Litt, Univeristy of London, 2003.
Fields: feminism, marxism, deconstruction, globalization. Books: Myself
Must
I
Remake:
The
Life
and
Poetry
of
W.
B.
Yeats (1974), Of
Grammatology (translation with critical introduction of Jacques
Derrida, De la grammatologie, 1976), In Other Worlds:
Essays in Cultural Politics (1987), Selected Subaltern Studies
(ed., 1988), The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies,
Dialogues (1990), Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered
Post-Coloniality (1993), Outside in the Teaching Machine
(1993), Imaginary Maps (translation with critical introduction
of three stories by Mahasweta Devi, 1994), The Spivak Reader
(1995), Breast Stories (translation with critical introduction
of three stories by Mahasweta Devi, 1997), Old Women
(translation with critical introduction of two stories by Mahasweta
Devi, 1999), Imperatives to Re-Imagine the Planet / Imperative zur
Neuerfindung des Planeten (ed. Willi Goetschel, 1999), A
Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing
Present (1999), Song for Kali: A Cycle (translation with
introduction of Ramproshad Sen, 2000), Chotti Munda and His
Arrow (translation with critical introduction of a novel by
Mahasweta Devi, 2002), Death of a Discipline (2003), Other
Asias (2005), Red Thread (forthcoming). Significant
articles: "Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography" (1985),
"Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" (1985), "Can the
Subaltern Speak?" (1988), "The Politics of Translation" (1992), "Moving
Devi" (1999), "Righting Wrongs" (2003), "Ethics and Politics in Tagore,
Coetzee, and Certain Scenes of Teaching" (2004), "Translating into
English" (2005). |
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ALAN STEWART
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| Title: |
Professor of English and Comparative
Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Early modern English literature,
history, and culture; manuscript studies; lesbian and gay studies |
| Email: |
ags2105@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6420 |
| Office: |
617 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
M 1-2 & Tu 2-4 or by appointment
|
Cambridge, B.A.
(1988), M.A. (1992); London, Ph.D. (1993). Alan Stewart joined
Columbia in 2003, after teaching for ten years at Queen Mary, and
Birkbeck, both University of London. His publications include Close
Readers:
Humanism
and
Sodomy
in
Early
Modern
England (1997); Hostage
to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon 1561-1626 (with
Lisa Jardine, 1998); Philip Sidney: A Double Life (2000); The
Cradle
King:
A
Life
of
James
VI
and
I (2003); and Letterwriting
in Renaissance England (with Heather Wolfe, 2004). His
latest monograph, Shakespeare’s Letters, is published in
January 2009 by Oxford University Press. He has edited Henry
VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 for the Barnes and Noble
Shakespeare, and is currently preparing volumes 1 and 2 of the Oxford
Francis Bacon. Since 2002, he has been the International Director of
the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (www.livesandletters.ac.uk),
for
which
he
is
producing
an
online
edition
of
Bacon’s
correspondence.
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MARK STRAND
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| Title: |
Professor of English and
Comparative Literature |
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| Email: |
ms3091@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-7468 |
| Office: |
305 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
On Leave Fall 2009 & Spring 2010
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|
Mark Strand is the author of
twelve books of poems, including Blizzard of One (Alfred A.
Knopf, 1998), which won the Pulitzer Prize; Man and Camel
(2006); New Selected Poems (2007); Dark Harbor
(1993); The Continuous Life (1990); Selected Poems
(1980); The Story of Our Lives (1973); and Reasons for
Moving (1968). He has also published two books of prose, several
volumes of translation (of works by Rafael Alberti and Carlos Drummond
de Andrade, among others), several monographs on contemporary artists,
and three books for children. He has edited a number of volumes,
including The Golden Ecco Anthology (1994), The Best
American Poetry 1991, and Another Republic: 17 European and
South American Writers (with Charles Simic , 1976). His honors
include the Wallace Stevens Award, the Bollingen Prize, the Bobbit
Prize, three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Edgar
Allen Poe Prize, and a Rockefeller Foundation award, as well as
fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the MacArthur
Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation; in 2006-07, he was the
recipient of 3 international poetry prizes (Premio Cetonaverde, Premio
D'Annunzio, and the Premio Bonanni). He has served as Poet Laureate of
the United States in 1990-1991. He was formerly the Andrew MacLeish
Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought at the University of
Chicago.
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PAUL STROHM
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| Title: |
Anna Garbedian Professor in the
Humanities |
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| Specialization: |
Medieval literature; textuality and
history; genre and social change |
| Email: |
ps2143@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6430 |
| Office: |
604 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
On Leave Fall 2009 & Spring 2010 |
|
Most recently J.R.R. Tolkien
Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of
Oxford, Paul Strohm joined the Columbia faculty in fall 2003. His area
of principal interest is medieval literature with a recent emphasis on
transitions from 'medieval' to 'early modern.' His teaching and
research have concerned the 'affiliated text,' with special attention
to textuality and history and to genre and social change. Publications
include: Social Chaucer (Harvard, 1989, 1994); Hochon's
Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts
(Princeton, 1992); England's Empty Throne: Usurpation and Textual
Legitimation, 1399-1422 (Yale UK, 1998); Theory and the
Premodern Text (Minnesota, 2000); Politique: Languages of
Statecraft Between Chaucer and Shakespeare (Notre Dame, 2005). He
has previously been departmental Chair and President of the Faculty
Council at Indiana University, has held various national offices and
posts with the AAUP (was recently appointed to a three year term on the
National AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure), and in 2001-3
was Chair of the English Faculty at the University of Oxford.
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EZRA TAWIL
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| Title: |
Associate Professor of English and
Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
American literature before 1900;
cultural and literary theory; the history and theory of race |
| Email: |
eft2001@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6439 |
| Office: |
408i Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
W 4-6 and by appointment
|
B.A. Wesleyan
University (1989); Ph.D. Brown University (2000). Professor Tawil
specializes in American literature before 1900, with a particular
interest in the period from 1750-1850. His major interests
include the intersection of literature, science, and politics, American
sentimentalism, and the history and theory of race. He is the
author of The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the
Birth of the Frontier Romance (Cambridge 2006). On
leave from Columbia for the 2008-09 academic year, he is a fellow at
the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public
library. He is currently at work on a new book on the
eighteenth-century origins of American literary exceptionalism and the
notion of an "American style" within anglophone writing.
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GAURI VISWANATHAN
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| Title: |
Class of 1933 Professor in the
Humanities |
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| Specialization: |
Intellectual history; education,
religion, and culture; 19th-century British and colonial cultural
studies; history of disciplines |
| Email: |
gv6@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-5440 |
| Office: |
508c Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
W 2-4 |
|
Gauri Viswanathan is Class of 1933 Professor in
the Humanities at Columbia University. She has published widely
on education, religion, and culture; nineteenth-century British and
colonial cultural studies; and the history of modern disciplines.
Her most recent article is “Secularism in the Framework of Heterodoxy”
published in PMLA (2008). She is the author of Masks of
Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (Columbia,
1989; Oxford, 1998) and Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity,
and Belief (Princeton, 1998), which won the Harry Levin Prize
awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association, the James
Russell Lowell Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association of
America, and the Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Prize awarded by the
Association for Asian Studies. She is also the editor of Power,
Politics, and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. Said (Vintage,
2001), as well as a special issue of ARIEL: A Review of English
Literature (2000) on “Institutionalizing English Studies: The
Postcolonial/Postindependence Challenge.” Prof. Viswanathan’s current
work is on modern occultism and the writing of alternative religious
histories. She has held numerous visiting chairs, among them the
Beckman Professorship at Berkeley, and was most recently an affiliated
fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She has received Guggenheim,
NEH, and Mellon fellowships, and was a fellow at various international
research institutes..
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DAVID YERKES
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| Title: |
Professor of English and Comparative
Literature |
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| Specialization: |
American language; English language,
including Anglo-Saxon and Middle English; bibliography; textual
criticism |
| Email: |
dmy1@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-5280 |
| Office: |
615 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu & Th 2:30-4 |
| B.A., Yale (1971);
B.A. Oxford (1973); D.Phil., Oxford (1976). At Columbia since 1977,
Professor Yerkes is a specialist in the history of the English
language. A founding member of the Society for Textual Scholarship and
a life member of the American Dialect Society, he has written three
books and more than fifty articles, published in eight countries, on
the English language. One ongoing focus is the history and scope of the
Oxford English Dictionary. |
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EMERITUS
FACULTY:
JOAN
M.
FERRANTE
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| Title: |
Professor of English and Comparative
Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Comparative medieval literature,
including Dante, provençal poetry, allegory, romance, women;
also human rights, specifically women, religion and human rights |
| Email: |
jmf2@columbia.edu |
B.A., Barnard (1958); M.A., Columbia (1959); Ph.D.,
Columbia (1963). At Columbia since 1963, Professor Ferrante has also
taught at Swarthmore, Fordham, Tulane. She has received fellowships
from the American Council of Learned Societies and NEH and is a Fellow
of the Medieval Academy of America. She has served on the boards of Speculum,
Lectura Dantis Americana, and Dante Studies;
has served on Executive Councils of the Medieval Academy and MLA, and
as President of the Dante Society and the national Phi Beta Kappa
Society, and as President of the Medieval Academy. Her field is
medieval comparative literature, specializing in Dante, Provencal
lyric, medieval allegory and romance, and women in the Middle Ages. She
has published many articles and several books, including To the
Glory of Her Sex: Women's Roles in the Composition of Medieval Texts
(1997), The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy (1984), The
Lais
of
Marie
de
France, a translation and commentary written with
Robert Hanning (1978), Woman as Image in Medieval Literature
(1975), Guillaume d'Orange, Four Twelfth Century Epics
(1974), The Conflict of Love and Honor: The Medieval Tristan Legend
(1973). She is currently working on a database on medieval women's
letters, called Epistolae, which is available online through
the Columbia Interactive.
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ROBERT
HANNING
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|
|
| Title: |
Professor of English and Comparative
Literature |
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| Specialization: |
English and French medieval
literature and culture; Chaucer; Cinquecento Italian courtly
literature; issues of race, ethnicity, and identity construction in the
U.S. |
| Email: |
rwh2@columbia.edu |
| B.A., Columbia (1958); B.A., Oxford
(1960); M.A., Oxford (1964); Ph.D., Columbia (1964). Professor Hanning
began teaching at Columbia in 1963; he has also taught at Bread Loaf
(Middlebury College), Yale, Johns Hopkins, NYU, and Princeton. He was
director and professor at the Bread Loaf School at Lincoln College,
Oxford in 1980, 1984, 1986, and directed NEH Summer Seminars for
College Teachers in 1982, 1985, and 1989. He has received ACLS,
Guggenheim, and NEH Fellowships and has been elected a Fellow of the
Medieval Academy of America (1986) and a Trustee of the New Chaucer
Society (1998-2002). He was the Biennial Chaucer Lecturer at the 1998
NCS Congress, at the Sorbonne in Paris. His areas of expertise include
medieval English literature, Chaucer, and the cultural function of
medieval narrative forms. At the undergraduate level, he teaches
courses on the constructions of "race" and ethnicity and the fortunes
of immigrant groups in America, and has for nearly three decades
co-taught (with David Rosand of Art History) a seminar, "Art and
Literature of the Renaissance." He has published books on medieval
historiography and romance, coedited an anthology and two essay
collections, and, with Joan Ferrante, co-translated (with commentary)
the Lais of Marie de France. 2005-2006 is Prof. Hanning's
last year of teaching; he retires 30 June 2006 after 45 years of
offering instruction at Columbia. In October, he will give the Schoff
Lectures sponsored by the Columbia University Seminars, on "Serious
Play: Crises of Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer,
and Ariosto." |
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KARL
KROEBER
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|
| Title: |
Mellon Professor in the Humanities |
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| Specialization: |
Romantic literature; Native American
literature; film and literature; ecological science and literature |
| Email: |
kk17@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-5210 |
| Office: |
401b Philosophy Hall |
| B.A., University of
California at Berkeley (1947); M.A., Columbia (1951); Ph.D., Columbia
(1956). At Columbia since 1970, Professor Kroeber has also taught at
the University of Wisconsin, University of Washington, Drew University,
and Union College. He has received Fulbright and Guggenheim
fellowships, and grants from the U.S. Office of Education and the NEH.
His major field is 19th-century British literature, especially the
Romantic poets. He also has special interests in narrative theory, in
film and fiction, in the connections between painting and literature,
in American Indian literature, and in biopoetics and environmentalism.
He has published many articles and 14 books, including Images of
Romanticism, Romantic Landscape Vision: Constable and Wordsworth,
Romantic Narrative Art, Styles in
Fictional Structure, Traditional American Indian Literature,
British Romantic Art, Romantic Fantasy and
Science Fiction; his book on narrative theory, Retelling/Rereading,
was
published
in
1992,
and
Ecological Literary Criticism was
published in 1994. Prof. Kroeber is Editor Emeritus of Studies in
American Indian Literatures, and is on the editorial board of eight
journals. He is editor of American Indian Persistence and Resistance,
and
two
collections
of
critical
essays,
Romantic Criticism: the
Next Wave and Romantic Poetry: New Critical Perspectives;
his latest books are Artistry in Native American Myths and Native
American
Storytelling; Make-Believe in Film and Fiction
will be published in spring 2006. |
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STEVEN
MARCUS
| Title: |
George Delacorte Professor in the
Humanities |
|
| Specialization: |
19th- and 20th-century literature;
literature and society; psychoanalysis; Marxism, history and theory;
cultural criticism |
| Email: |
sm50@columbia.edu |
| A.B., Columbia (1948); A.M. (1949);
Ph.D., Columbia (1961); D.H.L. Clark (1986). Professor Marcus has been
teaching at Columbia since 1956. A Fellow of both the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Literary Studies, he has
received Fulbright, American Council of Learned Societies, Guggenheim,
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Rockefeller, and
Mellon grants. He has served as director of planning and chairman of
the executive committee of the Board of Trustees for the National
Humanities Center. In 1979 he was appointed an honorary member of the
American Psychoanalytic Association, and in 1991 of the Institute for
Psychoanalytic Training and Research. In 1992 he was elected as a
Scientific Associate of the American Academy of Psychoanalysts. A
specialist in 19th-century literature and culture, Prof. Marcus is the
author of over 200 publications, including the books Dickens From
Pickwick to Dombey, The Other Victorians, Engels, Manchester
and
the
Working
Class, Doing Good, and Representations:
Essays on Literature and Society. He was co-editor, with Lionel
Trilling, of Ernest Jones's The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud,
serves as associate editor of Partisan Review, and is on the
editorial boards of such publications as Prose Studies,
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, Psychoanalytic Books,
and
Psyche. Among other works, Freud and the
Culture of
Psychoanalysis was published in 1984, and Medicine and Western
Civilization in 1995. |
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MARTIN
MEISEL
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| Title: |
Brander Matthews Professor of
English and Dramatic Literature |
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| Specialization: |
European and American drama, 1500 to
present; 19th-century fictions; literature and painting; Anglo-Irish
and Scottish literature; 19th-century popular theater |
| Email: |
mm28@columbia.edu |
| A.B., Queens College (1952); M.A.,
Princeton (1957); Ph.D., Princeton (1960). Professor Meisel served as
Department Chair for 1999-2000 and from 1980-83 and as GSAS Vice
President 1986-87 and 1989-93; he came to Columbia in 1968 after having
taught at Rutgers, Dartmouth, and the University of Wisconsin. He has
held grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim, American Council of
Learned Societies, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at
Edinburgh, Huntington Library, National Humanities Center, and Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is a member of the
Doctoral Program Subcommittee on Theater. His publications include Shaw
and
the
19th-CenturyTheatre and Realizations: Narrative,
Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts of the 19th Century. He is currently
at work on a book concerning the imagination and representation of
chaos from Hesiod to Beckett. |
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JOHN D. ROSENBERG
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| Title: |
William Peterfield Trent Professor
of English |
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| Specialization: |
Victorian poetry and non-fiction
prose; 19th-century autobiography |
| Email: |
jdr6@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6407 |
| Office: |
603 Philosophy Hall |
| B.A., Columbia
(1950); M.A., Columbia (1951); B.A., Clare College, Cambridge (1953);
M.A., Cambridge (1958); Ph.D., Columbia (1960). Professor Rosenberg
joined Columbia's graduate faculty in 1962. He has also taught at
Harvard, Princeton, and the University of British Columbia. He has
received many awards and fellowships, including a Kellett Award, the
Award for Distinguished Service to the Columbia College Core
Curriculum, and American Council of Learned Societies, Guggenheim and
NEH fellowships. Prof. Rosenberg has edited works by Ruskin, Mayhew,
Swinburne, and Tennyson; and has written The Darkening Glass,
on Ruskin (1961); The Fall of Camelot, on Tennyson (1973); and Carlyle
and
the
Burden
of
History (1985). He has served as DGS and chair of
the Humanities Program, and he has served on the advisory boards of Nineteenth-Century
Literature, the Victorians Institute Journal, and the Carlyle
Studies
Annual. His most recent book, sceduled for publication in
2005, is Elegy for an Age: The Presence of the Past in Victorian
Literature. |
MICHAEL SEIDEL
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| Title: |
Jesse and George Siegel Professor in
Literature Humanities |
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| Specialization: |
History of the novel; narrative
theory; satire; James Joyce; 18th-century literature |
| Email: |
mas8@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6405 |
| Office: |
609 Philosophy Hall |
| B.A., UCLA (1966);
M.A., UCLA (1967); Ph.D., UCLA (1970). Professor Seidel came to
Columbia in 1977, after having taught at Yale for seven years. He
serves as Chair of Literature Humanites. He has served as Department
Chair, as Vice Chair, and as M.A. Director. He is an advisory editor of
James Joyce Studies and a member of the
National Humanities Board of the World Book Encyclopedia. He
has received a NEH and served as director of NEH summer seminars for
college teachers (1987, 1992). He specializes in 18th-century
literature, in narrative theory, in satire, and in James Joyce. His
first book was Epic Geography: James Joyce's Ulysses (1976). He
has edited Homer to Brecht: The European Epic and Dramatic
Traditions, with Edward Mendelson. He has published a book on
narrative satire, Satiric Inheritance: Rabelais to Sterne
(1979); on the novel, Exile and the Narrative Imagination
(1986); on Robinson Crusoe: Island Myths and the Novel (1991);
two baseball books, Streak: Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of '41
and Ted Williams: A Baseball Life; and James Joyce: A Short
Introduction (2002). He is associate editor of Columbia History
of the British Novel, associate editor of Columbia World of
Quotations, and associate editor of The Works of Daniel Defoe.
He
is
currently
Chair
of
Literature
Humanities.
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EDWARD W. TAYLER
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| Title: |
The Lionel Trilling Professor
Emeritus in the Humanities |
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| Specialization: |
16th- and 17th-century poetry and
prose; Milton; Shakespeare |
| Email: |
ewt1@columbia.edu |
BA Amherst (1954),
PhD Stanford (1960). Professor Tayler has taught at Stanford,
Princeton, The Bread Loaf School of English, and Columbia (since 1960).
He has led on rare occasions an active if not interesting professional
life, giving talks in a variety of venues, here and abroad, finding
himself a member of scholarly societies, serving on editorial boards,
and the like. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship (1969) and two
NEH-Huntington Grants (1975, 1983); "Great Teacher," Society of Older
Graduates (1985), Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching and Leadership
(1986), "Honored Scholar," Milton Society (1989), Presidential Award
for Outstanding Teaching (1996), Distinguished Service to the Core
Curriculum (1998). He has taught the poetry and prose of the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries, with special attention to Shakespeare and
Milton, for a long time. In addition to writing a few reviews and fewer
articles Tayler has published these books: Nature and Art in
Renaissance Literature (1964); Literary Criticism of
Seventeenth-Century England (1967); Milton's Poetry (1979);
and Donne's Idea of a Woman (1991). He still thinks to write,
and especially to teach and learn.
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ASSOCIATED
FACULTY:
GERALD CLOUD
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| Title: |
Librarian for Reference and Research
and Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
History of the Book and print
culture, especially 19th and 20th century |
| Email: |
gc2339@columbia.edu |
| Office: |
Rare Book & Manuscript Library,
Butler Library 6th floor East |
| Office Hours: |
By appointment |
| B.A., San Francisco
State (1995); Ph.D., University of Delaware (2005). Gerald Cloud is
Librarian for Reference and Research in Columbia University’s Rare Book
& Manuscript Library and the coordinator of the Book History
Colloquium at Columbia. His research focuses on the History of the Book
and print culture, particularly of the 19th and 20th Century. He is the
author of John Rodker & the Ovid Press, a bibliographical
study (forthcoming from Oak Knoll Press) and a Lab Instructor for the
"Introduction to the Principles of Descriptive Bibliography" course at
Rare Book School, University of Virginia. |
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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: |
Jerome Greene Hall 521 (main
building of the Law School) |
| Office Hours: |
M 3-5 by appointment only: contact
Gabriel Soto (gsoto@law.columbia.edu
or 854-0522 or cubicle 7W2 in JG) to schedule an appt |
| 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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EILEEN GILLOOLY
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| Title: |
Associate Director of the Heyman
Center for the Humanities and the Society of Fellows and Adjunct
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the
Institute for Research on Women and Gender |
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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: |
TBA |
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 a contributing editor of Victorian Prism: Refractions
of the Crystal Palace (University of Virginia Press, 2007), with
James Buzard and Joseph Childers, and Contemporary Dickens
(Ohio State University Press, 2009), with Deirdre David. 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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STATHIS
GOURGOURIS
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| Title: |
Professor of Comparative Literature
(also in ICLS and the Department of Classics) |
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| Specialization: |
Comparative literature (French,
German, Ancient Greek, Modern Greek); literary theory; modernity and
modernism; poetics; secular criticism; contemporary music |
| Email: |
ssg93@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-3902 |
| Office: |
608 Hamilton Hall |
| Office Hours: |
M 1-3 and by appointment |
| Ph.D. in
Comparative Literature, UCLA 1990. Professor Gourgouris writes and
teaches on a variety of subjects, ultimately entwined around questions
of the poetics and politics of modernity. He is the author of Dream
Nation:
Enlightenment,
Colonization,
and
the
Institution
of
Modern
Greece (Stanford, 1996) and Does Literature Think? Literature
as Theory for an Antimythical Era (Stanford, 2003), and editor of
the forthcoming Freud and Fundamentalism (Fordham, 2009).
Outside these projects he has also published numerous articles on
Ancient Greek philosophy, modern poetics, film, contemporary music,
Enlightenment law, psychoanalysis. He is currently completing work on
two projects of secular criticism: The Perils of the One and Nothing
Sacred. He is also an internationally awarded poet, with four
volumes of poetry published in Greek, most recent being ??sa???? st??
F?s??? [Introduction to Physics]
(Athens, 2005). He has translated the work of various Greek poets into
English – notably Yiannis Patilis’ Camel of Darkness
(Quarterly Review of Literature Book Series, Vol 36, 1997) – as well as
the poetry of Heiner Müller and Carolyn Forché into Greek.
He writes regularly in major Greek newspapers and journals on political
and literary matters. |
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ROSS HAMILTON
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| Title: |
Associate Professor of English and
Director of Film Studies, Barnard College |
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| Specialization: |
Comparative romanticisms, poetics,
literature & philosophy |
| Email: |
rhamilto@barnard.edu
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| Phone: |
(212) 854-3453 |
| Office: |
419 Barnard Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Contact Barnard English Dept. |
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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MAIRE JAANUS
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| Title: |
Professor of English and Comparative
Literature, Barnard College |
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| Specialization: |
19th-c. comparative literature, esp.
romantic and the novel; 20th-c. global English literature; literary
theory, esp. psychoanalytic (Lacanian); postmodernism |
| Email: |
mj35@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-2106 |
| Office: |
402 Barnard Hall |
| Office Hours: |
M 12:30-1:30 & Tu 4:10-5:10
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| B.A., Vassar
(1961); Fulbright Scholar, Cambridge, England (1962); Ph.D, Harvard
(1968). Maire Jaanus is the co-editor of Reading Seminars I and II:
Lacan's Return to Freud (SUNY, 1996) and Reading Seminar XI:
Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts (SUNY, 1995), as well as Lacan
in
the
German-Speaking
World
(SUNY Press, 2004). She is the author
of She—a Novel (Doubleday, 1984), Literature and
Negation (CU Press, 1979;Rept., 1988), Georg Trakl (CU
Press, 1974). Recent work includes: Introduction and Notes to
Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (Barnes & Noble
Classics, 2004); “Eesti ja Valu: Jaan Krossi Keisri hull,”(Estonia and
Pain: Jaan Kross' The Czar's Madman) Metamorfiline Kross
(Tallinn, Estonia: Eesti TA Underi ja Tuglase Kirjanduskeskus, 2005);
“The Concept of Jouissance and its Significance for the Humanities,” International
Journal
of
the
Humanities, vol. 1, (2003); "Bewilderment as a
Symptom," Clinical Studies, vol. 5, no.2 (2000). |
DEBORAH MARTINSEN
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| Title: |
Associate Dean of Alumni Education;
Adjunct Associate Professor of Slavic; and Adjunct Lecturer in English
and Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Dostoevsky, 19th-century Russian
prose, narrative theory, shame studies, and the novel |
| Email: |
dm387@columbia.edu |
| Office: |
202 Hamilton Hall |
| Office Hours: |
TBA
|
| B.A., Muhlenberg
College; M.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., Columbia University.
Deborah Martinsen’s research focuses on the work of Dostoevsky,
nineteenth-century Russian prose, narrative theory, shame studies, and
the novel. She is the author of Surprised by Shame:
Dostoevsky’s Liars and Narrative Exposure (2003) and the editor
of Literary Journals in Imperial Russia (1997). She is
currently working on two projects: The Devil Incarnate,
a study of Ivan Karamazov’s devil, and Narratives from Underground,
a
study
of
20th-century
narratives
whose
authors
adapt
different
strategies
developed
by
Dostoevsky
as
he
created
the
narrator
of
Notes
from
Underground. She is currently President of the
International Dostoevsky Society and Executive Secretary of the North
American Dostoevsky Society. |
ANNE LAKE
PRESCOTT
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| Title: |
Professor of English, Barnard College |
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| Specialization: |
English Renaissance; Spenser;
satire; Anglo-French relations; Renaissance humanism; women in the
early modern period |
| Email: |
alp11@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-2107 |
| Office: |
408c Barnard Hall |
| Office Hours: |
M 1-2 & W 4-5
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| B.A., Barnard
(1959); M.A., Columbia (1961); Ph.D., Columbia (1967). Professor
Prescott has taught at Barnard since 1961 and at Columbia since 1979. A
trustee of the Renaissance Society of America and a past president of
the Spenser Society, she is on the editorial board of SEL, Spenser
Studies, American Notes and Queries, and Moreana
and is on the advisory council of PMLA. A specialist in the
English Renaissance, she is the author of French Poets and the
English Renaissance and Imagining Rabelais in the English
Renaissance (Yale UP, 1998); she has also published (with Hugh
Maclean) a revised Norton Spenser; co-edited, with Patrick
Cheney, Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry (MLA,
2000); and co-edited, with Betty Travitsky, Female and Male Voices
in Early Modern England (Columbia 2000) and the Ashgate series of
facsimile editions of early modern texts by modern women. She is
currently working on David in the Renaissance and on Renaissance
almanacs and calendars. |
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W.B. WORTHEN
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| Title: |
Alice Brady Pels Professor in the
Arts (Dramatic Literature, Performance Theory)
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| Email: |
wworthen@barnard.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-2757 |
| Office: |
506 Milbank Hall |
| Office Hours: |
W 12-1
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| B.A., University of
Massachusetts (1977); Ph.D., Princeton University (1981). W. B.
Worthen, Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts, and Professor and
Chair of the Department of Theatre (Barnard), is the author of several
books, including The Idea of the Actor (Princeton University
Press, 1984), Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (Univ.
of California Press, 1993), Shakespeare and the Authority of
Performance (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Shakespeare and
the Force of Modern Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2002),
and most recently Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama
(Cambridge University Press, 2006). His new book, Drama: Between
Poetry and Performance, will be published by Blackwell-Wiley later
this year; he is currently writing a book on literature and performance
studies. He is the editor of the Wadsworth Anthology of Drama,
and of the award-winning Modern Drama: Plays, Criticism, Theory;
he is the former editor of the professional journals Modern Drama
and Theatre Journal, and his articles have appeared in PMLA,
Shakespeare
Quarterly,
TDR,
Modern
Drama,
Performance
Research,
Theatre
Journal, and elsewhere. Professor Worthen took his B. A. at the
University of Massachusetts, summa cum laude, in English in 1977, and
his Ph.D. in English Literature at Princeton University in 1981. Before
coming to Barnard, Professor Worthen taught at the University of Texas
at Austin, Northwestern University, the University of California at
Davis, the University of California at Berkeley, and at the University
of Michigan, as well as being a founding faculty member of the
International Centre for Advanced Theatre Studies sponsored by the
University of Helsinki, Finland. He has held grants from a number of
foundations, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and
the Gugenheim Foundation; most recently, he is a Fellow of the
"Interweaving Performance Cultures" International Research Center,
Institute for Theater Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. He
teaches a wide range of courses in dramatic literature and performance
theory, and is affiliated with the Theatre Division of the Columbia
School of the Arts, and the Columbia Department of English and
Comparative Literature |
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LECTURERS:
ERIC LEMAY
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| Title: |
Associate Director, Undergraduate
Writing Program |
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| Specialization: |
TBA
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| Email: |
ecl12@columbia.edu
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| Phone: |
TBA
|
| Office: |
310 Philosophy Hall |
B.A, Ohio University
(1993); M.F.A., Columbia University (1997); Ph.D., Northwestern
University (2002). Eric LeMay's work centers on pedagogy,
particularly the teaching of writing and literature. He has
published scholarly work in Milton
Quarterly, Essays on Teaching
Excellence, and Computers and
Composition Online. His poetry and creative non-fiction
have appeared in The Paris Review,
The Harvard Review,
The Nation, Poetry
Daily, and Gastronomica.
He
is
the
author
of
a
collection
of
poetry,
The
One
in the Many (2003) and a
nonfiction book, Immortal Milk, forthcoming in
2010. He has worked in editorial capacities for Parnassus: Poetry in Review, TriQuarterly Magazine, and
currently serves as web editor for Alimetum:
The
Literature
of
Food. Eric LeMay's website.
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NICOLE WALLACK
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| Title: |
Director, Undergraduate
Writing Program |
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| Specialization: |
Rhetoric and composition; history of
the essay; 19th-century Scottish literature and ethnography; memoirs;
diversity studies |
| Email: |
nw2108@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-3886 |
| Office: |
310 Philosophy Hall |
| B. A., McGill
University (1988); M. Sc., University of Edinburgh (1990); Ph.D., New
York University (2004). Nicole Wallack is the Director of The
Undergraduate Writing Program. Her fields of interest are rhetoric and
composition, teacher education, history of the essay, American
Modernist essays, creative nonfiction, and auditory culture. She is
also an associate of the Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) at
Bard College. At Bard, she designs and conducts workshops for educators
on the essay, assessment, writing-to-learn practices, writing across
the curriculum, and listening as a pedagogical praxis. She works as a
Writing Across the Curriculum consultant in high schools and colleges
around the country. Currently, she is preparing a book manuscript based
on her dissertation, Finding a Form: Crafting the Writer’s Presence
in The Best American Essays 1986-2003, and co-authoring a book
for the IWT on revision. |
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ADJUNCT
FACULTY:
ONDREA ACKERMAN
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| Title: |
Adjunct Associate Professor of
English and Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
20th-century transatlantic
literature; modernism and the avant-garde;
poetry and visual culture; critical issues of space |
| Email: |
oea2101@columbia.edu |
| Office: |
TBA |
| Office Hours: |
W 4:30-5:30 and by appointment
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| B.A., University of California,
Berkeley (1999); Ph.D., Columbia University (2009). Ondrea Ackerman
specializes in 20th century Transatlantic literature with an emphasis
on poetry and critical issues of space. She is particularly interested
in avant-garde and experimental writing, as well as questions of genre.
Her current project examines "getting lost" as a methodological
practice of modernism that occurs in geographical and textual space. |
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ZANDER BRIETZKE
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| Title: |
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: |
Tu & Th 11:30-12:30
|
| B.A.
Missouri Southern (1982), M.F.A. Alabama (1985), Ph.D. Stanford (1993).
Zander joined the adjunct faculty at Columbia in 2006 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 a book on O’Neill, The
Aesthetics of Failure (McFarland 2001). He also co-edited Jason
Robards
Remembered:
Essays
and
Recollections (McFarland 2002). His
most recent book, American Drama in the Age of Film (Alabama
2007) was a Finalist for the Theatre Library Association Award. He is
currently writing the Instructor’s Manual for The Norton
Anthology of Drama (2009). |
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MONICA COHEN
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| Title: |
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: |
408i Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Th 1:15-3:15
|
B.A., Yale (1987);
Ph.D., Columbia (1994). Monica Feinberg Cohen specializes in English
narrative of the long nineteenth century and the nineteenth-century
European novel. She 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, with
an upcoming one in Texas Studies in Language and Literature.
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 a
contributor to the upcoming MLA Guide to Teaching MANSFIELD
PARK and author of the introduction to the upcoming Barnes and Noble
reprint of The Old Curiosity Shop. She is currently at
work on a manuscript concerning Victorian literary piracy and pirate
narratives.
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MARIANNE
GIORDANI
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| Title: |
Adjunct Assistant
Professor of English and Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
The literature, culture,
and intellectual history of the long 18th century (Restoration to
Romanticism) |
| Email: |
mg2644@columbia.edu |
| Office: |
408i Philosophy Hall |
| Office
Hours: |
Th 3-4 & 6-7 |
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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LEJLA
KUCUKALIC
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| Title: |
Lecturer in English and Comparative
Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Science fiction; 20-th and 21-st century American
Literature; world literature; literature of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
digital culture
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| Email: |
lk2380@columbia.edu |
| Office: |
608 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
W 3-5 & Th 3-4
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| B.A., Manchester
College (1997), Ph.D., University of Delaware (2006). Professor
Kucukalic specializes in contemporary American literature and culture,
with an interest in emerging narratives and new critical methodologies
of the digital age. Her approach is interdisciplinary, focusing on the
study of human intellectual development in the age of technology, and
on literature and philosophy, particularly metaphysics, both
traditional and cybernetic. Professor Kucukalic also teaches Literature
Humanities in the Core Curriculum. She is the author of Philip K.
Dick: Canonical Writer of the Digital Age (Routledge, 2008), in
the Studies in Major American Literary Authors series. Her
current projects include a translation of the Bosnian novel It
Happened in July (Kad je bio Juli) about the 1995
genocide in Srebrenica. |
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KEVIN LAMB
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| Title: |
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and
Lecturer in
English and Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Anglo-American and European modernism; aesthetics;
critical
theory; queer studies; continental philosophy
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| Email: |
KML2104@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-7184 |
| Office: |
Heyman Center 2-5 |
| Office Hours: |
Th 11-12 and by appointment |
| B.A., University of
Texas, Austin (1998); M.A., Cornell (2003); Ph.D.,
Cornell (2007). Kevin Lamb specializes in Anglo-American and European
modernism, aesthetics, and critical theory. He recently published an
article on “Foucault’s Aestheticism” in Diacritics and is co-editor,
with Jonathan Culler, of Just Being
Difficult?: Academic Writing in the
Public Arena (Stanford, 2003). He is currently at work on a book
project focused on critical practice and the aesthetics of
impersonality in Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, and Michel Foucault. |
STEPHEN
MASSIMILLA
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| Title: |
Adjunct Lecturer in English and
Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
19th- and 20th-century poetry and
novel; poetics; Romanticism; myth and epic; film |
| Email: |
sm106@columbia.edu |
| Office: |
305 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
M & W 5:30-6:30 |
BA, Williams
College; MFA, Columbia University; Ph.D., Columbia University. Stephen
Massimilla specializes in nineteenth-and twentieth-century literature
and culture, and more broadly in poetry and poetics. Other areas of
interest include mythology, Romanticism, postcolonialism, and film. He
has written on Wordsworth, Tennyson, Yeats, Eliot, Henry James, Woolf,
WC Williams, Lorca, Walcott, contemporary poetry, and classical and
Eastern myth. Massimilla's articles, poems, translations, and reviews
have appeared in The American Literary Review, Ariel Review
of International English Criticism, Barrow Street, Chelsea,
The Cream City Review, Epoch, Provincetown
Arts, Quarterly West, The Southern Review, Tampa
Review, and scores of other journals and anthologies. His book Forty
Floors
from
Yesterday (Bordighera, 2002) received the Sonia
Raiziss-Giop Prize; his sonnet sequence Later on Aiaia (2001)
received the Grolier Poetry Prize; his volume Almost a Second
Thought (2004) was runner-up for the National Poetry Book Award,
judged by X.J. Kennedy. His current critical project addresses the
relation between Modernist poetry and visual art.
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MICHAEL MATTO
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| Title: |
Adjunct Associate Professor of
English and Comparative Literaure
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| Specialization: |
Old English Language and Literature;
History of the English Language; History of Rhetoric; Cognitive poetics
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| Email: |
mm3719@columbia.edu
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| Office: |
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| Office Hours: |
M & W 5:30-6 & 7:30-8
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B.A. University of
California, Berkeley (1991), Ph.D. New York University
(1998). Professor Matto specializes in Old English literature,
particularly theories of mind and embodiment as they relate to
pre-conquest cultural institutions. He is currently writing on
conceptual schemata and metaphors of containment in Old English poetry.
He is co-editor of /The Blackwell Companion to the History of the
English Language/ (Wiley-Blackwell 2008), and is co-editing (with poet
Greg Delanty) a collection of newly commissioned translations of Old
English poems by contemporary poets (Norton, forthcoming 2010).
In addition, Professor Matto is co-founder of the Society for the Study
of the History of the English Language and has co-edited a special
collection of essays on HEL for /Studies in Medieval and
Renaissance Teaching/ (2007).
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MARK PHILLIPSON
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| Title: |
Adjunct Assistant Professor of
English and Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
19th-century British literature;
Byron and exile; publication histories; new media technology |
| Email: |
mlp55@columbia.edu |
| Office: |
603 Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
W 5-6:30
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B.A., Columbia
College (1988); Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1998);
M.L.I.S., Simmons (2006). Mark Phillipson works with the poetry of
British romanticism, with an emphasis on publication technology and
evolving methods of dissemination. He has published articles in Studies
in Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Romantic Circles;
his collaborative Romantic Audience Project (Bowdoin College, 2003 and 2005
) has been profiled by EDUCAUSE , The Chronicle
of Higher Education, The Washington Post, and others. His inventory of
the application of wikis to higher education pedagogy leads the volume
Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom
(University of Michigan Press, 2008). He currently heads the Digital
Bridges initiative at Columbia's Center
for
New
Media
Teaching
and
Learning.
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VICTORIA
ROSNER
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| Title: |
Visiting Associate Professor of
English and Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
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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| Email: |
vpr4@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-6099 |
| Office: |
613a Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
T 2-4 and by appointment
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B.A. Columbia College (1990); Ph.D. Columbia
University (1999). Victoria Rosner specializes in
twentieth-century British literature, with particular interests in the
modern novel, modernist interarts aesthetics, contemporary British
fiction, life writing, and gender studies. Her book, Modernism and the
Architecture of Private Life (Columbia UP, 2005) was awarded the
Modernist Studies Association book prize. Topics of recent articles
include the globalization of English studies, gender and polar studies,
and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. With Nancy K. Miller, she is
editor of the Gender and Culture book series published by Columbia
University Press. She is currently working on a book about
modernism and the mechanization of the domestic sphere, as well as
editing a collection of essays on feminism and globalization (with
Geraldine Pratt).
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RICHARD SACKS
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| Title: |
Adjunct Associate Professor of
English and Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Homeric poetry; Old English and Old
Norse poetry; ancient and medieval myth and epic (especially Greek,
Germanic and Celtic); historical linguistics; narrative |
| Email: |
sacks@columbia.edu |
| Phone: |
(212) 854-3917
Note: 854-1667 during office hours |
| Office: |
602b Philosophy Hall |
| Office Hours: |
Tu 4:15-5:15 & W 9:30-11:30
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| A.B., Harvard
(1974); Ph.D., Harvard (1978). At Columbia since joining the faculty of
English & Comparative Literature in 1978, and has also served as
the university's Director of Academic Information Systems, and as
Executive Director of Information Technology and Adjunct Professor of
Management Information Systems at the Business School. Awards include
fellowships ranging from the NEH to the Dublin Institute for Advanced
Studies, as well as a Distinguished Teaching Award from Columbia's
School of General Studies in 1983. Author of The Traditional Phrase
in Homer: Two Studies in Form, Meaning and Interpretation (Brill
1987), as well as articles on Greek, Old English and Old Norse poetry.
Additional areas of specialization include ancient and medieval myth
and epic (especially Greek, Celtic and Germanic), Indo-European
linguistics and poetics (again, especially Greek, Celtic and Germanic,
including English), and the narrative strategies of epic. He is nearing
completion of a monograph on mythic and poetic traditions in Beowulf,
and
his
current
projects
involve
the
mythic
and
narrative
strategies
of
the
Homeric
poems
and
of
Walcott's
Omeros. Richard Sacks's website. |
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CAROLE SLADE
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| Title: |
Adjunct Associate Professor of
English and Comparative Literature and Dean of the Summer Session for
the Arts & Sciences at Columbia |
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| Specialization: |
Comparative medieval studies; gender
studies; literary and psychoanalytic theory; religion and literature |
| Email: |
cas7@columbia.edu |
Office:
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401b Philosophy Hall
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Office Hours:
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Tu & Th 6:15-7:30
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| B.A., Pomona
(1965); M.A., Wisconsin, Madison (1966); Ph.D., New York University
(1973). A comparatist, Carole Slade works on continental European
literature, principally late medieval prose and poetry from areas now
known as Spain, Italy, and France, as well as modern drama and the
novel from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. Her most recent
publications include St. Teresa of Avila: Author of a Heroic Life
(California, 1995); essays in Mysticism and Social Transformation
(Syracuse, 2001) and The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval
Religious Literature (Palgrave, 2002); an article in Archive
for Reformation History (2003); an edition of Don Quixote
(Barnes and Noble, 2004), and an essay in the MLA Approaches to
Teaching series (2006). She brings to study of literature her interests
in literary theory, gender studies, religion, psychoanalysis, and
autobiography. From 1980-91 she taught full time in the department; at
present she is Dean of the Summer Session for the Arts and Sciences.
Her current projects include a book on spiritual autobiography. |
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PAUL VIOLI
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| Title: |
Adjunct Lecturer in English and
Comparative Literature |
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| Specialization: |
Poetry |
| Email: |
prv8@columbia.edu |
| Paul Violi has
published eleven books of poetry, most recently "Overnight" and a
selection of his longer poems, "Breakers". He has also published a book
of short prose, "Selected Accidents, Pointless Anecdotes". Awarded the
2001 Morton Dauwen Zabel Prize from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, he has also received the John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement
Award for Poetry, two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment
for the Arts, as well as grants from The Foundation for Contemporary
Arts, The Fund for Poetry, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and
The Ingram Merrill Foundation. |
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