| Rachel
Adams:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Santa Barbara),
1997 |
| Interests:
19th and 20th century American literature, media studies, theories of gender and sexuality, disability studies, cultural studies, theories of transnationalism and globalization |
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| Katherine
L.
Biers:
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| ,
Ph.D.,
Cornell,
2002 |
| Interests:
19th- and 20th-century American literature and culture, media studies, cultural studies, theories of gender and sexuality, African-American literature, modernism |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Marcellus
Blount:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Yale,
1987 |
| Interests:
African-American and American studies; poetry; popular culture, gender studies |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Amanda
Claybaugh:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
2001 |
| Interests:
The postbellum U.S. novel, the Victorian novel, trans-atlantic literary studies, narritive theory |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Sarah
Cole:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley),
1997 |
| Interests:
20th-century British literature, modernism and empire; gender studies; war |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Susan
Crane:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley),
1975 |
| Interests:
Medieval English and French genres, history of sexuality, social implications fo literature |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Julie
Crawford:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania,
1998 |
| Interests:
16th and 17th century English literature, Protestant culture, women's literature, cultural studies, feminist theory, gay and lesbian studies |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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Patricia
Dailey:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Irvine),
2002 |
| Interests:
Medieval literature, medieval women's poetry and prose, Anglo-Saxon poetry, critical theory, psychoanalytic theory |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Nicholas
Dames:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1998 |
| Interests:
19th-century British literature; history and theory of the novel; critical and narrative theory; Victorian cultural history |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Jenny
Davidson:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Yale,
1999 |
| Interests:
18th century British literature and culture, cultural and intellectual history, especially history of science, the contemporary novel in English |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Andrew
Delbanco:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1980 |
| Interests:
Early American literature, religion; American studies; history of education |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Ann
Douglas:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1970 |
| Interests:
20th-century American literature; popular culture, especially film; race and ethnicity; postcolonial theory |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Kathy
H.
Eden:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Stanford,
1980 |
| Interests:
Renaissance humanism, history of rhetoric; hermeneutics ; ancient literary theory; history of classical scholarship |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Brent
Hayes
Edwards:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1998 |
| Interests:
African-American and African diasporic literature; 20th-century poetry; Francophone literature; translation theory; jazz |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Robert
A.
Ferguson:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1974 |
| Interests:
Interdisciplinary study of American sulture with particular emphasis on literature, law, and history |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Michael
Golston:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Stanford,
1998 |
| Interests:
20th-century British and American poetry and poetics; the avant-garde; modernism and post-modernism |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Erik
Gray:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Princeton,
2000 |
| Interests:
Romantic and Victorian poetry; poetry and poetics; English literature and the classics |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Farah
Jasmine
Griffin:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Yale,
1992 |
| Interests:
African-American literature; music, history, and politics |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Ross
Hamilton:
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| Associate Professor (Barnard),
Yale,
1998 |
| Interests:
Comparative romanticisms, poetics, literature and philosophy |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Saidiya
Hartman:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Yale,
1992 |
| Interests:
African-American literature; cultural studies |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Marianne
Hirsch:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Brown,
1975 |
| Interests:
Comparative literature (20th century French, German,British, American); feminist theory, narrative; cultural memory; Holocaust studies; visual culture |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Nicole
Horejsi:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Los Angeles),
2006 |
| Interests:
Restoration and 18th century British literature; the classical tradition in the 18th century; 18th century women's writing and feminist theory |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Jean
E.
Howard:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Yale,
1975 |
| Interests:
Renaissance literature; history of drama; feminism; new historicism; Marxism |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Jean
E.
Howard:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Yale,
1975 |
| Interests:
Renaissance literature; history of drama; feminism; new historicism; Marxism |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Maire
Jaanus:
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| Professor (Barnard),
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1968 |
| Interests:
19th-century comparative literature (English, German, French), esp. romantic and the novel; 20th century global English literature; literary theory, esp. psychoanalytic (Lacanian); postmodernism; modern and postmodern Estonian literature |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Wen
Jin:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Northwestern,
2006 |
| Interests:
Asian American and Asian diasporic literature and culture, American literature since 1900; Sinophone literature; critical race, transnational, and translation studies |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Karl
Kroeber:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1956 |
| Interests:
Romantic literature; Native American literature; film and literature; ecological science and literature |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Sharon
Marcus:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins,
1995 |
| Interests:
19th-century British and French literature; feminist and sexuality theory; urban and architectural history |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Deborah
Martinsen:
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| Adjunct Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1990 |
| Interests:
Dostoevsky; 19th-century Russian prose; narrative and shame theory; the novel |
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| Edward
Mendelson:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins,
1969 |
| Interests:
19th-century British literature; 20th-century British and American literature; narrative; poetry |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Molly
Murray:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Yale,
2003 |
| Interests:
16th- and 17th-century poetry and prose; early modern intellectual history, esp. theology and political thought |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Frances
Negrón-Muntaner:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Rutgers,
2000 |
| Interests:
19th- and 20th- century Caribbean and U.S. Latino literatures and culture; film studies, popular culture; the essay |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Robert
G.
O'Meally:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1975 |
| Interests:
19th and 20th century American literature as well as African American literature and jazz culture, including music, literature, painting, film, photography, theater, and dance |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Ross
Posnock:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins,
1980 |
| Interests:
Literature and intellectual history of 19th- and 20th-century United States; pragmatism, Henry James, W.E.B. Du Bois |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Anne
Prescott:
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| Professor (Barnard),
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1967 |
| Interests:
English Renaissance; Spenser; satire; Anglo-French relations; Renaissance humanism; women in the early modern period |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| H.
Martin
Puchner:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1998 |
| Interests:
19th-century and 20th-century drama and performance; modernism; continental and language philosophy |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Austin
E.
Quigley:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Santa Cruz),
1971 |
| Interests:
19th and 20th century drama; theater history; literary theory; performance theory; linguistic theory; modernism and postmodernism |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Bruce
Robbins:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1980 |
| Interests:
19th- and 20th-century fiction; transnational literature; literature and cultural theory |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| John
D.
Rosenberg:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1960 |
| Interests:
Victorian poetry and nonfiction prose; 19th-century autobiography |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Michael
Rosenthal:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1966 |
| Interests:
Late Victorian and Edwardian popular culture; Bloomsbury; the modern British novel |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Richard
Sacks:
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| Adjunct Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1978 |
| Interests:
Homeric poetry, Old English and Old Norse poetry; ancient and medieval myth and epic (especially Greek, Germanic and Celtic); historical linguistics; narrative |
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| James
Shapiro:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Chicago,
1982 |
| Interests:
Shakespeare; medieval and early modern drama; Jewish studies; British poetry; the book review |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Joseph
R.
Slaughter:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Texas,
1998 |
| Interests:
Postcolonial literature of Africa and Latin America; human rights and narrative theory; 20th-century ethnic and third world literature |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Maura
Spiegel:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1993 |
| Interests:
19th-century British, European novel; 20th-century American fiction and cultural studies; film, film theory; gender theory; Euro-modernism |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Gayatri
Chakravorty
Spivak:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Cornell,
1967 |
| Interests:
19th-century literature; Marxism; feminism; deconstruction; poststructuralism; globalization |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Alan
Stewart:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
London,
1993 |
| Interests:
16th-century literature, history and culture; lesbian and gay studies |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Paul
Strohm:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley),
1966 |
| Interests:
Medieval literature; textuality and history; genre and social change |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Ezra
Tawil:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Brown,
2000 |
| Interests:
American literature before 1900; cultural and literary theory; the history and theory of race |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Gauri
Viswanathan:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1985 |
| Interests:
Intellectual history; education, religion and culture; 19th-century British and colonial cultural studies; historyof disciplines; |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| David
Yerkes:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Oxford,
1976 |
| Interests:
American language; English language, including Anglo-Saxon and Middle English; bibliography; textual criticism |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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