| Rachel
Adams:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
U.C. Santa Barbara,
1997 |
| Interests:
19th-and 20th-century American literature; theories of gender and sexuality; media, disability, cultural studies |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Joseph
Bizup:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Indiana,
1996 |
| Interests:
Rhetoric and composition; literacy; rhetorical theory; 19th-century British literature, esp. nonfictional prose |
| 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 |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Amanda
Claybaugh:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
2001 |
| Interests:
Victorian literature and culture; realism and narrative theory; the transatlantic 19th century |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Sarah
Cole:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
UC 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.,
U.C. Berkeley,
1975 |
| Interests:
Medieval literature of courts; literature and culture of the Hundred Years War; Anglo-Norman and insular bilingualism; theories of gender, performance, translation, and animality. |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Julie
Crawford:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania,
1998 |
| Interests:
16th- and 17th-century literature; 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.,
Irvine,
2002 |
| Interests:
Anglo-Saxon and other medieval poetry; medieval women's visionary literature; critical 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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| David
Damrosch:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Yale,
1980 |
| Interests:
20th-century literature and criticism; theory and methods of comparative literature; Bible and ancient Near Eastern literatures |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Jenny
Davidson:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Yale,
1999 |
| Interests:
Restoration and 18th-century literature and culture; British political and philosophical writing; detective fiction; Black Atlantic writing |
| 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 cultural and politics; race and ethnicity; post-colonial 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 hermeneutics and the rhetorical tradition, ancient and Renaissance literary theory |
| 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 African and Caribbean literature; histories of anti-colonialism; translation theory; theories of globalization and diaspora; music and literature |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Robert
A.
Ferguson:
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| Professor (Law),
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1974 |
| Interests:
American 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; 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; jazz studies; 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 and American literature and cultural history; slavery; law and literature; performance 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.,
U.C. Los Angeles,
2006 |
| Interests:
Romance and epic in the eighteenth century, the drama, oriental tales, feminist theory, and seventeenth-century French romance |
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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, 20th century global English literature, literary theory - especially psychoanalytical (Lacanian), postmodernism |
| 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, critical race, transnational and translation studies |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| David
Scott
Kastan:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Chicago,
1974 |
| Interests:
16th- and 17th-century literature and culture; Shakespeare; history of the book |
| 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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| 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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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Rutgers,
2000 |
| Interests:
19th and 20th century Caribbean and U.S. Latino literatures; film studies, popular culture |
| 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; African-American literature; jazz and jazz culture |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Julie
Peters:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Princeton,
1986 |
| Interests:
Drama and theatre history; law and literature; dramatic theory; Human Rights and culture; Customary law and human rights |
| 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 and Dean of Columbia College,
Ph.D.,
California,
1971 |
| Interests:
Modern drama, American drama; drama and dramatic theory;19th and 20th-century comparative drama and performance; performance theory |
| 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, Old English, Norse poetry; ancient and medieval myth and epic (Greek, Germanic, Celtic); historical linguistics; narrative |
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| Michael
Seidel:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Los Angeles),
1970 |
| Interests:
18th-century literature; history of the novel; narrative theory; satire; James Joyce |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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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 |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Joseph
R.
Slaughter:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Texas (Austin),
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 (Barnard),
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 |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Alan
Stewart:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
University of London,
1993 |
| Interests:
sixteenth-century English literature, history and culture especially Reformation politics; manuscript culture; letters and letter-writing; history of sexuality; early modern London; Francis Bacon; lesbian and gay studies |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Paul
Strohm:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
U.C. 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:
Early American literature, especially 19th-century: frontier romance, sentimental fiction; history and theory of race, gender and sexuality |
| 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:
English language, including Anglo-Saxon and Middle English; bibliography; textual criticism |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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