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Department of English and Comparative Literature

Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.

Chair: David Scott Kastan, Ph.D.

Director of Graduate Studies and Director of Student Teaching: Sharon Marcus, Ph.D.

M.A. Advisor: Michael Golston, Ph.D.

Dissertation Sponsors

Rachel Adams:

	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

Joseph Bizup:

	Associate Professor, Ph.D., Indiana, 1996
	Interests: Rhetoric and composition; literacy; rhetorical theory; 19th-century British literature, esp. nonfictional prose
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Marcellus Blount:

	Associate Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1987
	Interests: African-American and American studies; poetry; popular culture
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Amanda Claybaugh:

	Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 2001
	Interests: Victorian literature and culture; realism and narrative theory; the transatlantic 19th century
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Sarah Cole:

	Associate Professor, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1997
	Interests: 20th-century British literature, modernism and empire; gender studies; war
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Susan Crane:

	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

Julie Crawford:

	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

Patricia Dailey:

	Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Irvine, 2002
	Interests: Anglo-Saxon and other medieval poetry; medieval women's visionary literature; critical theory
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Nicholas Dames:

	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

David Damrosch:

	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

Jenny Davidson:

	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

Andrew DelBanco:

	Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1980
	Interests: Early American literature, religion; American studies; history of education
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Ann Douglas:

	Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1970
	Interests: 20th-century American literature; popular cultural and politics; race and ethnicity; post-colonial theory
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Kathy H. Eden:

	Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1980
	Interests: Renaissance humanism, history of hermeneutics and the rhetorical tradition, ancient and Renaissance literary theory
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Brent Hayes Edwards:

	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

Robert A. Ferguson:

	Professor (Law), Ph.D., Harvard, 1974
	Interests: American literature, law and history
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Michael Golston:

	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

Erik Gray:

	Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 2000
	Interests: Romantic and Victorian poetry; poetry and poetics; literature and the classics
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Farah Jasmine Griffin:

	Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1992
	Interests: African-American literature; jazz studies; history and politics
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Ross Hamilton:

	Associate Professor (Barnard), Yale, 1998
	Interests: Comparative romanticisms, poetics, literature and philosophy
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Saidiya Hartman:

	Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1992
	Interests: African-American and American literature and cultural history; slavery; law and literature; performance studies
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Marianne Hirsch:

	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

Jean E. Howard:

	Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1975
	Interests: Renaissance literature; history of drama; feminism; new historicism; Marxism
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Maire Jaanus:

	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

Wen Jin:

	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

David Scott Kastan:

	Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1974
	Interests: 16th- and 17th-century literature and culture; Shakespeare; history of the book
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Karl Kroeber:

	Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1956
	Interests: Romantic literature; Native American literature; film and literature; ecological science and literature
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Sharon Marcus:

	Professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1995
	Interests: 19th-century British and French literature; feminist and sexuality theory; urban and architectural history
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Edward Mendelson:

	Professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1969
	Interests: 19th-century British literature; 20th-century British and American literature; narrative; poetry
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Molly Murray:

	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

Frances Negrón-Muntaner:

	Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers, 2000
	Interests: 19th and 20th century Caribbean and U.S. Latino literatures; film studies, popular culture
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Robert G. O'Meally:

	Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1975
	Interests: 19th- and 20th-century American literature; African-American literature; jazz and jazz culture
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Julie Peters:

	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

Ross Posnock:

	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

Anne Prescott:

	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

H. Martin Puchner:

	Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1998
	Interests: 19th-century and 20th-century drama and performance; modernism; continental and language philosophy
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Austin E. Quigley:

	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

Bruce Robbins:

	Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1980
	Interests: 19th- and 20th-century fiction; transnational literature; literature and cultural theory
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

John D. Rosenberg:

	Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1960
	Interests: Victorian poetry and nonfiction prose; 19th-century autobiography
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Michael Rosenthal:

	Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1966
	Interests: Late Victorian and Edwardian popular culture; Bloomsbury; the modern British novel
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Michael Seidel:

	Professor, Ph.D., California (Los Angeles), 1970
	Interests: 18th-century literature; history of the novel; narrative theory; satire; James Joyce
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

James Shapiro:

	Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1982
	Interests: Shakespeare; medieval and early modern drama; Jewish studies; British poetry
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Joseph R. Slaughter:

	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

Maura Spiegel:

	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

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak:

	Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1967
	Interests: 19th-century literature; Marxism; feminism; deconstruction; poststructuralism
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Alan Stewart:

	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

Paul Strohm:

	Professor, Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, 1966
	Interests: Medieval literature; textuality and history; genre and social change
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Ezra Tawil:

	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

Gauri Viswanathan:

	Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1985
	Interests: Intellectual history; education, religion and culture; 19th-century British and colonial cultural studies; historyof disciplines;
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

David Yerkes:

	Professor, Ph.D., Oxford, 1976
	Interests: English language, including Anglo-Saxon and Middle English; bibliography; textual criticism
	Approved Dissertation Sponsor

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