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ALBRIGHT, DANIEL, Professor.
Education: B.A. 1967 Rice University; M.Phil. 1969, Ph.D. 1970 Yale University.
Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature, Music, and Painting; Theory of Comparative Arts; Lyric Poetry; Drama; Science and Literature.
Selected Works: Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources. University of Chicago Press (2004); Beckett and Aesthetics. Cambridge University Press (2003); Berlioz's Semi-Operas (2001); Untwisting the Serpent (2000); Quantum Poetics (1997); W. B. Yeats: The Poems, ed. (1990); Stravinsky: The Music-Box and the Nightingale (1989); Tennyson: The Muses' Tug-of-War (1986); Lyricality in English Literature (1985); Representation and the Imagination: Beckett, Kafka, Nabokov, Schoenberg (1981); Personality and Impersonality: Lawrence, Woolf, Mann (1978).
email address: albright@fas


BHABHA, HOMI K., Professor of the Humanities.
Education: BA 1970, University of Bombay; MPhil, MA, DPhil 1990, Christ Church, Oxford.
Interests: Colonial and Post-Colonial Theory; Cosmopolitanism; 19th and 20th-Century British and other English-Language Literatures.
Selected Works: Measure of Dwelling (forthcoming, Harvard University Press); The Right to Narrate (forthcoming, Columbia University Press); The Black Savant and the Dark Princess (2006); Framing Fanon (2005); The Location of Culture (2004, Routledge Classics); Still Life (2004); Adagio (2004); On Writing Rights (2003); Making Difference: The Legacy of the Culture Wars (2003); Democracy De-Realized (2002), V.S. Naipaul (2001), On Cultural Choice (2000).
email address: hbhabha@fas


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 BUELL, LAWRENCE, Professor.
Education: B.A. 1961 Princeton; M.A. 1962, Ph.D. 1966 Cornell
Interests: American Literature (especially the 19th Century); Literature and the Environment; Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures.
Selected Works: Emerson (2003); Writing for an Endangered World (2001); The Environmental Imagination (1995); New England Literary Culture (1986); Literary Transcendentalism (1973).
email address: lbuell@fas
BURT, STEPHEN, Associate Professor.
Education: B.A., Harvard 1994; Ph. D., Yale 2000.
Interests: Poetry, especially 20th and 21st centuries; science fiction;
literature and geography; contemporary writing; comics and graphic novels;
literature alongside other arts.
Selected Works: Close Calls With Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (forthcoming,
2008); The Forms of Youth: Adolescence and 20th-Century Poetry (2007);
Parallel Play (2006); editor, Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden (2005);
"'September 1, 1939 Revisited' or, Poetry, Politics, and the Idea of the
Public" (2003); Randall Jarrell and His Age (2002); Popular Music (1999)
email address: burt@fas
website: www.accommodatingly.com
CARPIO, GLENDA, Associate Professor.
Education: B.A. 1991 Vassar; Ph.D. 2002 University of California at Berkeley.
Interests: The Literature, History and Culture of New World Slavery; African-American Visual Art; Anglophone Caribbean Literature; Theories on Memory and Textuality; Gender and Cultural Studies; native American and Latino/a US Literature.
Selected Works: "Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada" (forthcoming); "Archives of Bamboo and Wild Plantain: Derek Walcott’s Omeros" (forthcoming).
email address: carpio@fas
CONNOR, J. D., Assistant Professor.
Education: B.A. 1992 Harvard University; Ph.D. 2000 Johns Hopkins University.
Interests: 20th-Century American Literature and Culture; Film, esp. Hollywood; Cyberculture; Theories of Culture.
Selected Works: "Universal 571: Breaking a Studio's Code" (2002); "Fraywatch" column for Slate (2002-3); "Sartre and Cinema: The Grammar of Commitment" (2001); "The Projections: Allegories of Industrial Crisis in Neoclassical Hollywood" (2000).
email address: jdconnor@fas

DAMROSCH, LEO, Professor.
Education: A.B. 1963 Yale; A.B./A.M. 1966 Cambridge; Ph.D. 1968 Princeton.
Interests: Restoration and 18th-Century Literature; Romanticism; Puritan Imagination; Enlightenment.
Selected Works: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (2005); The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit (1996); Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson (1989); The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope (1987);God's Plot and Man's Stories: Studies in the Fictional Imagination from Milton to Fielding (1985); Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth (1980); The Uses of Johnson's Criticism (1976); Samuel Johnson and the Tragic Sense (1972).
email address: damrosch@fas

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DE LA DURANTAYE, LELAND, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor.
Education: B.A. 1994 Michigan State University; M.A. 1998, Ph.D. 2002 Cornell University.
Interests: 19th and 20th Century English, American, French and German Literature; Aesthetics.
Selected Works: Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction (Stanford University Press, forthcoming); Style is Matter: The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov (Cornell University Press, 2007).
email address: deladur@fas

DONOGHUE, DANIEL, Professor.
Education: B.A. 1978 University of Dallas; M.Phil. 1981 University College Dublin; Ph.D. 1986 Yale.
Interests: Old English; Middle English; History of the Language, Medievalism.
Selected Works: Old English: A Short Introduction (2004); Lady Godiva:The History of a Legend (2003); Beowulf: A Verse Translation, ed. (2002); Style in Old English Poetry (1987).
email address: dgd@wjh.harvard.edu

ENGELL, JAMES, Professor.
Education: B.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1978 Harvard.
Interests: Eighteenth Century and Restoration; Romanticism; Criticism and Critical Theory; Rhetoric.
Selected Works: The Committed Word: Literature and Public Values (1999); Coleridge: The Early Family Letters (1994); Forming the Critical Mind (1989); ed. and contributor, Johnson and His Age (1984); ed. (with W. J. Bate) Biographia Literaria for the Collected Coleridge (1983); The Creative Imagination (1981).
email address: jengell@fas
EVANS, CHRISTINE, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer.
Education: B.A. 1994 University of Technology, Sydney; MA. 1997 University of Western Sydney, Nepean; MFA. 2002 Brown University; Ph.D. 2008 Brown University.
Interests: Playwriting, screenwriting, post-dramtic theatre, Latino/a drama, contemporary British theatre and performance.
Selected Works: My Vicious Angel (1998); Mothergun (2002); Pussy Boy (2003); Slow Falling Bird (2005); Weightless (2007).
email address: cmevans@fas

FISHER, PHILIP, Professor.
Education: A.B. 1963 University of Pittsburgh; M.A. 1966; Ph.D. 1971 Harvard.
Interests: American Novel; English Novel; Cultural Theory; Modernism; American Art and its Cultural Institutions; The Philosophy and Literature of the Passions; Narrative Theory; Game Theory and the Novel.
Selected Works: The Vehement Passions (2002); Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction (1998-99); Wonder, the Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences (1998); Making and Effacing Art (1991); (ed.) New American Studies (1991); Hard Facts (1986); Making Up Society (1981).
email address: pjfisher@fas

FREY, DARCY, Briggs-Copleland Lecturer.
Education: BA 1984, Oberlin College.
Interests: Narrative journalism; essay; memoir; travel writing; literary science writing.
Selected Works: *George Divoky’s Planet* (forthcoming, Pantheon).  *The Last Shot* (1994).
email address: frey@fas


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GARBER, MARJORIE, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies; Chair, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies; Director, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
Education: B.A. 1966 Swarthmore College; Ph.D. 1969 Yale University.
Interests: Shakespeare; Modern Drama, Dramatic Theory, and Performance; Cultural Studies; Psychoanalysis and Literature; Renaissance Drama; Gender Theory; Visual Studies; Media Studies; Detective Fiction; the History and Theory of the Profession.
Selected Works: Shakespeare After All (2004); Quotation Marks (2002); Academic Instincts (2001); Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses (2000); Symptoms of Culture (1998); Dog Love (1996); Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life (1995); Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety (1992); Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality (1987); Coming of Age in Shakespeare (1981); Dream in Shakespeare: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis (1974); ed., The Medusa Reader (2003); ed., The Turn to Ethics (2000); ed., Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America (1995); ed., Media Spectacles (1993).
email address: garber@fas

GATES, HENRY LOUIS, JR., W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities.
Education: B.A. 1973 Yale; M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1979 University of Cambridge.
Interests: African and African-American Literature; Cultural Theory.
Selected Works: America Behind the Color Line (2004); The Trials of Phillis Wheatley (2003); The Bondswoman's Narrative, ed. (2002); The African American Century (2000);Wonders of the African World (1999); Co-editor, Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999); Co-editor, Encarta Africana (1999);Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (1997); co-gen. ed., The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (1996); co-ed., The Dictionary of Global Culture (1996); The Future of the Race (with Cornel West) (1996); Colored People: A Memoir (1994); Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992); The Signifying Monkey (1988); Figures in Black (1987).
email address: jkendall@fas
GRAHAM, JORIE, Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric.
Education: B.A. New York University 1973; M.F.A. University of Iowa 1978.
Interests: English Poetry; American Poetry; Contemporary Poetics; Film Theory; Painting.
Selected Works: All poetry: Overlord (2005); Never (2002); Speaking Subject (2002); Swarm (2000); The Errancy (1997); The Dream of The Unified Field (1996); Materialism (1993); Region of Unlikeness (1991); The End of Beauty (1987); Erosion (1983); Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts (1980).

GREENBLATT, STEPHEN, Cogan University Professor of the Humanities.
Education: B.A. Yale 1964; M.Phil. Cambridge 1966; Ph.D. Yale 1969.
Interests: Shakespeare; Early Modern Literature and Culture; Literature of Travel and Exploration; Religion and Literature; Literature and Anthropology; Literary and Cultural Theory.
Selected Works: Will in the World (2004); Hamlet in Purgatory (2001); Co-gen. ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature (2000); Practicing New Historicism (with Catherine Gallagher, 2000); Gen. ed. Norton Shakespeare (1997); ed. New World Encounters (1993); ed. Redrawing the Boundaries (1992); Marvelous Possessions (1991); Learning to Curse (1990); Shakespearean Negotiations (1988); Renaissance Self-Fashioning (1980).
email address: greenbl@fas

HARRIS, JOSEPH C., Professor.
Education: B.A. 1961 University of Georgia; B.A. 1967 Cambridge; M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1969 Harvard.
Interests: Old English; Old Norse-Icelandic; Folklore and Mythology.
Selected Works: "Beowulf ’s Name" (2002); "Beowulf as Epic" (2001); "‘Double scene’ and ‘mise en abyme’ in Beowulfian Narrative" (2000); ‘Go sögn sem hjálp til a lifa af ’ í Sonatorreki (1999);  Prosimetrum: Crosscultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Verse (ed. with K. Reichl, 1997);"Guilt and Sacrifice in Sonatorrek" (1994); "A Nativist Approach to Beowulf" (1994); "Love and Death in the Männerbund" (1993); "Beowulf's Last Words" (1992); "Gender and Genre: Short and Long Forms of the Saga Literature" (1991).
email address: harris@fas

JOHNSON, BARBARA, Professor.
Education: B.A. 1969 Oberlin; A.M., Ph.D. 1977 Yale.
Interests: 19th and 20th Century English, French, and American (especially Afro-American) Literature; Literary Theory.
Selected Works: The Feminist Difference (1998);The Wake of Deconstruction (1993); A World of Difference (1987); The Critical Difference (1981).
email address: johnson@fas

JOHNSTON, BRET , Briggs-Copeland Lecturer.
Education: BA 1996, Texas A&M University; MA 2000, Miami University; MFA 2002, University of Iowa.
Interests: Fiction writing.
Selected Works: Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer (2008); Corpus Christi: Stories (Random House, 2004).
email address: bajohnst@fas

KAISER, MATTHEW, Assistant Professor.
Education: B.A. 1995 University of Oregon; M.A. 1998, Ph.D. 2004 Rutgers University.
Interests: Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture; Victorian Theatre;
Gender Studies.
Selected Works: "A History of ‘Ludicrous'" (2004); "Marius at Oxford: Paterian Pedagogy and the Ethics of Seduction" (2002).
email address: mkaiser@fas

KIELY, ROBERT, Professor Emeritus.
Education: B.A. 1953 Amherst; Ph.D. 1962 Harvard.
Interests: Novel; 19th Century; Modern and Contemporary Fiction; Narrative Theory; Bible; Christian Literature.
Selected Works: Still Learning: Spiritual Sketches from a Professor’s Life (1999); Reverse Tradition: Postmodern Fictions and the Nineteenth Century Novel (1993); Beyond Egotism: The Fiction of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence (1980); The Romantic Novel in England (1972); Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure (1964).
email address: rkiely@fas
KINCAID, JAMAICA, Visiting Lecturer.
Interests: Fiction Writing, Gardening
Selected Works: All Fiction -  Mr. Potter (2002);  My Garden (Book) (1999); The Autobiography of My Mother (1996); Lucy (1990); Annie John (1985)

 
 KLINK, JOANNA , Briggs-Copeland Lecturer.
Education:  BA 1991 Carleton College; MFA 1998 University of Iowa; PhD 2001 Johns Hopkins.
Interests: Creative Writing, Poetry, Contemporary Poetics, Modernism.
Selected Works:  They Are Sleeping (2000); Circadian (2007).
email address: jklink@fas
 
 
 LEWALSKI, BARBARA, Professor.
Education: B.S.E. 1950 Emporia State University; A.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1956 University of Chicago.
Interests: Renaissance; Milton; Genre Theory and Criticism; Women in the Renaissance.
Selected Works: The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography (2000); Writing Women in Jacobean England (1993); Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms (1985); Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century English Lyric (1979); Milton's Brief Epic (1966).
email address: lewalski@fas

LYMAN, ELIZABETH DYRUD, Assistant Professor.
Education: A.B. 1979 Stanford; M.A. 1999, Ph.D. 2003 University of Virginia
Interests: Drama of all periods; 20th-Century Literature; Opera and Music-Theater; Modernism; the Avant-Garde; Performance Art; Comic Art and the Graphic Novel; The Material Book; Artists’ Books; Textual Editing and Theory; Theories of Notation.
Selected Works: "The Page Refigured: The Visual and Verbal Languages of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus" (2002).
email address: elyman@fas
MARTINEZ, MICHELE, Lecturer.
Education: A.B. 1990 Stanford; M.A. 1992, M.Phil. 1994, Ph.D. 1999 Yale.
Interests: 19th- and 20th-century British and Irish literature (especially
Poetry), Theories of Literature and the Visual Arts, the Pre-Raphaelites,
Aestheticism, Gender Studies
Selected Works: “Women Poets and the Sister Arts in 19th-Century England,” “Christina Rossetti’s Petrarca,” “Sister Arts and Artists: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh and the Life of Harriet Hosmer” (2003)
email address: mcmartin@fas
MENAND, LOUIS, Professor.
Education: B.A. 1973 Pomona; M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1980 Columbia.
Interests: 19th and 20th Century Cultural History.
Selected Works: American Studies (2002); The Metaphysical Club (2001); The
Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 7: Modernism and the New
Criticism, co-ed. (2000); The Future of Academic Freedom, ed. (1997);
Pragmatism: A Reader, ed. (1996); Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His
Context (1987).
email address: menand@ fas
MESSUD, CLAIRE, Visiting Lecturer.

NEW, ELISA, Professor.
Education: B.A. Brandeis University 1980; M.A. Columbia University 1982; Ph.D Columbia University 1988.
Interests: American poetry; American Literature-1900; Religion and Literature; Jewish Literature.
Selected Works: The Line's Eye: Poetic Experience, American Sight (1999); The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry (1993)
email address: enew@fas
NOHRNBERG, PETER, Assistant Professor.
Education: B.A. Harvard 1993; M.Phil. Magdalen College, Oxford 1995; M.A., M.Phil. 1998, Ph.D. Yale 2003.
Interests: British and American Modernism; History of the Novel; Satire; Irish Literature; Post-Colonial Theory; Poetics and Theories of Lyric; Post-War American Poetry; Twentieth-Century Visual Culture; Nature Writing.
Selected Works: "'I Wish He'd Never Been to School': Stevie, Newspapers and the Reader in The Secret Agent" (2003); The Book the Poet Makes: Collection and Re-Collection in W. B. Yeats's The Tower and Robert Lowell's Life Studies (1994).
email address: nohrnber@fas
 
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PICKER, JOHN, Associate Professor.
Education: B.A. 1992 Swarthmore; MA 1995, PhD 2001 University of Virginia.
Interests: 19th-century British and American Literature (especially Victorian); Literature and Science; Cultural Studies; Literature, Media, and Technology; Reception History.
Selected Works:“George Eliot and the Sequel Question” (2006); Victorian Soundscapes (2003); "The Two Voices" (2003); "The Tramp of a Fly's Footstep" (2002); "The Victorian Aura of the Recorded Voice" (2001); "The Soundproof Study: Victorian Professionals, Work Space, and Urban Noise" (2000); "'Red War Is My Song': Whitman, Higginson, and Civil War Music" (2000); "Disturbing Surfaces: Representations of the Fragment in The School for Scandal" (1998).
email address: picker@fas


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PRICE, LEAH, Professor.
Education: A.B. Harvard 1991; M. Phil. 1995, Ph.D. Yale 1998
Interests: The novel; narrative theory; history of the book; theories of reading; old and new media; 18th- & 19th-century British and French Culture. 
Selected Works: The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel (2000, reprint 2003); Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture (co-ed. 2005); The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature (special issue of _PMLA_, co-ed. 2006).
email address: lprice@fas
RICHARDS, PETER, Briggs-Copleland Lecturer.
Education: B.A. 1990 Hampshire College; M.F.A. 1994 University of Iowa.
Interests: Poetry.
Selected Works: Nude Siren (2003); Oubliette (2000).
email address: richard2@fas
RUBIN, DANIEL, Briggs-Copleland Lecturer.
Education: B.A. 1979, Brown; MA 1981, Northwestern.
Interests: Writing; Not writing; The Writer and the Written; Originality and Meaning.
Selected Works: (screenplays): Busted True (2008); DoorJam (2004); The Hanging Tale (2002); Spywheel (2000); Myth New York (1998); Martian Time (1996); The Magic Butler (1995); Small Soldiers (1994); Brush With Love (1994); SFW (1991); Groundhog Day (1990); Hear No Evil (1987).
email address: djrubin@fas
SACKS, PETER, Professor.
Education: B.A. 1973 Princeton; M. Phil. 1976 Oxford; Ph.D. 1980 Yale.
Interests: English Language Lyric Poetry; Writing of Poetry; Art and Literature.
Selected Works: Necessity (2002); O Wheel (poems, 2000);Natal Command (poems, 1997); Woody Gwyn: an Approach to the Landscape (1995); Promised Lands (poems, 1990); The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats (1986); In These Mountains (poems, 1986).
SCANLAN, ROBERT, Professor of the Practice of Theater.
Education: BS 1971, M.I.T.; MA 1974, Rutgers University ; PhD 1976, Rutgers University .
Interests: Theatre Directing; Formal Theory; Development of New Work for the Stage; Contemporary Plays and Performance; Playwriting; Dramaturgy, Samuel Beckett.
Selected Works: Principles of Dramaturgy (forthcoming)
Recent Directing: Whatever Happened to Toby Wing? by Karl Kirchway (2001); A Chapter of Thanatos by Karl Kirchway (2000); The Philosopher's Stone by Mozart (1998); The Inferno of Dante translation by Robert Pinsky (1998); In Her Sight by Carol Mack (world premiere, 1997).
email address: scanlan@fas
SCARRY, ELAINE, Professor.
Education: A.B. 1968 Chatham College; A.M., Ph.D. 1974 University of Connecticut.
Interests: 19th-Century British Novel; 20th-Century Drama; Theory of Representation; Language of Physical Pain; Structure of Verbal and Material Making in Art, Science, and the Law.
Selected Works: On Beauty and Being Just (1999); Dreaming by the Book (1999); ed. Fins de Siècle (1995);Resisting Representation (1994); ed., Literature and the Body (1988); The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (1985).

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SHELL, MARC, Professor.
Education: B.A. 1968 Stanford, Ph.D. 1975 Yale.
Interests: Economics & Aesthetics; Nationhood & Language Difference; Kinship Studies; Non-English Languages & Literatures of the United States; Disability & Medical Studies; Renaissance; Comparative Literature; Theory
Selected Works: The Economy of Literature (1978); Money, Language and Thought: Literary and Philosophical Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era (1982); The End of Kinship: "Measure for Measure," Incest, and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood (1988); Children of the Earth: Literature, Politics, and Nationhood (1994); Elizabeth's Glass: with "The Glass of the Sinful Soul" (1544) by Elizabeth I and "Epistle Dedicatory" and "Conclusion" (1548) by John Bale (1994); Art & Money (1995); American Babel (2002); Polio and Its Aftermath (2005); Stutter (2006).
email address: mshell@fas

SHINAGEL, MICHAEL, Senior Lecturer; Dean of Continuing Education and University Extension. Education: A.B. 1957 Oberlin; A.M. 1959, Ph.D. 1964 Harvard.
Interests: 18th Century English Literature; Rise of the Novel; Satire.
Selected Works: Norton Critical Edition of Robinson Crusoe (1975, revised 1993); Concordance to the Poems of Jonathan Swift (1972); Daniel Defoe and Middle-Class Gentility (1968). 
email address: shinagel@hudce
SHORE, DANIEL, Lecturer.
Education: B.A. 2002 Amherst College; Ph.D. 2008 Harvard University.
Interests: English Renaissance Poetry; John Milton; the European Epic; Rhetoric; Continental Philosophy.
Selected Works: “‘Fit Though Few’: Eikonoklastes and the Rhetoric of Audience” (2006); “Things Unattempted… Yet Once More” (forthcoming).
email address: dshore@fas

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SIMPSON, JAMES, Professor.
Education: B.A. 1976 University of Melbourne, M. Phil. 1980 University of Oxford, Ph.D. 1996 University of Cambridge.
Interests: Late medieval Western European Literature, 1150-1550; images and idolatry; hermeneutics and the history of reading.
Selected Works: Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents (2007) (winner, Silver Medal (religion), Independent Publishers Awards, 2008); Reform and Cultural Revolution , 1350-1547 (2002) (winner, British Academy Sir Israel Gollancz Prize, 2007); (co-ed.) Norton Anthology of English Literature (2004);  (co- ed.) Images, Idolatry and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England (2002); Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry: Alan of Lille's ‘Anticlaudianus' and John Gower's ‘Confessio amantis' (1995); Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text (1990; second, revised edition 2007). 
email address: jsimpson@fas

SOLLORS, WERNER, Professor.
Education: Dr. phil. 1975 Freie Universität Berlin.
Interests: American Literature; American Studies; Ethnicity; Comparative Literature; Themes and Motifs.
Selected Works: "Ethnic Modernism" (2003); An Anthology of Interracial Literature: Black-White Contacts in the Old World and the New, ed. (2003); Co-ed. The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature (2000); Neither Black Nor White and Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature (1997); ed. Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of America (1998); Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture (1986)
Electronic Publications: "From 'English-Only' to 'English-Plus' in American Studies" Interroads website at  http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/interroads/sollors2.html
email address: sollors@fas

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STAUFFER, JOHN, Professor.
Education: B.S.E. Duke; M.A.L.S. 1991 Wesleyan; M.A. 1993 Purdue; M.Phil. 1996, Ph.D. 1998 Yale.
Interests: American Literature and Culture (especially the 19th Century); American Studies; Civil War; Slavery and Abolitionism; Protest Literature; Religion and Literature;American Novel; Autobiography.
Selected Works: Prophets of Protest: New Essays on American Abolitionism (ed., 2006); “Melville, Slavery, and the American Dilemma” (2006); “Frederick Douglass and the Aesthetics of Freedom” (2005); Meteor at War: The John Brown Story (2004); Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (ed., 2003); The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (2002); “Daguerreotyping the National Soul: The Portraits of Southworth and Hawes” (1997, 2005).
email address: stauffer@fas

STEVENS, JASON, Assistant Professor.
Education: BA Haverford College 1997; Ph.D. Columbia University 2005.
Interests : Twentieth Century American Literature; Religious Studies; American Intellectual
History; Film and Mass Culture Studies; Native American Literature; Crime Fiction.
Selected Works : "Bear, Outlaw, and Storyteller: American Frontier Mythology and the Ethnic
Subjectivity of N. Scott Momaday" (2001).
email address: stevens@fas


TESKEY, GORDON, Professor.
Education: BA 1976 Trent University; MA 1977, PhD 1981 University of Toronto.
Interests: English Renaissance Poetry, especially Spenser and Milton; Poetry and Prophecy; History and Theory of Allegory; Critical Theory; Continental Philosophy and Its Relation to Poetry.
Selected Works: Delirious Milton (2006); Allegory and Violence (1996).
email address: gteskey@fas

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VAN DER WOUDE, JOANNE,Assistant Professor.
Education: BA (drs.) 2001, Universiteit van Amsterdam; PhD 2007, University of Virginia.
Interests:American Literature and Culture to 1800; Comparative Colonialisms; Immigrant Writings; Native American Studies; Theories of Memory and Performance.
Selected Works: "New Geographies of Early American Culture" (forthcoming); "How Shall We Sing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land: A Transatlantic Study of the *Bay Psalm Book*" (forthcoming); "Most were Much Affected & Many in Much Distress: The Great Awakening" (2009); "Rewriting the Myth of Black Mortality: W.E.B. Du Bois and Charles Chesnutt" (2007).
email address: jwoude@fas

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VAZ, KATHERINE A., Briggs-Copeland Lecturer.
Education: B.A. 1977 University of California, Santa Barbara; M.F.A. 1991 University of California, Irvine.
Interests: Fiction Writing; Portuguese and Luso-American Literature.
Selected Works: Mariana (1998); Fado & Other Stories (1997); Saudade (1994).
email address: kvaz@fas

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VENDLER, HELEN, University Professor.
Education: A.B. 1954 Emmanuel College; Ph.D. 1960 Harvard.
Interests: English and American Lyric Poetry.
Selected Works: Seamus Heaney (1998);The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (1997); Soul Says (1995); The Odes of John Keats (1983).
WATSON, NICHOLAS, Professor.
Education: B.A., M.A. Cambridge 1980; M. Phil. Oxford 1984; Ph.D. Toronto 1987.
Interests: Medieval English Literature, Theology, and Intellectual History; Poetry; Hagiography; Medieval Latin; Mysticism, Visionary Writing, Magic, Medieval Women’s Writing and Literary Culture.
Select Works: Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love (co-ed., 2005); The Vulgar Tonuue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularities, co-ed (2003); "Desire for the Past" (2000); The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280-1520 (coauthor, 1999); "Censorship and Cultural Change: Vernacular Theology, the Oxford Translation Debate, and Arundel's Constitutions of 1409" (1995); Richard Rolle's "Emendatio Vitae" (edition, 1994); "The Composition of Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Love" (1993); Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority (1991); Anchoritic Spirituality: "Ancrene Wisse" and Associated Works (translation, coauthor, 1991).
email address: nwatson@fas

WOOD, JAMES, Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism.
Education: MA 1988, Jesus College, Cambridge .
Interests: 20th Century Literature; Religion and Literature.
Selected Works: The Broken Estate: Essays in Literature and Belief (Modern Library, 1999); Selected Shorter Fiction of D.H. Lawrence (Modern Library, 1999); The Book Against God (Farrar, Straus, 2003); The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel (Farrar, Straus, 2004).
email address: wood2@fas

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