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| ALBRIGHT,
DANIEL, Professor.
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.harvard.edu |
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APPLEFORD, AMY, Lecturer. B.A 1997, M.A 1998 University of Guelph; Ph.D 2005 University of Western Ontario Interests: medieval poetry; medieval and early modern drama; medieval and Reformation religion and literature; continental philosophy and literature Selected Works: “Dance of Death: John Lydgate, John Carpenter, and the Mercer's Company” (forthcoming); “‘Comene Course of Prayer': Julian of Norwich and Late Medieval Death Culture” (forthcoming) email address: applefor@fas.harvard.edu |
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BIRKERTS, SVEN, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Nonfiction. B.A. University of Michigan. |
| BUELL, LAWRENCE,
Professor. 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.harvard.edu |
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CARPIO, GLENDA,
Assistant Professor, 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 Reeds Flight to Canada" (forthcoming); "Archives of Bamboo and Wild Plantain: Derek Walcotts Omeros" (forthcoming). email address: carpio@fas.harvard.edu |
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CONNOR, J.
D., Assistant Professor. 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.harvard.edu |
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DAMROSCH,
LEO, Professor. 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.harvard.edu |
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DURANTAYE, LELAND,
Assistant Professor. 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: Style is Matter. The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov, Cornell University Press (forthcoming July 2007); “Biographical Illusion and Methodological Reality. On Pierre Bourdieu's Esquisse pour une auto-analyse.” Diacritics (2006); “The Pattern of Cruelty and the Cruelty of Pattern in Vladimir Nabokov.” The Cambridge Quarterly 2006; “Eichmann, Empathy, and Lolita .” Philosophy and Literature (2006); “The Cratylic Impulse. Constraint and Work in the Works and Constraints of OuLiPo” (2005); “The Suspended Substantive. Animals and Men in Giorgio Agamben's The Open” (2005); “On Cynicism, Dogs, Hair, Elfriede Jelinek and the Nobel Prize” (2005); “The Exceptional Life of the State: Giorgio Agamben's State of Exception.” Genre (2005). email address: deladur@fas.harvard.edu |
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DONOGHUE,
DANIEL, Professor. 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 |
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ENGELL, JAMES,
Professor. 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.harvard.edu |
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FISHER, PHILIP,
Professor. 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.harvard.edu |
| 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. BA 1966, Swarthmore; MPhil, PhD 1969, Yale. 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., Thje Turn to Ethics (2000); ed., Secret Agents: The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America (1995); ed., Media Spectacles (1993). email address: garber@fas.harvard.edu |
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GATES, HENRY
LOUIS, JR., W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities. 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.harvard.edu |
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GRAHAM, JORIE,
Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric. 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). |
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GREENBLATT,
STEPHEN, Cogan University Professor of the Humanities. 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.harvard.edu |
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HARRIS,
JOSEPH C., Professor. 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.harvard.edu |
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JOHNSON, BARBARA,
Professor. 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.harvard.edu |
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JOHNSTON, BRET , Briggs-Copeland Lecturer. BA 1996, Texas A&M University ; MA 2000, Miami University ; MFA 2002, University of Iowa . |
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KAISER, MATTHEW, Assistant Professor. B.A. 1995 University of Oregon; M.A. 1998, Ph.D. 2004 Rutgers University. |
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KIELY, ROBERT,
Professor. 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 Professors 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.harvard.edu |
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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) |
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LEWALSKI,
BARBARA, Professor. 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.harvard.edu |
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LYMAN, ELIZABETH
DYRUD, Assistant Professor. 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.harvard.edu |
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MARTINEZ,
MICHELE, Lecturer.
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 Rossettis Petrarca, Sister Arts and Artists: Elizabeth Barrett Brownings Aurora Leigh and the Life of Harriet Hosmer (2003) email address: mcmartin@fas.harvard.edu |
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MENAND,
LOUIS, Professor.
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.harvard.edu |
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NEW, ELISA,
Professor. 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.harvard.edu |
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NOHRNBERG,
PETER, Assistant
Professor. 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.harvard.edu |
| PICKER, JOHN, Associate Professor. B.A. 1992 Swarthmore; M.A. 1995, Ph.D. 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.harvard.edu |
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| PRICE, LEAH, Professor.
A.B. Harvard 1991; M. Phil. 1995, Ph.D. Yale 1998 Interests: The Novel & Narrative Theory; Histories & Theories of Reading; Anthologies; Writing Technology; Journalism; 18th- & 19th-century British and French Culture. Selected Works: The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel (2000, reprint 2003) The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature (co-ed., 2005); Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture (2005); “Reading: The State of the Discipline” (2005); “Reader's Block” (2004); “Stenographic Masculinity” (2005); “Genre et lectorat” (2003); “Reading (and Not Reading) Richardson” (2000); “Ferrier's Pedantic Poetics” (2000); “George Eliot and the Production of Consumers” (1997); “Genlis' Fictions of Calumny” (1997); “The Executor's Hand in Sir Charles Grandison” (1996); “The Life of Charlotte Brontë and the Death of Miss Eyre” (1995); “‘Vies Privées et scandaleuses': Marie-Antoinette and the Public Interest” (1992). email address: lprice@fas.harvard.edu |
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RICHARDS,
PETER, Briggs-Copleland Lecturer.
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.harvard.edu |
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SACKS, PETER, Professor.
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). |
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SCANLAN,
ROBERT, Professor of the Practice of Theater. 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.harvard.edu |
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SCARRY, ELAINE, Professor.
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). |
| SHELL, MARC, Professor.
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.harvard.edu |
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SHINAGEL, MICHAEL, Senior
Lecturer; Dean of Continuing Education and University Extension. 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.harvard.edu |
| SIMPSON, JAMES, Professor. 1976 B.A. University of Melbourne, 1980 M. Phil. University of Oxford, 1996 Ph.D. University of Cambridge. Interests: Late medieval Western European Literature, 1150-1550; images and idolatry; hermeneutics and the history of reading. Selected Works: “Faith and Hermeneutics: Pragmatism versus Pragmatism” (2003); Reform and Cultural Revolution , 1350-1547 (2002); (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). email address: jsimpson@fas.harvard.edu |
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SOLLORS,
WERNER, Professor. 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 include "From 'English-Only' to 'English-Plus' in American Studies" Interroads website at http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/interroads/sollors2.html email address: sollors@fas.harvard.edu |
| STAUFFER, JOHN, Professor. 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.harvard.edu |
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STEVENS, JASON, Assistant Professor. BA Haverford College 1997; Ph.D. Columbia University 2005. |
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TESKEY, GORDON, Professor.
BA 1976 Trent University; MA 1977, PhD 1981 University of Toronto. |
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KATHERINE A.,
Briggs-Copeland Lecturer. 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.harvard.edu |
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| VENDLER, HELEN, University
Professor. 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). |
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WATSON, NICHOLAS, Professor.
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 Womens 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.harvard.edu |
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WOOD,
JAMES, Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism. MA 1988, Jesus College, Cambridge . |
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