Student Directory

Postcolonial Studies, Environmental Humanities, Queer Theory, Disability Studies

Early modern literature; John Milton; seventeenth century religion; history of the university; scholasticism; literature and philosophy

20/21st century, race, gender and sexuality, capitalism, film and media, Asian diaspora, affect and emotions

Late medieval French and English literature, Old English literature, medieval women’s writing, premodern critical race studies, psychoanalysis, histories of race, sexuality, and childbirth

Romantic/18th-Century Poetry; Ecocriticism; Cultures of Exhaustion 

18th-century British literature, history of criticism, philosophy, and aesthetics

Shakespeare; Early Modern Drama; History of Race; Whiteness Studies; Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies; Renaissance

Renaissance epic; military history; elegy and memorial; social history and critical archival studies; Spenser and Shakespeare; medieval romance; humanism and pedagogy; premodern gender, race, and class; popular readership and reception

20th and 21st century African American literature, contemporary American literature, Black political thought

Irish Literature, Literary Modernism, Linguistics

Early modern literature; History of the book; drama; persuasion & politics; restoration theatre; new theatre history; Shakespeare; women and the law; the perception of women in popular culture

Nineteenth-century African American Ecopoetics & Georgia Douglas Johnson

Middle English literature; medieval allegory; vernacularity and translation; histories of reading; sexual violence; feminist and queer studies

18th century British literature; philosophy & literature; affect & sentimentality; elegy; trauma studies; Sterne

Early American literature; media history; history of science; history of education; digital bibliography; information retrieval; computer vision; constraint-based writing

19th-century African American literature; Theories of violence; Black religion

gender and sexuality; reproductive failure; affect; posthumanisms; film and media; 20th- / 21st-century American

20th/21st-century African American and black diasporic literature; poetry and poetics; history of the book; Marxism; postcolonial studies and decolonial aesthetics; media studies; creative writing

Early modern/Renaissance literature; drama and performance; translation and classical reception; literary history and periodization; sensation and the self; digital humanities; time and temporality

American literature, cold war, environment, nuclearism, empire

17th & 18th cen. science and literature: optics; experimental philosophy; taxonomy; georgics; history of the book and reading; Milton, Cavendish, Thomson; Bacon, Charleton, Hooke, Power, Boyle, Newton, Wilkins, Linnaeus

Early Modern; history of science; gender and sexuality; comparative literature.

20th-/21st-century U.S. Black Literatures (African American, Afro-Latinx, and other Black diasporic), Radical Protest Literatures of the U.S., Black Studies, Critical Race Theories, Affect Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Histories of Science and Medicine, and Body Studies

Modernism, Postcolonial Literature, Global Anglophone, South Asian Literature, Literary Theory

Late medieval devotional poetry in English and Latin; manuscript studies; historical prosody/metrics; philosophy of language; philology/theology; ‘long’ Anthropocene studies

19th century British literature; contagious disease; the Black Atlantic; gender & sexuality

Old English; medieval Latin; poetry, poetics, aesthetics; philosophy of mind; didactic and devotional literature

18th- and 19th- century British; William Blake; art history and visual studies; media studies; environmental humanities; history of science; book history; digital humanities; disability studies; material culture