Elizabeth Adams
Visiting Lecturer on English
B.F.A. New York University; M.F.A. Yale School of Drama
Activism/Social Justice, Environment, History, Mass Media/Pop Culture, Comedy/Humor/Satire.
OR, (Off B'way at Women's Project; Magic Theater; numerous other productions); DOG ACT (Flux Theater in NYC; Shotgun Players; Moxie Theater); NEON MIRAGE (Humana Festival 2006 anthology play); THE LISTENER (Crowded Fire; Moxie Theater; workshopped at JAW/West); WET, OR ISABELLA THE PIRATE QUEEN ENTERS THE HORSE LATITUDES (Humana Festival finalist; MOXIE Theater; workshopped at Summer Play Festival); ONE BIG LIE (alt musical co-commissioned/produced by Crowded Fire and Playwrights Foundation); THE RECKLESS RUTHLESS BRUTAL CHARGE OF IT OR, THE TRAIN PLAY, (Crowded Fire; Clubbed Thumb NYC); A WRINKLE IN TIME (commissioned and produced by Syracuse Stage). Publications include OR, in Smith & Kraus' "Best Plays 2009" and by DPS, POODLE WITH GUITAR AND DARK GLASSES in Applause Book's "Best American Short Plays 2000-2001," numerous short plays and monologues in anthologies by Smith & Kraus, Applause, and Heinemann, and several plays with Playscripts, Inc.
M 4-6
Barker Center 071
617 495-5366
adams01@fas.harvard.edu
Daniel Albright
Professor of English
B.A. 1967 Rice University; M.Phil. 1969, Ph.D. 1970 Yale University.
Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature, Music, and Painting; Theory of Comparative Arts; Lyric Poetry; Drama; Science and Literature.
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).
On leave
Barker Center 152
617 384-9395
albright@fas.harvard.edu
David J. Alworth
Assistant Professor of English
B.A. 2006 New York University; Ph.D. 2012 University of Chicago
twentieth-century American literature and culture; visual art; social theory.
"Supermarket Sociology," New Literary History 41.2 (Spring 2010): 301–327; "Pynchon's Malta," Post45: Peer Reviewed (forthcoming).
Th 12-2
Barker 143
617 496-4904
alworth@fas.harvard.edu
David Babcock
Lecturer on English
B.A. 2001 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,; Ph.D. 2011 Brown University
Postcolonial literature and theory. Global Anglophone literature. Law and literature. Globalization studies. Modern/postmodern aesthetics
“Professional Subjectivity and the Attenuation of Character in J. M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K.” (Forthcoming. PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association)
By appointment
Barker Center 015
617 495-2533
babcock@fas.harvard.edu
Josh Bell
Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English
B.A. 1994 Indiana State University; M.A., 1997 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; M.F.A. 1999 University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop; Ph.D. 2013 (Exp.) University of Cincinnati
Poetry, creative writing
No Planets Strike: Poems (2005)
M, T 2:30-3:30
Barker Center 070
617 495-9836
joshuabell@fas.harvard.edu
Homi K. Bhabha
Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities
BA 1970, University of Bombay; MPhil, MA, DPhil 1990, Christ Church, Oxford.
Colonial and Post-Colonial Theory; Cosmopolitanism; 19th and 20th-Century British and other English-Language Literatures.
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).
Th 4-5
Barker Center 134
617 495-0739
hbhabha@fas.harvard.edu
Stephen Burt
Professor of English
B.A., Harvard 1994; Ph. D., Yale 2000.
Poetry, especially 20th and 21st centuries; science fiction; literature and geography; contemporary writing; comics and graphic novels; literature alongside other arts.
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).
Th 1:30 - 4
Barker Center 270
617 496-0285
burt@fas.harvard.edu
Glenda Carpio
Professor
B.A. 1991 Vassar; Ph.D. 2002 University of California at Berkeley.
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.
Laughing Fit to Kill; Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery (Oxford UP. 2008); "Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Voodoo, Fetishism and Stereotype in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada" (American Literature, 2005); "Junot's Prize: A Pulitzer First for Afro-Latino Literature" (http://vidaafrolatina.com/Junots_Prize_A_Pulitze.html) (April 29, 2008); " 'Any Gum, Chum?': Thomas Pynchon and the Culture of Modern War," New Literary History of American Literature, Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, eds. (Harvard University Press, forthcoming ).
W 3-4
Barker Center 234 (AAAS)
617 495-7868
carpio@fas.harvard.edu
Amanda Claybaugh
Professor of English
B.A., Yale, 1993; Ph. D., Harvard, 2001.
Nineteenth-century American literature; Victorian literature; trans-Atlantic literary relations.
The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World (Cornell, 2007).
M 2-4
Barker Center 271
617 496-2235
claybaug@fas.harvard.edu
Daniel Donoghue
John P. Marquand Professor of English
B.A. 1978 University of Dallas; M.Phil. 1981 University College Dublin; Ph.D. 1986 Yale.
Old English; Middle English; History of the Language, Medievalism.
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).
W 2-4, and by appointment
Barker Center 208
617 495-2505
dgd@wjh.harvard.edu
James Engell
Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature
B.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1978 Harvard University.
Eighteenth Century and Restoration; Romanticism; Criticism and Critical Theory; Rhetoric.
Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology (2008); Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money (2005, with Anthony Dangerfield); 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).
T 2-3:30, and by appointment made either in person or via email
Barker Center 073
617 495-5055
jengell@fas.harvard.edu
Philip Fisher
Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English
A.B. 1963 University of Pittsburgh; M.A. 1966; Ph.D. 1971 Harvard.
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.
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).
W 2-3
Barker Center 153
617 496-4961
pjfisher@fas.harvard.edu
Darcy Frey
Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English
BA 1984, Oberlin College.
Narrative journalism; essay; memoir; travel writing; literary science writing.
*George Divoky’s Planet* (forthcoming, Pantheon). *The Last Shot* (1994).
W, Th 3-4
Barker Center 064
617 495-2103
frey@fas.harvard.edu
Marjorie Garber
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies
B.A. 1966 Swarthmore College; Ph.D. 1969 Yale University.
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.
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).
By appointment
Barker Center 215
617 496-4228
garber@fas.harvard.edu
Henry Louis, Jr. Gates
Alphonse Fletcher University Professor
B.A. 1973 Yale; M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1979 University of Cambridge.
African and African-American Literature; Cultural Theory.
Faces of America (2010); Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora (2010); Faces of America (film) (2010); In Search of Our Roots (2009); Lincoln on Race and Slavery (edited, 2009); Looking for Lincoln (film) (2009); African American National Biography (co-edited, 2008); African American Lives 2 (film) (2008); Finding Oprah’s Roots (2007).
M 1:30-3
The Dubois Institute, 104 Mt Auburn, 3rd Floor
617 496-5468
gates@harvard.edu
Jorie Graham
Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric
B.A. New York University 1973; M.F.A. University of Iowa 1978.
English Poetry; American Poetry; Contemporary Poetics; Film Theory; Painting.
All poetry: Place (Ecco 2012); Sea Change (Ecco 2008); 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).
By appointment
Barker Center 263
617 495-2533
Stephen Greenblatt
John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities
B.A. Yale 1964; M.Phil. Cambridge 1966; Ph.D. Yale 1969.
Shakespeare; Early Modern Literature and Culture; Literature of Travel and Exploration; Religion and Literature; Literature and Anthropology; Literary and Cultural Theory.
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011); Shakespeare’s Freedom (2010); Cultural Mobility (2010); 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).
On leave
Barker Center 154
617 495-2101
greenbl@fas.harvard.edu
Katherine Gustafson
College Fellow in the Department of English
B.A. 2000 Kenyon College; Ph.D. 2012 University of Pennsylvania
T 10-12, and by appointment
Barker 014
617 495-2533
kgustafson@fas.harvard.edu
Joseph C. Harris
Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English and Professor of Folklore
B.A. 1961 University of Georgia; B.A. 1967 Cambridge; M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1969 Harvard.
Old English; Old Norse-Icelandic; Folklore and Mythology.
"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).
Tu 4-5, and by appointment
Barker Center 221
617 495-9567
harris@fas.harvard.edu
Amy Hempel
Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English
Whittier College, California State University, Columbia University.
Fiction.
Reasons to Live (1985), At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom (1990), Tumble Home (1997), The Dog of the Marriage (2005), The Collected Stories (2006).
W 2-3, Th 4-5:30, and by appointment
Barker Center 062
617 495-2098
ahempel@fas.harvard.edu
Bret Johnston
Senior Lecturer on English
BA 1996, Texas A&M University; MA 2000, Miami University; MFA 2002, University of Iowa.
Fiction writing.
Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer (2008); Corpus Christi: Stories (Random House, 2004).
W, Th 3-4
Barker Center 067
617 495-5921
bajohnst@fas.harvard.edu
Matthew Kaiser
Associate Professor of English
B.A. 1995 University of Oregon; M.A. 1998, Ph.D. 2004 Rutgers University.
Victorian Literature and Culture; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Neuroaesthetics; Play Studies.
The World in Play: Portraits of a Victorian Concept (Stanford UP, 2011); ed., A Marriage Below Zero by Alan Dale (2011); ed., Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2011); ed., Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture: Volumes I & II (2010); ed., Confessions of a Thug by Philip Meadows Taylor (2010).
By appointment
Barker 065
617 495-9862
mkaiser@fas.harvard.edu
Ju Yon Kim
Assistant Professor of English
B.A. Yale University, 2002, Ph.D. Stanford University 2011.
"Trying on The Yellow Jacket: Performing Chinese Exclusion and Assimilation," (Theatre Journal); "The Difference a Smile Can Make: Interracial Conflict and Cross-Racial Performance in Kimchee and Chitlins," (Modern Drama).
Th 2-4
Barker 066
617-496-2211
juyonkim@fas.harvard.edu
Louis Menand
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English
B.A. 1973 Pomona; M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1980 Columbia.
19th and 20th Century Cultural History.
The Marketplace of Ideas (2010); 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).
W 3-5
Barker 155
617 495-8780
menand@fas.harvard.edu
Elisa New
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature
B.A. Brandeis University 1980; M.A. Columbia University 1982; Ph.D Columbia University 1988.
American poetry; American Literature-1900; Religion and Literature; Jewish Literature.
The Line's Eye: Poetic Experience, American Sight (1999); The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry (1993).
M, W 3-5
Barker 148
617 496-2552
enew@fas.harvard.edu
Leah Price
Professor of English
A.B. Harvard 1991; M. Phil. 1995, Ph.D. Yale 1998.
The novel; narrative theory; history of the book; theories of reading; old and new media; 18th- & 19th-century British and French Culture.
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).
T 2-4
Barker 145
617 496-0573
lprice@fas.harvard.edu
Martin Puchner
Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature
B.A. Konstanz University 1992; Ph.D. Harvard University, 1998.
Modernism; drama; literary theory; world literature
Gen. ed., The Norton Anthology of World Literature (forthcoming); The Drama of Ideas (2010); co-ed., The Norton Anthology of Drama (2009); ed., Modern Drama: Critical Concepts (2008); Poetry of the Revolution (2006); co-ed., Against Theatre (2006); ed., Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen (2003); Stage Fright (2002).
M 1-3
Barker 220
617 495-1139
puchner@fas.harvard.edu
Steven Rozenski
College Fellow in the Department of English
B.A. 2002 Northwestern University; M.Th. 2003 University of Glasgow; Ph.D. 2012 Harvard University
Middle English mysticism and devotion; the translation and reception of German and Dutch religious literature in medieval and early modern England; medieval drama; Richard Rolle, Henry Suso, and Catherine of Siena
“‘Your Ensaumple and Your Mirour’: Hoccleve's Amplification of the Imagery and Intimacy of Henry Suso's Ars Moriendi.” Parergon (2008); “Henry Suso’s Horologium Sapientiae in fifteenth-century France: Images of reading and writing in Brussels Royal Library MS IV 111.” Word & Image (2010); (with Klaus Pietschmann) “Singing the Self: the Autobiography of the fifteenth-century German singer and composer Johannes von Soest.” Early Music History 29 (2010); “Authority and Exemplarity in Henry Suso and Richard Rolle” in The Medieval Mystical Tradition, E.A. Jones, ed. (Boydell & Brewer, 2012); “The Chastising of God's Children from Manuscript to Print.” Études Anglaises (forthcoming).
T 1-2, W 2-3:30
Barker 016
617 495-2533
rozenski@fas.harvard.edu
Daniel Rubin
Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English
B.A. 1979, Brown; MA 1981, Northwestern.
The processes of screenwriting; commercial film writing and originality; the search for meaning in screenwriting.
(Books) How To Write Groundhog Day (2012). (Screenplays): The Water of Life (2012); Summertime (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).
W 1-3
Barker 063
617 495-8959
djrubin@fas.harvard.edu
Peter Sacks
John P. Marquand Professor of English
B.A. 1973 Princeton; M. Phil. 1976 Oxford; Ph.D. 1980 Yale.
English Language Lyric Poetry; Writing of Poetry; Art and Literature.
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).
W 4-5, and by appointment
Barker 268
617 495-2533
Robert Scanlan
Professor of the Practice of Theater
BS 1971, M.I.T.; MA 1974, Rutgers University ; PhD 1976, Rutgers University.
Theatre Directing; Formal Theory; Development of New Work for the Stage; Contemporary Plays and Performance; Playwriting; Dramaturgy, Samuel Beckett.
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).
W 10-12
Barker 266
617 496-5148
scanlan@fas.harvard.edu
Elaine Scarry
Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value
A.B. 1968 Chatham College; A.M., Ph.D. 1974 University of Connecticut.
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.
thinking in an Emergency (2011); 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).
By appointment
Barker 273
617 496-6023
Marc Shell
Irving Babbit Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English
B.A. 1968 Stanford, Ph.D. 1975 Yale.
Economics & Aesthetics; Nationhood & Language Difference; Kinship Studies; Non-English Languages & Literatures of the United States; Disability & Medical Studies; Renaissance; Comparative Literature; Theory.
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).
By appointment
Barker 265
617 496-6538
mshell@fas.harvard.edu
Michael Shinagel
Senior Lecturer on English, Dean of Continuing Education and University Extension School
A.B. 1957 Oberlin; A.M. 1959, Ph.D. 1964 Harvard.
18th Century English Literature; Rise of the Novel; Satire.
Norton Critical Edition of Robinson Crusoe (1975, revised 1993); Concordance to the Poems of Jonathan Swift (1972); Daniel Defoe and Middle-Class Gentility (1968).
By appointment
51 Brattle St, rm 723
617 495-2930
shinagel@hudce.harvard.edu
James Simpson
Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English
B.A. 1976 University of Melbourne, M. Phil. 1980 University of Oxford, Ph.D. 1996 University of Cambridge.
Late medieval Western European Literature, 1150-1550; images and idolatry; hermeneutics and the history of reading.
Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History,co-edited with Brian Cummings, Twenty-First Century Approaches, 2 (Oxford University Press, 2010); Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2010); Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents (2007); Reform and Cultural Revolution , 1350-1547 (2002); (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).
T, Th 2-4
Barker 162
617 495-2983
jsimpson@fas.harvard.edu
Werner Sollors
Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies
Dr. phil. 1975 Freie Universität Berlin.
American Literature; American Studies; Ethnicity; Comparative Literature; Themes and Motifs.
A New Literary History of America (co-ed.with Greil Marcus, 2009); Ethnic Modernism (2008); An Anthology of Interracial Literature: Black-White Contacts in the Old World and the New, (ed. 2003); The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature (co-ed. with Marc Shell, 2000); Neither Black Nor White and Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature (1997); Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture (1986)
On leave
Barker 240
617 495-4146
sollors@fas.harvard.edu
John Stauffer
Professor of English and of African and African American Studies
B.S.E. Duke; M.A.L.S. 1991 Wesleyan; M.A. 1993 Purdue; M.Phil. 1996, Ph.D. 1998 Yale.
American Literature and Culture (especially the 19th Century); American Studies; Civil War; Slavery and Abolitionism; Protest Literature; Religion and Literature;American Novel; Autobiography.
State of Jones (with Sally Jenkins, 2009) (New York Times bestseller, Pulitzer Prize nomination); GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln (2008) (winner of Iowa Author Award for best book in 2009, Boston Authors Club award in 2009, Boston Globe bestseller); The Problem of Evil (with Steven Mintz, 2007)(Association of American University Presses award in 2008); The Works of James McCune Smith (2006); Prophets of Protest (with Tim McCarthy, 2006); Meteor of War: The John Brown Story (with Zoe Trodd, 2004); The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (2002)(winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize in 2002, winner of the Avery Craven award in 2003, Lincoln Prize runner-up in 2003, Magill's Literary Annual award in 2003).
M 2-4, and by appointment
Barker 267
617 495-8440
stauffer@fas.harvard.edu
Gordon Teskey
Professor of English
BA 1976 Trent University; MA 1977, PhD 1981 University of Toronto.
English Renaissance Poetry, especially Spenser and Milton; Poetry and Prophecy; History and Theory of Allegory; Critical Theory; Continental Philosophy and Its Relation to Poetry.
Delirious Milton (2006); Allegory and Violence (1996).
By appointment
Barker 206
617 495-3167
gteskey@fas.harvard.edu
Helen Vendler
Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor
A.B. 1954 Emmanuel College; Ph.D. 1960 Harvard.
English and American Lyric Poetry.
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill (2010) Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries (2010); Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (2007); Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery (2005); Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats (2004); Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath (2003); Seamus Heaney (1998); The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (1997); Soul Says (1995); The Odes of John Keats (1983).
T 3-4, and by appointment
Barker 205
617 496-6028
vendler@fas.harvard.edu
Andrew Warren
Assistant Professor of English
BA 2001, Dartmouth; PhD 2009, University of California at Irvine.
Romantic Poetry; 18th- & 19th-Century British Literature; Philosophy & Critical Theory; Satire; the Gothic Novel; Postcolonial Theory & Novel.
"Unentangled Intermixture: Love and Materialism in Shelley's Epipsychidion" (Keats-Shelley Journal, 2010); "Designing and 'Undrawing' Veils: Anxiety and Authorship in Radcliffe's The Italian" (The Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation, forthcoming); “Coleridge, Philosophy, Orient,” forthcoming chapter in Coleridge and the Orient, ed. Kaz Oishi, Seamus Perry, and David Vallins (Continuum, 2012-13).
On leave
Barker 069
617 495-8441
warren@fas.harvard.edu
Nicholas Watson
Professor of English
B.A., M.A. Cambridge 1980; M. Phil. Oxford 1984; Ph.D. Toronto 1987.
Medieval English Literature, Theology, and Intellectual History; Poetry; Hagiography; Medieval Latin; Mysticism, Visionary Writing, Magic, Medieval Women's Writing and Literary Culture.
Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love (co-ed., 2005); The Vulgar Tongue: 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).
On leave
Barker 214
617 495-0969
nwatson@fas.harvard.edu
Leah Jane Whittington
Assistant Professor of English
B.A. 2002 Harvard University; Ph.D. 2011 Princeton University
Early Modern English Literature; Classical Tradition and Reception; Continental Renaissance; Neo-Latin; Milton
“Shakespeare’s Vergil: Empathy and The Tempest” in ed. Patrick Gray and John Cox, Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press)
W 2-3, Th 3-4
Barker 275
617 496-0291
lwhittington@fas.harvard.edu
James Wood
Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism
MA 1988, Jesus College, Cambridge.
20th Century Literature; Religion and Literature.
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); How Fiction Works (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008).
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