#  People 

 



 Faculty Administration Graduate Students Emeriti Associates 

## Faculty

 

 

  [### Glenda Carpio

 ](/people/glenda-carpio) <carpio@fas.harvard.edu>Chair of the Department of English

Harvard College Professor

Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature 

*Currently accepting graduate student advisees 

 

 

 Education: B.A., Vassar (1991) Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley (2002) Interests: The Literature, History and Culture of New World Slavery; African-American Literature and Visual Art; Anglophone Caribbean Literature; Native American and Latino... 

 

 

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   [### Josh Bell

 ](/people/josh-bell) <joshuabell@fas.harvard.edu>Senior Lecturer on Poetry 

 

 

 Education: B.A., Indiana State University (1994) M.A., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (1997) M.F.A., University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop (1999) Ph.D., University of Cincinnati (2013) Interests: Poetry, creative writing Selected Works: No... 

 

 

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   [### Homi Bhabha

 ](/people/homi-bhabha) <hbhabha@fas.harvard.edu>Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities

(On leave Fall 2025) 

*Currently accepting graduate student advisees

 

 

 Education: B.A., University of Bombay (1970) MPhil., M.A., D.Phil, Christ Church, Oxford (1990) Interests: Cosmopolitanism; human rights in the context of aesthetics and culture; the works of Joseph Conrad, Walter Benjamin, Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, V... 

 

 

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   [### Beth Blum

 ](/people/beth-blum) <bblum@fas.harvard.edu>Professor of English

*Currently accepting graduate student advisees

 

 

 Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2014) Interests: Modern and contemporary literature; self-help and therapeutic culture; the history of reading; sociology; medical humanities; the conduct of life; temporality. I am a scholar of modernist and... 

 

 

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   [### Stephanie Burt

 ](/people/stephanie-burt) <burt@fas.harvard.edu>Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English

*Currently accepting graduate student advisees

 

 

 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: We are... 

 

 

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   [### Tina Chang

 ](/people/tina-chang) <tchang@fas.harvard.edu>Visiting Professor of English

 

 

 Education: B.A., Binghamton University (1991); M.F.A., Columbia University (1997) Interests: Poetry, hybrid writing, Asian American poetry, cross disciplinary collaborations. Selected Works: LION (forthcoming, W.W. Norton, September 2026), Hybrida (W.W... 

 

 

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   [### Amanda Claybaugh

 ](/people/amanda-claybaugh) <claybaug@fas.harvard.edu>Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of English

Dean of Undergraduate Education

*Currently not accepting graduate student advisees

 

 

 Education: B.A., Yale (1993) Ph.D., Harvard (2001) Interests: Nineteenth-century American literature; Victorian literature; trans-Atlantic literary relations. Selected Works: The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World... 

 

 

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   [### Teju Cole

 ](/people/teju-cole)Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing

(On leave Spring 2026) 

 

 

 Education: B.A. 1996 Kalamazoo College M.A. 2000 SOAS, University of London M. Phil. 2006 Columbia University Interests: Fiction writing. Literary Criticism. Photography Criticism. Selected Works: Blind Spot (2017), Known and Strange Things (2016), Every... 

 

 

      ![Teju Cole](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/english/files/teju_cole_at_ncrm_by_yasmine_omari_vertical.jpg?itok=FUQh3Hjj) 

 

 

 

   [### Melissa Cundieff

 ](/people/melissa-cundieff) <melissacundieff@fas.harvard.edu>Lecturer on English 

 

 

 Education: B.A. 2009 Arizona State University M.F.A. 2012 Vanderbilt University Interests: Poetry and Creative Nonfiction writing; visual art and illustration; dream logic; memory and memory loss; grief and haunting Selected Works: Darling Nova, 2018 

 

 

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   [### Maggie Doherty

 ](/people/maggie-doherty) <doherty4@fas.harvard.edu>Visiting Lecturer on English

 

 

 Education: BA Yale (2007) PhD Harvard (2015) Interests: Narrative nonfiction, magazine journalism, literary criticism Maggie Doherty is the author of The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s (2020), which won the... 

 

 

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   [### Daniel Donoghue

 ](/people/daniel-donoghue) <dgd@wjh.harvard.edu>John P. Marquand Professor of English

(On leave Fall 2025) 

*Currently accepting graduate student advisees

 

 

 Education: B.A., University of Dallas (1978) M.Phil., University College Dublin (1981) Ph.D., Yale (1986) Interests: Old English; Middle English; History of the Language, Medievalism, Cognitive Literary Studies, Digital Humanities, Comedy. Selected Works... 

 

 

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   [### Darcy Frey

 ](/people/darcy-frey) <frey@fas.harvard.edu>Senior Lecturer on English

 

 

 Education: B.A., Oberlin College (1984) Interests: Narrative journalism; essay; memoir; travel writing; literary science writing. Selected Works: “George Divoky’s Planet” (forthcoming, Pantheon). *The Last Shot* (1994). 

 

 

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## Administration

 

 

  [### Glenda Carpio, Chair

 ](/people/glenda-carpio-chair) <carpio@fas.harvard.edu>Chair of the Department of English

Harvard College Professor

Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature 

 

 

 Education: B.A., Vassar (1991) Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley (2002) Interests: The Literature, History and Culture of New World Slavery; African-American Visual Art; Anglophone Caribbean Literature; Theories on Memory and Textuality; Gender... 

 

 

      ![carpio](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/english/files/carpio_1.jpg?itok=0Y3SEZ1_) 

 

 

 

   [### Stephanie Balakrishnan

 ](/people/stephanie-balakrishnan) <sbalakrishnan@fas.harvard.edu>Communications / Graduate Program Assistant

 

 

 

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   [### Lauren Bimmler

 ](/people/lauren-bimmler) <lbimmler@fas.harvard.edu>Undergraduate Program Administrator

 

 

 Lauren oversees the administration of the undergraduate concentration, and is a resource to concentrators and prospective concentrators on matters of program requirements, creative writing, advising, course selection, honors opportunities (senior thesis... 

 

 

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   [### Rhiannon Gentile

 ](/people/rhiannon-gentile) <rgentile@fas.harvard.edu>Faculty Assistant

 

 

 

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   [### Case Q. Kerns

 ](/people/case-q-kerns) <cqkerns@fas.harvard.edu>Staff Assistant: Front Desk

 

 

 

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   [### Ju Yon Kim, DGS

 ](/people/ju-yon-kim-dgs) <juyonkim@fas.harvard.edu>Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English, Harvard College Professor

Director of Graduate Studies 

 

 

 Education: B.A., Yale University (2002) Ph.D., Stanford University (2011) Interests: Asian American literature; modern and contemporary theater; performance studies. Selected Works: “Between Paper and Performance: Suspicion, Race, and Casting in The Piano... 

 

 

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   [### Sol Kim-Bentley

 ](/people/sol-kim-bentley) <svkim@fas.harvard.edu>Financial Associate

 

 

 Sol helps department affiliates with anything related to money, hiring research assistants and the related processes, paying invoices or getting reimbursed, and identifying appropriate resources at the university. 

 

 

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   [### Lee Marmor

 ](/people/lee-marmor) [lee\_marmor@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:lee_marmor@fas.harvard.edu)Administrative Coordinator

 

 

 

      ![Image of Lee Marmor](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/english/files/lee_profile_pic.jpg?itok=dC0MUSKt) 

 

 

 

   [### Anna McDonald

 ](/people/anna-mcdonald) <acmcdon@fas.harvard.edu>Department Administrator

 

 

 

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   [### Tara K. Menon, ADUS

 ](/people/tara-k-menon-adus) <taramenon@fas.harvard.edu>Assistant Professor of English

Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies 

 

 

 Education: B.A., Columbia University (2011) M.A., New York University (2014) Ph.D., New York University (2019) I Interests: the novel; realism; narrative theory; nineteenth-century British literature; contemporary fiction, climate fiction Selected Works:... 

 

 

      ![Tara K. Menon](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/english/files/tarakmenon.jpeg?itok=hCjrIWM4) 

 

 

 

   [### Emmett Miller

 ](/people/emmett-miller) [emily\_miller@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:emily_miller@fas.harvard.edu)Undergraduate Program Assistant

 

 

 

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   [### Daniela Nieva

 ](/people/daniela-nieva) <dnieva@fas.harvard.edu>Faculty Assistant to Stephen Greenblatt

 

 

 

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## Graduate Students

 

 

  [### E Ambrose

 ](/people/elizabeth-ambrose) <elizabethambrose@fas.harvard.edu>PhD Candidate

 

 

 Field: 20th/21st Century Literature Interests: Queer theory, poetry and poetics, genre studies, ecocriticism, African American literature 

 

 

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   [### Aditya Banerjee 

 ](/people/aditya-banerjee) <adityabanerjee@g.harvard.edu>PhD Candidate

 

 

 Field: 18th Century / Enlightenment Interests: Law and Literature, Novel Theory, Ephemera, the East India Company 

 

 

      ![Aditya Banerjee](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/english/files/aditya_banerjee_1.jpg?itok=cczwGFq6) 

 

 

 

   [### Nicholas Belmore

 ](/people/nicholas-belmore) <nicholasbelmore@g.harvard.edu>PhD Candidate

 

 

 Field: Renaissance Interests: Medieval; Criticism and Theory; Multiethnic Literature of the US; Drama and Performance; Poetry 

 

 

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   [### Sam Bozoukov

 ](/people/samuel-bozoukov) <sbozoukov@fas.harvard.edu>PhD Candidate

 

 

 Field: Renaissance Interests: Symbol, Allegory, and Poetics; Aurality and Sound Studies; John Milton and English Renaissance; British and American Romanticism; Authorship and reader response theories; Philosophies of perception, aesthetics &amp; imagination. 

 

 

      ![Sam Bozoukov](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/english/files/bozoukov1.png?itok=ko6GWJB0) 

 

 

 

   [### Katherine Budinger

 ](/people/katherine-budinger)PhD Candidate

 

 

 Field: 19th Century British/Romantics/Victorian Interests: Literature and Visual Art and Comparative Literature, Criticism and Theory, History of the Book, Special Collections and Archives, and Aesthetics 

 

 

      ![Katherine Budinger](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/KatherineBudinger2025.jpg?h=25209a56&itok=1dPCKb1W) 

 

 

 

   [### Sofia Carbonell-Realme

 ](/people/sofia-carbonell-realme) <scarbonellrealme@fas.harvard.edu>PhD Candidate

 

 

 Field: Medieval Interests: Criticism &amp; Theory; Cultural Studies 

 

 

      ![sofia carbonell realme](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/english/files/sofia_carbonell_realme.jpeg?itok=TbtXYbJ7) 

 

 

 

   [### Thomas Casalaspi

 ](/people/thomas-casalaspi) <casalaspi@g.harvard.edu>PhD Candidate

 

 

 Field: Poetry Interests: Poetry from Chaucer to Bishop; Milton; British and American Romanticism; High Modernism 

 

 

      ![thomas casalaspi](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/english/files/casalaspi_-_uncropped_harvard_profile_1_0_0.jpg?itok=jJO70BJd) 

 

 

 

   [### Yooj Chun

 ](/people/yoojung-chun) [yoojung\_chun@g.harvard.edu](mailto:yoojung_chun@g.harvard.edu)PhD Candidate

 

 

 Field: Renaissance Interests: Medieval, Renaissance, The Novel, Drama and Performance, Medical Humanities, Comparative Literature, Transnational Anglophone / Postcolonial literature 

 

 

      ![Yoojung Chun Profile Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/english/files/2019-02-08-15-42-47_1_0.jpg?itok=WRvuqypB) 

 

 

 

   [### Kritika Dixit

 ](/people/kritika-dixit) <kritikadixit@fas.harvard.edu>PhD Candidate

 

 

 Field: Long 18th Century Interests: History of Atlantic Slavery, 19th-century British/Romantics, Criticism and Theory 

 

 

      ![Kritika Dixit](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-10/Kritika%20Dixit.jpeg?itok=wrRlYMhq) 

 

 

 

   [### Sage Doane

 ](/people/sage-doane)PhD Candidate

 

 

 Field: Poetry Interests: Renaissance/Early Modern; Medieval; Music and Literature 

 

 

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   [### Caroline Engelmayer

 ](/people/caroline-engelmayer-0) <cengelmayer@fas.harvard.edu>PhD Candidate 

 

 

 Field: Renaissance Interests: History of the Book, Literature and Visual Art and Comparative Literature 

 

 

      ![Caroline Engelmayer](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/english/files/caroline_engelmayer.jpg?itok=ngwJWWs9) 

 

 

 

   [### Harriet French

 ](/people/harriet-french-0) <harrietfrench@g.harvard.edu>PhD Candidate 

 

 

 Field: Poetry Interests: 20th Century American; Music and Literature; Cognitive Psychology and Literary Criticism 

 

 

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## Emeriti

 

 

  [### Lawrence Buell

 ](/people/lawrence-buell) <lbuell@fas.harvard.edu>Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature, Emeritus

 

 

 Interests: American Literature Selected Works: Literary Transcendentalism (1973), New England Literary Culture (1986), The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (1995), Writing for an Endangered World... 

 

 

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   [### Leo Damrosch

 ](/people/leo-damrosch) <damrosch@fas.harvard.edu>Ernest Bernbaum Research Professor of Literature, Emeritus

 

 

 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: The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age... 

 

 

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   [### James Engell

 ](/people/james-engell) <jengell@fas.harvard.edu>Gurney Research Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature

 

 

 Education: B.A., Harvard University (1973) Ph.D., Harvard University (1978) Interests: Eighteenth Century and Restoration; Romanticism; Criticism and Critical Theory; Rhetoric; Environmental Studies. Selected Works: The Call of Classical Literature in the... 

 

 

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   [### Philip Fisher

 ](/people/philip-fisher) <pjfisher@fas.harvard.edu>Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English, Emeritus

 

 

 Education: A.B., University Pittsburgh (1963) M.A., Harvard University (1966) Ph.D., Harvard University (1971) Interests: American Novel; English Novel; Cultural Theory; Modernism; American Art and its Cultural Institutions; The Philosophy and Literature... 

 

 

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   [### Marjorie Garber

 ](/people/marjorie-garber) <garber@fas.harvard.edu>William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, Emerita

 

 

 Education: B.A., Swarthmore College (1966) Ph.D., Yale University (1969) Interests: Shakespeare; Modern Drama, Dramatic Theory, and Performance; Cultural Studies; Psychoanalysis and Literature; Renaissance Drama; Gender Theory; Visual Studies; Media... 

 

 

      ![Marjorie Garber](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/english/files/mgarber_1_0.jpg?itok=kEdlJtav) 

 

 

 

   [### Jorie Graham

 ](/people/jorie-graham)Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric Emerita

 

 

 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: Fast (2017); Place (Ecco 2012); Sea Change (Ecco 2008)... 

 

 

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   [### Joseph C Harris

 ](/people/joseph-c-harris) <harris@fas.harvard.edu>Francis Lee Higginson Research Professor of English and Research Professor of Folklore

 

 

 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: Child’s Children: Ballad Study and Its Legacies , ed. (2012); ‘Speak... 

 

 

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   [### Robert Kiely

 ](/people/robert-kiely) <rkiely@fas.harvard.edu>Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English, Emeritus

 

 

 Education: B.A. 1953 Amherst College; Ph.D 1962 Harvard University. Selected Works: Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints (2010); Still Learning: Spiritual Sketches from a Professor’s Life (1999); Reverse Tradition, Postmodern Fiction and the... 

 

 

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   [### Jamaica Kincaid

 ](/people/jamaica-kincaid) <jkincaid@fas.harvard.edu>Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence, Emerita

 

 

 Selected Works: See Now Then (2013); Best American Travel Essays (2005, Editor); Among Flowers, A Walk In The Himalaya (2004); Mr. Potter (2002); Talk Stories (2001); Poetics Of Place(1999) My Favorite Plant (1998, Editor); My Garden Book (1998); My... 

 

 

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   [### David Perkins

 ](/people/david-perkins) <davidperkinsnh@gmail.com>James P. Marquand Professor of English and American Literature, Emeritus

 

 

 Education: B.A. 1951 Harvard University; A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1957 Harvard University. Interests: Romanticism Selected Works: Romanticism and Animal Rights (2003); English Romantic Writers (1995); Is Literary History Possible (1992); A History of Modern... 

 

 

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   [### Michael Pollan

 ](/people/michael-pollan) [michael\_pollan@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:michael_pollan@fas.harvard.edu)Professor of the Practice of Non-Fiction, Emeritus

 

 

 Education: B.A., Bennington College (1977) M.A., Columbia University (1981) Interests: Nature; the food system; altered states of consciousness Selected Works: The Botany of Desire (2001); The Omnivore’s Dilemma (2006); In Defense of Food (2008); Cooked... 

 

 

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   [### Peter Sacks

 ](/people/peter-sacks)John P. Marquand Professor of English Emeritus

 

 

 Education: B.A., Princeton University (1973) M.Phil., Oxford University (1976) Ph.D., Yale University (1980) Interests: English Language Lyric Poetry; Writing of Poetry; Art and Literature. Selected Works: Necessity (2002); O Wheel (poems, 2000); Natal... 

 

 

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## Associates

 

 

  [### Valeria Luiselli

 ](/people/valeria-luiselli) <vluiselli@fas.harvard.edu>Associate of the Department of English

 

 

 Education: B.A., National Autonomous University of Mexico (2007) PhD, Columbia University (2015) Valeria Luiselli is the author of Sidewalks (2013), Faces in the Crowd (2014), The Story of My Teeth (2015), Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions... 

 

 

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   [### Roger Stoddard

 ](/people/roger-stoddard) <stoddard@fas.harvard.edu>Associate of the Department of English

 

 

 Education: A.B. 1957 Brown Interests: Rare books; Bibliography Selected Works: A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820 (2012); A Library-Keeper’s Business (2002); Edmond Jabès in Bibliography–... 

 

 

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   [### Andrew Warren

 ](/people/andrew-warren) <warren@fas.harvard.edu>Associate of the Department of English

 

 

 Education: B.A., Dartmouth College (2001) Ph.D., University of California at Irvine (2009) Interests: Romantic Poetry; 18th- &amp; 19th-Century British Literature; Philosophy &amp; Critical Theory; Satire; the Gothic Novel; Postcolonial Theory &amp; Novel. Selected... 

 

 

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