Emeriti

Education: B.A., University of Melbourne (1976)
M.Phil., University of Oxford (1980)
Ph.D., University of Cambridge (1996)

Interests: Late medieval and Reformation Western European Literature, 1150-1680.

Selected Works:
Permanent Revolution: The Reformation...

Education: D. Phil. 1975 Freie Universität Berlin
Interests: American Literature; American Studies; Ethnicity; Comparative Literature; Themes and Motifs.
Selected Works: The Temptation of Despair (2014); A New Literary History of America (co-ed.with Greil...

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...

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...

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 Useful...

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...

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...

Education: B.A., Stanford University (1968)
Ph.D. Yale University (1975)

Interests: Economics & Aesthetics; Nationhood & Language Difference; Kinship Studies; Non-English Languages & Literatures of the United States; Disability & Medical Studies...

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 Command...

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 (2013...