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Assistant Professor of English
Research Interests: Black diasporic literature, culture, and intellectual history, postcolonial literature

Professor of English
Research Interests: Renaissance drama; early-modern literature and culture; the history of subjectivity; literary theory; philosophy and literature.

Associate Professor of English
Research Interests: American literature and culture; literacy, print culture, and the history of the book;

Associate Professor of English
Research Interests: 18th- and 19th-century American literature, culture, and intellectual history

Professor of English; TSA-Drama & Environmental Studies
Research Interests: Modern Drama;
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Assistant Professor of English
Research Interests: Black diasporic performance, Afro-Brazilian cultural studies, black feminisms, postcolonial theories, contemporary drama, dance studies

Associate Professor of English
Research Interests: Modernism; war culture and war literature; contemporary British literature and culture; the novel, film, and music; Anglophone literature and human rights.

Assistant Professor of English and Dramatic Literature
Research Interests: Afro-modernism; queer studies; American literature and culture; performance studies; the Black Atlantic


Professor of English
Research Interests: Renaissance literature and culture; history of the book; literary theory; theories of writing.
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Professor of English
Research Interests: Victorian literature and culture; critical theory; history of the novel
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Associate Professor of English
Research Interests: Postcolonial and
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Professor of English
Research Interests: English Renaissance literature; interrelationships of literature and the visual arts; literature and disease; Yiddish language and literature.
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Professor, Department of English and Media, Culture and Communication
Research Interests: Media history; American print culture; new media in historical context; techniques of inscription
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Assistant Professor of English
Research Interests: British Romanticism and with colonial Jamaica, rhetoric and rhetorical reading, historical materialism, histories of materialism, Marxist/feminist/colonial studies accounts of dispossesion and "so-called" primitive accumulation
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Professor of English
Research Interests: Contemporary American literature and culture; psychology and literature; ethnicity and literature; creative writing
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Professor of English
Research Interests: authorship attribution, linguistic stylistics, statistical stylistics, corpus stylistics, humanities computing, English language, animal language and cognition, Old English meter
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Professor of English
Research Interests: Medieval literatures and cultures, the global Middle Ages, premodern critical race studies, affect studies, sense studies

Professor of Creative Writing, Director of the Creative Writing Program

Associate Professor of English
Research Interests: 18th-century British literature & culture; Enlightenment philosophy; history & theory of the novel; affect & cognitive studies; Jane Austen; animal studies; Asian American literature

Professor of English
Research Interests: Literature and culture of early modern England; classical literature; poetics; rhetoric; literary theory; history of science; literature/science studies; philology; gender studies; history of sexuality; utopia; science fiction.

Professor of English
Research Interests: Media history and theory; the Marshall McLuhan archives (20th c.); format theory and changing textual ecologies (oral, manuscript, print, digital); eighteenth-century British literature and social and cultural history; conceptual history
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Professor of English, Department Chair
Research Interests: African-American literature, culture, and intellectual history; nineteenth and twentieth-century United States literature; History of the Book
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Henry James Professor of English and American Letters; Professor of English
Research Interests: British romanticism/English and Scottish literature and culture, 1750-1830; twentieth-century and contemporary North American poetries; modernity, mediality, poetics; human sciences and literature
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Silver Professor; Professor of English
Research Interests: Old English language and literature; lexicology and lexicography; medieval literature and culture; history of the English language; culture of religion; philology and philosophy of language; history of the discipline; medievalism; historical poetics.
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Associate Professor
Research Interests: U.S. Latin@
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Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing
Research Interests: poetry; community outreach; writing workshops
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Professor of English and Social & Cultural Analysis
Research Interests: Asian American literature and studies; Latino/Chicano literature and studies; feminist and critical race theory; postcolonial studies; twentieth-century American literature
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Professor of English
Research Interests: American literature and culture; history and culture of New York City; theory and practice of cosmopolitanism; minority discourse; cultural studies; literary historiography
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Associate Professor of English
Research Interests: African American and Caribbean
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Professor of Creative Writing
Research Interests: Creative writing; poetry
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Associate Professor
Research Interests: 19th-century British literature and culture; Rhetoric and Writing Studies; Empire Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Writing Program Administration; First-Year Writing; Genre Theory
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Professor of English
Research Interests: 19th-century British Literature, Victorian Cultural Studies, Education and Childhood Studies
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Dean, The Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
Research Interests: modernist studies; interdisciplinary approaches to literature; architecture and design; gender studies; history of private life; professional cultures; philanthropy and social difference

Clinical Professor of English, Director of the Creative Writing Concentration in English
Research Interests: Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing, Contemporary Global Literature, Race and Whiteness Studies

Associate Professor of English
Research Interests: Medieval literature and culture; technologies of writing; phenomenology of reading; picture theory;
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Assistant Professor of English
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century British literature and culture; affect theory and the history of the emotions; the history of the social sciences, psychoanalysis, and Marxist theory; the theory of the novel
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Associate Professor of English and Social and Cultural Analysis
Research Interests: Toil;
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Professor of English
Research Interests: Postwar and contemporary poetry and art, mostly in North America; site-specificity; lowercase theory; museums; experimental historiography and ethnography
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Assistant Professor of English
Research Interests: Contemporary U.S. multiethnic literature and cultural studies; comparative racialization; women of color feminisms; gender and sexuality studies; visual culture

Assistant Professor of English
Research Interests: Postcolonial literature and theory; anticolonial thought and politics; comparative racialization and histories of antiracism; race science; human rights; Jewish studies/Holocaust studies; memory studies; theories of diaspora; gender and sexuality studies.

Associate Professor of English
Research Interests: Chicana/o and Latina/o studies and literature; US multi-ethnic literature; comparative ethnic studies in the Americas; Borderlands theories and methodologies
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Associate Professor of English
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century British literature; working-class literature and radical political culture; periodicals and

Associate Professor of English
Research Interests: 18th- and 19th-century American literary and cultural history; New York City literary, performance, and intellectual cultures; the Revolutionary Atlantic World
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Clinical Associate Professor in Irish Studies
Research Interests:
Irish Studies; Eighteenth Century British and Irish Culture; British Romantic literature
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Professor of English
Research Interests: Postcolonial literature and theory; decolonization and the global Cold War; spatial and urban theory; questions of sovereignty and political modernity; Marxism and critical theory; Asia-Pacific literature and cultural studies
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Professor at The Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Research Interests: Shakespeare; comparative early modern European drama including Spanish and Italian; Classical and Renaissance epic; early fiction from the ancient novel to Cervantes; narrative theory; theory of allegory; use of performance for interpretation; comparative studies of literature and art history
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Clinical Associate Professor, Director of Program in Dramatic Literature
Research Interests: Theater and Performance Studies; critical and aesthetic theory; art and public policy; directing, devising, and new play development
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Silver Professor; Professor of English
Research Interests: Postcolonial
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