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The Department of English at New York University studies and teaches literature written in English from all periods and places.

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Faculty Bookshelf

Sovereignty and Intelligence: Spying and Court Culture in the English Renaissance

John Michael Archer

Citizen Shakespeare: Freemen and Aliens in the Language of the Plays

John Michael Archer

Old Worlds: Egypt, Southwest Asia, India, and Russia in Early Modern English Writing

John Michael Archer

Technically Alive: Shakespeare's Sonnets

John Michael Archer

Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States

Thomas Augst

Libraries as Agencies of Culture

Thomas Augst

Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America

Jennifer Baker

The Making of Chaucer's English

Christopher Cannon

The Grounds of English Literature

Christopher Cannon

Middle English Literature

Christopher Cannon

From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400

Christopher Cannon

Land/Scape/Theater

Una Chaudhuri

No Man's Stage: A Semiotic Study of Jean Genet's Major Plays

Una Chaudhuri

Rachel’s Brain and other Storms: The Performance Scripts of Rachel Rosenthal

Una Chaudhuri

Rachel’s Brain and other Storms Book Cover

Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama

Una Chaudhuri

Research Theatre, Climate Change, and the Ecocide Project

Una Chaudhuri

Animal Acts: Performing Species Today

Una Chaudhuri

Reading Children Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America

Patricia Crain

The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter

Patricia Crain

Culture in Camouflage: War, Empire, and Modern British Literature

Patrick Deer

Chaucer and the Text: Two Views of the Author

Carolyn Dinshaw

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing

Carolyn Dinshaw

Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern

Carolyn Dinshaw

Chaucer's Sexual Poetics

Carolyn Dinshaw

Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England

Juliet Fleming

Cultural Graphology: Writing after Derrida

Juliet Fleming

The Idea in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel

Elaine Freedgood

Victorian Writing about Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World

Elaine Freedgood

Factory Production in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Elaine Freedgood

Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste

Toral Jatin Gajarawala

Heartbreakers: Women and Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature

Josephine Gattuso Hendin

Vulnerable People: A View of American Fiction Since 1945.

Josephine Gattuso Hendin

The World of Flannery O'Connor

Josephine Gattuso Hendin

Plague Writing in Early Modern England

Ernest B. Gilman

Iconoclasm and Poetry in the English Reformation: Down Went Dagon

Ernest B. Gilman

Iconoclasm and Poetry in the English Reformation Book Cover

The Curious Perspective: Literary and Pictorial Wit in the Seventeenth Century

Ernest B. Gilman

Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium: 1900–1970

Ernest B. Gilman

Yiddish Poetry and the Tuberculosis Sanatorium Book Cover

Recollecting the Arundel Circle: Discovering the Past, Recovering the Future

Ernest B. Gilman

Recollecting the Arundel Circle Book Cover

Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture

Lisa Gitelman

Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents

Lisa Gitelman

"Raw Data" is an Oxymoron

Lisa Gitelman

Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

John Guillory

What's Left of Theory?: New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory

John Guillory

Poetic Authority: Spenser, Milton, and Literary History

John Guillory

Shakespeare's Perfume: Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan

Richard Halpern

Norman Rockwell: The Underside of Innocence

Richard Halpern

The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation: English Renaissance Culture and the Genealogy of Capital

Richard Halpern

The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation Book Cover

Shakespeare among the Moderns

Richard Halpern

Eclipse of Action: Tragedy and Political Action

Richard Halpern

Framing the Margins: The Social Logic of Postmodern Culture

Phillip Brian Harper

Are We Not Men?: Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African-American Identity

Phillip Brian Harper

Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations

Phillip Brian Harper

Abstractionist Aesthetics: Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture

Phillip Brian Harper

The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim's Progress

Isabel Hofmeyr

Language and Style in The Inheritors

David Hoover

Stylistics: Prospect & Retrospect

David Hoover

Writing and the Modern Stage

Julia Jarcho

Minor theater: three plays

Julia Jarcho

Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature

Gene Jarrett

Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature

Gene Jarrett

Victorian Discourses on Sexuality and Religion

John Maynard

Charlotte Brontë and Sexuality

John Maynard

Browning's Youth

John Maynard

Literary Intention, Literary Interpretation, and Readers

John Maynard

Elinor James: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 11

Paula McDowell

The Women of Grub Street : Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678-1730

Paula McDowell

The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Paula McDowell

Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies

Elizabeth McHenry

This Blue: Poems

Maureen McLane

Same Life: Poems

Maureen McLane

My Poets

Maureen McLane

World Enough: Poems

Maureen McLane

Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry

Maureen McLane

A Companion to the History of the English Language

Haruko Momma

The Composition of Old English Poetry

Haruko Momma

From Philology to English Studies: Language and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Haruko Momma

How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now

Peter Nicholls

Thinking Poetry

Peter Nicholls

Regarding the Popular: Modernism, the Avant-Garde and High and Low Culture

Peter Nicholls

On Bathos: Literature, Art, Music

Peter Nicholls

Ezra Pound: Politics, Economics, and Writing

Peter Nicholls

George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism

Peter Nicholls

Modernisms: A Literary Guide

Peter Nicholls

Buzzing Hemisphere

Tomas Urayoán Noel

In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam

Tomas Urayoán Noel

Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color

Crystal Parikh

An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Culture

Crystal Parikh

The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature

Crystal Parikh

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York

Cyrus Patell

Negative Liberties: Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal Ideology

Cyrus Patell

Emergent U.S. Literatures: From Multiculturalism to Cosmopolitanism in the Late Twentieth Century

Cyrus Patell

Uneven Developments: Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England

Mary Poovey

The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer

Mary Poovey

A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society

Mary Poovey

Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864

Mary Poovey

Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Britain

Mary Poovey

Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature

Sonya Posmentier

Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism

Ato Quayson

Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation

Ato Quayson

A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism

Ato Quayson

The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel

Ato Quayson

The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature

Ato Quayson

The Postcolonial Jane Austen

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

The Scandal of the State: Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

Signposts: Gender Issues in Post-Independence India

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

The Crisis of Secularism in India

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

Real and Imagined Women: Gender, Culture and Postcolonialism

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

Writing Program Administration at Small Liberal Arts Colleges

Dara Regaignon

Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem

Catherine Robson

The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Ninth Edition) (Vol. E)

Catherine Robson

Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix

Martha Dana Rust

The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change, 1700–1830

Clifford Siskin

System: The Shaping of Modern Knowledge

Clifford Siskin

This Is Enlightenment

Clifford Siskin

Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie

Lytle Shaw

Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics

Lytle Shaw

The Moiré Effect

Lytle Shaw

Critical Terms for the Study of Gender

Catharine R. Stimpson

Where the Meanings Are: Feminism and Cultural Spaces

Catharine R. Stimpson

An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction: Chartism, Radical Print Culture, and the Social P

Gregory Vargo

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York

Bryan Waterman

Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature

Bryan Waterman

Television's Marquee Moon (33 1/3)

Bryan Waterman

The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form

Jini Kim Watson

The Postcolonial Contemporary

Jini Kim Watson

Empire, Colony, Postcolony

Robert J.C. Young

Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction

Robert J.C. Young

The Idea of English Ethnicity

Robert J.C. Young

Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction

Robert J.C. Young

Torn Halves: Political Conflict in Literary and Cultural Theory

Robert J.C. Young

Écrits sur l'aliénation et la liberté

Robert J.C. Young

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Events

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Event

Time

Location

- Thursday
  Oct. 18
  
  LAUNCH OF WIDOWLAND AND FELL YEAR
  
  7:00pm
  
  Glucksman Ireland House
  1 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
- Friday
  Oct. 26
  
  The Desire for Method: A Renaissance Studies Graduate Conference
  
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  Great Room
  19 University Place, New York, NY 10003
- Wednesday
  Oct. 31
  
  THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF CINEMA STUDIES, NYU present: HOW TO STEA
  
  6:45pm
  
  721 Broadway (at Waverly Place), Room 648
- Thursday
  Nov. 8
  
  “Political Play: Children as Vanguards of Cultural Resistance and Change” with Bryan Reynolds
  
  6:00pm
  
  English Department Event Space Room 106
  244 Greene St, New York, NY 10003

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