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Faculty
Professor of English
Research Interests: Renaissance drama; early-modern literature and culture; the history of subjectivity; literary theory; philosophy and literature.
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Associate Clinical Professor of English and Environmental Studies
Research Interests: literary representations of the environment and non-human animals, the Anthropocene, animal studies, environmental humanities, race and gender, and food studies.
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
Clinical Assistant Professor of English
Research Interests: Twentieth and
Professor of English; TSA-Drama & Environmental Studies
Research Interests: Modern Drama;
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Professor of English
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture; history of books and reading; literacy studies; childhood studies; critical pedagogy and civic engagement
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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.
Dean for the Humanities; Silver Professor; Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and English
Research Interests: English and Western European medieval literature and culture; feminist studies; lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies; history of sexuality; theories of history and historiography; theories and experiences of temporality; ecology and ecocriticism; history of maps and mapping
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
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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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Silver Professor; Professor of English
Research Interests: Renaissance poetry and prose; Shakespeare; Milton; literature and science in the Renaissance; the history of rhetoric; the history of criticism; the sociology of literary study; twentieth-century literary theory
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Assistant Professor of English
Research Interests: British and Italian Romantic poetry and prose; eighteenth and nineteenth-century life science and political economy; rhetoric and translation; materialism
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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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Global Distinguished Professor
Research Interests: Postcolonial studies; African literature; oral literature; Gandhian
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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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Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science
Professor of English
Research Interests: African American literary history from the eighteenth century to the present; U.S. literary history between the Civil War and World War II; race, ethnic, and cultural studies; theories of literature, aesthetics, and historiography
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
Associate 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: Eighteenth-century British literature and cultural history; history of the book; media history and theory
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Professor of English
Research Interests: African-American literature, culture, and intellectual history; nineteenth and twentieth-century United States literature; History of the Book
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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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Professor of English
Research Interests: Old English language and literature; medieval literature and culture; history of the English language; culture of religion; philology and philosophy of language; history of language studies; medievalism
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Henry James Professor of English and American Letters
Research Interests: Twentieth-century British and American literature; international modernism; modern and contemporary poetry and 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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Director of Expository Writing; 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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Associate Professor of English
Research Interests: Medieval literature and culture; technologies of writing; phenomenology of reading; picture theory;
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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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Henry W & Albert A Berg Prof of English & American Literature
Research Interests: Literary, social, and technological change, 1700-1850 (British); print culture and digital culture; literary theory and genre theory; the organization of knowledge.
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Professor of Creative Writing
Research Interests: Fiction writing; literary and cultural criticism
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Professor of English
Research Interests: Modern and post-modern Feminism, Criticism, Women's Studies and Gender Studies, Law and Literature
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Assistant Professor
Contemporary U.S. multiethnic literature and cultural studies; comparative racialization; women of color feminisms; gender and sexuality studies; visual culture
Global Distinguished Professor
Research Interests: Postcolonial studies; feminist theory; gender and culture in South Asia; Indian writing in English; British Victorian literature
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Assistant Professor
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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Assistant Professor
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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john.waters@nyu.edu
Clinical Associate Professor in Irish Studies
Research Interests:
Irish Studies; Eighteenth Century British and Irish Culture; British Romantic literature
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Associate 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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Clinical Associate Professor
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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