English Department Directory
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Faculty | ||
 | Sharon Cameron Areas of interest: American literature, American poetry scameron@jhu.edu | |
 | Drew Daniel drewdaniel@jhu.edu | |
| Jared Hickman Areas of interest: American literature in Atlantic/world context; literatures and cultures of Atlantic (anti)slavery; political theology, religion, and secularization; critical race studies; theories of historicism jhickman@jhu.edu | |
 | Jonathan Kramnick Areas of interest: Eighteenth-century literature, literature and philosophy, and literature and science kramnick@jhu.edu | |
 | Douglas Mao dougmao@jhu.edu | |
 | Christopher Nealon Areas of interest: American literature, aesthetic theory, poetry and poetics, the history of sexuality nealon@jhu.edu | |
 | Jesse Rosenthal Areas of interest: Victorian literature, narrative theory,ethics and narrative,digital humanities jrosenthal@jhu.edu | |
 | Eric Sundquist Areas of interest: American literature and culture, including African American and Jewish American; literature of the Holocaust ejs@jhu.edu | |
 | Mark Christian Thompson Areas of interest: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century African-American, German and French literature; the history and representation of race in literature and philosophy; political philosophy; aesthetics; art theory mcthompson@jhu.edu | |
Visiting Faculty
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 | Isobel Armstrong John Hinkley Visiting Professor iarmstr1@jhu.edu (410)516-2897 | |
Joint Appointments | ||
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 | John Irwin Area of interest: American literature jirwin@jhu.edu | |
Professors Emeriti | ||
 | Frances Ferguson | |
 | Allen Grossman | |
 | Neil Hertz | |
 | Ronald Paulson | |
 | Larzer Ziff lziff@jhu.edu | |
Postdoctoral Fellows | ||
 | ACLS New Faculty Fellow Nineteenth-century British literature, narrative theory, history of the novel, the historical novel, Anglo-Irish and Scottish literatures (410)516-5845 | |
 | Rani Neutill Areas of interest: Postcolonial literature and theory, Asian American Studies and literature, Studies in Trauma and Psychoanalysis, Transnational Feminism, Comparative Ethnic Studies and Film Studies raneutill@jhu.edu | |
Expository Writing Program
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William Evans | ||
Anne-Elizabeth Murdy Brodsky | ||
Sarah Manekin | ||
Marie O'Connor George Oppel MSE Library Liaison | ||
Heidi Herr | ||
Graduate Students (2012 - 2013) | ||
First YearJohn Hoffmann Second YearBenjamin Barasch Nora Lambrecht Linda Liu Katerina O'Briain Kevin Roberts John Sampson Third YearMatthew Flaherty Grant Shreve Areas of interest: Nineteenth-century American Literature, Theory of the novel, Pragmatism, Religion and Literature Fourth Year | ||
Rebecca Buckham Joseph Haley Areas of interest: nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry, technology and collectivity, religion and atheism, psychoanalysis, cognitive science and learning William Miller Areas of interest: Renaissance literature (esp. 17th-century lyric); speech act theory; Russian formalism; Bakhtin; Habermas; Freud; Henry James; Jane Austen; Samuel Johnson; William Empson; Hollywood (esp. 20s-50s); jazz; the blues; northern and deep soul; Child ballads and other folk songs Erica Tempesta Areas of interest: 19th and 20th century poetry, reading practices, and the political and social life of literature Christopher Westcott Areas of interest: 20th-century American and British poetry, critical theory and philosophy, modern and postmodern cultural tactics, the avant-garde Amanda Zecca Areas of interest: 20th and 21st-century American poetry and poetics; visual art and literature; the experimental-lyric hybrid; the pastoral mode in contemporary poetry; the Objectivist poets (specifically Lorine Niedecker and George Oppen); the "Berkeley Renaissance"; Black Mountain; poetic communities | ||
Fifth Year | ||
Elizabeth Brogden Jacob Chilton Areas of interest: Early Modern English poetry, with a particular enthusiasm for Milton; philosophy and literary theory, predominantly the French poststructuralists and the first generation Frankfurt School Roger Maioli Areas of interest: the rise of the novel; history and philosophy of science Jennie Hann Areas of interest: Victorian literature and culture; poetry, the novel, and lyric-narrative hybrids; the periodical press; book history and reception theory; cognitive science and nineteenth-century psychology; transatlantic influences Nan Zhang
Areas of interest: modernist studies; British intellectual history, political thought and cultural life; comparative ethics; 19th and 20th century literature, the Woolfs and the Bloomsbury group, James Joyce | ||
Sixth Year | ||
Nicholas Bujak Areas of interest: Romanticism, poetics, the Novel and novel theory Robert D. Day Areas of interest: Modernism (especially the novel) and modern literary intellectual culture, the history of cultural criticism, and political rhetoric Patrick Fessenbecker Areas of interest: Victorian literature, American literature in the nineteenth century, and connections between philosophy and literature generally; particularly interested in reading nineteenth-century novels against a background of contemporary and more recent works philosophical ethics, and thus analyzing the nature of moral deliberation and selfhood Douglas Tye Areas of interest: 19th Century American literature, francophilic theory, and scouring texts for sexual overtones where probably none were intended Maggie Vinter Areas of interest: Early Modern literature, drama, poetics and affect theory Kara Wedekind | ||
Seventh Year | ||
Beth Steedley Area of interest: Modernism Jessica Valdez Areas of interest: narrative and novelistic form, media studies, and urban studies, with a particular focus on 19th century London and narratives of crime; current work deals with the Victorian novel and journalism | ||
Advanced Graduate Students | ||
Areas of interest: Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, critical theory Robert Higney Areas of interest: modernism and realism, political and aesthetic theory, and ideas about character and institutional life in the novel from 1900-1950; has taught courses on the literature of the American South, on the family and politics in the novel, and on British literature of World War II Benjamin Parris Areas of interest: Renaissance /Early Modern; literature and philosophy, Shakespeare, Baroque aesthetics, Marxism Andrew Sisson Tony Wexler | ||
Staff | ||
Karen Tiefenwerth | ||
Nicole Goode | ||
Timothy Giglitto
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