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Sharon Achinstein (she/her)
Sir William Osler Professor of English
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- Gilman 24
- 410-516-5575
Research Interests: Early modern literature, poetry, and poetics, gender
Christopher Cannon
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics
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- Gilman 36
- 410-516-7837
Research Interests: Grammar and grammar-school learning, early Middle English, Chaucer, Langland, problems of literary history, language and theories of language
Johaina Katinka Crisostomo (she/her)
Assistant Professor
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- Greenhouse 117
Research Interests: Asian/Asian American literatures, Latinx/Latin American literatures, political philosophy, religion, comparative empire studies
Nan Z. Da
Associate Professor
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Research Interests: nineteenth-century American and trans-Atlantic literature and letters, modern Chinese literature and letters, literary and social theory, the intersection of literary studies and the data sciences
Education: BA, University of Chicago; PhD, University of Michigan
Drew Daniel (he/him)
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
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- Gilman 30B
- 410-516-4075
Research Interests: Early modern literature, critical theory, aesthetics
Mary Favret (she/her)
Professor
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- Gilman 34
- 410-516-4103
Research Interests: British Romanticism, late 18th- early 19th-century English literature, war studies, gender and genre, literature and violence
Harris Feinsod
Research Professor
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Research Interests: Literatures of the United States, Latin America, and the Atlantic world; poetry and poetics; oceanic studies and environmental humanities; theories of history; transnational, global, and hemispheric approaches to literature and culture.
Christopher Grobe
Research Professor
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Research Interests: Drama and dramatic literature; Performance studies; Twentieth- and twenty-first-century American cultural studies; Humanistic approaches to technology and technoculture; Performance-based theories of politics
Jared Hickman
Associate Professor
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- Gilman 30C
- 410-516-3843
Research Interests: American literature in Atlantic/world context; religious and secular studies; critical race studies; indigenous and settler colonial studies
Jeanne-Marie Jackson
Professor
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- Gilman 30A
- 410-516-5845
Research Interests: Theory of the novel, literature and philosophy, sub-Saharan African literature, Russian realism, global regionalisms
Lawrence Jackson
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History
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- Gilman 26
- 410-516-1103
Research Interests: African American Literature, Literary History, Biography, American History
Douglas Mao (he/him)
Russ Family Professor in the Humanities
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- Gilman 32
- 410-516-7335
Research Interests: British, Irish, and U.S. poetry and fiction since 1860; global modernism; interdisciplinary study of modernism
Andrew H. Miller (he/him)
Professor
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- Gilman 20
- 410-516-7553
Research Interests: Literature and moral philosophy; nineteenth century British literature; literary theory
Aamir R. Mufti
Ralph S. And Becky G. O’Connor Professor
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- Gilman 14
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century English and Anglophone literatures; modern Urdu literature; the history and legacies of the British Empire; South Asian Studies; Middle-Eastern and Islamic Studies; modern European Jewish Studies; minorities and minoritization; religious cultures and secularism; citizenship and statelessness; exile and cosmopolitanism.
Christopher Nealon
John Dewey Professor
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- Gilman 18
- 410-516-6046
Research Interests: American literature, the critique of political economy, poetry and poetics, intellectual history
Nadia Nurhussein
Professor, Mary Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Arts and Sciences, and Director of Graduate Studies
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- Gilman 22
- 410-516-4104
Research Interests: African American literature, late 19th- and early 20th-century American literature, Poetry and Poetics
Jesse Rosenthal
Associate Professor
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- Gilman 30E
- 410-516-5168
Research Interests: Victorian novels; theory of the novel; ethics and literature; quantitative textual analysis
Mark Christian Thompson
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor and Chair
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- Gilman 16
- 410-516-6237
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century African-American, German, and French literature; the history and representation of race in literature and philosophy; political philosophy; aesthetics
Affiliated Faculty
Gabrielle Dean
Adjunct Professor, William Kurrelmeyer Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts
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- 667-208-6715
professors emeriti
Larzer Ziff
Caroline Donovan Professor of English Emeritus
Research Professor
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Staff
Dominique Dureau
Senior Academic Program Coordinator
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- Gilman 3
- 410-516-4311
Timothy Giglitto
Senior IT Specialist
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- Gilman 40 A
- 410-516-3362
Christeen Vilbrun-Davis
Administrative Manager
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- Gilman 30D
- 410-516-4313