People

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

Michaela Bronstein

Ralph S. And Becky G. O’Connor Associate Professor

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Research Interests: Theory of the novel, modernism, politics and the novel, literature and climate change, narrative form

Christopher Cannon

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics

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Gilman 36

Research Interests: Chaucer, Langland, early Middle English, sound studies, meter and its history, editorial theory, “vernacular Latin”

Johaina Katinka Crisostomo (she/her)

Assistant Professor

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San Martin Center 214

Research Interests: Global Asias; the Spanish Pacific; Comparative Empire Studies; Intellectual History; Religious studies (Christianity/Catholicism)

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

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Gilman 30B

Research Interests: Early modern literature, literature and philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, sexuality studies, genre theory

Mary Favret (she/her)

Allen Grossman Professor

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Gilman 34

Research Interests: British Romanticism, late 18th- early 19th-century English literature, war studies, gender and genre, literature and violence

Harris Feinsod

Ralph S. and Becky G. O'Connor Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies

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San Martin Center 222

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

Ralph S. and Becky G. O'Connor Associate Professor

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San Martin Center 210

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 and Director of Graduate Studies

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Gilman 30C

Research Interests: American literature in Atlantic/world context; religious and secular studies; critical race studies; indigenous and settler colonial studies

Lawrence Jackson

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History

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Gilman 26

Research Interests: African American Literature, Literary History, Biography, American History

Jeanne-Marie Jackson

Professor

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Gilman 30A

Research Interests: Theory of the novel, literature and philosophy, sub-Saharan African literature, Russian realism, global regionalisms

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

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

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 Department Chair

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Gilman 22

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

Research Interests: Victorian novels; theory of the novel; ethics and literature; quantitative textual analysis

Mark Christian Thompson

Krieger-Eisenhower Professor

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Gilman 16

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

David Shipko

Junior Lecturer

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Research Interests: Solarpunk, cyberpunk, so-called “artificial intelligence,” and other science fictions; climate change, ecology, and environmental humanities; literature, film, and game studies; critical theory; aesthetics; Marxism