Stanton B. Garner
Stanton B. Garner
James Douglas Bruce Professor of English and Affiliated Professor of Theatre
Ben Lee
Ben Lee
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Martin Griffin
Amy J. Elias
Amy J. Elias
Chancellor’s Professor and Distinguished Professor of English; Director, Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts
Post-1960s American literature and culture studies, humanities institutionalism, the novel, narrative theory, science fiction and speculative arts, art and science, time and history studies, environmental humanities
Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud
Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Romanticism, poetry, 19th-century studies, queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, affect theory, postcolonial studies.
Misty Anderson
Misty Anderson
Professor of English & Affiliate Professor of Theatre and Religious Studies
Restoration and 18th-Century Literature and Culture, Drama, Performance, Theatre, Gender and Sexuality, Religion and Literature
Marie Balsley Taylor
Marie Balsley Taylor
Assistant Professor
R.D. Perry
R.D. Perry
Associate Professor
Medieval/Early Modern; Critical Theory; Women/Gender Studies; Poetry; Religion, Spirituality, Secularism
Anthony Welch
Anthony Welch
Associate Professor
Renaissance/Early Modern Literature, Milton, Spenser, Shakespeare, Epic Tradition, Poetry and Poetics, Genre Theory, Orality and Literacy
Urmila Seshagiri
Urmila Seshagiri
Professor
Urmila Seshagiri is Lindsay Young Professor of English and affiliate faculty in Global Studies. She is the author of Race and the Modernist Imagination (Cornell UP, 2010) and is writing a book about the complex legacy of modernist aesthetics in contemporary literature and culture, provisionally titled Still Shocking: Modernism and Fiction in the 21st Century. A Virginia Woolf scholar, Professor Seshagiri is preparing the first scholarly edition of Woolf’s memoir Sketch of the Past for Cornell UP as well as an Oxford World’s Classics centenary edition of Woolf’s 1922 novel Jacob’s Room (Oxford UP) and a Norton Library edition of To the Lighthouse (W. W. Norton & Co.). Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the New York Public Library, the Harry Ransom Center, the National Humanities Center, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. At the University of Tennessee, she has been a Fellow of the UT Humanities Center. She serves as the Out of the Archives Editor for Feminist Modernist Studies, and her work appears in a range of journals and edited collections including PMLA, Modernism/ modernity, Cultural Critique, and The Oxford Handbook to Virginia Woolf. She is a contributor to Public Books and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Lisi Schoenbach
Eleni Palis
Gichingiri Ndigirigi
Gichingiri Ndigirigi
Professor
African, African diaspora literatures and performance, African studies, postcolonial and transnational studies.
Lisa King
La Vinia Delois Jennings
La Vinia Delois Jennings
Distinguished Professor in the Humanities & Professor of 20th Century American Literature & Culture
Heather Hirschfeld
Heather Hirschfeld
Kenneth Curry Professor of English
Shakespeare, early modern drama, theater history, early modern religion and literature, early modern print culture, psychoanalytic theory.
Nancy Henry
Nancy Henry
Nancy Moore Goslee Professor of English
Hilary Havens
Hilary Havens
Lindsay Young Associate Professor and Director of the Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Program
18th Century, Romantic Period, Digital Humanities, the Novel, Women/Gender Studies
Bill Hardwig
Bill Hardwig
Associate Professor
Mary Dzon
Mary Dzon
Associate Professor
Animal Studies; Medieval/Early Modern; Religion, Spirituality, Secularism; Women/Gender Studies
Dawn Coleman
Dawn Coleman
Associate Professor
Katy Chiles
Katy Chiles
Associate Professor of English
