English

Literature Faculty

Ben Lee

Ben Lee

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

20th Century, African American, Poetry



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Amy J. Elias

Amy J. Elias

Chancellor’s Professor and Distinguished Professor of English; Director, UT Humanities Center

21st Century



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Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud

Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud

Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies

Affect Theory, Queer Theory, Romantics, Romanticism, Women/Gender Studies, Poetry



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Urmila Seshagiri

Urmila Seshagiri

Professor

21st Century, Feminist Theory, Women/Gender Studies



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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.

La Vinia Delois Jennings

La Vinia Delois Jennings

Distinguished Professor in the Humanities & Professor of 20th Century American Literature & Culture

20th Century, African American, Women/Gender Studies



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Heather Hirschfeld

Heather Hirschfeld

Kenneth Curry Professor of English

Medieval/Early Modern; Psychoanalytical Theory; Religion, Spirituality, Secularism; Renaissance; Shakespeare



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Nancy Henry

Nancy Henry

Nancy Moore Goslee Professor of English

19th Century, Animal Studies, Short Story, Women/Gender Studies



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Hilary Havens

Hilary Havens

Associate Professor and Director of the Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Program

18th Century, Digital Humanities, Women/Gender Studies



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Mary Dzon

Mary Dzon

Associate Professor

Animal Studies; Medieval/Early Modern; Religion, Spirituality, Secularism; Women/Gender Studies



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