Research & Curriculum

Amanda Anderson's research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture, addressing broad questions of intellectual history, disciplinary formation, and the relation of art and politics.

Elizabeth Bryan researches medieval Brut Chronicle narratives and their evolving interpretations, medieval and early modern palaeography and codicology, theories of authorship and textual production in manuscript cultures, and Early Middle English vernacularity.

James Egan’s work includes the following: 17th- and 18th-century British-American writing; the history of the book; the early modern Atlantic world; colonial British-American Orientalism; and early theories of modernity. 

William Keach has research interests in 18th- and 19th-century British literature and culture, including Blake, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and other writers in what is still called the "Romantic" tradition, as well as literary theory, historical materialism, and transatlantic literary culture.

Jacques Khalip is interested in British Romanticism and queer studies.

James Kuzner has research interests in early modern literature and culture, critical theory, cognitive theory, and the histories of selfhood, sexuality, and skepticism.

Melinda Rabb has research interests in literature and culture of the 'long' 18th century, that is, from the time of the English Civil Wars through the career of Jane Austen.

Richard Rambuss's field is 16th- and 17th-century English literature and culture. He is mostly interested in Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser, and the metaphysical poets (especially Donne, Herbert, and Crashaw); devotional texts and images; and the Baroque.

Jonathan Readey is interested in nonfiction writing and the research essay; creative nonfiction; journalism; business and technical writing; 20th-century and contemporary British commonwealth literature, especially the novel; Anglophone, World English, and transatlantic literature; postcolonial and colonial literature; Postmodernism and Modernism; creative writing, especially fiction.

Ravit Reichman conducts research on the 20th-century British novel; law and literature; modernism; literary theory; psychoanalysis; literature and the emotions; narrative and memory; and literary responses to war. 

Lawrence Stanley researches rhetorical theory and its relevance to composition theory and practice; narrative theory, particularly in relation to creative nonfiction and fiction; British Romantics and Modernist fiction. Currently, his research focuses on the nature of aesthetic cognition.