Dept of English | Research UC Berkeley

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feminist theory, psychoanalysis, Virginia Woolf, race and gender

Dept of English

Charles Altieri

literature and the visual arts, Wittgenstein, Modern American poetry, Contemporary American poetry, history of aesthetic philosophy

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drama, Renaissance literature, early modern literature

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film, English literature, African American literature, literary culture, legal culture

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modernism, modern poetry, 19th- and 20th-century British literature, aesthetic and critical theory

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Mitchell Breitwieser

American literature, philosophy and religion.

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Central America, politics, Balkans, foreign affairs, journalism, Haiti, documentaries, terrorism, the Middle East, voting and elections, contemporary literature

Dept of English

School of Journalism

Kathleen Donegan

Colonial America, early America, Native America, early Caribbean

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English, the novel, British literature 1750-1900, Scottish literature, history and theory of fiction, Scottish enlightenment/romanticism, Scott, literature and the human sciences, Darwin

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Black diaspora literature and culture, queer studies, the city

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20th-Century Irish and British literature, contemporary Irish and British poetry, poetry and music

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Catherine Flynn

modernism, Irish, British, comparative literature, critical theory, Avant-Gardes, James Joyce, Flann O'Brien

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Anne-lise Francois

popular culture, English, comparative literature, the modern period, comparative romanticisms; lyric poetry; the psychological novel, novel of manners; gender, critical theory; literature, philosophy; fashion

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20th- and 21st-century British literature, literature and the sciences of mind, literature and the history of philosophy (especially mind and language), modernism, contemporary literature, literary history, literary theory and criticism

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Cecil S. Giscombe

Creative Writing

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American literature

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Steven Goldsmith

aesthetics, affect studies, William Blake

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Amanda Jo Goldstein

18th-century British literature, 19th century British literature, critical theory, poetry

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Marcial González

Chicano and Chicana literature, twentieth-century American ethnic literatures, theory of the novel, marxism, critical theory, farm worker social movements

Dept of English

18th-century and Romantic British literature, Milton, literature and the history of science, especially medicine.

Dept of English

English literature, American literature, the novel, narrative theory, critical theory, Henry James, William Faulkner, the modern novel of consciousness

Dept of English

linguistics, English, poetry, meter, rhyme, and alliteration, phonological theory, English grammar and usage

Dept of English

English, poetry, poetry writing, American poetry, history of the short poem in English, contemporary literature, translation, environmental writing, literature and the environment, the natural history tradition in American writing

Dept of English

English, American literature, poetry writing, translation, modernist and postmodern literature, historical and contemporary avant-gardes, theory and practice of everyday life, American postwar experimental literature, Gertrude Stein, the objectivists, language writing, Soviet Russian poetry, small press publishing, feminism

Dept of English

Abdul JanMohamed

Critical theory; theory of subjection; postcolonial literature, culture, and theory; African American fiction; and minority discourse.

Dept of English

critical theory, English, modernism, literature and philosophy, literature of the Americas, literature of the African Diaspora, postcolonial literature and theory, narrative and historiography

Dept of English

English, late medieval literature, medieval Latin, Chaucer, Langland, literary criticism

Dept of English

rhetoric, comparative literature, Renaissance literature, poetics, early modern political theory, the Frankfurt School

Dept of Comparative Literature

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English literature, Shakespeare, English renaissance, Spenser, drama, theater, American film history, film theory and production, critical theory, imperialism, nationalism, mass entertainment, authorship

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English Renaissance literature 1500-1660

Dept of English

English, romantic poetry, 19th century literature, Wordsworth, Carlyle, Hardy, Rousseau, the French Revolution, Marxist theory, literature and the social sciences

Dept of English

critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, Pacific, 19th century British literature, cultural studies

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twentieth-century American literature, comparative ethnic studies, diaspora, Soviet and post-Soviet studies

Dept of English

Andrew Way Leong

19th-century American literature, 20th- and 21st-century American literature, Asian American, Pacific, critical theory, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies

Dept of English

postcolonial theory, critical theory, cultural studies, Asian American literature, 20th and 21st century literature, world literature

Dept of English

drama, Renaissance literature, early modern literature, poetry

Dept of English

Fiona McFarlane

Dept of English

English, advertising, 20th century American literature and culture, theory and practice of non-fiction, literature and popular culture, the American Renaissance, the essay as literature

Dept of English

the novel, gay and cultural studies, classic cinema, Hitchcock

Dept of English

Jennifer Miller

English, philology, paleography, hagiography, medieval literature, literature in old & middle English, historiography, medieval rhetorical culture, insular political relations, multilingualism, translation & textual transmission, dialectology

Dept of English

Chaucer, drama, Middle English literature, Gower, Lydgate, medieval, 16th century, literary form, style

Dept of English

Geoffrey O'Brien

modernism, Creative Writing, 20th and 21st century poetry and poetics

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Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe

Old English language and literature, textual criticism, Medieval Studies

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English, African American literature, 19th century American literature, 17th and 18th century American literature, Herman Melville, race in American culture, literature and history, discourse and ideology, close reading

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American literature, Chicano/Latino literary and cultural studies, American autobiography

Dept of English

Joanna M Picciotto

Renaissance literature, early modern literature, 18th-century British literature

Dept of English

Gautam Premnath

postcolonial theory, nationalism, Anglophone literatures (especially from South Asia and the Caribbean), twentieth-century British literature and culture, transnationalism and diaspora

Dept of English

English, the novel, nineteenth-century British literature and literary theory, sociability, psychoanalysis and affect

Dept of English

Michael Rubenstein

English, 20th century Anglophone literatures, globalization studies, postcolonial literatures and theories, Irish literature, James Joyce

Dept of English

Asian American, South Asian, critical theory, gender and sexuality, cultural studies

Dept of English

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