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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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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American literature

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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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

Dept of English

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

Dept of English

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

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

English, African American studies, 20th century American literature and culture, performance studies, jazz studies, histories of the avante-garde

Dept of English

disability studies, 20th-century poetry, literature and politics, war literature, feminist theory, cultural studies, English, American poetry

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C. Namwali Serpell

theory, aesthetics, affect, ethics, uncertainty, the novel, film, 20th and 21st century Anglophone fiction, the face

Dept of English

Katherine Snyder

19th- through 21st-century Literature in English, narrative and the novel, gender studies, post-traumatic and post-apocalyptic fiction

Dept of English

18th-century English literary, social and intellectual history; prose style; bibliography and textual criticism, literature of California and the west

Dept of English

American literature to 1900

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Emily V. Thornbury

Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature

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James Grantham Turner

gender, sexuality, English, 16th-18th-Century English, Italian and French literature, art and literature, 17th-Century political writing, landscape and the city, Enlightenment materialism, sexuality in Renaissance Italian art and Antiquity

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critical theory, African American literature, historiography

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Hertha D. Sweet Wong

American literature, native American literature, autobiography, ethnic American literature

Dept of English

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