Department of English | Research UC Berkeley

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feminist theory, psychoanalysis, Virginia Woolf, race and gender

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Charles Altieri

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

Department of English

rhetoric, Shakespeare, English renaissance, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, history of literary theory

Department of English

comedy, English novel, modern American literature, women writers, feminist criticism

Department of English

Virginia Woolf, English, the novel, literary and linguistic theory, the industrial novel, recent French literary theory, literature and philosophy

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

Department of English

psychoanalysis, English, the novel, modernism, 20th-Century literature, Joyce, experimental fiction

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

Department of English

English, aesthetics, Renaissance literature

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Mitchell Breitwieser

American literature, philosophy and religion.

Department of English

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

Department 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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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

Department of English

Department of French

Catherine Gallagher

English, 19th century British literature, British novels, victorian non-fiction prose, British women's literature, history and literature of the victorians, history of the novel, Victorian popular culture

Department of English

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

Department of English

Marcial Gonzalez

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

Department of English

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

Department of English

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

Department of English

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

Department 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

Department 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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literature

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Abdul JanMohamed

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

Department 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

Department of English

English, late medieval literature, medieval Latin, Chaucer, hagiography, Latin religious thought, literary criticism

Department of English

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

Department of Comparative Literature

Department of English

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

Department of English

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

Department 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

Department of English

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

Department 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

Department of English

Bharati Mukherjee

multiculturalism, English, comparative literature, fiction writing, post-colonial Anglophone fiction, Asian American fiction, autobiographical narratives, memoirs, immigration history, re-formation and nationhood in the 90's

Department of English

English, history of drama, medieval and Renaissance English literature, English Corpus Christi plays, English morality plays, medieval art and literature, history of staging in the middle ages and renaissance, medieval and early Renaissance paleography

Department of English

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

Department 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

Department 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

Department of English

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

Department of English

Morton D. Paley

British Romanticism, William Blake, literature and art

Department of English

English, American literature, American intellectual history, American Renaissance, Faulkner, James, Fitzgerald, Henry Adams, American Literature of the 1930s

Department 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

Department of English

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

Department of English

Shakespeare, Theatre, Comparative Literature (European)

Department of English

Michael Rubenstein

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

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