Nineteenth-Century British Studies Faculty

Core Faculty

Greg P. Kucich's area of expertise is British Romanticism. Read full profile >

Sara L. Maurer works on British and Irish literature of the nineteenth century. Read full profile >

David Wayne Thomas works in the areas of Victorian literature and critical theory; he explores intersections of Victorian literature and social theory. Read full profile >

Chris R. Vanden Bossche specializes in Victorian fiction and non-fiction prose. Read full profile >

Faculty from the Keough Institute for Irish Studies

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Seamus Deane, author of The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England as well as other books in the area of Irish Studies, specializes in eighteenth through twentieth century Irish literature and culture.
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Luke Gibbons, author of Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime and other works, specializes in eighteenth-century Irish literature and twentieth-century cinema.
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Susan Harris, author of Gender and Modern Irish Drama, specializes in Irish drama of the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
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Faculty from the
Program in History and Philosophy of Science

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Christopher Hamlin, author most recently of Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800-1854, specializes in the history of science and technology in modern England, especially sanitary reform and environmental politics.

Philip Sloan, editor of Richard Owen's Hunterian Lectures at the Royal College of Physicians, May-June 1837 and author of numerous articles, specializes in the history of thought on evolution and biology in the nineteenth century.

Faculty from Eighteenth-Century Studies

Margaret Anne Doody, author most recently of The True Story of the Novel, works on Restoration and eighteenth-century British and Comparative Literature. Read full profile >

Christopher Fox, author of Locke and the Scriblerians: Identity and Consciousness in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain, works on the interrelations of literature and the emerging human sciences, especially psychology and medicine, in the eighteenth century. Read full profile >

John Sitter, author, among other works, of The Poetry of Pope's "Dunciad", Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England, Arguments of Augustan Wit, specializes in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century poetry and poetics, satire, nature poetry, and ecological criticism. Read full profile >

Faculty from Early Twentieth-Century Literature

Gerald Bruns works in the areas of modern comparative literature, hermeneutics, and poetics. Two of his books include Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language and Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy: Language, Literature, and Ethical Theory. Read full profile >

Joseph Buttigieg, the author of A Portrait of the Artist in Different Perspective and editor of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, works on the relationship between culture and politics in modern British. Read full profile >

Maud Ellmann works on modern British fiction, gender studies, and postcolonial studies. Her books include The Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound and Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page. Read full profile >

Barbara Green, author of Spectacular Confessions: Autobiography, Performative Activism, and the Sites of Suffrage, specializes in twentieth-century British literature, feminist criticism, and autobiography. Read full profile >

Faculty from American Literature

Sandra M. Gustafson, author of Eloquence is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America, specializes in colonial to nineteenth-century American literature and culture, and performance theory (including emphases on gender, ethnicity, and postcolonialism).
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Glenn Hendler works on nineteenth-century fiction and cultural studies. He is the author of Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Read full profile >

J. Javier Rodriguez works on eighteenth and nineteenth-century American literature, Mexican literature, and cultural studies and is currently working on a book that explores the cultural significance of the Mexican War. Read full profile >

Ivy Wilson has research interests in literature, aesthetics, and nationalism in the nineteenth century and is completing a book concerning these issues in nineteenth-century America.
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