Research Clusters

18th century Scottish Enlightenment history; Book history

1930's French Cinema, Classic Hollywood studio films, Critical theory, Gender & Race

19th and 20th century fiction; Book and Print Culture; The Novel; Reception Theory.

19th Century

19th century Victorian novel-issues of class, gender, and adaptation

African American history, American intellectual history, public history, and national memory

African-American and African diasporic literature; Francophone literature; translation theory; cultural history of jazz

African-American and American Studies; poetry; popular culture; gender studies

British & French influence, invasion, and “Informal Empire” in Egypt, 19th century

Cinema and Science Fiction

Comparative literature (twentieth-century French, German, British, American); feminist theory, narrative; cultural memory; Holocaust studies, visual culture

Counter-cultural movements, Sexuality, Feminism, Film, & Imagination

Cultural Studies, Contemporary Literature, and Reception Theory

Domestic Education in America

Eighteenth-century Britain; early modern British empire; comparative history of slavery and abolition; history of the Atlantic world

Eighteenth-century French literature; Francophone literature; colonial history

English and History

French anthropology, twentieth-century French literature, literary theory, intellectual history

French Language, Literature, Philosophy; Trauma

French Literature

German and European media history; literature and science

German modernism; translation theory

History of modern Japan, intellectual history, historiography and public memory in Japan and the West

History of philosophy, Islamic philosophy, African philosophy and literature

Michael Stanislawski, Nathan J. Miller Professor of History, specializes in Jewish, European intellectual and Russian history.

Modern Arabic intellectual history; history of science

Nineteenth-century American history; the literature of American history

Renaissance humanism; history of rhetoric; hermeneutics; ancient literary theory; history of classical scholarship

Ritualized mourning, History & Literature

Seventeenth and eighteenth-century literature and intellectual history; history of hermeneutics; philosophy of history

Sixteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century French literature; literary theory

Twentieth-century French literature and philosophy