Contemporary Literature and Culture
Maria DiBattista
Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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32 McCosh Hall
Jill Dolan
Annan Professor of English
Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts
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Jeff Dolven
Professor
Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies
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33 McCosh Hall
Simon Gikandi
Class of 1943 University Professor of English
Chair, Department of English
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45 McCosh Hall
William A. Gleason
Hughes-Rogers Professor of English and American Studies
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71 McCosh Hall
Paul Nadal
Assistant Professor of English and American Studies
Laurance S. Rockefeller University Preceptor, Center for Human Values, 2023-2026
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B29 McCosh Hall
Kinohi Nishikawa
Associate Professor of English and African American Studies
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B54 McCosh Hall
Rob Nixon
Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Professor in Humanities and the Environment
Professor of English and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
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14 McCosh Hall
Gayle Salamon
Professor
Associate Chair, Department of English
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44A McCosh Hall
Esther Schor
John J.F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor
Professor of English
Chair, Council of the Humanities | Director, Stewart Seminars in Religion | Director, Program in Humanistic Studies
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44b McCosh Hall
Nigel Smith
William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature
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61 McCosh Hall
Teaching and Research Interests
- African-American Literature
- American Literature
- Asian American Literature
- British Literature
- Contemporary Literature and Culture
- Creative Writing
- Digital Humanities
- Drama and Performance Studies
- Early Modern Literature
- Eighteenth-Century Literature
- Environmental Humanities
- Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Film and Media Studies
- Indigenous Literature
- Literary Theory
- Literature and Ethnicity
- Medieval Literature
- Modernism
- Native American and Indigenous Studies
- Poetry, Poetics, and Aesthetics
- Postcolonialism
- Psychoanalysis
- Romanticism
- Victorian Literature