| Current Faculty |
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| Andrew Abbott (Ph.D. Chicago, 1982).
Professor, Sociology.
History of professions in Britain.
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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2005).
Assistant Professor, History
The Scottish Enlightenment, political economy and the environment, the sciences of empire and internal colonization. |
(773) 702-0638
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Dan Brudney (Ph.D. Harvard, 1985).
Associate Professor, Philosophy.
Texts by Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and J. S. Mill; moral and political philosophy, philosophy of religion in England during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. |
(773) 702-7546
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Dipesh Chakrabarty (Ph.D. Austalian National University, 1984).
Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South
Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College.
Modern Indian social and political history, modern Bengal, Labor history, Asian studies, philosophical discourses of modernity, Marxism, poststructuralism, deconstruction and postmodernism, and postcolonial theory. |
(773) 702-8642
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James Chandler (Ph.D. Chicago, 1978).
Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Professor of English.
The Romantic movement in England; 18th- and 19th-century poetry; the historical novel; Politics and Literature in Britain and Ireland, 1700-1900; Scottish Enlightenment; the history of the sentimental. | (773) 702-8274
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Terry Nichols Clark (Ph.D. Columbia, 1967).
Professor, Sociology
The Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation (FAUI) Project; creation of data files concerning British local governments; issues of class politics, with special attention to Britain and the US. |
(773) 702-8686
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Ted Cook (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1972).
Associate Professor, History.
Eighteenth-century Britain; colonial and revolutionary America; social history. | (773) 702-8384
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Bradin Cormack (Ph.D. Stanford, 2001).
Assistant Professor, English.
Drama, poetry and law; political theory, early nationalism and imperialism; material history of the book; history of disciplinarity in relation to the idea and practice of literary authorship. |
(773) 702-8910
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Michael Dietler (Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 1990).
Associate Professor, Anthropology.
Celtic cultures and identity politics; British colonialism; Iron Age and Roman archaeology of Britain and Ireland. | (773) 702-7150
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Leela Gandhi (
D.Phil., Balliol College, Oxford, 1991).
Professor, English.
Sixteenth and seventeenth-century drama; the culture of late-Victorian radicalism; Indo-Anglian literature; Postcolonial theory. |
(773) 702-3178
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W. Clark Gilpin (Ph.D. University of Chicago).
Margaret E. Burton Professor of the History of Christianity and Theology.
History of Christianity; cultural history of England and America since the seventeenth century. |
(773) 702-8231
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Elaine Hadley (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1991).
Associate Professor, English and Gender Studies.
19th British literature and culture; British novel, British non-fiction prose of 19th century, 19th century theater, popular culture, British political culture, liberalism | (773) 702-6012
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R. H. Helmholz (Ph.D. UC Berkeley, JD Harvard University).
Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor of Law.
Law of property; natural resources law; legal history. |
(773) 702-9580
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Elizabeth Helsinger (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1973).
John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor in English, Art History, and the College.
Nineteenth-century British literature and culture; nineteenth-century British art and design; Romantic and Victorian poetry and poetics; fiction and history in nineteeth-century Britain; land and the nation: literary and artistic representation; Victorian non-fiction prose; Victorian women's writing.
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(773) 702-8536
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Thomas Holt (Ph.D. Yale, 1973).
James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History.
Comparing the experiences of people in the African diaspora, particularly those in the Caribbean and the United States. |
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Adrian Johns (Ph.D. Cambridge, 1992).
Associate Professor, History. Chair, Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science.
Early modern Britain; cultural and intellectual history of the late 16th through mid-18th centuries; history of early modern science; history of the book; intellectual piracy. | (773) 834-7571
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Loren Kruger (Ph.D. Cornell University, 1986).
Professor,
English,
Comparative Literature, Germanic Studies, African Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies
South African literature and visual culture; Marxist theory and modern culture; cinema in Africa; drama, theatre, image, performance; history and theory of drama; Brecht and beyond; realism, socialism and modernism; catharsis and other aesthetic responses; performance and representation in theatre and theory; translation theory and practice; drama in Africa and the African diaspora; and urban theory and performance. |
(773) 702-7978
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Ryon Lancaster (Ph.D. Northwestern, 2005).
Assistant Professor, Sociology.
Medieval Catholic church in England; social determinants of monastery foundings in England prior to the Protestant Reformation; intersection of law and organizations in the modern US.
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(773) 702-6515
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Rochona Majumdar (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2003).
Assistant Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations.
History of gender, marriage, and family in India; modern Indian cultural and political history, modern Bengal, Indian cinema, postcolonial history and theory.
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(773) 702-8373
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Carla Mazzio (Ph.D. Harvard, 1998)
Assistant Professor, English.
Late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, with an emphasis on drama and prose;
history of the book; history of rhetoric; prehistory of the disciplines; development of quantitative thinking in social, political, and intellectual contexts. |
(773) 702-0513
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Mark Miller (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1993)
Associate Professor, English
Late-medieval literature and culture; the intersections of psychoanalysis, feminism, and queer theory with ethics, theory of action, and philosophical psychology
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(773) 834-1989
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Michael Murrin (Ph.D. Yale, 1965)
Raymond W. & Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor; Professor, English, Comparative Literature, Divinity School
Allegory and the history of criticism; medieval and Renaissance epic; medieval and Renaissance
romance. |
(773) 702-7985
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Sankar Muthu (Ph.D. Harvard, 1998).
Professor, Political Science.
Political theory; history of political thought. |
(773) 702-8059
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Jennifer Pitts (Ph.D. Harvard, 2000).
Professor, Political Science.
Political theory; history of political thought; empire and international justice. |
(773) 702-8868
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Lisa Ruddick (Ph.D. Harvard, 1982).
Associate Professor, English.
Modern British fiction; literature and psychoanalysis; poetry and poetics
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(773) 702-8022
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Julie Saville (Ph.D. Yale University, 1986).
Associate Professor, History.
Comparative slavery and emancipations, particularly plantation societies in the Americas; African-American history (hemispherically conceived). | (773) 702-2695
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Jay Schleusener
Associate Professor, English. (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1974)
Late medieval English literature; the religious and philosophical strain—and inventiveness—of the poetry of the last half of the 14th century; contemporary critical theory; philosophy |
(773) 702-8004
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Josh Scodel
Professor, English and Comparative Literature.
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature in relation to
classical literary tradition and to ancient and contemporaneous
ethical and political thought; genre theory and practice; history of
criticism.
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(773) 702-8501
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Eric Slauter
Assistant Professor, Department of English.
American Revolution; eighteenth-century Atlantic; literature, law, and culture | (773) 702-7744
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Richard Strier (Ph.D. Harvard, 1976).
Professor, English and Committee on Visual Arts; Frank L. Sulzberger Professor of Civilizations in the College.
Shakespeare, religious poetry, Milton, the Reformations (Protestant and Catholic), Renaissance political thought, the English Revolution. | (773) 702-8006
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Nathan Tarcov (Ph.D. Harvard, 1975).
Professor, Committee on Social Thought.
John Locke. | (773) 702-8064
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Robin Valenza
Assistant Professor, English.
The development of the intellectual disciplines in Britain; British Romantic poetry; Newtonian science and mathematics; the Scottish Enlightenment; the development of the Anglo-American university system. | (773) 702-7980
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Robert von Hallberg
Helen A. Regenstein Professor; Professor, English, Comparative Literature
Avant-garde American poetry; U. S. poetry since 1945; culture of literary intellectuals; sociology of literature; the relations between poetry and song. |
(773) 702-8539
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Christina von Nolcken (D. Phil, Oxford, 1976)
Associate Professor, English
Old and Middle English language and literature; history of the English language; Anglo-Scandinavian relations towards the end of the Anglo-Saxon period; late 14th- and 15th-century devotional texts |
(773) 702-8024
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Bernard Wasserstein (D. Phil. Oxford, 1974; D.Litt. Oxford, 2001)
Harriet & Ulrich E. Meyer Professor in Modern European Jewish History
Modern Jewish and Middle Eastern history; politics and diplomacy of twentieth-century Europe
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(773) 702-3637
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Alison Winter (Ph.D. Cambridge, 1993).
Associate Professor, History.
British cultural/intellectual history from the late eighteenth century through the mid twentieth century, especially: issues of scientific and medical authority and expertise; history of the human sciences, especially mind and representations of the nature of human interaction; history of medicine; issues of gender in the sciences and medicine. | (773) 702-8261
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| Emeritus Faculty |
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Ralph Austen (Ph.D. Harvard, 1966).
Professor Emeritus, History.
African economic history; comparative slavery and slave trade; colonialism and imperialism, especially in Africa, India, and the Caribbean. |
(773) 702-8344
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David Bevington (Ph.D., Harvard, 1959).
Professor Emeritus, English, Comparative Lit., Cmte. on General Studies in the Humanities, and the College; Phyllis Fay Horton Professor Emeritus in the Humanities.
Shakespeare, The History and Theory of Drama, Renaissance Drama, Medieval Drama, etc. |
(773) 702-9899
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Emmet Larkin (Ph.D. Columbia, 1957).
Professor Emeritus, History.
British and Irish history; Victorian political and religious history; the Celtic fringe. |
(773) 702-8376
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Ralph Lerner (Ph.D. Chicago).
Professor Emeritus, Committee on Social Thought.
British political thought; American political thought in the colonial and early national periods. |
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Janel Mueller (Ph.D. Harvard, 1965)
Professor Emerita, English; William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in the College.
15th-, 16th-, and 17th-Century English Literature; religious and historical writing in Early Modern England; Milton; early English women authors; linguistics and literature; society and literature. |
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Lloyd Rudolph (Ph.D. Harvard, 1956).
Professor Emeritus, Political Science.
British Empire studies particularly as they relate to India; Commonwealth Studies as they relate to the nation states of South Asia; the study of Rajasthan |
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Susan Rudolph (Ph.D. Harvard, 1955).
Professor Emerita, Political Science.
British Empire studies particularly as they relate to India; Commonwealth Studies as they relate to the nation states of South Asia; the study of Rajasthan |
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