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Department Bookshelf: Featured Publications

Department Bookshelf

Featuring works from Department of English faculty.

Or Orwell: Writing and Democratic Socialism

There have been many studies of George Orwell’s life and work, but nothing quite like this book by Alex Woloch―an exuberant, revisionary account of Orwell’s writing. “Good...

Alex Woloch

Richard W. Lyman Professor in the Humanities

Alex Woloch is Department Chair. He received his B.A. and PhD in Comparative Literature. He teaches and writes about...

The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism

In the context of the ongoing crisis in literary criticism, The Social Imperative reminds us that while literature will never by itself change the world, it remains...

Paula Moya standing in the library stacks holding an open book.

Paula Moya

Director of the Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity

PAULA M. L. MOYA, is Professor of English and, by courtesy, of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. She currently...

Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination

Few concepts evoke the twentieth century’s record of war, genocide, repression, and extremism more powerfully than the idea of totalitarianism. Today, studies of the subject...

Vaughn Rasberry

Associate Professor

Vaughn Rasberry studies African American and African Diaspora literature, twentieth-century American fiction,...

Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (A Reader's Companion)

American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature “endows places with meaning.” Yet, as this wide-ranging new book vividly illustrates, understanding the places...

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Joseph S. Atha Professor in the Humanities

Shelley Fisher Fishkin's broad, interdisciplinary research interests have led her to focus on topics including the ways...

Faculty Publications

Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities

Alice Staveley

(2017)

Milton in the Long Restoration

Blair Hoxby

(2016)

Exquisite Masochism: Marriage, Sex, and the Novel Form

Claire Jarvis

(2016)

Aesthetics of Discomfort

Herbert Lindenberger

(2016)

Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

Marjorie Perloff

(2016)

Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination

Vaughn Rasberry

(2016)

Or Orwell: Writing and Democratic Socialism

Alex Woloch

(2016)

The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin

Michele Elam

(2015)

Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (A Reader's Companion)

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

(2015)

American Poetry after Modernism: The Power of the Word

Albert Gelpi

(2015)

What Was Tragedy? Theory and the Early Modern Canon

Blair Hoxby

(2015)

Fortune Smiles: Stories

Adam Johnson

(2015)

The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism

Paula Moya

(2015)

The Reader in the Book, A Study of Spaces and Traces

Stephen Orgel

(2015)

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