Film Studies and Cultural Studies
Our Faculty
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Jonathan Auerbach Professor Director, Graduate Placement |
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Charles Caramello Professor Dean, Graduate School |
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Tita Chico Associate Professor Associate Dean for Fellowships and Awards, The Graduate School |
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William A. Cohen Professor Associate Chair |
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Verlyn Flieger Professor |
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Oliver Gaycken Assistant Professor |
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Regina Harrison Professor |
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Linda Kauffman Professor Distinguished Scholar-Teacher |
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Matthew Kirschenbaum Associate Professor Associate Director, MITH |
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Randy Ontiveros Assistant Professor |
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Barry Pearson Professor |
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Carla Peterson Professor |
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Stanley Plumly Professor Director, Creative Writing |
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Sangeeta Ray Professor Director, Graduate Studies |
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Martha Nell Smith Professor Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, ADVANCE Professor |
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Christina Walter Assistant Professor |
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Orrin Wang Professor |
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Mary Helen Washington Professor |
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David Wyatt Professor |
Faculty Bookshelf
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Associate Professor Tita Chico Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century: Seduction and Sentiment Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 |
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Professor Orrin Wang Romantic Sobriety: Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 |
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Professor Jonathan Auerbach Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship Duke University Press, 2011 |
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Associate Professor Tita Chico Journal Editor, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation Penn Press, 2011 |
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Professor Carla Peterson Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City Yale University Press, 2011 |
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Associate Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections Council on Library and Information Resources, 2010 |
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Professor David Wyatt Author, Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth Century American Literature The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010 |
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Professor Sangeeta Ray Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: In Other Words Wiley Blackwell, 2009 |
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Professor William A. Cohen Embodied: Victorian Literature and the Senses University of Minnesota Press, 2008 |
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Professor Stanley Plumly Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography W. W. Norton, 2008 |
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Professor Verlyn Flieger Editor, with Douglas A. Anderson, On Fairy-stories, by J.R.R. Tolkien HarperCollins, 2008 |
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Professor Martha Nell Smith Co-editor, Emily Dickinson's Correspondences: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry The University of Virginia Rotunda Press, 2008 |
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Professor Martha Nell Smith Co-editor, with Mary Loeffelholz, A Companion to Emily Dickinson Wiley-Blackwell, 2008 |
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Associate Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination MIT Press, 2008 |
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Professor Jonathan Auerbach Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations University of California Press, 2007 |
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Professor Stanley Plumly Old Heart W. W. Norton, 2007 |
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Professor Jonathan Auerbach Editor, The Iron Heel, by Jack London Penguin, 2006 |
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Professor Regina Harrison Director, producer, writer, Mined to Death Berkeley Media LLC, 2005 |
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Professor Barry Pearson Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers University of Tennessee Press, 2005 |
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Professor William A. Cohen Co-editor, with Ryan Johnson, Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life University of Minnesota Press, 2005 |
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Professor Verlyn Flieger Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology Kent State University Press, 2005 |
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Associate Professor Tita Chico Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture 2005 |
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Professor David Wyatt And the War Came: An Accidental Memoir Terrace Books, 2004 |
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Professor Stanley Plumly Argument & Song: Sources and Silences in Poetry Handsel, 2003 |
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Professor Verlyn Flieger Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World, Revised Edition Kent State University Press, 2002 |
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Professor Regina Harrison Director, producer, writer, Cashing in on Culture: Indigenous Communities and Tourism Berkeley Media LLC, 2002 |
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Professor Stanley Plumly Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000 Ecco, 2001 |
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Professor Orrin Wang Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 |
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Professor Sangeeta Ray En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives Duke University Press, 2000 |
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Professor Linda Kauffman Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture University of California Press, 1998 |
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Professor Stanley Plumly The Marriage in the Trees Ecco, 1998 |
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Professor Martha Nell Smith Co-editor, with Ellen Louise Hart, Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson Paris Press, 1998 |
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Professor Verlyn Flieger A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie Kent State University Press, 1997 |
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Professor Jonathan Auerbach Editor, Northland Stories, by Jack London Penguin, 1997 |
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Professor David Wyatt Five Fires: Race, Catastrophe, and the Shaping of California Addison Wesley, 1997 |
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Professor Jonathan Auerbach Male Call: Becoming Jack London Duke University Press, 1996 |
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Professor William A. Cohen Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction Duke University Press, 1996 |
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Professor Charles Caramello Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act University of North Carolina Press, 1996 |
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Professor Carla Peterson "Doers of the Word": African-American Women Speakers & Writers in the North (1830-1880) Oxford University Press, 1995 |
Upcoming Events
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
1:00 pm Work in Progress: Matt Kirschenbaum, "Track Changes: The Literary History of Word Processing"
2115 Tawes Hall
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Urlich Recital Hall (1121 Tawes)
Friday, October 26, 2012
2115 Tawes Hall
Friday, February 8, 2013
2115 Tawes Hall
News
October 25, 2011
This symposium promises to help participants redefine and rethink the ways they research, teach, discuss, and conceptualize categories surrounding “world literature" and promises to have wide-ranging impact across the humanities.
October 4, 2010
Research led by English Professors Matthew Kirshenbaum and Kari Kraus receives a second round of funding.
April 14, 2010
The Duke University Professor of English and Women's Studies will be on campus on Wednesday, April 21.
January 19, 2010
University Provost Nariman Farvardin has selected Martha Nell Smith as a 2010-2011 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher.
April 15, 2009
Michael Collier will accept his prize at the 2009 "Academy Awards in Literature" at a New York City gala this May.
March 24, 2009
Martha Nell Smith shared her thoughts regarding Women's History Month in the March 13, 2009 edition of the Diamondback.
February 13, 2009
Professor Jonathan Auerbach recounts the history of the first cinematic kiss for Fox News.
May 9, 2008
Joseph Miller, a lecturer in the English Department since 1973, will retire at the end of the spring 2008 semester.
