Now available from Columbia University Press: Jennifer Scappettone's Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism. Rachel Cohen, Professor of Practice in the Arts in Creative Writing and English, has…
Now available from Columbia University Press, Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism is the latest book by Associate Professor Jennifer Scappettone. Keep an eye out for upcoming events related
Frederic Ives Carpenter (1861-1925) was for many years an eminent professor of medieval and Renaissance literature in the Department of English. The Carpenter lectureship was endowed in 1925 to memorialize Professor Carpenter's personal com…
I teach and write about texts from the late Middle Ages and theoretical and methodological questions in present-day literary studies. I am co-editor, with James Simpson, of the Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eleventh Edition, Vol.
My work is preoccupied with racial performativity, especially (though not exclusively) the ways that black Americans perform racial identity. What modes of embodiment assert belonging or dis-belonging, and how? When do racialized subjects c…
Reception with BA thesis readings, research lab presentations, and good cheer. Light refreshments will be provided. Department of English Language and Literature Division of the Arts & Humanities University of Chicago Walker Hall, 4th Floor…
As a scholar of poetry and culture working across media and historical periods—antiquity, modernity, and the in between—I try to understand why we so often confront the world by interrupting our relation to it. My most recent book, Turning
I am a poet and student of poetics who joined the English department in 2010 and retired in 2023. I served as Director of the Program in Creative Writing and Chair of the Divisional Committee on Poetics from 2014-2022. My first collection o…
My research and teaching focus on nineteenth-century British literature, especially in the contexts of colonialism, imperial expansion, and the migration of people across the world. I range across authors, genres and print forms, and explor…
My major field of research is sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literary history in relation to intellectual, cultural, and political history. Special interests include early modern English literature's engagements with classical a…
Quadruple congratulations to our extraordinary colleague, Noémie, whose Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race has now been awarded no less than FOUR distinguished prizes. To the Bevington award, award…
My research and teaching explore theater as an embodied practice and as a powerful set of aesthetic and social assumptions. I work across periods, from ancient to digital, but with particular emphasis on modern and contemporary drama and li…