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Lisa Kasmer, Associate Professor of English, specializes in gender and sexuality studies and trauma studies in Romanticism and Victorian culture. Her research focuses on the construction of sociopolitical narratives and subjectivity in nineteenth-century literature through genre and form. Her monograph […]

Professor Levin specializes in contemporary British and postcolonial literature, transnational cultural studies, and critical and literary theory. His research focuses on the ways in which twentieth-century global conditions have shaped contemporary culture and produced new discourses of self and identity. […]

Dianne Berg specializes in late medieval and early modern English literature. Her research focuses on literary representations of true crime and domestic violence, and how disruptions within the family threaten gendered political ideologies equating a “healthy” home with an embodied, […]

Professor Blake specializes in gender and sexuality studies, food studies, and global modernist literature. Her research focuses on the ways queer pleasure is represented in the literature of the early twentieth century, and how those representations come to reshape existing […]

Betsy Huang is Professor of English at Clark University. She served as Associate Provost and Dean of the College from 2019 to 2024, as Director of the Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies from 2017 to 2019, and was […]

Professor Neuman teaches and researches in the fields of early and nineteenth-century American literature. In her first book, Jeremiah's Scribes: Literary Theories of the Sermon in Puritan New England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), she delves into the world of sermon notetaking, shifting […]

Justin P. Shaw is an Assistant Professor of English at Clark University where he teaches and researches Shakespeare and early modern English literature. His work explores the intersections of race, emotions, and disability in 16th and 17th Century texts. He […]

Professor Spencer Tricker specializes in American literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While this literature has traditionally been studied in view of transatlantic cultural contexts, Professor Tricker’s work emphasizes transpacific connections among the Americas, East and Southeast Asia, […]

Professor Gutmann-Gonzalez is a Chilean poet and novelist working at the intersections of text, performance, archive, and translation. They specializes in creative writing (hybrid texts, poetry, fiction) and Latinx literature. They are the author of the novel La Pava (Ediciones Inubicalistas) and […]