Copeland received her Ph.D. in Japanese Literature from Columbia University in 1986. Her dissertation concerned the writer Uno Chiyo (1897-1996). This study was subsequently published as The Sound of the Wind: The Life and Works of Uno Chiyo (University of Hawai'i Press, 1992.) Copeland's study of ...

Gerald L. Early

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Early is a noted essayist and American culture critic. A professor of English, of African & African American studies and of American culture studies, all in Arts & Sciences, Early is the author of several books, including The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American ...

Fields

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Fields is a nationally known expert on American literature, non-fiction prose, rhetoric and American political argument. His book, "Union of Words: A History of Presidential Eloquence" (1996) examines the use of rhetoric in presidential speeches, from declarations of candidacy to nomination acceptances, ...

Hirst

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Derek Hirst is a specialist in 17th-century British history and a longtime fellow of the prestigious Royal Historical Society. During the last decade, his studies have focused broadly on the meaning and consequences of the 17th-century English Revolution. Hirst is known for showing how cultural, societal ...

Keane

Keane is a general classicist with a broad interest in ancient Greek and Latin language, literature and culture. Her research focuses on the comic genres and ancient attitudes about literature in society. She works mainly in Roman satire and its relationship to Roman culture.

Steven G. Krantz, Ph.D., is professor and chair of mathematics. He received the Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974. Several complex variables; harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, geometry, interpolation of operators, complex function theory, and real analysis are among his specialties. ...

David Lawton

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David Lawton has published five books and many articles in English literary and cultural studies and in medieval studies. He is currently preparing editions of Chaucer's poetry and prose, and completing a book on voice and space in medieval literature. He is founding co-editor of a major journal, ...

Joseph Loewenstein

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Joseph Loewenstein's recent books — "The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright" (2002) and "Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship" (2002) — are studies of Early Modern intellectual property, the prehistory of modern copyright, but he is also extremely interested in prosody and poetics. ...

Lützeler teaches in both the German Department and the Comparative Literature Program. His research and teaching interests include German and European Romanticism, German exile literature, contemporary scholarly discourses (postmodernism, postcolonialism, globalization), and cultural studies in general. ...

Metzidakis is an expert on 19th and 20th century French and European literature, especially poetry and prose poetry. He works extensively on literary theory, the connections between literature and painting, "concrete" or visual poetry and North American French history and culture, including those of ...

Carl Phillips

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Phillips is the highly acclaimed author of 10 collections of poetry. His first book, "In the Blood," won the 1992 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize and was heralded as the work of an outstanding newcomer in the field of contemporary poetry. His other books are "Cortege" (1995), a finalist for both the ...

R. Keith Sawyer

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R. Keith Sawyer is one of the country's leading experts on the science of creativity. He studies creativity, everyday conversation, children's play and everyday social life. He is particularly interested in group dynamics and collaboration. He is the author of numerous books including Pretend Play ...

Sklodowska is an expert on Cuban narrative and culture, the poetics and politics of memory, the Spanish-American narrative from the 19th and 20th centuries, and testimonial literature. She has published six books, including two edited volumes, and more than 60 articles, book chapters and reviews printed ...

She has published widely on German literature and culture from 1650 to the 1990s with a concentration in the late seventeenth century and the nineteenth century. She has maintained an abiding interest in the novel and its origins, the construction and representation of gender, reading communities ...

Williams's research interests include the literature of early modern witchcraft and magic, the radical reforming movements, the 17th century polyhistor Johannes Praetorius and early modern science and literature. Her research has been supported by grants from the Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, ...

Rafia Zafar

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Zafar's research interests include African American literature, early American literature and food and its relationship to American society. Her recent books include We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760-1870; New Essays on Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a ...