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Cornell graduates have gone on to thriving careers at a variety of academic institutions, from small colleges to large universities, and our alumni also include distinguished writers who have forged careers outside of the academy.
In addition to producing innovative Ph.D. and M.F.A. theses, our graduates also receive extensive teacher training. Cornell graduate students teach multiple seminars in the university-wide First-year Writing Program, experience which prepares them to design and teach courses in creative writing, literature, and cultural studies to a range of students, including agriculture and engineering majors as well as students in the humanities and social sciences. Cornell graduates thus offer substantial teaching experience to prospective employers in addition to scholarly excellence.
| Name | Research Interests | E-mail Address | Web |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Black | Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture; Early African American Literature; Performance Studies; Book history | awb89@cornell.edu | » Visit |
| Karen Bourrier | The Victorian Novel, Masculinity and Gender Studies, Disability Studies, the History of Medicine, Women’s Writing | kab233@bu.edu | » Visit |
| Julie Phillips Brown |
Modern and contemporary poetry, poetics, and literature; cross-genre, multi-ethnic, and transnational approaches to literature; theory and history of the avant-garde; visual art, digital technology and literature; feminist and gender studies; and creative writing (prose, poetry, and non-fiction). | jpb73@cornell.edu | » Visit |
| Brigitte Fielder | Nineteenth-Century American Literatures, African-American Literature, Native American Literature, American Women Writers, Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, the Transatlantic Nineteenth Century, Empire and (Post)Colonialism | bnf7@cornell.edu | |
| Erin Kay Penner | British and American Modernism, Elegy, Literature of the American South, The Victorian Novel | ekp23@cornell.edu | |
| Seth Perlow | American Literature After 1865; Poetry and Poetics; New Media Studies; Critical Theory; Gender and Sexuality Studies | smp254@cornell.edu | » Visit |
| Steve Pinkerton | Twentieth-Century Fiction and Poetry; Modernism and the Avant-Garde; African American Literature and Culture; James Joyce; Religion in Literature. | sgp44@cornell.edu | » Visit |
| John Robbins | Research interests: Romantic and eighteenth-century drama; gender studies; drama by women; empire; the French Revolution | jer272@cornell.edu | » Visit |
| Robin J. Sowards | 19th-century British Poetry, Poetics, Linguistics (Syntax), German Idealism, the Frankfurt School | rjs46@cornell.edu | » Visit |
| Cecily H. Swanson | Modernism; American Twentieth-Century Literature; Archival Studies; Race and Gender Studies; Digital Humanities. | chs32@cornell.edu | » Visit |
| Brant Torres | American literature (from the colonial period through the nineteenth century), queer theory, esotericism, the occult, affect studies, literature and spirituality, critical theory, phenomenology, law and literature, the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. | bmt42@cornell.edu | » Visit |