In addition to its regular faculty, the Literature section also includes
a changing cast of lecturers who may teach one or two subjects in a
given term. If you do not find the instructor you are looking for on
the following list, please consult the Literature office (lit@mit.edu)
for contact information. For more information on the classes taught
by individual faculty members, please go to their webpage and click
on the appropriate class links.
Head, Literature Faculty
James Buzard
Professor
Email: jmbuzard@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/jbuzard.php
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century British literature and culture; modernism; cultural criticism and theory; literature and ethnography; travel literature
Classes Taught: Foundations of Western Culture: Homer to
Dante; Introduction to Fiction; Forms of Western Narrative; Major
English Novels; Romantic Poetry; Victorian Literature and Culture;
Studies in Fiction; Major Authors
 Sandy
Alexandre
Assistant Professor 
Email: alexandy@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/salexandre.php
Research Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth-century American
and African-American literature and culture
Classes Taught: Reading Fiction; Introduction to American Literature;
The American Novel; Race & Identity in American Literature
 Arthur
Bahr
Assistant Professor 
Email: awbahr@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/abahr.php
Research Interests: Old and Middle English literature; the literary
and physical structure of medieval compilations; medieval London's literary,
political, and legal culture; chivalric performance and spectacle.
Classes Taught: Foundations of Western Culture; Introduction
to Drama; Classical Literature; Medieval Literature
 Alisa
Braithwaite
Assistant Professor 
Email: akb1@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/abraithwaite.php
Research Interests: Twentieth-century Anglophone Caribbean literature;
Black women writers; race and gender theory; the intellectual in literature
Classes Taught: World Literatures; Reading Fiction
 Sarah
Brouillette
Assistant Professor 
Email: sabrouil@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/sbrouillette.php
Research Interests: Contemporary British, Irish, and Postcolonial
literatures; transnationalism and globalization; creative industries
and cultural policy; print and media history; tourism
Classes Taught: Reading Fiction; Contemporary Literature
Peter Donaldson
Professor
Email: psdlit@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/pdonaldson.php
Research Interests: Shakespeare; Shakespeare on film; Renaissance literature; Machiavelli; educational technology and digital archives
Classes Taught: Foundations of Western Culture I; Foundations
of Western Culture II; Shakespeare; Literature and Film; The Bible;
Renaissance Literature; Studies in Film; Literature and Technology
Howard Eiland
Lecturer
Email: eiland@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/heiland.php
Research Interests: Twentieth-century literature and philosophy, critical theory, film, jazz
Classes Taught: Reading Fiction; Comedy; Shakespeare; Foundations
of Western Culture; Major European Novels; Reading Poetry; The Film
Experience; Literature and Film
Mary Fuller
Associate Professor (Tenured)
Email: mcfuller@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/mfuller.php
Research Interests: Renaissance English literature; Milton; colonial North American literature and culture; travel writing and cultural encounter; history of the book
Classes Taught: Foundations of Western Culture, Renaissance
to Modernity; Reading Poetry; World Literatures; Shakespeare; Medieval
Literature; Renaissance Literature; Studies in Drama; Studies in
Poetry; Major Authors; Problems in Cultural Interpretation; Literature
and Technology
Diana Henderson
Professor
Email: dianah@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/dhenderson.php
Research Interests: Shakespeare; Renaissance Literature; Drama; Women's Literature; Media Studies
Classes Taught: Major Media Texts; Literary Interpretation;
Studies in Drama; Literary Studies; Popular Narrative; Literature
and Film; Modern Drama; Introduction to Drama; Shakespeare; Learning
from the Past
John Hildebidle
Professor
Email: jjhildeb@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/jhildebidle.php
Research Interests: American writing, Anglo-American poetry, modern and contemporary American poetry, and 20th Century Hiberno-English writing, especially fiction
Classes Taught: Reading Poetry; Intro to American Literature;
Small Wonders; Popular Narrative; Contemporary Literature
Noel Jackson
Associate Professor
(Tenured)
Email: njackson@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/njackson.php
Research Interests: Late eighteenth-century and Romantic literature and culture; poetry and poetics; historiography; critical theory; science and literature
Classes Taught: Reading Fiction; Reading Poetry; The Art
of the Probable; Eighteenth-Century Literature; Major English Novels;
Romantic Poetry; Literary Interpretation; Studies in Poetry; Studies
in Cultural Interpretation
Henry Jenkins
Professor
Email: henry3@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/hjenkins.php
Research Interests: Comparative media studies; convergence culture; ethnography of media audiences; games and games studies; American popular culture; comics and graphic novels; genres of entertainment
Classes Taught: Media Systems and Texts; Popular Culture
in the Age of Media Convergence; Media Industries and Systems; Media
Theories and Methods II; Media in Cultural Context; Popular Narrative
Wyn Kelley
Senior Lecturer
Email: wkelley@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/wkelley.php
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century American literature; Herman Melville; nineteenth- and twentieth-century women's fiction, popular culture, and media studies; teaching and technology
Classes Taught: Writing About Literature; Reading Fiction;
American Literature; Comedy; Popular Narrative; American Novel;
American Authors (American Women Writers); Major Authors: Melville
and Morrison, After the Masterpiece, Stowe and Twain; Problems in
Cultural Interpretation: Literature of Slavery, Melodrama
Alvin Kibel
Professor
Email: akibel@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/akibel.php
Research Interests: History of Ideas, Literary Theory, Film, Ethics and Literature, Darwin studies
Classes Taught: Foundations of Literature; The Art of the
Probable; Tragedy; Literature and Film; Darwin and Design; The End
of Nature; Literature and Ethics; The European Novel
Ina Lipkowitz
Lecturer
Email: iel@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/ilipkowitz.php
Research Interests: Hebrew Bible; New Testament; Biblical interpretation and criticism; English novels; Romantic poetry; Culinary history
Classes Taught: The Bible; Reading Fiction; Major English
Novels; Comedy; Reading Poetry; Writing about Literature; Foundations
of Western Culture
Ruth Perry
Professor
Email: rperry@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/rperry.php
Research Interests: Eighteenth-Century Studies; Feminist literary and social history; the English novel; history of the family; British and American ballads and folk music; orality and literacy
Classes Taught:
Foundations of Western Culture; Introduction to Fiction; Folk
Music of North America and the British Isles; Eighteenth Century
Literature; Major English Novels; Jane Austen; Narratives of Kinship
in Industrializing Societies (Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies
- Radcliffe); Women, Representation, and Music in Selected Folk
Traditions of North America and the British Isles (Graduate Consortium
in Women's Studies - MIT); Ballads and Broadsides in Eighteenth-Century
Culture (post-doc seminar at Folger Library, Washington, D.C.)
Shankar Raman
Associate Professor (Tenured)
Email: sram@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/sraman.php
Research Interests: Renaissance and late-Medieval literature and culture; colonialism and post-colonialism; history of ideas; history of science; literary theory
Classes Taught: World Literatures; Shakespeare; The Art
of the Probable: Literature and Probability; Introduction to Literary
Theory; Medieval Literature; Renaissance Literature; Studies in
Drama; Studies in Poetry; Problems in Cultural Interpretation
Stephen Tapscott
Professor
Email: tapscott@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/stapscott.php
Research Interests: Poetry and poetics; 20th-century American literature and culture; Modernism; Theory and practice of translation; 20th-century Central European and Latin American poetry; creative writing
Classes Taught: Reading Poetry; Bestsellers; Legacy of England;
Comedy; Modernist Poetry; Literary Interpretation; Major Authors
David Thorburn
Professor
Email: thorburn@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/dthorburn.php
Research Interests: Modern cultural studies; romantic and modern literature; film, media, popular culture; American television; cultural history; American studies; curricular reform in literature and humanities; the role of teaching in higher education
Classes Taught: Writing About Literature; Reading Fiction;
The Film Experience; Forms of Western Narrative; Comedy; Popular
Narrative; American Television: A Cultural History; Film Styles
and Genres; Literature and Film; Literary Interpretation; Problems
in Cultural Interpretation; Modern Fiction; Contemporary Literature;
Media in Transition [Comparative Media Studies graduate subject]
William Uricchio
Professor
Email: uricchio@mit.edu
Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/lit/people/wuricchio.php
Research Interests: Media archaeology; media theory and history; historical reception studies; media and cultural identity; Shakespeare across media
Classes Taught: Studies in Film; Media in Cultural Context;
Media Theories and Methods I; Media in Transition; Topics in International
Media
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