Head, Literature Faculty
James Buzard

Email: jmbuzard@mit.edu

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/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

Email: alexandy@mit.edu

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/people/salexandre.php

Research Interests: African-American literature and culture, visual studies, women's & gender studies, performance studies, and material culture studies.

Classes Taught: Reading Fiction; Introduction to American Literature; The American Novel; Race & Identity in American Literature

Arthur Bahr

Email: awbahr@mit.edu

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/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

Eugnie Brinkema

Email: brinkema@mit.edu

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/people/ebrinkema.php

Research Interests: Film Theory; Violence and Representation; Embodiment and Affect; Critical Theory; Psychoanalysis and Continental Philosophy; Gender and Sexuality Studies

Classes Taught: Forms of Western Narrative, Prizewinners: High-Art Horror

Alison Byerly

Email: abyerly@mit.edu

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/people/abyerly.php

Research Interests: Victorian literature, culture, and media; digital humanities; technology and the liberal arts

Classes Taught:

Kate Delaney

Email: kdelaney@mit.edu

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/people/kdelaney.php

Research Interests:Postmodernism, Science Fiction, Transnational American Studies, Literature and Culture in the Post-Cold-War era

Classes Taught: Reading Fiction, Cyberpunk

Peter Donaldson

Email: psdlit@mit.edu

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/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

William Donaldson

Email: wdonald@mit.edu

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/people/wdonaldson.php

Research Interests: Eighteenth and nineteenth century Scottish literature and popular culture; Scottish traditional music especially that of the Highland bagpipe.

Classes Taught: World Literatures, Literature and Film: The Vampire in Fiction and Film

Howard Eiland

Email: eiland@mit.edu

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/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

Anne Fleche

Email: ashleyfleche@rcn.com

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/people/afleche.php

Research Interests:

Classes Taught: Film Styles and Genres: Comedy and Crime - Woody Allen & Steve Soderberg; Introduction to Drama

Stephanie Frampton

Email: sframpton@mit.edu

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/people/sframpton.php

Research Interests: Latin literature; Roman literary and cultural history; Latin and Greek epigraphy and paleography; Material culture of Greco-Roman literacy and reading; History of the book; Comparative approaches to classical literature

Classes Taught: Foundations of Western Culture: Homer to Dante; Classical Literature: Greek and Roman Mythology; Forms of Western Narrative; Latin Readings

Mary Fuller

Email: mcfuller@mit.edu

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/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

Email: dianah@mit.edu

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/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

Email: jjhildeb@mit.edu

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/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

Email: njackson@mit.edu

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/people/njackson.php

Research Interests: British literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; poetry and poetics; aesthetics; 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

Wyn Kelley

Email: wkelley@mit.edu

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/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

Email: akibel@mit.edu

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/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

Julia Panko

Email: panko@mit.edu

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/people/jpanko.php

Research Interests: Twentieth-century British and Anglophone literature; media theory; modernism; information culture; the novel; the history and future of the book

Classes Taught:

Ruth Perry

Email: rperry@mit.edu

Homepage: http://lit.mit.edu/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.)