English Language and Literature

Lauren Berlant

the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, published Desire/Love (Punctum Press, 2012), and her 2012 book Cruel Optimism (Duke University Pres) was selected for a seminar at the annual conference “The(e)ories: Critical Theory & Sexuality Studies,” in collaboration with the Humanities Institute of Ireland.

Jennifer Scappettone

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, the Committee on Creative Writing, and the College, was named a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.

James Chandler

the Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, Cinema and Media Studies, the Committee on the History of Culture and the College, received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to sustain the work of the Center for Disciplinary Innovation at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, which he directs.

Lawrence Rothfield

Associate Professor in English Language and Literature and the College and faculty director at the Cultural Policy Center, received an award for excellence in art crime scholarship from the Association for Research into Crimes Against Art for his book, The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum (University of Chicago Press, 2009).

Lauren Berlant

the George M. Pullman Professor in English Language and Literature, Gender Studies, and the College, published Cruel Optimism (Duke University Press, 2011), which was named a John Hope Franklin Center Book.

W. J. T. Mitchell

the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, Art History, Visual Arts, and the College and editor of Critical Inquiry, published Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Kenneth Warren

the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, the Committee on African and African-American Studies, the Committee on the History of Culture, and the College, published What Was African American Literature? (Harvard University Press, 2011). He was also named the 2010 – 11 R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library.

Elaine Hadley

Professor in English Language and Literature (Chair) and the College, published Living Liberalism (University of Chicago Press, 2010).

Richard Strier

the Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, the Divinity School, and the College and editor of Modern Philology , published The Unrepentant Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton (University of Chicago Press, 2011). He also served as the Lloyd Davis Memorial Visiting Professor in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Queensland.

Maud Ellmann

the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English Language and Literature and the College, published The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud  (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

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