Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Emeritus
Regions: Europe, France
Time Period: 18th century
Themes: Cultural History; French Literature; History of the Book; Intellectual History; Political History; Social History... Read more about Robert Darnton
Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature
Region(s): Britain; America; France
Time Period(s): 18th century, and Restoration
Theme(s): Romantic, Eighteenth-Century, and Restoration British Literature; Comparative Romanticism; Criticism and Critical Theory; Rhetoric; Environmental Studies; History and Economics of Higher Education... Read more about James Engell
William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature
Region(s): Germany; France
Time Period(s): 18th century; 19th century
Theme(s): Hermeneutics and Poetics of the Classical Tradition; Music and Language; New Comparative Philology; Literature... Read more about John Hamilton
Qiushi Distinguished Professor and director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Zhejiang University, China Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar (2023-24)
Regions: China, England, United States
Times: 16th and 17th centuries
Themes: British Literature; Chinese Literature; Early Modern Drama; History of the Book; Poetry and Poetics; Renaissance; Shakespeare... Read more about Tianhu Hao
Hilles Bush Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Associate Professor, Art History, University of Delaware
Jennifer Nelson studies early modern art and cultural production from Europe and its outposts. At Radcliffe she is linking a new theory of art’s emergent... Read more about Jennifer Nelson
·Regions: Greece, England, Italy ·Time Periods: 15th-17th century ·Themes: Early Modern Drama; Trans-imperial Contact Zones; Travel Writing; Oral Poetry and Performance; World-Making; Translation Studies; Popular Literature; Embodied Cognition & Early Modern Imagination.... Read more about Clio-Ragna Takas