Areas of Study:
 
 
 
   
     
  .Literary and Cultural Studies
 		 
     
 
With faculty working in literary traditions that span the ancient, Medieval, early modern, modern, and contemporary world, the Rhetoric Department offers graduate students the opportunity to study literature from a perspective that emphasizes textuality, interdisciplinary theoretical approaches, and cultural studies.  
In particular, we support work in fields such as literature and philosophy, law and literature, performance studies, post-colonial literatures, literary history, and social and political dimensions of literature.
 
     
 

Faculty

Judith Butler
Philosophy and literature

Pheng Cheah
Post-colonial literature and theory

Anthony J. Cascardi
Philosophy and literature; early modern Spanish

Daniel Boyarin
Judaism and Christianity

Shannon Jackson
Performance theory; drama

Michael Mascuch
Literary criticiscm; history and theory of the novel, autobiography, and narrative discourse; orality

Daniel F. Melia
Medieval literature; orality; Celtic

Ramona Naddaff
Ancient Greek literature and philosophy; censorship

Kaja Silverman
Semiotics

Michael Wintroub
Renaissance rhetoric; vernacular consciousness and literature

Carol Clover
Medieval literature; orality; popular culture

Charis Thompson
Feminist theory

Victoria Kahn, Affiliated faculty
Renaissance literature and rhetoric

Seymour Chatman, Emeritus faculty
Narrative theory