Professor Chez is exploring how the idea of what it means to be human is a production of discourses promulgated by literature and culture. Applying animal, gender, and postcolonial studies approaches, my research investigates the formation of subjectivities in nineteenth-century England and America as well as in the present time.
Professor Derbyshire’s research looks at the writing of British eighteenth and early nineteenth century labouring-class poets, and John Clare specifically, to understand how these writers use images, figures of speech, and literary forms to represent the human relationship to the natural world as well as the literary marketplace. Using ecocriticism, narrative theory, and new-formalist approaches,she investigate genres such as poetry and natural history prose. She is especially interested in how authors adapt literary structures and forms to create effects in meaning, particularly the personification of the non-human and prosopopoeia (projecting voice onto inanimate or abstract things).
Professor Klock’s work argues that Matt Fraction’s science-fiction version of James Bond radically redefines masculinity in popular culture, while also challenging the status quo of the entire comic book industry. 50,000 words. Because Casanova is a comic book series only half finished he also under contract to write a book about the second half, when it is completed.
Professor Noimann’s research extends and broadens our understanding of Victorians’ sentimentalization of childhood and seeks to place the long-standing debate over their fascination with the child in a less sexual and more political and cultural framework.
Professor Schneiderman’s poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Poetry London, Grand Street, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Story Quarterly, and Tin House. His research interests focus on prosody and questions of queer futurity.
