• Lauren Berlant
• James Chandler
• Bradin Cormack
• Raúl Coronado
• Jacqueline Goldsby
• Elaine Hadley
• Loren Kruger
• W. J. T. Mitchell
• Deborah Nelson
• Lawrence Rothfield
• Jennifer Scappettone
• Joshua Scodel
• Richard Strier
• Robert von Hallberg

Emeriti Faculty News

• Janel Mueller
• Richard Stern
• William Veeder

Lauren Berlant

Lauren Berlant was appointed Director of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project in 2006 and continues to work at that, most recently curating a conference called Anxiety, Urgency, Optimism, Hope . . . A Conference on Political Feeling, whose associated papers and links are still available on the "Pedagogies of Feeling" page at http://politicalfeeling.uchicago.edu. She has also edited a two-volume series for Critical Inquiry called "On the Case" (Summer and Fall 2007), which addresses questions of exemplarity, explanation, and the normative politics of professionalized knowledge across many fields. It includes essays about body parts, OCD, obesity, torture, literary personhood, working-class history, the history of science, and of critical theory, and has great covers. Also she has recently published on the affective politics of ordinary life under neoliberalism in Differences, Public Culture, and SAQ.

James Chandler

James Chandler was appointed Director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities in July 2001. In 2000 he was awarded the Gordon J. Laing Prize for England in 1819 (University of Chicago, 1998), and in 2001, a Fulbright Award for weeklong seminar at the University of Moscow (June 2001). Most recently, he has co-edited Romantic Metropolis: The Urban Scene in British Romanticism, 1780-1840 with Kevin Gilmartin (Cambridge, 2005).

Bradin Cormack

In January 2007, Bradin Cormack was appointed Director of the Nicholson Center for British Studies at the University. His book, A Power to Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of Common Law, 1509–1625, will be out from the University of Chicago Press in December 2007.

Raúl Coronado

Raúl Coronado spent 2006-2007 on leave during which he worked on his book manuscript Competing American Modernities: Revolution, Print Culture, and the Making of Latino Subjectivities. He was invited to participate in a symposium celebrating American Literary History's twentieth anniversary; his contribution was published in the spring/summer 2008 issue. He gave the 2008 Sheehan Lecture at the University of Louisville in April, delivered a paper at the Newberry Library Borderlands and Latino Studies Seminar in April 2008, and was invited to participate in Stanford University's Distinguished Alumni Scholars Day in May 2008.

Jacqueline Goldsby

Jacqueline Goldsby spent the 2000-2001 academic year as a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, where she researched her book, A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature. A Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship for the academic year 2002-2003 allowed her to do further work on the book, which was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2006.

Elaine Hadley

Elaine Hadley is ongoing Chair of Graduate Studies, recently published a piece, "On a Darkling Plain: Victorian Liberalism and the Fantasy of Agency," and has a book on Victorian Liberalism forthcoming.

Loren Kruger

Loren Kruger spent the academic year 2006-07 in South Africa mostly doing research in Johannesburg for "Upstart Cities: Literature, Performance and Built Environments in Berlin, Chicago, and Johannesburg." This research was sponsored by a Fulbright Hays grant and a fellowship from the American Society of Theatre Research. While in South Africa she gave several lectures including one on edgy city television serials at the Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research at the Witwatersrand University. Published parts of this research include an article on the representation of Africans at world's fairs in 19th- and early 20th-century Chicago and Johannesburg in TDR: The Drama Review (2007) and a "letter from Johannesburg" on performance in streets and other contested urban spaces, in Theater (forthcoming in 2008).

W. J. T. Mitchell

W. J. T. Mitchell has recently published essays on the Brooklyn Museum controversy over the "Sensation" show entitled "Offending Images" (in Unsettling Sensation, ed. Larry Rothfield), "Seeing Disability," which appeared in Public Culture, and "Romanticism and the Life of Things," in Critical Inquiry's special issue on "Things" (Fall 2001). He was awarded the Berlin Prize Fellowship for a research residency at the American Academy in Berlin for the spring of 2002. In 2003 he won the Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, as well as becoming the chairman of the board of the University of Chicago press. His new book, entitled What Do Pictures Want? Essays on the Lives and Loves of Images, was published in 2005.

Deborah Nelson

Deborah Nelson held a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship from the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University in 2000-2001, and completed her book Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America, published in the Columbia University Press Gender and Culture Series (2001). She is currently involved in writing "Tough Broads," an article on Diane Arbus, Susan Sontag, Simone Weil, and Flannery O'Connor that attempts to think outside of the trauma model to address the problems of empathy, agency, and ordinary suffering late 20th-century culture.

Lawrence Rothfield

Lawrence Rothfield is the founder and Faculty Director of the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago. Recent publications include "Cultural Policy Studies?? Cultural Policy Studies??? Cultural Policy Studies?!?? A Guide for the Perplexed," available on the publications page of the Cultural Policy Center Web site, and edited, with an introductory essay, Unsettling "Sensation": Arts Policy Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum Controversy (Rutgers University Press, 2001). He is currently working on The Measure of Man, a historical account of the cultural politics of Renaissance Florence, and The Utility of Culture, a genealogy of policy thought about the arts and humanities.

Jennifer Scappettone

In 2007, Jennifer Scappettone had critical essays published in PMLA, Modern Philology, and the Brooklyn Rail. Her poems appeared in numerous journals and several anthologies (Viz.: A Trans-Genre Anthology (U of California, Santa Cruz), The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for a New Century (Cracked Slab), and War and Peace, Volume 3 (O Books), and she published two poetry chapbooks: Beauty [Is the New Absurdity] (dusi/e kollectiv, 2007) and Err-Residence (Bronze Skull, 2007). Her first full-length book of poems, From Dame Quickly, is forthcoming next year. Jennifer gave public readings of her poetry and translations in Rome, Berlin, St. Louis, the Bay Area, Ithaca, New York City, and Chicago this past year. A public lecture she delivered at the California College of the Arts--"Aleppo Once, in Circumfusion: Ambient Poetics"--occasioned an interview between Jennifer and Lisa Robertson by the journalist Tania Ketenjian that will be aired this fall in San Francisco and London, then archived as a podcast on radiotania.org.

Joshua Scodel

Joshua Scodel has coedited with Janel Mueller a two-volume edition of the translations of Elizabeth I from and to Latin, French, and Italian that is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.

Richard Strier

Richard Strier has recently published "Against the Rule of Reason: Praise of Passion from Petrarch to Luther to Shakespeare to Herbert," in Reading the Early Modern Passions, ed. Mary Floyd-Wilson, Karen Rowe, and Gail Kern Paster (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), "How Formalism Became a Dirty Word, and Why We Can't Do Without It," in Renaissance Literature and Its Formal Engagements, ed. Mark Rasmussen (Palgrave Press, 2001), "Shakespeare and the Skeptics," in Religion and Literature 32 (2000), 171-196 (special issue on Heterodoxy in the English Renaissance, ed. Daniel Gates), and "Milton's Fetters, or, Why Eden is Better than Heaven" in John Milton: the Author in His Works, ed. Michael Lieb and Albert Labriola, Milton Studies 38 (2000), pp. 169-197. An essay called "Milton against Humility" is shortly to appear in a collection edited by Debora Shuger and our own PhD Claire McEachern on religion and culture, and he is currently working on an essay on The Tempest for yet another collection he is co-editing.

Robert von Hallberg

Robert von Hallberg recently published "A Dialogue on Evaluation in Poetry" with Marjorie Perloff, in Professions, edited by Donald E. Hall (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000). This dialogue discusses different evaluative criteria in connection with contemporary poetry. He is co-editor of Modernism/Modernity, which has now become the official journal of the Modernist Studies Association.

Janel Mueller

Janel Mueller has coedited with Joshua Scodel a two-volume edition of the translations of Elizabeth I from and to Latin, French, and Italian that is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.

Richard Stern

Richard Stern published the poem "To Go With An Old Necklace," in Poetry (July, 2000, page 209), and the essays "Where The Chips Fall," in Republic of Letters No. 8 (Winter, 2000, page 2-3), "With Auden," Antioch Review 58.4 (Fall, 2000, pages 389-397, to be reprinted in the Auden anthology edited by David Izzo), "Edward Levi," Edward Levi, University of Chicago Law School, and "An Old Writer Looks At Himself," New York Times (in "Writers on Writing" series: March 26, 2001). He has also published the novel Pacific Tremors, with Triquarterly Books (Northwestern University Press, 2001). David Garrett Izzo's The Writings of Richard Stern, The Education of an Intellectual Everyman (McFarland, 2002) is (unsurprisingly) about him.

William Veeder

William Veeder has co-authored (with Prof. Paul J. Emmett) "Freud in Time: Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism in the New Century," in Sigmund Freud and His Impact on the Modern World, ed. Jerome A. Winerand William Anderson, (Hillsdale, N.J: The Analytic Press, 2001, pages 201-33).