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James English

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Jim English

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311 Fisher-Bennett Hall
215-898-4377
jenglish@english.upenn.edu
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John Welsh Centennial Professor of English
Faculty Director, Price Lab for Digital Humanities
    Fields of Study
  • Film
  • Novel
  • Britain
  • Global Anglophone
  • C20, including Modernism
  • C21/ Contemporary
  • Digital Humanities
  • Marxism
  • Sociology of Literature

 

Interests

20th-Century American Literature,  20th-Century British Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Global Anglophone,  Cinema and Media Studies,  Critical Theory,  Digital Humanities, Environmental Humanities, History of Material Texts,  Modernism and Modernity Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Visual Culture

 

 

 

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