Formalism/ Structuralism

Julia Alekseyeava
Assistant Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies
jaleksey@sas.upenn.eduWebsite

S. Pearl Brilmyer
Assistant Professor of English
brilmyer@upenn.eduWebsite
Fields of Study: Novel, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Scientific Texts and Ideas, Africa & the Caribbean, Britain, Western Europe, C19, C20, including Modernism, Deconstruction, Ecocriticism/ Ecology, Formalism/ Structuralism, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Psychoanalysis, Race and Empire, Rhetoric, Hermeneutics

David Kazanjian
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
kazanjia@english.upenn.eduWebsite
Fields of Study: Historiography and Historical Writing, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Africa & the Caribbean, Diaspora, Latin America, Middle East/North Africa, US, C19, Long Eighteenth Century, Deconstruction, Formalism/ Structuralism, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Marxism, Post-colonial, Psychoanalysis, Race and Empire, Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, Trauma

Benjamin Nathans
Associate Professor of History
bnathans@history.upenn.eduWebsite

Kevin Platt
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities
Professor of Russian and East European Studieskmfplatt@sas.upenn.eduWebsite
Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Drama, Film, Historiography and Historical Writing, Novel, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Poetry/ Poetics, Diaspora, Eastern Europe / Russia, World Literature, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Formalism/ Structuralism, Marxism, Post-colonial, Sociology of Literature, Spatial Theory, Translation, Trauma

Gerald Prince
Professor of French and Francophone Studies
gprince@babel.ling.upenn.eduWebsite
Fields of Study: Novel, Short Story, Western Europe, C19, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Formalism/ Structuralism, Narratology

Emily Steinlight
Associate Professor of English
emily.steinlight@english.upenn.eduWebsite