Sociology of Literature

Max Cavitch
Associate Professor of English
cavitch@english.upenn.eduWebsite
Fields of Study: Film, Historiography and Historical Writing, Life Writing, Auto/biography, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Poetry/ Poetics, Britain, Global Anglophone, US, Western Europe, World Literature, Deconstruction, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Narratology, Psychoanalysis, Sociology of Literature, Translation, Trauma

James English
John Welsh Centennial Professor of English
Faculty Director, Price Lab for Digital Humanitiesjenglish@english.upenn.eduWebsite
Fields of Study: Film, Novel, Britain, Global Anglophone, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Digital Humanities, Marxism, Sociology of Literature

D. Kim
Assistant Professor of Russian and East European Studies
dbkim@sas.upenn.eduWebsite
Fields of Study: Drama, Novel, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Poetry/ Poetics, Scientific Texts and Ideas, Short Story, East Asia, Eastern Europe / Russia, Western Europe, World Literature, C19, C20, including Modernism, Long Eighteenth Century, Digital Humanities, Linguistic Theories and Culture, Sociology of Literature, Translation

Hilah Kohen
Ph.D. Student
kohen@sas.upenn.eduWebsite
Fields of Study: Folk Tale & Oral Literature, Historiography and Historical Writing, Poetry/ Poetics, Short Story, Diaspora, Eastern Europe / Russia, Global Anglophone, Jewish Studies, Middle East/North Africa, World Literature, C19, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Digital Humanities, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Linguistic Theories and Culture, Marxism, Post-colonial, Race and Empire, Sociology of Literature, Translation

Olga Nechaeva
Ph.D. Candidate
nechaeva@sas.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

Jorge Tellez
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
jtellez@sas.upenn.eduWebsite
Fields of Study: Novel, Poetry/ Poetics, Latin America, C21/ Contemporary, Early Modern (C14-C17), Museum/Object Studies, Sociology of Literature

Adelheid Voskuhl
Associate Professor
avoskuhl@sas.upenn.eduWebsite
Fields of Study: Historiography and Historical Writing, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Scientific Texts and Ideas, Central Europe, US, Western Europe, C19, C20, including Modernism, Long Eighteenth Century, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Psychoanalysis, Sociology of Literature