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Department Bookshelf: Featured Publications

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Featuring works from Department of English faculty.

Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics...

Ato Quayson

Jean G. And Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies

Ato Quayson is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada, and in 2019 was elected...

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repository’s digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal...

Elaine Treharne

Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities

I am a Welsh medievalist with specializations in manuscript studies, archives, information technologies, and early...

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts

The scholarship and teaching of manuscript studies has been transformed by digitisation, rendering previously rarefied documents accessible for study on a vast scale. The...

Elaine Treharne

Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities

I am a Welsh medievalist with specializations in manuscript studies, archives, information technologies, and early...

《为何与如何：中国人为何出国与如何进入美国》 (1871) Why and How the Chinese Emigrate, and the means they adopt for the purpose of reaching America

Edited, with original introduction, notes and appendices, by Shelley Fisher Fishkin [In Chinese] Translated by YAO Ting [姚婷]

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Joseph S. Atha Professor of the Humanities

Shelley Fisher Fishkin's principal concern throughout her career has been literature and social justice. Much of her...

Faculty Publications

Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

Ato Quayson

(2021)

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age

Elaine Treharne

(2020)

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts

Elaine Treharne

(2020)

The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building The Transcontinental

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

(2019)

《为何与如何：中国人为何出国与如何进入美国》 (1871) Why and How the Chinese Emigrate, and the means they adopt for the purpose of reaching America

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

(2019)

Wordsworth, Coleridge, and 'the language of the heavens'

Tom Owens

(2019)

Text Technologies: A History

Elaine Treharne

(2019)

Out of Context: The Uses of Modernist Fiction

Michaela Bronstein

(2018)

In Search of the Lost History of Chinese Migrants and the Transcontinental Railroads

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

(2017)

Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities

Alice Staveley

(2017)

Milton in the Long Restoration

Blair Hoxby

(2016)

Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

Marjorie Perloff

(2016)

The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel, ed.

Ato Quayson

(2016)

Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination

Vaughn Rasberry

(2016)

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