politics

Christopher L. Pye

Shakespeare, Early Modernism, and Literary and Psychoanalytic Theory–much of my teaching falls into these areas. My current writing project focuses on the intersections between aesthetics and political thought in the Renaissance era: Shakespeare, but also figures from Leonardo da Vinci to Thomas Hobbes and Diego Velasquez, all of whom pose compelling questions about the relations between art and political subjectivity. Continue reading »

Robert Bell

Shakespeare, comedy, humor, satire, 18th-century literature, the English novel, poetry, epics and mock-epics, James Joyce, modernism and postmodernism, biography and history and politics, sports, jazz, and theater, David Foster Wallace. Continue reading »