Purdue University College of Liberal Arts

Information for

Department of English

18th Century Literary Studies

Faculty members in the graduate area

Emily Allen (Eighteenth-century British narrative)
Kristina Bross (Colonial and Early-American literatures)
Geraldine Friedman (Late-eighteenth century and Romantic British literature)Christopher Lukasik  (Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American
   literature)
Manushag (Nush) Powell (British literature of the long eighteenth century)
Ryan Schneider (American literature) 

In addition to having published books and articles on the period (including pieces in ELH, Early American Literature, Eighteenth-Century Novel, Eighteenth-Century Studies, PMLA, and Studies in Romanticism and with presses such as Cornell, Ohio State, Stanford), this group knows all about powdering wigs, designing eighteenth-century gardens, hanging witches, and making hot punch.