People
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Claudia Johnson (2021-2022)
Jeff Dolven (2020-2021)
Administration
Outreach Coordinator
Jackie Campbell (2021-2022)
Rebecca Rainof (2020-2021)
Common Works Coordinator
Technical Support
Research Support
Copyright Consultation
Bibliographic Suggestions
The Canterbury Tales | Andrew Cole, D. Vance Smith
King Lear | Jeff Dolven
Paradise Lost | Russ Leo, Nigel Smith
Emma | Jeff Nunokawa
Songs of Innocence and Experience | Susan Stewart
Selected Poetry of Emily Dickinson | Josh Kotin, Sarah Rivett
Death and the King’s Horseman | Simon Gikandi
The Bluest Eye | Anne Cheng, Autumn Womack
The Great Derangement | Paul Nadal, Rob Nixon
We the Animals | Christina León, Rebecca Rainof
Events Moderators
We the Animals | Alex Diaz-Hui, Lindsay Griffiths, Christina León
Emma | Yan Che, Jeewon Yoo
King Lear | Moeko Fujii, Lisa Kraege
Images
Cover Images on The Works
2023
-Manuscript of “Of Night and Morning” by Hester Pulter (University of Leeds Brotherton Library / The Pulter Project)
-Still from Prospero’s Books by Peter Greenaway (Miramax / Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare)
-Boston Women’s Memorial by Meredith Bergmann. Photo taken by Celina Colby (The Bay State Banner)
-Still from Clueless by Amy Heckerling (Paramount / NewNowNext)
-Still from Bright Star by Jane Campion (Warner Bros. / Filmgrab)
-“Frederick Douglass at his desk at Cedar Hill” (National Park Service / Encyclopedia Britannica)
-Still from Beau Travail by Claire Denis (Pyramide /The Criterion Collection)
-Still from The Hours by Stephen Daldry (Paramount / Scroll.in)
-“Two Women” by Loïs Mailou Jones (WikiArt)
-Cover Design to Severance by Rodrigo Corral (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Ling Ma)
2022
-Photo of Patience Agbabi by Suzanne Plunkett (Getty / The Guardian)
-Still from Ran by Akira Kurosawa (Rialto Pictures / LA Times)
-“The Temptation and Fall of Eve,” Illustration to Milton’s “Paradise Lost” by William Blake (Boston Museum of Fine Arts)
-Still from Clueless by Amy Heckerling (Paramount / NewNowNext)
-“The Tyger” Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Copy N by William Blake (The Huntington Library / The William Blake Archive)
-Still from The Piano directed by Jane Campion (Entertainment Film Distributors / One Room With a View)
-Still from “Rufus Norris on Death and the King’s Horseman” (National Theatre)
–Children with Doll (Washington, D.C.1942) by Gordon Parks (The Gordon Parks Foundation)
-Still from trailer to We the Animals directed by Jeremiah Zagar (1091 Pictures)
-Cover Design to The Great Derangement by Jill Shimabukuro (University of Chicago Press)
Images on Each Page of The Works
The Canterbury Tales
-Photo of Patience Agbabi (Wikimedia Commons)
King Lear
-Still from Ran by Akira Kurosawa (Rialto Pictures / Filmic Mag)
-Still from Korol Lir by Grigori Kozintsev (Russian Film Hub / TMDB)
Paradise Lost
-Still from “Shakespeare vs Milton: The Kings of English Literature Debate” (Intelligence Squared)
-“Satan watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve”Illustration to Milton’s “Paradise Lost” by William Blake (Boston Museum of Fine Arts)
Emma
-Still from Clueless by Amy Heckerling (Paramount / CBS News)
Songs of Innocence and Experience
-Still from “William Blake’s Printing Process” (The British Library)
–Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie (National Portrait Gallery)
Selected Poetry of Emily Dickinson
-Excerpt from The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems edited by Jen Bervin and Marta Werner (New Directions / Poetry Foundation)
Death and the King’s Horseman
-“Art House: Performance Of Wole Soyinka’s Death & The King’s Horsemen Pt 1” (Channels Television)
-“Death And The King’s Horseman By Wole Soyinka | Live Theatre Lagos” (TVC)
The Bluest Eye
-Author portrait of Toni Morrison for The Bluest Eye by Bert Andrews (Wikimedia Commons)
-Still from Simple Justice (PBS Learning Media)
–Woman and Dog in Window (Harlem, New York, 1943) by Gordon Parks (The Gordon Parks Foundation)
The Great Derangement
We the Animals
-Image of Justin Torres taken by Liz Hafalia (Chronicle / SF Gate)
-Image of Justin Torres taken by Anggara Mahendra (Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2012)
-Still from “My story, and ‘We the animals’: Justin Torres at TEDxStanford (Tedx Talks)
Images on The History
-Image of Amitav Ghosh (LitHub)
-Image of Justin Torres by Simon Koy (New York Times)
-Image of Wole Soyinka (Premium Times Nigeria)
-Author portrait of Toni Morrison for The Bluest Eye by Bert Andrews (Wikimedia Commons)
-Daguerreotype of Emily Dickinson taken at Mount Holyoke, December 1846 or early 1847 (Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Wikimedia Commons)
-Sample for Ten Pound Note (PA Images / The Smithsonian Magazine)
-Portrait of William Blake by Thomas Phillips (National Portrait Gallery)
-Portrait of John Milton (Encyclopedia Britannica)
-Portrait of William Shakespeare associated with John Taylor (National Portrait Gallery)
-The Ellesmere Manuscript (The Huntington Library / British Library)
Error Page Image
-Self-Portrait by William Makepeace Thackeray from the 1848 edition of Vanity Fair (The Houghton Library / Harvard Magazine)