History of the Book (English)
Elected 1990
German literature (18th/19th centuries); reception and history of women’s literature; literary anonymity and pseudonyms; cultural history of antisemitism; crime genres (literature and film); genre film and philosophy
Italian language and literature; manuscript studies; historical studies of language and literature; medieval history; historical linguistics; southern Europe, Italy.
Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, history, and culture; cultural mobility and the history of ideas; the future of the humanities