English literature of the long eighteenth century, especially Gibbon, Swift, Burke and Johnson; sixteenth-century historiography and historical drama; the history of literary criticism; the theory and practice of textual editing
Thought and literature of the European Renaissance; Shakespeare and Early Modern English literature; Rabindranath Tagore; textual studies; translation and translation studies; digital humanities
History of rhetoric, especially ancient and early modern; its impact on the theory and practice of literature in Europe between the late 14th and 16th centuries
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