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Geoffrey Baker

Humanities (Literature)

Associate Professor
Research Specialisations
  • Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature (especially British, French, German)
  • Realism and Naturalism
  • Political Aesthetics
  • Fiction and the Supernatural
  • Imperialism in Literature
  • Literature and the Law (Evidence, Empiricism)
  • The Bildungsroman
  • The History and Theory of the Novel
Teaching Modules
  • Literature and Humanities I & II
  • Novel Evidence: 19th-Century British Fiction and the Law
  • Literary Activism: Texts, Aesthetics, Politics;Fiction and the Supernatural
  • Realism and Naturalism
  • Fiction and the Supernatural
  • The Self and Society: The Novel of Development
  • Proseminar in Literary Studies
  • Capstone Seminar (Literature)

Teaching Faculty

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Scott Cook

Humanities (Chinese Studies and History)

Professor
Tan Chin Tuan Professor of Chinese Studies
Head of Studies, History
Research Specialisations
  • Pre-imperial Excavated Manuscripts
  • Early Chinese Intellectual History
  • Pre-imperial Textual Formation
  • Early Chinese Musical Thought
Teaching Modules
  • Classical Chinese;Chinese Poetry
  • Chinese Prose;Chinese Tales of the Strange
  • The Historiography of Sima Qian
  • Kong Zi: The Man, the Myth, the Legend
  • The Annals of Lü Buwei, the First Book of Chinese Empire
  • Intellectual History of Warring States China
  • Philosophy and Political Thought 1
  • Literature and Humanities 1
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Steven Green

Humanities (Literature)

Associate Professor
Research Specialisations
  • Latin Literature
  • Augustan and Neronian Poetry and Prose
  • Latin and Greek Epic and Didactic
  • Ovid
  • Roman Religion and Astrology
Teaching Modules
  • Literature and Humanities 1
  • Latin (all levels: Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced)
  • Ovid the Innovator
  • The Age of Nero

Andrew Hui

Humanities (Literature)

Associate Professor
Head of Studies, Literature
Research Specialisations
  • Comparative Literature
  • Classical Tradition
  • Early Modern Cultures
  • European and Global Renaissance
Teaching Modules
  • Literature and Humanities I & II
  • Global Renaissance
  • Dante and the European Middle Ages
  • Shakespeare and the Shape of Life
  • The Cultural Histories of Libraries and Museums
  • Gospels as Literature
  • World Religious Poetry, with Gavin Flood
  • Proseminar in Literature
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Rajeev S Patke

Humanities (Literature)

Professor
Director, Division of Humanities
Research Specialisations
  • American Modernist Poetry
  • British literature of the 20th century
  • Anglophone Postcolonial Poetry
  • The Poetry of Islands, the Islands of Poetry
Teaching Modules
  • The Great War and Modern Memory
  • American Modernist Poetry
  • Dystopian Fiction
  • British Comic Fiction
  • Poetry, Painting and Photography
  • Postcolonial Literatures: An Introduction
  • Violence, Poetry and the Arts
  • Literature and Humanities I & II