Current Fellows
- Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud
Department of Comparative Literature
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Cohen-Vrignaud’s research focuses on Romantic exoticism and historicism as literary practices (in the works of Scott, Byron, Shelley, Hugo and Chateaubriand in particular), and how the sensationalist aesthetics of local particularity helped to shape the emergence of liberalism as a political project in England and France during the 1810s and 1820s. He also analyzes a similar dynamic between the exotic as a literary mode and the rise of liberal thought in Egypt at the end of the 19th century.
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Alison Lefkovitz
Department of History
