English Graduate Program Faculty
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Katherine Bergren, Associate Professor of EnglishKate Bergren received M.A. and Ph.D. in English from UCLA. Her book, The Global Wordsworth, was published in 2019. She is currently researching two new articles: one about amateur parodies of British poetry printed in antebellum American newspapers, and one about the role of Romantic poetry in colonial British matriculation exams. |
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Chris Hager, Hobart Professor of the Humanities and Professor of EnglishChristopher Hager began his career in literary studies as an undergraduate at Stanford, where he wrote a thesis on David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest under the direction of the late novelist and critic Gilbert Sorrentino. As a graduate student at Northwestern, he studied nineteenth-century American literature in relation to slavery and the Civil War. At Trinity, Professor Hager teaches courses in American literature and culture from the nineteenth century to the present. A recipient of research grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Philosophical Society, Hager has written articles and delivered lectures on many topics in American history and literature. He is the author of Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing (Harvard Univ. Press, 2013), which was awarded the 2014 Frederick Douglass Prize and was a finalist for the 2014 Lincoln Prize, and of I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters (Harvard Univ. Press, 2018). |
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Daniel Mrozowski, Lecturer in English, Director of the English Graduate Studies Program, and Academic Director of Graduate StudiesDan Mrozowski studied 20th-century American literature, with an emphasis on Cold War fiction, as an undergraduate at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. While pursuing this interest as a graduate student at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, he found a passion for the methods of American Studies and literary history. This passion led him to a concentration on 19th-century American literature and its intersection with business history. His teaching practices are informed by a sensitivity to writing as a purposeful, formal discourse engaged with the ideas and genres of specific historical contexts. Through the close scrutiny of the formal choices writers make in those contexts, he hopes that students might gain fluency in American literature, while also producing lucid arguments and connecting that literature to their own lives. At the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, he taught the American literature survey sequence, 20th-century American poetry, literature and public life, and courses in literary theory. He is currently working on a book manuscript on the rise of the corporation and its influence on American fiction during the Gilded Age.
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Diana Paulin, Charles A. Dana Research Associate Professor of American Studies and EnglishDiana R. Paulin is author of Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction, published by University of Minnesota and winner of American Society for Theater Research’s Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship in African American Theatre Studies. Paulin has published, taught, and lectured extensively on Black autism. She is co-editor of the forthcoming MLA collection Neurofutures, which includes her chapter “Autistic Blackness: An Interrogative Essay.” Paulin’s relational approach to research, teaching, creative production, and activism is informed by both her lived experiences and her intersectional identity. Her work as a parent-advocate for the inclusion and acceptance of Black neurodivergence, neuroatypicality, and neurodiversity can be found in Paulin’s current projects— her monograph, Black Autism/Autistic Blackness, and a collaborative interactive digital archive Locating Black Autism. |
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David Rosen, James J. Goodwin Professor of EnglishDavid Rosen earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in English at Yale University. He is the author of Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern Poetry, published by Yale University Press and winner of the 2007 Warren-Brooks Award for Literary Criticism, and co-author of The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature and Liberal Personhood, published by Yale University Press and winner of the 2013 James Russell Lowell Prize. In the graduate program at Trinity, he teaches courses on Romanticism; James Joyce; Modernism/Modernity; Auden and Orwell; contexts and methods for the study of literature, modern poetry, and postmodernism in literature and film. |
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Chloe Wheatley, Associate Professor of EnglishChloe Wheatley is an associate professor of English who received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and began in a tenure-track position at Trinity in 2002. Her courses include 200-level courses that introduce students to a wide range of literary works as well as upper-level and graduate courses that are more narrowly focused upon the poetry, drama, and prose of the English Renaissance. |
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James (Prakash) Younger, Associate Professor of EnglishThough Prakash Younger’s interests range widely across the humanities (including English and world literature, political philosophy, geopolitical history, and art history), his work as a teacher and scholar is grounded by a long-standing engagement with the cinephilic traditions that have shaped Film Studies as a discipline. Though his work is rooted in close attention to aesthetics and the details of cinematic form, Younger’s ultimate goal as both a teacher and scholar is to show how films give us an enhanced purchase on the real world beyond them. By taking advantage of the access films provide to the experience of other times, places, cultures and sensibilities we enhance our ability to connect with the world we live in today; unlikely as it may seem, a French film from the 1930’s or a Bollywood film from the 1970’s may turn out to be the “message in a bottle” we have been waiting for, the magic lens that brings certain facts and possibilities of the present into sharp focus. Studying film is a detour that is justified by the fact that, in the end, it always gets us to the right place, faster. |
English Graduate Program
Hartford, CT 06106
