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Area Groups

    The Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) is the focal point of the collaborative research activities of the Graduate Center. It promotes interdisciplinary research, partners with GC Research Centers, Institutes and Interdisciplinary Committees, connects the research activities of CUNY faculty at the Colleges to GC research programs and seminars, and provides a home for outstanding visiting scholars to collaborate with faculty and students. ARC offers support to GC doctoral students pursuing research as well as to postdoctoral students who have completed their initial projects.
 

Area Groups

The Area Groups bring together faculty and students with shared interests to discuss course offerings, faculty membership needs and related events.

By Theory Group Field


African American Literature Area Group
Faculty Convener: Robert Reid-Pharr

Bibliographical/Textual Area
Faculty Convener: David Greetham

Composition/Rhetoric Area Group
Faculty Convener: Sondra Perl

Gender and Sexuality Area Group 
Faculty Convener: Rachel Brownstein


Literary Theory Area Group
Faculty Convener: John Brenkman


Postcolonial Area Group
Faculty Convener: Peter Hitchcock

By Time Period


Medieval Area Group
Faculty Convener: Glenn Burger


Renissance/Early Modern Area Group
Faculty Convener: Martin Elsky


Restoration/18th Century Area Group
Faculty Convener: David Richter


Romantics Area Group
Faculty Convener:  Alan Vardy and Nancy Yousef


Victorian Area Group
Faculty Convener:  Richard Kaye

American Literature to 1900 Area Group
Faculty Convener: David Reynolds


Twentieth-Century Area Group
Faculty Convener: Ashley Dawson