Leo Brisson
Burrowes 3B
Burrowes 3B
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Areas of Specialization
American Literature Before 1900
The concept of history in literature, industrial society, print culture, Reconstruction literature, Romanticism, Naturalism, Realism, utopian novels, American Renaissance
Modernist Studies
The avant-garde, socialism and communism in literature, modernism as a phenomenon of the 19th century, relation of philosophy and literature in modernism
Theory and Cultural Studies
Aesthetics and literary criticism of the Frankfurt School, the idea of marxist literary theory, the relationship of philosophy to literary criticism
Visual Culture
visual studies as an institutional phenomenon, development of visual technology in society, mass-cultural visual forms, the meaning of the aesthetic after visual studies