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Faculty Profiles

  • Christopher P. Iannini
  • Christopher P. Iannini
  • Associate Professor of English
  • Office: 36 Union Street, Room 102, College Ave Campus
  • Primary Areas of Specialization: Colonial and Early American Literature, Nineteenth Century American Literature, Literature and Environment, Literature and Science
  • Field of Interest: Caribbean, Early American, Environmental Humanities, Hemispheric, Nineteenth-Century American
  • About:

    Chris Iannini works on early American literature, with an emphasis on the history of natural history as a key intellectual obsession, scientific method, and literary practice in the Atlantic world from the early modern period through the mid nineteenth century. 
  • Book(s):
    "Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature" by Christopher P. Iannini
    Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature
  • Undergraduate Courses Taught:
    • Principles of Literary Study
    • Why We Tell Stories
    • Antebellum American Literature
    • Literarature and Environment
    • Seminar: Moby-Dick
  • Graduate Courses Taught:
    • Natural Histories
    • Early American Literature
  • Awards:
    • American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship (full year), 2008-2009
    • Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2004-2006
    • Alumni and Faculty Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year, Ph.D. Program in English (Graduate Center, CUNY), 2004
  • Other Publications:
  • Membership Affiliations:
    • Member, American Studies Association
    • Member, Society of Early Americanists
    • Member, Modern Language Association
  • Education: PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York; MA, Writing Seminars, Johns Hopkins University; BA, Colby College