Comparative Literature
Nicholas Kahn
Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Research Interests
Colonial and nineteenth-century American literature, nineteenth- and twentieth-century French and Italian literature; first contact; race; monsters; intellectual history
Biography
Dissertation Topic:
The figure of the monster in written records and imagined rehearsals of contact between Anglo-American culture and other cultures (Eastern Algonquian, African, South Pacific, Creole, Japanese).
Education:
B.A. in English Literature and French Literature, Haverford College, 2014
Languages:
English (native), French (near-native), Italian (near-native), Japanese (advanced)