William Cain
(781) 283-2586
English
B.A., Tufts University; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English
Expert in nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature; Shakespeare; and modernism in the arts.
Scholarly interests include nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature; modernism in the arts; African American literature; slavery and abolition; literary theory and criticism; Shakespeare.
Publications include William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight Against Slavery: Selections from The Liberator (1995); Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance: A Critical and Cultural Edition; Henry David Thoreau (2000), in the Oxford Historical Guides to American Authors series; and (as co-editor) The Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism (1st ed., 2001; 2nd ed., forthcoming).
Recent published work includes essays on Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Ralph Ellison, and the painter Mark Rothko.
