Ahearn,Barry      

Albrecht,Thomas             

Burke,Molly                        

Codr,Dwight                

Cooley,Peter                 

Desai,Gaurav              

Dinerstein,Joel          

Edmonds,Dale                                   

Elmwood,Victoria                   

Foster,Ken                                

Foy,Roslyn                             

Gelley,Ora                                         

Goldman,Jonathan                                  

Johnson,T.R.                   

Kaufmann,David        

Koritz,Amy                                            

Kuczynski,Michael                             

Leland,Jacob                                       

Letter,Joe                                          

Lewis,Nghana                                   

Livingston,Judith                          

Mark,Rebecca                                    

Morris,Paula                                         

Munkhoff,Richelle                              

Nair,Supriya                                        

Oldman,Elizabeth                                     

Pizer,Donald                                        

Rothenberg,Molly       

Smith,Felipe                     

Snare,Gerald                                        

Toulouse,Teresa                         

Travis,Molly           

Thomas Albrecht

Assistant Professor of English

Norman Mayer Room 239

Telephone: (504) 862-8160

Fax: (504) 862 8958

E-mail: talbrech@tulane.edu

Thomas Albrecht teaches and writes about nineteenth-century British, Germanic, and French literature, in particular such areas as Romanticism, Gothic art and literature, the realist novel, visual art and art criticism, Romantic and Victorian classicism, and aestheticism and decadence. He is also interested in eighteenth- to twentieth-century aesthetic theory and philosophy, intersections of literature and philosophy, and literary theory and its history. He has published academic journal articles on Freud, A.C. Swinburne, Stendhal, Louis Althusser, and George Eliot, among others. He is the editor of Selected Writings of Sarah Kofman (forthcoming in 2007 from Stanford University Press), a posthumous anthology of writings by an important postwar French philosopher and theorist. He is also the author of a book manuscript on the classical figure of Medusa in nineteenth-century European aesthetic literature and psychoanalysis, forthcoming from State University of New York Press.

Professor Albrecht received his B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Irvine. He has also studied at universities in Paris, France, and Rostock, Germany. Before coming to Tulane in 2003, he taught at UC Irvine and UCLA, and spent two years as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA’s Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies.

At Tulane, Professor Albrecht teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in critical theory and nineteenth-century British and European literature, the ENLS 202 “Introduction to British Literature II” survey course, and ENLS 500-level seminars on aesthetic and ethical topics in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European literature, and in Western literature and philosophy more generally. Many of his classes are cross-listed outside of the English Department, for instance in the Literature Program or the Women’s Studies Program. He also works with students in Independent Studies and as a Reader or Director of undergraduate Honors Theses.