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• Faculty and graduate interests in the twentieth century include feminist and queer theory, formalist and narratological approaches, visual and cultural studies, canon formation and expansion, and political theory. Teaching and research explore how new social, gender, and psychoanalytic theories affected the literary productions of modernism. Classes and graduate reading groups often draw on the extensive manuscript and Rare Books holdings in Cornell’s Kroch Library, including major collections of Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, and Laura Riding Jackson materials; an array of Bloomsbury writings published by the Hogarth Press; the Human Sexuality collection; and the James Joyce Collection, a major repository of manuscripts, letters, documents, photographs, bound manuscripts, galley proofs, books, and broadsides by, to or about Joyce, including letters between Joyce and his lover Nora Barnacle, and some fifty letters from Ezra Pound.