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Maire Jaanus
Professor of English
Maire Jaanus, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, joined Barnard’s faculty in 1968.
Her specializations include nineteenth-century comparative literature, especially romantic and the novel; twentieth-century global English literature; literary theory, especially psychoanalytic (Lacanian); and postmodernism.
Professor Jaanus has been the recipient of the Vilis Vitols Prize, the Harvard Ruskin Prize, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship.
212.854.2106
mjaanus@barnard.edu
EDUCATION:
B.A., Vassar College
Ph.D., Harvard University
SPECIALIZATIONS:
Nineteenth-century romantic literature and novels
Twentieth-century global English literature
Psychoanalytic (Lacanian) literary theory
Postmodernism