Aaron Kunin

 

Assistant Professor of English

Education: Ph.D., Duke University; M.A., Johns Hopkins University; A.B., Brown University

Expertise: Milton; English literature 1500-1800; poetics

With Pomona Since: 2005

Office: Crookshank Hall 206

Campus Phone: (909) 607-8194

Email: Aaron Kunin

Research Interests

Character; artifact; misanthropy; Jonson’s fear of the human face; the “dormative principle” (Molière); the wish to be an object

Recent Courses

• ENGL074 PO British Novel I, Defoe to Austen
• ID 001 PO Critical Inquiry Seminar
• ENGL199 PO Ind Std: English
• ENGL067 PO Literary Interpretation
• ENGL156 PO Milton and Visual Culture
• ENGL127 PO Pre-modern Psychology
• ENGL154 PO Shakespeare:Comedies & Histories
• ENGL170F PO Special Topics in English Lit
• ENGL198 PO Summer Reading & Research

Selected Publications

• “Characters Lounge,” Modern Language Quarterly 70:3, 2009
• “Facial Composure and Management in Behn’s Novels,” Modern Philology 107:1, 2009
• “Shakespeare’s Preservation Fantasy,” PMLA 124:1, 2009
• The Mandarin (Fence Books, 2008)
• Folding Ruler Star: poems (Fence Books, 2005)