English Department Faculty

Kevin Ohi

Professor

Department

English

Biography

Specializes in queer theory, aestheticism and decadence, late-Victorian prose and fiction, film, literary theory, and the history of the novel in England, Ireland and America. Professor Ohi's current projects focus on narrative perspective and desire in twentieth-centurynovels and on unrequited love.

Awards

  • Margaret Bundy Scott Visiting Professor of English, Williams College (Spring 2020)
  • Fellow, Cornell University Society for the Humanities, 2016-17
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2013-14
  • Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2004-5
  • Winner of the Crompton-Noll Award (2000) from the Modern Language Association (for "Molestation 101").