Aaron B. Kunin

Professor of English; On leave Spring 2025

aaron.kunin@pomona.edu

Office:

Crookshank Hall

213

With Pomona Since: 2005

Expertise
Expertise

Aaron Kunin specializes in the literature of the English Renaissance, and has broad research interests in poetry and poetics. He is the author of five books, the most recent of which is Cold Genius: A Book of Poems (Fence, 2014). He is currently working on a book that celebrates the Renaissance notion of character.

Research Interests

Character
Artifact
Misanthropy
Jonson's fear of the human face
The "dormative principle" (Molière)
The wish to be an object
Areas of Expertise

Milton
English literature 1500-1800
Poetics
Work

Work

Cold Genius, 2014
Grace Period, 2013
The Sore Throat and Other Poems, 2010
"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)
Education
Education

Ph.D., Duke University, 2003
M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1998
A.B., Brown University, 1995
Recent Courses Taught

British Novel I, Defoe to Austen
Ind Std: English
Literary Interpretation
Milton and Visual Culture
Pre-modern Psychology
Shakespeare: Comedies & Histories
Special Topics in English Lit
Summer Reading & Research
Critical Inquiry Seminar

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Pomona College 333 N. College Way
Claremont, CA 91711

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