Corey McEleney
Professor (On Leave Fall 2024)
BA, University of California, Los Angeles; MA, PhD, Brown University
Research and Teaching Interests: Early modern literature; literary and cultural theory; gender and sexuality studies; popular culture; film studies
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Corey McEleney is Professor of English and affiliated faculty in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Fordham, where his research and teaching focus on literary and cultural theory, queer studies, and early modern literature. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Brown University and his B.A. from UCLA. His monograph Futile Pleasures: Early Modern Literature and the Limits of Utility (Fordham University Press, 2017), which explores the complex role that pleasure plays in early modern and contemporary debates about the value of literature, received an honorable mention in the MLA Prize for a First Book competition. His essays have appeared in the journals ELH, GLQ, and differences, as well as in collections on the New Formalism, Thomas Nashe, and John Milton. He is currently at work on a new book project tentatively titled The Art of Overanalyzing, which examines and critiques the cultural and political implications of the stereotype that professors of literature “overanalyze” texts to death.