Shane Butler

Shane Butler is the Hall Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, having previously taught at Penn, UCLA, and the University of Bristol. With primary interests in aesthetics and queer theory, he has published widely on classical literature and its reception, Renaissance humanism, the history of sensation, the phenomenology of reading, and the history of sexuality.

Shane Butler is the Hall Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, having previously taught at Penn, UCLA, and the University of Bristol. With primary interests in aesthetics and queer theory, he has published widely on classical literature and its reception, Renaissance humanism, the history of sensation, the phenomenology of reading, and the history of sexuality. See less