| Name |
Department |
Research Interests |
| Ablow, Rachel |
English |
Victorian literature and culture; history of the novel; gender and sexuality; history of the emotions |
| Anderson, Nancy |
Visual Studies |
History of Scientific Imaging |
| Bay-Cheng, Sarah |
Theater and Dance |
Avant-garde theatre and film; modernist literature and performance; performance poetics; sexuality in modern drama; intersections of technology and theatre |
| Böhlen, Marc |
Media Study |
Media Robotics |
| Bono, Barbara J. |
English |
Early Modern British literature,especially Sidney,Spenser,and the dramatic literature of Shakespeare and his contemporaries;feminist and cultural materialist theory and history |
| Bono, James J. |
History and Medicine |
Science and medicine during the Renaissance and early modern periods; Scientific Revolution; the history of the body and sexuality; the role of metaphor and narrative in science; medical humanities, literature and medicine, and the narrative construction of illness and the physician-patient relationship. |
| Bramen, Carrie Tirado |
English |
Nineteenth century American literature; U.S. Latino literature, cultural history; critical race theory; transatlantic & intellectual history |
| Brokaw, Galen |
Romance Languages and Literatures |
Colonial Latin American Studies; Historiography; Nahuatl language and culture; Indigenous writing; Indigenismo; the Andean khipu |
| Brutt-Griffler, Janina |
Polish Studies and Graduate School of Education |
Language usage in society; the exploration of multilingualism; contemporary dialogue on heritage languages; language maintenance |
| Burkman, Thomas |
Asian Studies |
Japan’s relationship to world order in the decades of the 1920s and 1930s |
| Buscaglia, Jose |
American Studies |
Caribbean mulataje and metaphorical subjectivity; coloniality and post-national studies; travel narratives; piracy; contraband and peoples of the sea; the Cuban Revolution and Caribbean caudillismo; Caribbean architecture and urban history; paleography and archival research |
| Cahn, Susan |
History |
U.S. Women's History; History of Sexuality; African American History; Southern History; Feminist Theory; LGBQ (Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Queer)Studies |
| Caplan, Elliot |
Media Study |
Theatre Design and Direction; Film; Documentaries |
| Castillo, David |
Romance Languages and Literatures |
Early Modern and Baroque Studies; Spanish Golden Age; Cultural criticism |
| Chiesa, Laura |
Romance Languages and Literatures |
Modern and Contemporary Italian Studies; Critical Theory; Architecture; Film and Visual |
| Coffee, Neil |
Classics |
Epic poetry; Roman imperial literature and culture; Hellenistic philosophy; the classical tradition; classics and computing; conversational Latin |
| Cohen, Richard |
Philosophy |
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| Conrad, Anthony |
Media Study |
Video Art; History of Music; Audio and Visual Performance |
| Conte, Joseph |
English |
Twentieth-century poetry; postmodern fiction; postmodern theory |
| Copjec, Joan |
English |
psychoanalysis; film theory; feminism; philosophy; art & architectural theory |
| Daly, Robert |
English |
American literature; cognitive theory; literature and ethics |
| Daum, Andreas |
History |
German, European, and Transatlantic History from the late 18th to the 21st century; History of Science and Knowledge; Cultural and Political History |
| Dean, Tim |
English |
Queer Theory; Psychoanalysis; Poetry and Poetics; Modernism; LGBT Studies; Literary Theory; Cultural Studies |
| Des Forges, Roger |
History |
Chinese cultural, political, and social history; Chinese myth, history, and historiography; the founding and consolidation of the Qing dynasty; Chinese history and civilization in comparative and global perspectives |
| Dewald, Jonathan |
History |
France; social and cultural history of early modern Europe |
| Duggan, John |
Classics |
Latin literature; prose and poetry of the late Roman Republic; Greek and Roman rhetoric and oratory; ancient and modern literary theory and aesthetics; Cicero. |
| Dyson, Stephen |
Classics |
History and archaeology of the City of Rome; archaeology of Roman Italy and the western empire;the history and theory of archaeology; Roman social history; the Roman countryside |
| Elder, Sarah |
Media Study |
Filming across cultural and social boundaries |
| Emberton, Carole |
History |
Reconstruction; the role of guns in political life and culture; the evolution of self-defense as a fundamental American right |
| Flaugh, Christian |
Romance Languages and Literatures |
Francophone Caribbean studies; migrant literature of Québec; studies of bodily normality (e.g. freak culture and disability studies); theatre |
| French, Rebecca |
Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy |
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| Frisch, Michael |
American Studies |
Oral/Public History: Theory and Practice; Urban/Social history, especially deindustrialization and responses to it; industrial heritage as policy domain; urban public history; theory of documentary; implications of new digital methodologies for oral/public history; pedagogy; community-based documentation projects |
| Gaynor, Jennifer |
History |
S ocial and cultural history of modern Indonesia and maritime Southeast Asia; historiography and the intersections of history and anthropology |
| Gerber, David |
History |
United States; transnational social fields; problems of pluralism |
| Good, Jeffrey |
Linguistics |
Syntax; Morphology; Historical Linguistics; Typology; Niger-Congo Languages; Computer-assisted Linguistics |
| Graves Munroe, Amy |
Romance Languages and Literatures |
16th century French literature; History of the book and material culture; Propaganda and polemics; Wars of Religion (Protestant and Catholic Reformations); Historiography |
| Hadighi, Mehrdad |
Architecture |
Drawing parallels between 20th century theory and criticism and the constructive principles of architecture |
| Hammill, Graham |
English |
Early-modern British literature; cross-disciplinary studies in critical theory and visual arts. |
| Herzberg, David |
History |
Medicines & Drugs; Popular Culture |
| Hubbard, Stacy |
English |
Nineteenth and twentieth century American literature and culture; poetry and poetics; transatlantic modernism; feminist studies and women’s literature; visual studies |
| Hughes, Aaron |
History |
Judaism; Intellectual History; Historiography; Theory; Method; and Religion |
| Jameson, Maureen |
Romance Languages and Literatures |
French narrative of the 19th and 20th centuries; Flaubert; Proust; contemporary hypertext writing and theorizing; humanities education and the web |
| Keane, Damien |
English |
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish writing; transnational modernism; sound [recording technology, radio, music] ; archives, material textuality, libraries; critical theory, sociology, cultural materialism |
| Koenig, Jean-Pierre |
Linguistics |
Syntax/Semantics Interface; Cognitive Semantics; Formal Semantics (especially Discourse Representation Theory); Gricean Pragmatics; Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics (especially Sentence Processing) |
| Korsmeyer, Carolyn |
Philosophy |
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| Langfur, Hal |
History |
Colonial and post-independence Brazil; early modern Atlantic world; race relations; comparative indigenous history; cross-cultural encounters; cultures of violence. |
| Lyon, Arabella |
English |
Rhetorical theory; ordinary language philosophy |
| Ma, Ming Qian |
English |
Contemporary innovative poetry and poetics in relation to philosophy, science, and arts |
| Mack, Ruth |
English |
Eighteenth-century British literature; historiography; history of literary criticism |
| Malamud, Martha |
Classics |
Imperial Latin Literature; Roman Epic; Late Antique Literature |
| Mardorossian, Carine |
English |
World Literature; Postcolonial and Caribbean studies; Feminist Theory |
| Mazon, Patricia |
History |
Culture and politics of modern Germany; higher education; gender |
| Mazzio, Carla |
English |
Shakespeare; Renaissance English and European Literature; History of Science (particularly medicine and mathematics); History of the Book; Media and Technology; History of the Disciplines |
| McCaffery, Steve |
English |
Contemporary Poetry, Poetics and Critical Theory |
| McCarthy, Theresa |
American Studies |
Native American Studies, especially Haudenosaunee traditionalism and languages in contemporary contexts; Haudenosaunee citizenship/clans; Haudenosaunee women;historiography of anthropological research on the Iroquois; Iroquois factionalism; linguistic research methodologies; community-based/applied research initiatives |
| McDevitt, Patrick |
History |
19th-20th c., Ireland, Great Britain; the Atlantic World; Haiti; imperialism; popular culture; liberation theology & social justice |
| Miller, Cristanne |
English |
Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American poetry; gender and language issues; comparative modernist poetry; the effects of the Civil War on U.S. poetry as a genre; Emily Dickinson; Marianne Moore; Mina Loy; Else Lasker-Schüler; the cities of New York and Berlin between 1900 and 1930; Civil War poetry. |
| Miller, Steven |
English |
19th and 20th Century European literatures; psychoanalytic theory; continental philosophy; translation studies |
| Moynihan, Susan |
English |
Asian American Literature & Culture; Autobiography Studies; American Studies |
| Muller, Dalia |
History |
Latin America and Caribbean / Gulf region; expatriates and exiles; Pan-Americanism, Hispanism and Americanismo |
| Nightingale, Carl |
American Studies |
Race theory and racial justice; Urban history; World history; Urban racial segregation in global perspective; Youth culture and activism; youth culture as a global phenomenon; Community organizing; African American history |
| Otto, Elizabeth |
Visual Studies |
Masculinity and the political; cultural and gendered valences of represented bodily fragmentation in multiple media of later nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germany; the relationship between popular visual cultures and Modernism; the visual representation of New Womanhood as a trans-national phenomenon; gendered neoclassicism and French Cubism;the intersection of film and photographic technologies. |
| Pack, Sasha |
History |
Southern Europe and the Mediterranean Region; Fascism and Authoritarianism; Politics and Religion; Travel and Tourism History; Comparative History |
| Radford, Gail |
History |
20th century U.S. public policy; political economy; urban history; and social movements |
| Roussel, Roy |
Media Study and English |
Gender; Joseph Conradl |
| Runstedtler, Theresea |
American Studies |
U.S. Cultural and Social History; reconstruction to the Present; Race; Popular Culture, and the Media; African American and African Diaspora Studies; U.S. Transnational/Imperial History; U.S.; Racial and Ethnic Formations; Race and Globalization; European Race Relations |
| Schen, Claire |
History |
Early Modern Britain; Piety and Religion; Piracy |
| Schiff, Randy |
English |
Arthur and Empire; Chaucer; Courtly Love; Middle English Romance; Pre-Postcolonialism; Shakespeare |
| Schmid, David |
English |
Cultural Studies; Popular Culture; 20th Century and Contemporary British and American Fiction |
| Schmitz, Neil |
English |
Civil War studies; 19th and 20th century American Literature |
| Seeman, Erik |
History |
Colonial North America; religion; Indian; African-Americans; death |
| Shechner, Mark |
English |
American fiction; Jewish-American intellectual life; James Joyce |
| Solomon, William |
English |
20th Century American Literature |
| Soto-Crespo, Ramón |
American Studies |
Latina/o studies; Caribbean and Latin American literature; Continental philosophy; Psychoanalysis; Queer studies |
| Sreenivasan, Ramya |
History |
Early modern South Asia; religion and caste in early modern Rajasthan; colonialism and modernity; gender history. |
| Stapleton, Kristin |
History and Asian Studies |
Urban politics and administration; the history of Chinese family life; humor in history; the place of non-U.S. history in American intellectual life |
| Stott, Andrew |
English |
British entertainment culture from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, including illegitimate theatre, spectacle, afterpieces, the emergence of industrialized entertainment industries, and clowning and pantomime; Shakespeare and renaissance drama; early-modern visual culture; the history and philosophy of comedy; critical and cultural theory, cultural studies and popular culture. |
| Stratigakos, Despina |
Architecture |
Gender and modernity in European cities |
| Tedlock, Dennis |
English |
Iindigenous languages; verbal arts; writing systems; and religions of the Western Hemisphere;the Koasati of Louisiana, the Zuni of New Mexico; the indigenous Hawaiians of Kaua‛i; the Mopán Maya of Belize; the K’iche’ Maya of Guatemala |
| Teegarden, David |
Classics |
Greek history; ancient Greek democracy; social scientific theory |
| Thomas, Gwynn |
Global Gender Studies |
Latin America; feminist theory; citizenship and state development; women's political participation and leadership; transnational feminism; Comparative women's movements |
| Thomas, Jean-Jacques |
Romance Languages and Literatures |
19th- and 20th-century French poetry; poetics; linguistics; semiotics; literature and culture; and Francophone Studies of the New World (Canada, Caribbean, Louisiana) |
| Thornton, Tamara |
History |
American cultural and intellectual history; early republic and antebellum America; the structure of American intellectual life; American elites; history of reading and writing |
| Trumper, Camilo |
American Studies |
Latin American History; Urban Studies; Visual Culture; Methods of Cultural History |
| Vander Wel, Stephanie |
Music |
Representations of class, race, and gender in country music |
| Vanouse, Paul |
Visual Studies |
"Big-Science" and Popular Culture |
| Vardi, Liana |
History |
France; intellectual life in the eighteenth century; the relationship between the arts and sciences; the perception of nature and of the rural world |
| Vargas, Margarita |
Romance Languages and Literatures |
Spanish-American Theater;, Spanish-American Literature; Mexican Literature; Feminist Criticism and Theory |
| Williams, Lillian |
African and African American Studies |
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| Winter, Kari |
American Studies |
Quests for physical well-being; the ways in which oppression is written on the body through trauma, deprivation, violence, and degradation; how oppressed peoples attempt to endure and to affirm the value of their bodies; human quests for intellectual freedom and social change; the roles of literacy, art, education, economics, and sexual desire in oppression and in liberation; connections between freedom and acts of self-narration, articulations of desire, rituals of mourning, political movements and other forms of healing and empowerment. |
| Wu, Cynthia |
American Studies |
Asian American and comparative ethnic studies; disability studies; U.S. literatures from 1865 to the present;American literary regionalisms; queer of color analysis |
| Young, Jason |
History |
The Black Atlantic; U.S. Slave culture and religion; pre-colonial Kongo |
| Yu, Jiyuan |
Philosophy |
Greek Philosophy; Chinese Philosophy; Metaphysics and Ethics |
