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feminist theory, cultural theory, archaeology of media technology, film and modernity, film theory, psychoanalytic theory

Wali Ahmadi

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Persian literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history, Afghanistan

Nicholas Dirks

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of History

History and anthropology of South Asia, social and cultural theory, history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, globalization

Alan Tansman

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Modern Japanese Literature, literary and cultural theory, aesthetics and politics, Comparative Responses to Violence, literary history

Jake Kosek

Dept of Geography

cultural politics of nature and difference, cultural geography, Science and Technology studies, critical race theory, critical cartography, biopolitics, human and the non-human, environmental politics

Kate Heslop

Dept of Scandinavian

Medieval Studies, Old Norse literature, Viking and medieval Scandinavia, cultural memory, media theory

Colleen Lye

Dept of English

postcolonial theory, Marxism, critical theory, cultural studies, Asian American literature, 20th and 21st century literature, world literature

Sukanya Banerjee

Dept of English

19th century British, South Asian, critical theory, cultural studies, narrative and the novel

Xin Liu

Dept of Anthropology

history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, social/cultural anthropology, comparative societies, capitalism and culture, America and China/East Asia

Grace Lavery

Dept of English

critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, Pacific, 19th century British literature, cultural studies

Lawrence Cohen

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

social cultural anthropology, medical and psychiatric anthropology, critical gerontology, lesbian and gay studies, feminist and queer theory

Robert Goldman

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

literary theory, South and Southeast Asian studies, Sanskrit literature, Indian epic studies, psychoanalytically oriented cultural studies

Mel Y Chen

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

queer and feminist theory, disability theory, critical animal studies, materiality studies, cultural politics of race and sexuality and ability and immigration, critical linguistics, paradigms of inter and transdisciplinarity

Keith Feldman

Dept of Ethnic Studies

critical theory, U.S. cultural studies, Israel-Palestine, theories of race and ethnicity, comparative diaspora studies, public humanities

H. Mack Horton

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

performativity, East Asian languages and cultures, classical poetry, diary literature, cultural context, anthology of vernacular poetry, Man'yôshû, poetry and poetics

William F. Hanks

Dept of Anthropology

social and cultural anthropology, linguistics, shamanism, language, Yucatan Mexico, Maya culture

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Dan-Virgil Voiculescu

Dept of Mathematics

operator algebras, free probability theory, random matrices, K-theory of operator algebras, single operator theory

Michael Iarocci

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

modern Spanish literature and culture, critical theory, geopolitics of literature, aesthetics, transatlantic Hispanic studies, theory of the lyric, visual culture

Robert Ashmore

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

China, lyric poetry, Chinese literature, Chinese culture, poetic theory

Michael Lucey

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of French

the novel, sexuality studies, comparative literature, French, French literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British literature and culture, social and literary theory, cultural studies of music, studies of language in use, linguistic anthropology, theories of practice, twentieth-century American literature

Jonathan Zwicker

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan

Lilla Balint

Dept of German

contemporary German literature and media, theories of the contemporary, aesthetics and politics, transnationalism and translation, digital writing, European Jewish literature, literary and cultural theory, theories of the novel

John Efron

Dept of History

Cultural and social history of German Jewry

Ling Hon Lam

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

pre-modern drama and fiction, women's writing, sex and gender, history and theory of emotion, 19th and 20th century media culture, critical theory

Margaretta Markle Lovell

Dept of History of Art

cultural history, American art, architecture, design

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