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Dept of History

social thought, social sciences in modern Japan, marxism, Japanese history, Japanese-Russian relations

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

Dept of Geography

continuum mechanics, climate, geomorphology, glaciers, glaciology, climate history, stable isotopes, geographical thought

Dept of History

gender, history, East Asian studies, early China, the fifth century BC to the fifth century AD, with an emphasis on the sociopolitical context, aesthetic theories and material culture, belief

Marianne Constable

Marianne Constable

Dept of Rhetoric

law and language, legal rhetoric and philosophy, social and political thought, Anglo-American legal history, continental philosophy, law and society

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Dept of English

18th century British literature

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Russian poetry from the 18th century to contemporary, lyric theory, nature lyric, Pushkin, Russian literature and art of the 18th and 19th centuries, Derzhavin, Turgenev, history and literataure, historical novel

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opera and politics, music and data, music and language, theater, gender, opera, performance, singers, voice, staging of opera, 19th century music, 19th century Italy

Michael Lucey delivering a lecture.

Dept of Comparative Literature

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

Dept of Rhetoric

critical theory, Middle Eastern Studies, Legal and political thought, law and humanities, law and society, legal histories, colonialism and post-colonialism, anti-colonialism

andreja novakovic

Andreja Novakovic

Dept of Philosophy

19th and 20th century European philosophy, G.W.F. Hegel

Dean Sara Guyer sitting in library setting.

Sara Guyer

Dept of English

19th century British, critical theory, poetry

Scott Saul

Dept of English

20th and 21st century American literature, African American literature, cultural studies, drama, film

film theory and history, digital media, aesthetics, critical theory, philosophy of history, technics, media theory and archaeology

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Geoffrey O'Brien

Dept of English

Creative Writing, 20th and 21st century poetry and poetics, poetry

John Alba Cutler in outside environment

John Alba Cutler

Dept of English

Chicanx Latinx studies, poetry, 20th century American literature and culture

Liesl Yamaguchi in motion in front of chalk board

Liesl Yamaguchi

poetics, linguistics, literary theory, 19th century literature, modern poetry

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

classical Chinese poetry and poetics (3rd-11th centuries), traditional Chinese literary theory, phenomenology, translation, comparative literature, aesthetics, epistemology

Tom McEnaney in outside setting

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Latin American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, media studies, radio, 20th century American literature, architecture, linguistic anthropology, digital humanities

Patrice Douglass

Patrice D. Douglass

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black feminist theory, Afro-pessimism, feminist philosophy, gender and sexual violence, feminist legal theory, legal theory, political philosophy, Black political thought

Sandra Eder

Dept of History

gender, sexuality, medicine, science, US History 20th century, popular culture

Andrew Way Leong

Dept of English

19th century American literature, 20th and 21st century American literature, Asian American, Pacific, critical theory, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies

Niklaus Largier sitting in office

Niklaus Largier

Dept of Comparative Literature

theology, anthropology and literature, literature and the visual arts, philosophical anthropology, ritual and religion, religious practice, literature

francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial studies, literature and psychoanalysis, twentieth-century continental philosophy

Dept of English

critical theory, narrative & the novel, 19th century British literature, poetry, film, literary theory, sociability, psychoanalysis

Kristin Primus in outside environment with mosaic in background.

Dept of Philosophy

Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, 17th and 18th century philosophy