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Nadia Ellis seated on an easy chair looking at the camera

Nadia Ellis

Dept of English

Black diaspora literature and culture, Caribbean, gender and sexuality

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Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

African and Black diaspora literature, gender and sexuality, print culture, Festival and Carnival Studies

Henry Washington Jr.

Dept of African American Studies

19th and 20th century African American literature, Black intellectual history, Black feminist theory, Black trans theory, Black visual culture and aestetics, performance theory

Dora Silva Santana

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black trans studies, Black queer and trans feminist theory, global south epistemologies, Black poets, visual culture - media - and technology

Stephen Best standing at desk with shelves full of book in the background.

Dept of English

film, English literature, African American literature, literary culture, legal culture

Olga Matich

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Slavic languages and literatures, Russian symbolism and post-Stalin literature, women in Russian literature, Zinaida Gippius, Russian emigre literature, conceptualization of love in Russian culture, theory and practice of private life

Donna Jones

Dept of English

critical theory, English, modernism, literature and philosophy, literature of the Americas, literature of the African Diaspora, postcolonial literature and theory, narrative and historiography

Nathaniel Wolfson

Nathaniel Wolfson

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Brazilian literature and culture, Latin American literature and culture, Latin American Art History, media studies, critical theory, environmental humanities, Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, visual studies

Zamansele Nsele standing in outdoor setting

Zamansele Nsele

Dept of History of Art

modern & contemporary African diaspora visual art, modern & contemporary African visual art, Black art, Black & African feminisms, critical theories of Blackness, African modernism, theories of nostalgia and melancholia, visual activism

Michael Iarocci in outside environmental setting

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

Chiyuma Elliott

Chiyuma Elliott

Dept of African American Studies

poetry and poetics, African American literature, intellectual history - 1920s to the present, Black geography/cultural geography

Mt. Seorak, 2021

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Korean literature and culture, comparative literature, critical theory, marxism, posthumanism, psychoanalysis

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Dept of Comparative Literature

classics, Greek literature and culture, archaic Greek poetry, Herodotus, Aesop, Ancient Greek popular culture

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

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

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

Vasugi Kailasam

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Tamil studies, film and digital culture, South Asia, South and Southeast Asian studies, cultural studies of Southeast Asia, South Asian Literature and Culture

Déborah A. Blocker

Early modern French and Italian literature, history and culture, Comparative literature cultural studies, Social and political history of literature, aesthetics, philology, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Archival Studies

Andrew F. Jones

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian languages and cultures, Chinese popular music, sonic culture, media technology, modern Chinese fiction, children's literature, literary translation

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Courtney Desiree Morris

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black women's social movement, state violence and authoritarianism, racial formations in Latin American, racial formations in the Caribbean, racial formations in the U.S., feminist and queer theory, environmental ethics, Black visual culture and aestetics

Steven Lee

Dept of English

twentieth-century American literature, comparative ethnic studies, diaspora, Korean studies, Soviet and post-Soviet studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

art, aesthetics and visual culture, transnational feminist and queer of color theories, Arab diaspora, Muslim diaspora, militarism, critical race theory, critical postcolonial theory, Anthropocene, extractive economies and petrocultures

Dept of English

English, 19th century American literature, 17th and 18th century American literature, African American literature, Herman Melville, race in American culture, literature and history, discourse and ideology, word and image studies, close reading

Ignacio Navarrete

Ignacio Navarrete

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Spanish literature: poetry; poetic theory; narrative; and culture, history of the book, Cervantes, Don Quixote, Celestina, everyday life, medieval and early modern Spanish literature, modern Spain

Sophie Volpp standing in outside setting.

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Chinese literature, Ming and Qing fiction and drama, material culture, pre-modern women poets and dramatists

Anne Nesbet

Dept of Film and Media

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

culture, film studies, Slavic languages, early Soviet culture, Sergei Eisenstein, silent film, Soviet film, GDR history, children's literature & Stalinism, the Soviet Union