Ianna Hawkins Owen Dept of Gender and Women's Studies African American studies, African diaspora, queer studies
Roni Masel Dept of Comparative Literature Hebrew literature, Yiddish literature, Jewish history, queer theory, postcolonial theory
Stephen Small Dept of African American Studies public history, African diaspora in Europe, British imperialism, community-engaged research/scholarship
John Alba Cutler Dept of English Chicanx Latinx studies, poetry, 20th century American literature and culture
Irina Paperno Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures Russian language and literature, intellectual history
Jeroen Dewulf Dept of German folklore, Dutch studies, transatlantic slavery, German literature, Portuguese Studies, post-colonial studies, hybridity
Victoria Kahn Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of English rhetoric, comparative literature, Renaissance literature, poetics, early modern political theory, the Frankfurt School
Iggy Cortez Dept of Film and Media world cinema, contemporary art, global cities, aesthetic theory, global cinema, transnationalism and diaspora, night, cinema, Indie Film, screen performance, acting, asian art, asian-american art, asian diasporic culture, psychoanalysis, affect theory
Jovan Scott Lewis Dept of Geography Jamaica and the USA, constructions and inffrastructures of poverty, inequality, race (blackness), economy, reparations
Hertha D. Sweet Wong Dept of English American literature, Native American literature, autobiography, ethnic American literature
Sylvia Tiwon Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies Indonesia, South and Southeast Asian studies, literature and gender, cultural studies of Southeast Asia, orality and literacy
Timothy Tangherlini Dept of Scandinavian School of Information folklore, Danish culture, Danish cinema, Danish literature, 19th and 20th Century Scandinavian literature, digital humanities, culture analysis, machine learning, networks, Korean culture, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship
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
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
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
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
Dora Zhang Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of English narrative & the novel, 20th and 21st century Britain, 20th and 21st century U.S., Asian American literature, affect theory, critical theory, philosophy and literature
Mark Blum Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Buddhism, Japan, culture and society, modernization
Fumi Okiji Dept of Rhetoric Black study, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, sound and music studies, aesthetics
Kate Heslop Dept of Scandinavian Medieval Studies, Old Norse literature, Viking and medieval Scandinavia, cultural memory, media theory
Luba Golburt 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
Patricia Baquedano-López School of Education immigration and diaspora from Latin America to the U.S., Latinos and education, race and language, Indigenous language revitalization