Déborah A. Blocker Dept of French 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
Akash Kumar Dept of Italian Studies medieval Italian literature, history of science, history of philosophy, Mediterranean studies, digital humanities
Harsha Ram Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures The Russian and European Enlightenment, Russian and European romanticism and modernism, Russian and European avant-gardes, Russian, European, Italian literature, Georgian history and literature, theories of world literature, literary theory, comparative poetics, genre theory, literary history, comparative modernisms and modernities, vernacular and high culture, cultural and political history of Russia-Eurasia and the Caucasus, postcolonial studies, theories of nationalism, imperialism and cosmopolitanism, urban studies, the city and literature.
Barbara Spackman Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of Italian Studies feminist theory, psychoanalysis, gender studies, comparative literature, Italian studies, narrative, European decadence, travel writing
Rhiannon Noel Welch Dept of Italian Studies Italian literature, film and media, Italian colonialism, critical theories of race and racialization, borders and mobilities, biopolitics, postcolonial and decolonial theory.