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Robert Kaufman

Dept of Comparative Literature

modern poetry, aesthetics, literary theory, history of criticism, Frankfurt School Critical Theory

Rizvana Bradley

Dept of Film and Media

aesthetic theory, art history, Black studies, contemporary art, contemporary film theory, critical theory, moving image installation, postcolonial studies, race and the philosophy of media

Nicholas Baer

Dept of German

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

Fumi Okiji

Dept of Rhetoric

Black study, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, sound and music studies, aesthetics

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

Avideh Zakhor

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

signal processing, image processing, computer vision, Deep Learning

James Porter

Dept of Rhetoric

Classical Studies, classical reception studies, philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Auerbach, Jewish intellectual thought

Ramona Naddaff

Dept of Rhetoric

rhetoric, aesthetics, theory of the novel, ancient Greek philosophy and literature, history of philosophy, contemporary French thought

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

Karen Feldman

Dept of German

critical theory, aesthetics, literary theory, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin, 18th-20th century German thought, Hegel, Adorno

Salar Mameni

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

Alexei Yurchak

Dept of Anthropology

social and political theory, communism and post-communism, language philosophy, the image, the body, avant-garde artistic experiments, science studies, ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society

Paula Varsano

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

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

Nicholas Paige

Dept of French

17th and 18th century French literature and culture, history and theory of the novel, quantitative literary history and digital humanities, history of aesthetics, cinema (French New Wave)

Anthony J. Cascardi

Dept of Comparative Literature

comparative literature, literature, aesthetics, early modern literature, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Spanish Baroque

Dorit Hochbaum

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

data mining, integer programming, discrete optimization, network flow techniques, clustering, image segmentation, machine vision, pattern recognition

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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

Edward Tyerman

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

cultural connections and exchanges between Russia and China, early Soviet culture, socialist internationalism, post-socialism, politics and aesthetics

Shawn Shadden

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

cardiovascular biomechanics, computational mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, thrombosis, medical image processing, dynamical systems, fluid dynamics, Lagrangian coherent structures, mathematical modeling

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

Karin Sanders

Dept of Scandinavian

Danish literature, 19th and 20th Century Scandinavian literature, literary history, gender and literature, word and image, archaeology in literature and visual art, death and the arts, ecology and ice art

Kristin Hanson

Dept of English

linguistics, English, poetry, meter, rhyme, alliteration, textsetting, phonological theory, English grammar and usage

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

Simo Mäkiharju

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

experimental fluid dynamics, fluid dynamics, Cavitation, multiphase flow, drag reduction, ocean renewable energy, particle image velocimetry, Time-Resolved X-Ray Densitometry, Droplet and particle transport

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