Sonia Katyal School of Law artificial intelligence, law and technology, intellectual property law, contemporary art and law, gender and sexuality
Ling Hon Lam Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures pre-modern drama and fiction, women's writing, sex and gender, history and theory of emotion, 19th and 20th century media culture, critical theory
Alva Noë Dept of Philosophy cognitive science, phenomenology, consciousness, philosophy, theory of perception, theory of art, Wittgenstein, analytic philosophy origins
Colleen Lye Dept of English postcolonial theory, marxism, critical theory, cultural studies, Asian American literature, 20th and 21st century literature, world literature
Lauren Kroiz Dept of History of Art art history, Modern Art, Art of the United States, American art, visual culture, material culture studies, photography, Race and Visuality, regionalism, Art Education, creativity, Amateurism
Youjin Chung Dept of Energy & Resources Group Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management political economy of development, historical and feminist political ecology, critical food and agrarian studies, Science and Technology studies, feminist theory, African studies, Tanzania, critical ethnography, participatory research
Aglaya Glebova Dept of History of Art Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures Soviet art, photography, European avant-gardes, global modern art
Ramona Naddaff Dept of Rhetoric rhetoric, aesthetics, theory of the novel, ancient Greek philosophy and literature, history of philosophy, contemporary French thought
Kent Puckett Dept of English critical theory, narrative & the novel, 19th century British literature, poetry, film, literary theory, sociability, psychoanalysis
Eric A. Stanley Dept of Gender and Women's Studies critical prison studies, queer/trans social movements, anti-colonial feminism, gentrification, California housing market, critical theory
Karen Feldman Dept of German critical theory, aesthetics, literary theory, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin, 18th-20th century German thought, Hegel, Adorno
Nicholas Baer Dept of German film theory and history, digital media, aesthetics, critical theory, philosophy of history, technics, media theory and archaeology
Mel Y Chen Dept of Gender and Women's Studies queer and feminist theory, disability theory, critical animal studies, materiality studies, cultural politics of race and sexuality and ability and immigration, critical linguistics, paradigms of inter and transdisciplinarity
Celeste Langan Dept of English 19th century British literature, critical theory, disability studies, poetry, Wordsworth, Carlyle, Hardy, Rousseau, the French Revolution, Marxist theory
Fumi Okiji Dept of Rhetoric Black study, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, sound and music studies, aesthetics
James Grantham Turner Dept of English gender, sexuality, English, 16th-18th century English, Italian and French literature, art and literature, 17th century political writing, landscape and the city, Enlightenment materialism, sexuality in Renaissance Italian art and Antiquity, ecocriticism in literature and art
Debarati Sanyal Dept of French Border studies, race, postcolonialism, politics of aesthetic form, nineteenth-century French studies, memory studies, World War Two, Holocaust studies, critical refugee studies, contemporary fiction and film
Sugata Ray Dept of History of Art Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies climate change, early modern, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean, art history, environment, globalization, ecology, Eco Art History, global art history
Grace Lavery Dept of English critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, Pacific, 19th century British literature, cultural studies
James Porter Dept of Rhetoric Classical Studies, classical reception studies, philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Auerbach, Jewish intellectual thought
Djordje Popović Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literature, critical theory, comparative literature