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.
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
Damon Young Dept of Film and Media Dept of French film theory, digital media, global art cinema, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory
Michelle Young School of Education educational leadership, policy analysis, critical theory, educational equity
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
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