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
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
Sophie Volpp Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Chinese literature, Ming and Qing fiction and drama, material culture, pre-modern women poets and dramatists
William F. Hanks Dept of Anthropology social and cultural anthropology, linguistics, shamanism, language, Yucatan Mexico, Maya culture
Vasugi Kailasam Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies Tamil studies, film and digital culture, South Asia, South and Southeast Asian studies, cultural studies of Southeast Asia, South Asian Literature and Culture
Robert Sharf Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures East Asian languages and cultures, medieval Chinese Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, Buddhist philosophy, methodological issues in the study of religion
Leslie Kurke Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies Dept of Comparative Literature classics, Greek literature and culture, archaic Greek poetry, Herodotus, Aesop, Ancient Greek popular culture
Anne Nesbet Dept of Film and Media Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures culture, film studies, Slavic languages, early Soviet culture, Sergei Eisenstein, silent film, Soviet film, GDR history, children's literature & Stalinism, the Soviet Union
Xin Liu Dept of Anthropology history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, social/cultural anthropology, comparative societies, capitalism and culture, America and China/East Asia
Shari Huhndorf Dept of Ethnic Studies interdisciplinary Native American studies, Alaska Native studies, cultural studies, gender studies, American studies, literary and visual culture
Calvin Morrill School of Law sociology of law, organizational theory, ethnography, social movements, youth culture and conflict, sociology of culture, entrepreneurship
Timothy Hampton Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of French culture, politics, English, comparative literature, popular music, history of emotion, French, renaissance and early modern European culture, the romance languages, the ideology of literary genre, the literary construction of nationhood, the rhetoric of historiography
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
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
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
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
Michael Mascuch Dept of Rhetoric rhetoric, photography, autobiography, narrative and culture, media and society, documentation, early modern Britain
Vernadette Gonzalez Dept of Ethnic Studies Asian American literacy and cultural studies, culture of U.S. Imperialism, gender and sexuality, Philippine and Filipino American studies, transnational American studies
Nicholas Dirks Dept of Anthropology Dept of History History and anthropology of South Asia, social and cultural theory, history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, globalization
Mariane C. Ferme Dept of Anthropology Material culture and agrarian landscapes, gender, historical anthropology, Sierra Leone, contemporary Africa, political culture, transitional justice in post-conflict societies