Amy Rose Deal Dept of Linguistics meaning, grammar, endangered languages, Native American languages, semantics, syntax, word structure, language universals, language variation, Nez Perce language
Robert Ashmore Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures China, lyric poetry, Chinese literature, Chinese culture, poetic theory
Lev Michael Dept of Linguistics linguistic typology, Amazonian languages, anthropological linguistics, language contact and areal typology, language documentation and description
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
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
Judith Butler Dept of Comparative Literature critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature, 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, social and political thought, philosophy and literature
Larry M. Hyman Dept of Linguistics linguistics, phonological theory, typology, African languages, the Niger-Congo family, especially the comparative and historical study of the Bantu language family
Wali Ahmadi Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Persian literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history, Afghanistan
Adam Benkato Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Old and Middle Iranian languages, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Arabic dialectology, sociolinguistics, philology, Libyan Studies, archives
Richard Kern Dept of French literacy, second language acquisition, writing, psycholinguistics, reading, French language, French linguistics, technology and education
Hertha D. Sweet Wong Dept of English American literature, Native American literature, autobiography, ethnic American literature
Mairi McLaughlin Dept of French Dept of Italian Studies French linguistics, translation studies, language of the media, language contact, syntax, romance linguistics, History of the Romance Languages, Italian language, history of French, History of the Press, Speech Reporting, Metalinguistic texts
Colleen Lye Dept of English postcolonial theory, marxism, critical theory, cultural studies, Asian American literature, 20th and 21st century literature, world literature
Peter Jenks Dept of Linguistics syntax, semantics, morphology, linguistic theory, Thai, Southeast Asian languages, African languages
John MacFarlane Dept of Philosophy ancient philosophy, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology
Ignacio Navarrete Dept of Spanish and Portuguese Spanish literature: poetry; poetic theory; narrative; and culture, history of the book, Cervantes, Don Quixote, Celestina, everyday life, medieval and early modern Spanish literature, modern Spain
Susanne Gahl Dept of Linguistics linguistics, psycholinguistics, linguistic structure, language production, aphasia and related language disorders, bilingualism, stuttering
Maura Nolan Dept of English drama, Middle English literature, Renaissance and Early Modern literature
Joshua Gang Dept of English 20th century Irish and British literature, literature and philosophy, 20th century literature, history of literary theory, the novel, literature and the sciences of mind, close reading, philosophy of literature, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy
Chenxi Tang Dept of German German literature and thought, European literature and thought, Chinese intellectual history, Comparative study of Europe and China, Law and Literature
Tadiwa Madenga Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of English African and Black diaspora literature, gender and sexuality, print culture, Festival and Carnival Studies
Tom McEnaney Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of Spanish and Portuguese Latin American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, media studies, radio, 20th century American literature, architecture, linguistic anthropology, digital humanities
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