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Fei Xu

Dept of Psychology

cognitive development, language development, learning mechanisms, statistical learning and statistical inference, conceptual development, developmental psychology, word learning, physical reasoning, social cognition in infants and children, learning in infants and young children, computational models of cognitive development, cognitive development and AI models, psychology and philosophy

Robert Thomas Knight

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, language, physiology, memory, attention, psychology, working memory, neuropsychology, human prefrontal cortex, neural mechanisms of cognitive processing, sensory gating, sustained attention, ad novelty detection

photo of Professor Smart

opera and politics, music and data, music and language, theater, gender, opera, performance, singers, voice, staging of opera, 19th century music, 19th century Italy

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

Jennifer Miller

Jennifer Miller

Dept of English

Old English language and literature, textual criticism, drama, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, Scottish literature, Renaissance and Early Modern literature, Middle English literature

David Steigmann

David J. Steigmann

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

finite elasticity, mechanics, continuum, shell theory, variational methods, stability, surface stress, capillary phenomena, mechanics of thin films

Michael Lucey delivering a lecture.

Dept of Comparative Literature

the novel, sexuality studies, comparative literature, French, French literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British literature and culture, social and literary theory, cultural studies of music, studies of language in use, linguistic anthropology, theories of practice, twentieth-century American literature

William (Bill) D. Thompson

Dept of Psychology

cognition, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, learning, Problem solving, Reasoning, decision-making, Bayesian statistics, natural language processing, machine learning, computational modeling, collective decision-making, social networks

Giovanni R. F. (John) Ferrari

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

classics, ancient philosophy, Greek culture, ancient poetics and rhetoric

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

China, lyric poetry, Chinese literature, Chinese culture, poetic theory

School of Education

language, culture, society, literacy, literacy learning of urban youth, African American students in schools, writing development, effective teaching, learning strategies in multicultural urban schools and communities, studies of race - class - and gender, Leaders for Equity and Democracy EdD - LEAD

Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed standing in outdoor setting

Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

continued life of Islamic philosophy

Benjamin Porter

Benjamin Porter

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology, Middle East, Arid Environments, Heritage, tourism, museum studies

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

Oliensis delivering a lecture at Princeton University

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Latin Literature, psychoanalysis, literary form

Polina Barskova

Polina Barskova

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

poetry, Nabokov

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Russian poetry from the 18th century to contemporary, lyric theory, nature lyric, Pushkin, Russian literature and art of the 18th and 19th centuries, Derzhavin, Turgenev, history and literataure, historical novel

Darya Kavitskaya

Darya Kavitskaya

Dept of Linguistics

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

phonological theory, phonetics/phonology interface, historical phonology, Slavic, Turkic, Uralic

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Djordje Popović

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literature, critical theory, comparative literature

Wali Ahmadi

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Persian literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history, Afghanistan

Egyptian Museum Turin, facsimile of the Book of the Dead of Iuefankh

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Egyptology, Egyptian, afrofuturism, magic, demonology, digital humanities, 3D modeling, virtual reality, prison higher education, ritual and religion

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

biogeochemistry, iron reduction, metals and contaminants, soil aggregates, selenium kinetics of organic matter degradation, nitrate reduction, soil and environmental biogeophysics, biogeochemical cycles, fate and transport of nutrients, sulfate reduction, wetland soils, littoral sediments, spatial variation in biogeochemical processes

Mark Blum talk at VESAK Celebration 2023

Mark Blum

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Buddhism, Japan, culture and society, modernization

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

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

ancient Mediterranean, Ethiopic studies