Barbara Spackman Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of Italian Studies feminist theory, psychoanalysis, gender studies, comparative literature, Italian studies, narrative, European decadence, travel writing
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
George Starr Dept of English 18th-century English literary, social and intellectual history; prose style; bibliography and textual criticism, literature of California and the west
Elisa Tamarkin Dept of English American literature to 1900, American painting and visual arts, literature and philosophy, nineteenth century intellectual history
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
Timothy Tangherlini Dept of Scandinavian 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
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
Estelle Tarica Dept of Spanish and Portuguese Latin America, Jewish Latin America, Andes, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Guatemala, Holocaust, genocide, race, nationalism, Spanish, mestizaje, indigeneity, Quechua
Sylvia Tiwon Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies Indonesia, South and Southeast Asian studies, literature and gender, cultural studies of Southeast Asia, discourse oral, print, electronic, socio-cultural formations at the national and sub-nation level, non-governmental organizations
Soraya Tlatli Dept of French francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial studies, literature and psychoanalysis, twentieth-century continental philosophy
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
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
Niek Veldhuis Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures digital humanities, intellectual history, Sumerian, cuneiform
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
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.
Jonas Wellendorf Dept of Scandinavian Old Norse language and literature, Scandinavian mythology, Scandinavian cultural history (Viking Age and Middle ages)
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
Hertha D. Sweet Wong Dept of English American literature, native American literature, autobiography, ethnic American literature
Liesl Yamaguchi Dept of French poetics, linguistics, literary theory, 19th century literature, modern poetry
Emily Zazulia Dept of Music musicology, music theory, history of music theory, history of ideas, Medieval Studies, renaissance and early modern European culture, the renaissance
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
Peter Zinoman Dept of History Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnamese literature, Southeast Asian history, communism, nationalism, colonialism
Jonathan Zwicker Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan