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Nadia Ellis

Dept of English

Black diaspora literature and culture, Caribbean, gender and sexuality

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

Wali Ahmadi

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

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

Anne-lise Francois

Dept of English

Dept of French

popular culture, English, comparative literature, the modern period, comparative romanticisms, lyric poetry, the psychological novel, novel of manners; gender, critical theory; literature, philosophy; fashion

Katherine Snyder

Dept of English

19th through 21st century Literature in English, narrative and the novel, gender studies, post-traumatic and post-apocalyptic fiction

Lilla Balint

Dept of German

contemporary German literature and media, theories of the contemporary, aesthetics and politics, transnationalism and translation, digital writing, European Jewish literature, literary and cultural theory, theories of the novel

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

Miryam Sas

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Dept of Film and Media

20th century avant-gardes, Japanese literature, film, theater and dance, East Asia, media theory, contemporary art, critical theory, gender theory, memory studies

Jeroen Dewulf

Dept of German

folklore, Dutch studies, transatlantic slavery, German literature, Portuguese Studies, post-colonial studies, hybridity

Long Le-Khac

Dept of Ethnic Studies

relational race studies, literatures of Asian Americans and Latinxs

Robert Ashmore

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

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

Thomas Biolsi

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Native Americans, American Indians, governmentality

Jonathan Zwicker

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan

Daylet Domínguez

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures

Nicholas Paige

Dept of French

17th and 18th century French literature and culture, history and theory of the novel, quantitative literary history and digital humanities, history of aesthetics, cinema (French New Wave)

Celeste Langan

Dept of English

19th century British literature, critical theory, disability studies, poetry, Wordsworth, Carlyle, Hardy, Rousseau, the French Revolution, Marxist theory

Ramona Naddaff

Dept of Rhetoric

rhetoric, aesthetics, theory of the novel, ancient Greek philosophy and literature, history of philosophy, contemporary French thought

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

Akash Kumar

Dept of Italian Studies

medieval Italian literature, history of science, history of philosophy, Mediterranean studies, digital humanities

William M Burton

Dept of French

French literature, gender, sexuality, intellectual history, translation studies, Quebec studies, feminism

Peter Zinoman

Dept of History

Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnamese literature, Southeast Asian history, communism, nationalism, colonialism

Ula Y. Taylor

Dept of African American Studies

20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism

Sylvia Tiwon

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Indonesia, South and Southeast Asian studies, literature and gender, cultural studies of Southeast Asia, orality and literacy

Ahmad Diab

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Arabic literature, translation studies, Arabic philology, postcolonial studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern Cinema

Beth Piatote

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

Native American studies

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