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Zamansele Nsele

Dept of History of Art

modern & contemporary African diaspora visual art, modern & contemporary African visual art, Black art, Black & African feminisms, critical theories of Blackness, African modernism, theories of nostalgia and melancholia, visual activism

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Mario Telò

Dept of Rhetoric

Greek literature, Roman drama, critical theory, continental philosophy

Dept of History of Art

ancient art, Modern Art, art theory

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

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Sanskrit literature

Henry Washington Jr.

Dept of African American Studies

19th and 20th century African American literature, Black intellectual history, Black feminist theory, Black trans theory, Black visual culture and aestetics, performance theory

Raúl Coronado standing in outside setting

Dept of English

Latina/o literary and intellectual history, histories of sexuality and of the academic disciplines, comparative history of writing in the colonial and 19th century Americas, modernity, postcolonialism

Susan Maslan in crowded interior space

French, early modern French literary, political history, the enlightenment, human rights

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)

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Kristen Whissel

Dept of Film and Media

Cinema and technological change, cinema and modernity, computer-generated images and contemporary cinema, digital visual effects, stereoscopic 3D cinema and media, the history and theory of special effects, cinema in transition, American film history, modernity and early cinema, cinema and globalization, cinema and the environment/elements

Dept of English

18th century and Romantic British literature, Milton, literature and the history of science, especially medicine

Robert Sharf standing with group of students in library, holding a plague and flowers

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

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

rhetoric, classics, Greek literature, Latin Literature, ancient Greek, Latin, historiography, ancient Rome, ancient Greece

John Efron

Dept of History

Cultural and social history of German Jewry

Dept of Ethnic Studies

relational race studies, literatures of Asian Americans and Latinxs

Ethan H. Shagan

Dept of History

British history, early modern European history, history of religion

francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial studies, literature and psychoanalysis, twentieth-century continental philosophy

Dept of History

Late Modern Europe, Soviet History, Central Asian History

Dept of History

intellectual history of religion, politics and modern India, South Asia

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Dept of English

feminist theory, psychoanalysis, British and American Modernism, Virginia Woolf, race and gender

Dept of English

English Renaissance literature 1500-1660

Dept of History

modern East and Central European political and social history, comparative education, history of nationalism and racism, history of Catholicism, Late Modern Europe

Rebecca M. McLennan

Rebecca McLennan

Dept of History

North America: 1763-present, law & society, crime & punishment, prisons, society & culture, capitalism, global foodways

Amanda Jo Goldstein

Amanda Jo Goldstein

Dept of English

18th century British literature, 19th century British literature, critical theory, poetry

Ethan Katz

Dept of History

Jewish history, modern France, empire, Jewish-Muslim relations, secularism