Paola Bacchetta Dept of Gender and Women's Studies gender and sexuality, global racialities, social theory, postcolonial and decolonial theory, alliances, right-wing movements; geographic specializations outside the U.S.:France, India
Karl Britto Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of French Africa, cultural studies, the Caribbean, literature, francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial literature, Vietnam, gender and identity
William M Burton Dept of French French literature, gender, sexuality, and feminism, (especially lesbianism), intellectual history, translation studies, Quebec studies
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
Brandi Wilkins Catanese Dept of African American Studies Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies critical race theory, African American theater, non-traditional casting, racial performativity, gender studies, sexuality studies, American popular culture
Mel Y Chen Dept of Gender and Women's Studies queer and feminist theory, disability theory, critical animal studies, materiality studies, cultural politics of race and sexuality and ability and immigration, critical linguistics, paradigms of inter and transdisciplinarity
Abigail De Kosnik Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies new media, performance studies, performance theory, performance, media studies, fan studies, digital culture, social networks, film, television, social media, Internet culture, digital humanities, data science, race/ethnicity, gender and sexuality, nationality, transnationalism, Filipino American studies, Asian American studies, archives, cultural memory, piracy, distribution
Sandra Eder Dept of History gender, sexuality, medicine, science, US History 20th century, popular culture
Keith Feldman Dept of Ethnic Studies critical theory, U.S. cultural studies, Israel-Palestine, theories of race and ethnicity, comparative diaspora studies, public humanities
Anu Manchikanti Gómez School of Social Welfare reproductive health, health disparities, birth outcomes and maternal health
Seth Holmes Dept of Anthropology Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management immigration and migration, medical anthropology with foci on social theory and ethnography, social studies of medicine and science, social difference related to race, social difference related to socioeconomic status, social difference related to citizenship, social difference related to gender, social difference related to sexuality, the naturalization and normalization of social hierarchies and health disparities, social suffering and symbolic violence, urban and rural Latin America and North America, population health with focus on global health, population health with focus on health disparities, population health with focus on social determinants of health
Rosemary A. Joyce Dept of Anthropology Latin America, anthropology, cultural heritage, gender, archaeology, sexuality, museums, ethics, Central America, feminism
Sonia Katyal Berkeley Law artificial intelligence, law and technology, intellectual property law, contemporary art and law, gender and sexuality
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
Grace Lavery Dept of English critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, Pacific, 19th century British literature, cultural studies
Andrew Way Leong Dept of English 19th-century American literature, 20th- and 21st-century American literature, Asian American, Pacific, critical theory, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies
Michael Lucey Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of French 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.
Olga Matich Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slavic languages and literatures, Russian symbolism and post-Stalin literature, women in Russian literature, Zinaida Gippius, Russian emigre literature, conceptualization of love in Russian culture, theory and practice of private life
Minoo Moallem Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Transnational and Postcolonial Feminist Studies, cultural studies, Commodity Cultures, Visual and Material Cultures of Religion, Immigration and Diaspora Studies, Middle East Studies, and Iranian Studies
Eric Naiman Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures sexuality, history, comparative literature, Slavic language, ideological poetics, history of medicine, Soviet culture, the gothic novel
Karen Nakamura Dept of Anthropology disability, Japan, disability studies, queer studies, LGBTQ communities, social cultural anthropology, medical and psychiatric anthropology
Daniel O'Neill Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures East Asian literatures and cinema, gender and sexuality studies, environmental humanities and media theory