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Dept of Political Science

French politics, comparative political economy, West European politics, relationship between partisanship and welfare reform in contemporary Western Europe, political science, social policy

Ethan Katz

Dept of History

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

Catherine Flynn

Catherine Flynn

Dept of English

modernism, Irish, British, comparative literature, critical theory, Avant-Gardes, James Joyce, Flann O'Brien

Anne-Lise Francois

Anne-lise Francois

Dept of English

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

Carla Hesse

Dept of History

France, modern Europe, history of women, legal history

Todd Olson

Dept of History of Art

early modern art

Susan Maslan in crowded interior space

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

Déborah A. Blocker

Early modern French and Italian literature, history and culture, Comparative literature cultural studies, Social and political history of literature, aesthetics, philology, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Archival Studies

Barbara Romanowicz

Barbara Romanowicz

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

earth & planetary science, deep earth structure & dynamics, earthquake processes & scaling laws, real time estimation of earthquake parameters, development of modern broadband seismic and geophysical observatories, planetary seismology

Dept of Italian Studies

Renaissance Europe, early modern Europe, the enlightenment, refugee history, Atlantic History, History of Books and Reading, colonialism, history of science and technology, Gramsci, Marxism, historiography

Dept of Sociology

anticolonial politics, empire, racism, global and transnational sociology, historical sociology, social theory

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

Dept of History of Art

18th through 20th century French, 18th through 20th century French and American art, history of slavery, colonialism, race, gender, visual and material culture

Woman with blond hair standing in an art gallery next to books, a video monitor, and wall text.

Jill Miller

Dept of Art Practice

visual arts

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)

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

Ken Ueno at EMPAC with feedback bowl

Ken Ueno

music composition, decolonizing music, noise, sound installations, music of Japan, extended vocal techniques, overtone singing, musical culture of Japan, experimental improvisation

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

Brian DeLay

Dept of History

US, the Americas, International History, 19th century, Native American history, American West, Borderlands, firearms, Second Amendment