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Department

Todd Olson

Dept of History of Art

early modern art

Turner with digital reconstruction of Villa Farnesina in 1512

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

Dept of English

American literature to 1900, American painting and visual arts, literature and philosophy, nineteenth century intellectual history

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

Joanna M Picciotto

Joanna M Picciotto

Dept of English

Renaissance literature, early modern literature, 18th century British literature

Margaretta Markle Lovell

Dept of History of Art

cultural history, American art, architecture, design, Public art history

Sugata Ray

Dept of History of Art

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

climate change, early modern, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean, art history, environment, globalization, ecology, Eco Art History, global art history

Lange faculty portrait

Henrike C. Lange

Dept of History of Art

art, architecture, literature, afterlife of antiquity, middle ages & Renaissance / early modern age, Giotto, Donatello, Mantegna, Botticelli, Raphael, 19th and 20th century historiography, Aby Warburg, total solar eclipses, theology, creativity and interdisciplinarity

Dept of History of Art

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Soviet art, photography, European avant-gardes, global modern art

Anthony J,, Cascardi

Anthony J. Cascardi

Dept of Comparative Literature

comparative literature, literature, aesthetics, early modern literature, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Spanish Baroque

Michael Mascuch in outside environment

Michael Mascuch

Dept of Rhetoric

rhetoric, photography, autobiography, narrative and culture, media and society, documentation, early modern Britain

David Marno

Dept of English

drama, Renaissance literature, early modern literature, poetry

Jun Hu

Dept of History of Art

Chinese art and architecture

Juliana Ramírez Herrera

Dept of History of Art

art and archaeology of the Indigenous Americas

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

Liesl Yamaguchi in motion in front of chalk board

Liesl Yamaguchi

poetics, linguistics, literary theory, 19th century literature, modern poetry

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

Deniz Göktürk

German literature, German cinema, transnational cinemas, Turkish studies, performance and spectatorship and reception, intertextuality and intermediality and translation, politics and poetics of migration and globalization, urban imaginaries and mediations of place, theories of diversity and nationalism, comedy, comedy and community, modern rituals of regulating identity and authority and mobility

Dept of English

linguistics, English, poetry, meter, rhyme, alliteration, textsetting, phonological theory, English grammar and usage

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)

Weihong Bao

Dept of Film and Media

late 19th century visual and performance culture, Chinese language cinema, transnational genre cinema, comparative media history and theory, propaganda theory and history(10988)

Niklaus Largier sitting in office

Niklaus Largier

Dept of Comparative Literature

theology, anthropology and literature, literature and the visual arts, philosophical anthropology, ritual and religion, religious practice, literature

Stephen Collier

Stephen Collier

Dept of City & Regional Planning

urban vulnerability and resilience, insurance and climate change, Soviet urban planning and post-Soviet urban and social welfare transformation, infrastructure and politics, neoliberalism and governmental rationality, emergency government in the United States