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

Courtney Desiree Morris

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black women's social movement, state violence and authoritarianism, racial formations in Latin American, racial formations in the Caribbean, racial formations in the U.S., feminist and queer theory, environmental ethics, Black visual culture and aestetics

Dora Silva Santana

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black trans studies, Black queer and trans feminist theory, global south epistemologies, Black poets, visual culture - media - and technology

Michael Iarocci

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

modern Spanish literature and culture, critical theory, geopolitics of literature, aesthetics, transatlantic Hispanic studies, theory of the lyric, visual culture

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

Nadia Ellis

Dept of English

Black diaspora literature and culture, Caribbean, gender and sexuality

Gregory Levine

Dept of History of Art

Buddhist visual culture, Eco Art History

Leigh Raiford

Dept of African American Studies

social movements, visual culture, memory, photography, African American history and culture

Laura E. Pérez

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Chicana/Latina feminist & queer literary, visual, performance arts, US women of color thought, decolonial aestetics and decolonial spiritualities

Tadiwa Madenga

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

African and Black diaspora literature, gender and sexuality, print culture, Festival and Carnival Studies

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Anneka Lenssen

Dept of History of Art

global modern art, the Middle East, theories of decolonization, visual culture, contemporary art

Fumi Okiji

Dept of Rhetoric

Black study, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, sound and music studies, aesthetics

Shari Huhndorf

Dept of Ethnic Studies

interdisciplinary Native American studies, Alaska Native studies, cultural studies, gender studies, American studies, literary and visual culture

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

Salar Mameni

Dept of Ethnic Studies

art, aesthetics and visual culture, transnational feminist and queer of color theories, Arab diaspora, Muslim diaspora, militarism, critical race theory, critical postcolonial theory, Anthropocene, extractive economies and petrocultures

Darian Longmire

Dept of Art Practice

mixed media, printmaking, Abstraction, Black studies, Black contemporary art

Lauren Kroiz

Dept of History of Art

art history, Modern Art, Art of the United States, American art, visual culture, material culture studies, photography, Race and Visuality, regionalism, Art Education, creativity, Amateurism

Justin Hosbey

Dept of City & Regional Planning

cultural and political economy of racism, Black ecologies, racial capitalism, digital humanities

Laurent Reyes

School of Social Welfare

civic participation, community based research, visual methods, aging, immigration, Latinx older adults, Black older adults, intersectional life course perspective, systems of oppression, access to healthcare

Edward Tyerman

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

cultural connections and exchanges between Russia and China, early Soviet culture, socialist internationalism, post-socialism, politics and aesthetics

Ula Y. Taylor

Dept of African American Studies

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

Doris Tsao

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

visual perception

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Jill Miller

Dept of Art Practice

visual arts

Patrice D. Douglass

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black feminist theory, Afro-pessimism, feminist philosophy, gender and sexual violence, feminist legal theory, legal theory, political philosophy, Black political thought

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, Iranian Studies

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