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Name

Department

Alex Saum-Pascual

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

digital literature, Transatlantic Literature, Spanish, Spain, electronic literature, contemporary literature, digital humanities, new media, Latin America

Hannes Bajohr in outdoor setting

digital writing technologies, language and literature, German philosophical tradition in the 20th century, liberal and republican political theory, artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence and literature

Akash Kumar

Dept of Italian Studies

medieval Italian literature, history of science, history of philosophy, Mediterranean studies, digital humanities

Tom McEnaney in outside setting

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Latin American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, media studies, radio, 20th century American literature, architecture, linguistic anthropology, digital humanities

contemporary German literature and media, theories of the contemporary, aesthetics and politics, transnationalism and translation, digital writing, European Jewish literature, literary and cultural theory, theories of the novel

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American literature, Latino/a/x and Caribbean literatures and cultures, relational race studies, digital humanities, migration, narrative

Vasugi Kailasam

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Tamil studies, film and digital culture, South Asia, South and Southeast Asian studies, cultural studies of Southeast Asia, South Asian Literature and Culture

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)

Tim Tangherlini in outdoor setting

Timothy Tangherlini

Dept of Scandinavian

School of Information

folklore, Danish culture, Danish cinema, Danish literature, 19th and 20th Century Scandinavian literature, digital humanities, culture analysis, machine learning, networks, Korean culture, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research / scholarship

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

digital humanities, intellectual history, Sumerian, cuneiform, Mesopotamia

Scott Saul

Dept of English

20th and 21st century American literature, African American literature, cultural studies, drama, film

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

David Bamman in office setting with bookcase in background

School of Information

natural language processing, machine learning, digital humanities, computational social science, data science

Egyptian Museum Turin, facsimile of the Book of the Dead of Iuefankh

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Egyptology, afrofuturism, magic, demonology, digital humanities, 3D modeling, virtual reality, prison higher education, ritual and religion, reception history

Dept of English

african literature, novel theory, postcolonial studies, political theory, aesthetics and politics

Mario Telò at a desk with books in the background

Mario Telò

Dept of Rhetoric

Greek literature, Roman drama, critical theory, continental philosophy

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

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

Karina Gutiérrez standing in outdoor environment

Karina Gutierrez

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

politics and performance

medieval and renaissance music, history of music theory, history of religion, manuscript studies, obscenity

Professional photograph of Rizvana Bradley

Rizvana Bradley

Dept of Film and Media

aesthetic theory, art history, Black studies, contemporary art, contemporary film theory, critical theory, moving image installation, postcolonial studies, race and the philosophy of media

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