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Timothy Tangherlini

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

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Kristen Whissel

Dept of Film and Media

Cinema and technological change, cinema and modernity, computer-generated images and contemporary cinema, digital visual effects, stereoscopic 3D cinema and media, the history and theory of special effects, cinema in transition, American film history, modernity and early cinema, cinema and globalization, cinema and the environment/elements

Jinsoo An

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Korean cinema, Korean culture

Deniz Göktürk

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

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Iggy Cortez

Dept of Film and Media

world cinema, contemporary art, global cities, aesthetic theory, global cinema, transnationalism and diaspora, night, cinema, Indie Film, screen performance, acting, asian art, asian-american art, asian diasporic culture, psychoanalysis, affect theory

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian literatures and cinema, gender and sexuality studies, environmental humanities and media theory

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)

Damon Young standing in front of book shelves full of reading material

Damon Young

Dept of Film and Media

film theory, digital media, global art cinema, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory

Dept of Anthropology

media, music, Indigenous Australia, ethnographic film, cinema, urban studies, fire ecology

Ahmad Diab

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Arabic literature, translation studies, Arabic philology, postcolonial studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern Cinema

Dept of Scandinavian

Danish literature, 19th and 20th Century Scandinavian literature, literary history, gender and literature, word and image, archaeology in literature and visual art, death and the arts, ecology and ice art

Natalia Brizuela

Natalia Brizuela

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Spanish, Portuguese

Aarti Sethi

Dept of Anthropology

agrarian anthropology, ruralism, feminist anthropology, political economy, Comparative Religion, South Asia, debt and capitalism, climate change, cinema and media culture, caste, socio-economic inequality, the politics of knowledge, multi-species ethnography

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)

Ignacio Navarrete

Ignacio Navarrete

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Spanish literature: poetry; poetic theory; narrative; and culture, history of the book, Cervantes, Don Quixote, Celestina, everyday life, medieval and early modern Spanish literature, modern Spain

Michael Iarocci in outside environmental setting

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

Anthony J,, Cascardi

Anthony J. Cascardi

Dept of Comparative Literature

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

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Justin Davidson

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Spanish linguistics, romance linguistics, contact linguistics, bilingualism, Catalan, sociophonetics, language variation and change, quantitative methods

Alex Saum-Pascual

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

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

Dept of Film and Media

feminist theory, cultural theory, archaeology of media technology, film and modernity, film theory, psychoanalytic theory

punishment & society, criminal law, risk and the law, law & society

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Latin America, Jewish Latin America, Andes, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Guatemala, Holocaust, genocide, race, nationalism, Spanish, mestizaje, indigeneity, Quechua

Elisabeth Semel

Elisabeth Semel

capital punishment, criminal law, criminal procedure

Mark A. Csikszentmihalyi

Mark A. Csikszentmihalyi

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

early China, Confucianism, Taoism, Daoism, Comparative Religion