Evelyn Nakano Glenn Dept of Ethnic Studies Dept of Gender and Women's Studies labor, citizenship, undocumented students, caring work, settler colonialism, skin color bias
Timothy Hampton Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of French culture, politics, English, comparative literature, popular music, history of emotion, French, renaissance and early modern European culture, the romance languages, the ideology of literary genre, the literary construction of nationhood, the rhetoric of historiography
Andrew F. Jones Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures East Asian languages and cultures, Chinese popular music, sonic culture, media technology, modern Chinese fiction, children's literature, literary translation
Leslie Kurke Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies Dept of Comparative Literature classics, Greek literature and culture, archaic Greek poetry, Herodotus, Aesop, Ancient Greek popular culture
Xin Liu Dept of Anthropology history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, social/cultural anthropology, comparative societies, capitalism and culture, America and China/East Asia
Samuel Otter Dept of English English, 19th century American literature, 17th and 18th century American literature, African American literature, Herman Melville, race in American culture, literature and history, discourse and ideology, word and image studies, close reading
Tianna Paschel Dept of African American Studies Dept of Sociology racial ideology, politics, globalization, Latin America
Barbara Spackman Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of Italian Studies feminist theory, psychoanalysis, gender studies, comparative literature, Italian studies, narrative, European decadence, travel writing
Timothy Tangherlini Dept of Scandinavian folklore; Danish culture; Danish cinema; Danish literature; 19th and 20th century Scandinavian literature and culture; digital humanities; culture analytics; machine learning; networks; Korean culture, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship
Alexei Yurchak Dept of Anthropology social and political theory, communism and post-communism, language philosophy, the image, the body, avant-garde artistic experiments, science studies, ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society