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Robert Kaufman Robert Kaufman
Dept of Comparative Literature
modern poetry, aesthetics, literary theory, history of criticism, Frankfurt School Critical Theory
Wali Ahmadi Wali Ahmadi
Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures
Persian literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history, Afghanistan
Kent Puckett Kent Puckett
Dept of English
critical theory, narrative & the novel, 19th century British literature, poetry, film, literary theory, sociability, psychoanalysis
Mario Telò at a desk with books in the background Mario Telò
Dept of Rhetoric
Greek literature, Roman drama, critical theory, continental philosophy
Karen Feldman Karen Feldman
Dept of German
critical theory, aesthetics, literary theory, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin, 18th-20th century German thought, Hegel, Adorno
Alan Tansman in outdoor setting Alan Tansman
Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Modern Japanese Literature, literary and cultural theory, aesthetics and politics, Comparative Responses to Violence, literary history
Poulomi Saha standing in front of decorative wood panels, hands in pockets Poulomi Saha
Dept of English
Asian American studies, critical theory, postcolonial theory, spirituality, comparative race and gender, cults
Liesl Yamaguchi in motion in front of chalk board Liesl Yamaguchi
Dept of French
poetics, linguistics, literary theory, 19th century literature, modern poetry
Robert Goldman Robert Goldman
Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies
literary theory, South and Southeast Asian studies, Sanskrit literature, Indian epic studies, psychoanalytically oriented cultural studies
Michael Lucey delivering a lecture. Michael Lucey
Dept of Comparative Literature
Dept of French
the novel, sexuality studies, comparative literature, French, French literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British literature and culture, social and literary theory, cultural studies of music, studies of language in use, linguistic anthropology, theories of practice, twentieth-century American literature
Lilla Balint Lilla Balint
Dept of German
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
Oliensis delivering a lecture at Princeton University Ellen Oliensis
Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies
Latin Literature, psychoanalysis, literary form
Harsha Ram speaking at the Parajanov Anniversary Symposium at BAMPFA, Berkeley, November 2024. Harsha Ram
Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures
The Russian and European Enlightenment, Russian and European romanticism and modernism, Russian and European avant-gardes, Russian, European, Italian literature, Georgian history and literature, theories of world literature, literary theory, comparative poetics, genre theory, literary history, comparative modernisms and modernities, vernacular and high culture, cultural and political history of Russia-Eurasia and the Caucasus, postcolonial studies, theories of nationalism, imperialism and cosmopolitanism, urban studies, the city and literature
Susan Maslan in crowded interior space Susan Maslan
Dept of French
French, early modern French literary, political history, the enlightenment, human rights
Headshot in front of bookshelves. Paula Varsano
Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures
classical Chinese poetry and poetics (3rd-11th centuries), traditional Chinese literary theory, phenomenology, translation, comparative literature, aesthetics, epistemology
Stephen Best standing at desk with shelves full of book in the background. Stephen Best
Dept of English
film, English literature, African American literature, literary culture, legal culture
Timothy Hampton in an outdoor setting 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
JIP Graduation 2023 James Porter
Dept of Rhetoric
Classical Studies, classical reception studies, philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Auerbach, Jewish intellectual thought
Photo of Joshua Gang Joshua Gang
Dept of English
20th century Irish and British literature, literature and philosophy, 20th century literature, history of literary theory, the novel, literature and the sciences of mind, close reading, philosophy of literature, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy
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
Colleen Lye Colleen Lye
Dept of English
postcolonial theory, marxism, critical theory, cultural studies, Asian American literature, 20th and 21st century literature, world literature
Nicholas Baer Nicholas Baer
Dept of German
film theory and history, digital media, aesthetics, critical theory, philosophy of history, technics, media theory and archaeology
Nicholas Paige Nicholas Paige
Dept of French
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)
Laura E. Pérez 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
Damon Young standing in front of book shelves full of reading material Damon Young
Dept of Film and Media
Dept of French
film theory, digital media, global art cinema, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory
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