Faculty

Roger Allen, Arabic, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations: Arabic literature, narrative. The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction, The Arabic Literary Heritage.  

Rita Barnard, English: 20th century American literature, African literature, postcolonial studies, global modernities.  The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance: Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, and Mass Culture in the 1930s, Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writters and the Politics of Place.

Aditya Behl, South Asia Studies.

Dan Ben-Amos, Near East Languages and Civilizations, Folklore and Folklife: Jewish folklore, African folklore, myth, oral narrative and storytelling, the theory and definition of folkloristics. Mimekor Yisrael (ed.), The Folktales of the Jews, vol. 1 (ed.),  Jewish Folk Literature.  

Warren Breckman, History.

Kevin Brownlee, French and Italian: late medieval and Renaissance French and Italian literature. Poetic Identity in Guillaume de Machaut.

Rebecca Bushnell, English: Greek classical tragedy, English Renaissance drama, Renaissance humanism, pedagogy. Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance.

Roger Chartier, Annenberg Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris: Early modern European history, history of education, history of the book, and history of reading; the relationship between literary history and the history of written culture in France, England and Spain; methodological relations between history and philosophy, sociology, anthropology. Le Jeu de la règle (Bordeaux, 2000) and Les origines culturelles de la révolution française (Paris, 2000)

Randall Collins, Sociology: Sociological theory, sociology of intellectuals, social conflict. The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change (1998), Interaction Ritual Chains (2004).  

Rita Copeland, Classical Studies, Comparative Literature: History of literary theory and history of rhetoric, medieval studies and passages from antiquity to the pre-modern, and pre-modern intellectual discourses and practices. Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages.

Timothy Corrigan, English and Cinema Studies: Modern American and international cinema, pedagogy and film. Writing about Film (4th ed., 2001), New German Film: The Displaced ImageA Cinema Without Walls: Movies and Culture after Vietnam.

Stuart Curran, English: English Romantic poetry, women poets in the Romantic period; Anglo-Italian Romanticism. Poetic Form and British Romanticism.

Margreta deGrazia, English: Renaissance English literature, primarily drama and poetry, the construction of the Renaissance and Early Modern periods, the production, tradition, and reproduction of Shakespeare's texts. Shakespeare Verbatim.

de la Campa, Román, Romance Languages: Comparative views of Latin America, American, and Latino literatures, critical theory, cultural practices. Nuevas cartografias latinoamericanas (Letras Cubanas: Havana, 2006).  In progress: Split-States and Global Imaginaries (Verso, 2007).  

Joan DeJean, French: 17th and 18th century French literature, women's writing, history of the transmission of culture and disciplines, history of sexuality, history of print culture. Fictions of Sappho: 1546-1937

Emma Dillon, Music: musicology, specialising in French song and sound c.1150-1350, manuscripts, medieval emotions, the history of the motet. Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel (2002). At work on The Sense of Sound: Music and Meaning in Medieval France; The Motet: An Introduction.

David Eng, English: psychoanalysis; critical theory; queer studies; 20th century American, Asian American, and Chinese literature and film. The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (forthcoming), Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (2001).

Jim English, English: 20th century Anglophone literature, critical theory, sociology of culture. The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value (2005). 

Joseph Farrell, Classical Studies: Greek and Latin literature, constructions of classicism, genre theory, history of culture. Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient EpicLatin Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times. 

Fabio Finotti, Romance Languages: Intertextual strategies in Italian literature, relationships among different national traditions, codes, media, genres, and social structures, rhetorical metamorphosis and multiplications of the 'self' from the medieval stage to contemporary writers. Retorica della diffrazione. Bembo, Aretino, Giulio Romano e Tasso: letterature e scena cortigiana.  

Barbara Fuchs, Romance Languages: Early modern Spanish and English literature and culture, literature and imperialism, critical histories of the nation, theorizing "postcolonial" approaches to early and pre-modern periods. Passing for Spain: Cervantes and the Fictions of Identity.

Paul Guyer, Philosophy: Kant and eighteenth-century philosophy, history of aesthetics in the modern period. Numerous works on Kant, including three volumes on Kant's aesthetics and a translation of the Critique of the Power of Judgment, Kant's main work in aesthetics. Currently writing a history of modern aesthetics, from 1709 to 2003. Offers courses on eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century aesthetics.

Renata Holod, Art History: Islamic art and culture. Architecture and Community: Building in the Islamic World Today.

John Dixon Hunt, History and Theory of Landscape, School of Design: Applying reception theory to built architectural and landscape architectural works, reception of the Venetian urban landscape.  The Afterlife of Gardens.  

Ayako Kano, East Asian Languages and Civilizations: Gender, sexuality,  feminist studies, modern Japanese literature, performance studies. Acting Like a Woman in Modern Japan: Theater, Gender, and Nationalism.

David Kazanjian, English: Critical theory, continental philosophy, 18th and 19th century American studies, Armenian diaspora studies.  The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America (2003), Loss: The Politics of Mourning (2003), The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, vol. 1 (co-editor, 2004).  

Suvir Kaul, English: Eighteenth-century British literature, contemporary South Asian writing in English, and literary and critical theory. The Partitions of Memory: The Afterlife of the Division of India.

Victoria Kirkham, Italian: Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature and iconography; literature and the visual arts, numerology. The Sign of Reason in Boccaccio's FictionLaura Battiferra and her Literary Circle: An Anthology. 

Ania Loomba, English: early modern English literature and culture, postcolonial literature and history (especially that of South Asia) and feminist theory. Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism.

Catriona MacLeod, German: 18th and 19th century German literature and culture, gender studies, inter-art studies. Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller.

Vicki Mahaffey, English: 20th-century English and Irish literature, Joyce, gender studies, Deleuze and Guattari. Shattered Images: The Sub/Version of Desire in Multinational Irish Literature.

E. Ann Matter, Religious Studies: Christian spirituality and mysticism, Christian biblical interpretation, religion and literature. "The Church Fathers and the Glossa ordinaria," The Reception of the Church Fathers in the WestNew Cambridge History of the Bible (co-editor), Alberto Alfieri's 'Ogdoas' (1421) (co-editor, translator).

Lydie Moudileno, French: Francophone Caribbean literature, postcolonial studies, West and Central African literatures, the African Novel of the 1990s, Francophone African cinema.

Sheila Murnaghan, Classical Studies: Greek tragedy, Homeric poetry, gender studies. Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey.

Benjamin Nathans, History: Politics and culture in the Russian and Soviet empires, modern Jewish history, history of human rights.  Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia.

Anne Norton, Political Science: identity and history, colonialism and post-colonialism, tradition and revolution. Republic of Signs: Liberal Theory and American Popular Culture.

Kevin M. F. Platt, Russian literature and Cultural history: Representation of history, history and memory, poetics of historical discourse, Russian poetry and poetics. History in a Grotesque Key: Russian Literature and the Idea of Revolution.

Christine Poggi, Art History: 20th century art and theory, collage, Picasso, performance art, gender studies. In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage.

Gerald Prince, French: 20th century French literature, the modern novel, narratology. Narrative as ThemeGuide du roman de langue française.  

Jean-Michel Rabaté, English: 20th century modernism, Joyce, psychoanalysis, critical theory. Joyce Upon the Void: The Genesis of Doubt.

Michele Richman, French: 20th century French literature, literature and anthropology. Tracking the Sacred: The Sociological Imagination in France from Durkheim to the Present (forthcoming, Stanford U Press).

Simon Richter, German: 18th-century German literature, art, history of medicine, queer theory and gender studies.

Ralph Rosen, Classical Studies: Greek literature, history of comedy, satire, and obscenity; ancient philosophy and medicine; contemporary musical culture (jazz, hip hop). Free Speech in Classical AntiquityMaking Mockery: Poetics of Ancient Satire.  

Peter Stallybrass, English: History of the book, Early Modern British and Colonial American literature, cultural theory, material culture. Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory (with Ann Roalind Jones), The Politics and Poetics of Transgression (with Allon White).

Peter Steiner, Slavic: Russian and Czech literature, semiotics, structuralism. Russian Formalism: A Metapoetics.

Wendy Steiner, English: 20th century American literature, theories of representation, narrativity in visual art. Pictures of Romance: Form Against Context in Painting and Literature.

David Stern, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations: Rabbinic and medieval Hebrew literature, history of interpretation and hermeneutics, religion and literature. Parables in Midrash: The Intersection of Narrative and Exegesis in Rabbinic Literature.

Peter Struck, Classical Studies.

Gary Tomlinson, Music: Renaissance musical and cultural history, music historiography and anthropology, African-American and New World music. Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others.

Frank Trommler, German: interdisciplinary perspectives on modern German and Austrian literature and art. America and the Germans: An Assessment of a Three-Hundred Year History (ed.)

Greg Urban, Anthropology: linguistic and cultural anthropology, nation-state and ethnic enclaves in Latin America, discourse-centered approaches to culture. Metaphysical Community: The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect.

Julia Verkholantsev, Slavic Languages and Literatures: Slavic cultural history, early modern and medieval literary and linguistic culture, textual and cultural transmission, cultural history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

David Wallace, English: English and Italian culture from 1100-1600; also, Flemish/Dutch, French, German, and Spanish, premodern women, Chaucer, European romance.  Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Afra Behn, "Periodizing Women," JMEMS, 36.2.  

Liliane Weissberg, German and Comparative Literature: 19th and 20th century German and American literature, aesthetics, philosophy of language. Geistersprache: Philosophischer und literarischer Diskurs im spaten achtzehnten Jahrhundert.

Barbie Zelizer, Communications: Journalism, cultural studies and popular culture, collective memory, media criticism, journalism as a cultural practice, journalists as interpretive communities, news images and crises: assassinations, Holocaust, September 11th, war.  Taking Journalism Seriously: News and the Academy (Sage, 2004), Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime, with Stuart Allan, (Routledge, 2004).  

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