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Denise Albanese

Professor

affect and politics; problems in mass culture and popular culture; science and technology studies; critical historicism and the contemporary moment; Shakespeare in public culture; Milton and early modern literature

Christopher D. Berk

Assistant Professor

Politics of punishment, Penal law, Law & society, Democratic theory

Joan C. Bristol

Associate Professor

Latin America, African Diaspora, history of commodities

Keith Clark

Distinguished University Professor

20th-Century African American Literature; African American Literary Masculinity Studies; Black LGBTQ+ Literature; African American Drama; Major Authors: James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, Ann Petry

Maria M Dakake

Associate Professor

Islamic Thought; Qur'anic Studies; Shi'ite and Sufi Traditions; Women and Gender

Nathaniel Greenberg

Associate Professor

MENA studies, film studies, media studies, discourse analysis, public diplomacy

Matthew B. Karush

Professor

Modern Latin American history: twentieth-century Argentina, cultural history

Alison Landsberg

Inaugural Director (2020-2024)

Professor

the politics of memory, affective engagements with the past, political subjectivity, visual culture, the Frankfurt School, race in mass culture, politics of aesthetics

Rachel A. Lewis

Professor

feminist and queer theory; ecofeminism and animal rights; disability studies; human rights; race and immigration; transnational sexualities; media and cultural studies.

Severin Mueller

Graduate Research Assistant

Culture and Political Economy, Globalization, American and Southern Studies, Visual Culture

Catherine Olien

Associate Director

Instructor

historiography of art history, classical receptions, ancient Mediterranean sculpture, universal museums

Anne Osterman

Dean of Libraries and University Librarian

Rashmi Sadana

Professor

Urban space, gender, and social mobility; infrastructure, design, and the built environment; language politics and ideologies; cultural identity formation; ethnography of literature; postcolonial theory, globalization, India

Vanessa Meikle Schulman

Professor

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century visual culture of the United States; periodical studies; history of technology

Ricardo F Vivancos-Pérez

Associate Professor

Latina/o/x Studies, Chicana/o/x Studies, Latin American Studies, Iberian Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Migration Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, LGTBQIA+ Studies, Comparative Literary Studies, Panhispanic Cultural Studies, Translation Studies, Editing & Publishing

Alok Yadav

Director

Associate Professor

Restoration and 18th-Century British literature; nationalism, imperialism, and literary culture; postcolonial and world literature, esp. South Asian; anthologies of African American writing