Faculty Listing

Faculty	Department	Area of Study	Website	Courses
José Alaniz	Slavic Languages and Literatures	Modern Russian culture, especially post-Soviet, including film. Comparative literature.	Faculty website
Eric Ames	Germanics	Nineteenth-and twentieth-century German literature; cultural studies; film history, theory, and visual culture	Faculty website	Comp Lit 596 German 592
Paul S. Atkins	Asian Languages and Literature	Classical Japanese literature and drama	Faculty website	JAPAN 561
Jennifer M Bean	Comparative Literature	Cinema Studies, Comparative Literature and Women's Studies	Faculty website	Comp Lit 520
Ruby Blondell	Classics	Greek tragedy, Platonic dialogue, and the reception of myth in contemporary culture (especially popular film and television), informed by gender studies and performative aspects of ancient Greek culture.	Faculty website
Elizabeth Bonjean	Drama	Memory, national identity, and mourning alongside theatre and cultural performances created in the aftermath of violence and war.	Faculty website	Drama 494 Drama 587
Yomi Braester	Comparative Literature	Literary and visual practices, with emphasis on modern China and Taiwan—in architecture, advertisement, screen media, and stage arts	Faculty website	Comp Lit 596
Jane K. Brown	Germanics	Drama, narrative and lyric of the 17th-19th centuries and have published extensively on Goethe, particularly Faust, and also on Droste, Shakespeare, Schubert and Mozart.	Faculty website	Germanics 535
James J. Clauss	Classics	Hellenistic poetry; Republican and Augustan literature; Roman History and Historiography; city of Rome; cinema studies	Faculty website
Douglas Collins	French	Twentieth-century French literature. His particular interests include modern esthetic theory and contemporary intellectual history.	Faculty website	French 577
Elizabeth Cooper	Dance	Dance and politics	Faculty website	Dance 544
Katherine Cummings	English	Feminist, psychoanalytical, and literary theory, modern and contemporary literature	Faculty website
James B. DeLong	Social Work	Exploring privilege, oppression, social justice and allyship	Faculty website
Shannon Dudley	Ethnomusicology	Music of Latin America and the Caribbean, American popular music, Music in American Cultures, World Music, community music	Faculty website	Drama 599/Hum 596B Music 445 Music 446/AES 446
Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams	Scandinavian Studies	Scandinavian Drama, Swedish literature, Strindberg and European Cultural History, Scandinavian Women Writers, Advanced Swedish language	Faculty website	GWSS 429/Scand 427 SCAND 581
Susan Gaylard	French and Italian Studies	The early modern period in Italy, in particular the intersection between literature and material culture.	Faculty website	Italian 531 Italian Studies 592
Anthony Geist	Spanish and Portuguese Studies	20th Century Spanish Literature, Surrealism	Faculty website
Donald Gilbert-Santamaria	Spanish and Portuguese Studies	Literature and Drama of Early Modern Spain.	Faculty website
Susan Glenn	History	Twentieth American cultural and social history	Faculty website
Odai Johnson	Drama	History of the theatre	Faculty website	Drama 571 Drama 572 Drama 576 Drama 577 Drama 599/Hum 596B
Jeffrey Knight	English	Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare, History of the Book, Textual Studies	Faculty website
Terje I. Leiren	Scandinavian Studies	Norwegian studies, primarily 19th and early-20th century Norwegian history and the cultural history of Norwegian-America	Faculty website
Thomas Lockwood	English	Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature.	Faculty website	English 527
Sudhir Mahadevan	Comparative Literature	Commercial history of early cinema and its intersection with the technologies of print and photography in South Asia	Faculty website
Juliet McMains	Dance	Dance ethnography, social dance history, post-structural theory, cultural studies, and feminist theory	Faculty website	Dance 514 Dance 515 Dance 550
Stefka Mihaylova	Drama	Gender and racial aspects of spectatorship in contemporary American and British feminist theatre	Faculty website	Drama 581 Drama 583 Drama 586
Ramonda Modiano	Comparative Literature	Comparative Literature, Coleridge, Textual Studies	Faculty website
Andrew Nestingen	Spanish and Portuguese Studies	Scandinavian popular fiction and cinema of the late twentieth century	Faculty website
Thomas Postlewait	Drama	Theatre History and Culture	Faculty website	Drama 575
Brigitte Prutti	Germanics	Eighteenth-century literature, twentieth-century Austrian literature, theory and history of drama.	Faculty website
Sonnet H. Retman	American Ethnic Studies	African-American literature and culture; critical race theory; feminism; American ethnic studies; popular music and film	Faculty website	Afram 320 African American Studies 498 Humanities 595
Jennifer Salk	Dance	Modern technique, composition, dance history, teaching methods	Faculty website	Dance 545
Leroy F. Searle	English	Literary Criticism and Theory, Intellectual History and Philosophy, Photographic Criticism and Theory	Faculty website	Comp Lit 596
Laurie J. Sears	History	Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Comparative Colonialisms, Psychoanalysis and Colonialism, Historiography	Faculty website	HIST 468 History 598 HSTAS 590 JSIS 586
Jan I. Sjavik	Scandinavian Studies	Combines the study of critical theory with that of Scandinavian and especially Norwegian literature	Faculty website
Cynthia Steele	Comparative Literature	Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies	Faculty website	HUM 597
William R. Streitberger	English	Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century British History, Literature, and Drama; world drama; textual theory and practice.	Faculty website	English 593
Christina M. Sunardi	Ethnomusicology	Performing arts of Java and Bali, gender, and music in the United States.	Faculty website	Music 512
Geoffrey Turnovsky	French and Italian Studies	Literature and cultural history of 17th- and 18th-century France	Faculty website
James Tweedie	Comparative Literature	Global new wave cinemas	Faculty website	Comp Lit 596
Ellwood Wiggins	Germanics	The roles performance and the reception of antiquity play in the protean formation of identities in literature and culture	Faculty website	Communications 495 German 580 Germanics 421
Sabine Wilke	Germanics	Critical theory, contemporary theater and film, literature and philosophy	Faculty website
Barry Witham	Drama	Theatre history	Faculty website

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