Andrea Baldi
Laurea, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Firenze; Ph.D., UCLA
Contemporary Italian literature and cinema
Abena Busia (Emeritus)
B.A., M.A., St. Anne’s College (Oxford); Ph.D., St. Anthony’s College (Oxford)
African women in British and American fiction
Jae Won Edward Chung
B.A., Swarthmore; M.F.A., M.Phil., PhD., Columbia
Modern and contemporary Korean literature, intellectual history, and media, with an emphasis on everyday life, visuality, (post) colonialism, race, affect, and the aesthetics of disaster
Ed Cohen
B.A., Georgetown; Ph.D., Stanford University
Sexuality; health and healing; political philosophy; social theory; cultural history; transformational technologies; popular culture
Daniel da Silva
B.A., Rutgers-Newark; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia
Luso-Afro-Brasilian popular music and culture; feminist and queer studies
Paola Gambarota
Ph.D., Pavia; Ph.D., Yale
Modern Italian Literature; theories of language and Nation; European pre-war avant-garde; film
Allan Punzalan Isaac
B.A., Williams; Ph.D., NYU
U.S. empire and postcolonial studies; Asian American studies; Filipino diaspora
Ann Jurecic
B.A., Bryn Mawr; M.A.T., Brown; Ph.D., Princeton
Literature and medicine; contemporary literature; writing studies
Ryan Kernan
B.A., Princeton; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
African American literature, Latin American literature, translation studies and literary theory
Pavel Khazanov
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy (London, UK); Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Soviet and post-Soviet Russian literary and cultural studies
Chloë Kitzinger
B.A., Yale; M.A., Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
19th- to 21st-century Russian literature, the Russian and European novel, theory of the novel
Benjamin Koerber
B.A., Indiana; M.A., Ph.D., Texas
Modern Arabic literatures
V. G. Julie Rajan
B.A., Johns Hopkins; M.L.A., UPenn; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers-New Brunswick
Women’s human rights; women and violence in conflict; colonial, post-colonial, and modern-day imperialisms; and terrorism and resistance
Stephen Reinert
B.A., Western Washington; M.A., Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Byzantine, Balkan, and Turkic history and culture in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
Louis Sass
B.A., Harvard; M.A., Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Schizophrenia; assessment; philosophy of psychology; intersection of clinical psychology with philosophy, the arts, and literary studies
Louisa Schein
B.A., Brown; M.A., Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Cultural politics, ethnicity, nationalism and transnationalism; diaspora, gender and sexuality; representation, media, postcoloniality, postsocialism; China, Asian America
Marcy Ellen Schwartz
B.A., Syracuse; M.A., Université de Paris-VIII; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
20th-century Latin American literature and culture, with particular emphasis on urban studies, exile, and photography
Meheli Sen
B.A., M.A., Jadavpur; Ph.D., Emory
Film studies, post-independence commercial Hindi cinema; gender, genre, postcoloniality, and globalization
Weijie Song
B.S., Xi’an Jiaotong; M.A., Ph.D., Peking; Ph.D., Columbia
Modern Chinese literature and film, cultural studies, Sinophone and diasporic writings
Michelle Stephens
B.A., Stony Brook; Ph.D., Yale
African American, Caribbean and American literature and culture, race, sexuality, psychoanalysis
Camilla Stevens
B.A., Tulane; M.A., New Mexico; Ph.D., Kansas
Twentieth-century Spanish American drama, theater and performance theory; Caribbean cultural studies; contemporary Dominican theater and performance
Wendy Swartz
B.A. California (San Diego); M.A., Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Medieval Chinese literature, comparative poetics, literary theory and criticism
Xiaojue Wang
B.A., M.A., Peking; M.Phil, Ph.D. Columbia
Chinese literature and culture from late imperial to contemporary periods, the cultural Cold War, the literary transition from late imperial to modern times, cultural memories, film and visual studies, and comparative literature, in particular, the impact of German intellectual dynamics on modern China
Dominik Zechner
M.A. University of Vienna; M.Phil., Ph.D. New York University
Nineteenth- and twentieth century literature and philosophy; literary theory, philology, and the philosophy of language; psychoanalysis, poetic expression, modern prose, theories of pedagogy and pedagogical narratives, and pop culture.