Interdisciplinary Faculty Teaching Interests
Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb
language and culture; migrations, ethnicity and identity; rhetoric and religious movements
Asale Angel-Ajani
globalization, state and political violence, Diaspora studies, feminist theory, and critical race theory
Elliott Barowitz
fine arts; arts administration; art history/theory
Alejandro Cañeque
history, politics, and culture of Latin America; race and gender in Latin America; history of colonialism and imperialism; colonial discourse and postcolonial theory; the political culture of colonial Mexico and the Spanish empire
Bettina Carbonell
American literature; American studies; literature and philosophy; ethics and aesthetics; critical theory; literature and the visual arts; museum studies
Bill Caspary
modern social and political thought; democratic theory; political psychology; philosophy of science; peace studies
Laura Ciolkowski
19th and 20th-century literature and culture; gender and technology; travel literature; feminist critical theory; literature and the body
Gene Cittadino
history of science and medicine; environmental history; science, technology, and society; history of ecology and evolutionary biology
Nina Cornyetz
critical, literary and filmic theory; intellectual history; gender and sexuality; cultural studies; psychoanalytic and materialist-feminist methodologies; specialization in Japan
Angela Dillard
American and African-American intellectual history; critical race theory; cultural studies; conservative thought
Stephen Duncombe
media and cultural studies; history of mass media; history of consumerism; activist media and alternative culture
Nathaniel Frank
cultural history of the early American republic; economic history; gender theory; gay and lesbian history; contemporary social commentary
Sharon Friedman
modern drama; literary interpretation; feminist criticism; critical writing; writing across the disciplines
Lisa Goldfarb
19th- and 20th-century European and American poetry and fiction; music and literature; questions of belief in literature; expository writing
Jean Graybeal
philosophy and psychology of religion; religion and culture; women and religion; philosophies of the body; feminist spirituality
Justin Holt
German Idealism; 19th-century continental philosophy; metaphysics; social and political philosophy; capitalism and socialism; and classical and modern literature
Karen Hornick
literature; cultural history and critical theory; feminism and gender studies; popular culture; television studies
Steve Hutkins
literature; place; travel; utopia
Michael Laskawy
the transformation of work; social psychology; American political culture; intellectual history
Antonio Lauria-Perricelli
power, class, culture, state; history of anthropology/social sciences; everyday life; Caribbean/Latin America
Bradley Lewis
cultural studies of bioscience, medicine, and psychiatry; disability studies, science studies; cultural and representational theory; medical humanities; psychoanalysis
Patrick McCreery
American studies; queer theory; cultural studies; urban studies; family life
Ali Mirsepassi
contemporary social theory, sociology of religion, Islam and modernity, Middle Eastern societies and cultures, postcolonial studies, knowledge,citizenship, and geography, and critical globalization
Sara Murphy
comparative studies in 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture; women’s writing; gender theory; psychoanalysis; literature and political theory
Lou Nordstrom
comparative philosophy and religion; mysticism; Buddhism; Zen Buddhism; literature; continental philosophy
Christopher Packard
gender studies; -creative writing; autobiography, self-portraiture; U.S. literary history
Stacy Pies
poetry; American and European literature, 17th–20th centuries; narrative; psychoanalysis
Kim Phillips-Fein
history of economic thought; American economic and political history; economic policy; business and labor history
Lee Robbins
history, mythology, and philosophy of depth psychology; Freud, Jung, and postmodern psychoanalytic thought; Buddhist psychology; literature and psychoanalysis
Pat Rock
Shakespeare; medieval and Renaissance studies; Greek philosophy and literature
Antonio Rutigliano
Greek, Roman and medieval literature; semiotics; romance languages; theories of adult learning; comparative history; French and Italian cinema
George Shulman
history of European and American social thought including relevant literary works; American studies; contemporary political, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory; the Bible in Western politics and thought
Laura Slatkin
Greek and Roman antiquity: cultural poetics of early Greece (including literature, myth, religion); ancient and modern drama and lyric; Greek philosophy; ancient Near Eastern literature; cultural and gender studies of antiquity
Alycia Smith-Howard
Shakespeare studies; performance studies, directing, dramaturgy, acting; feminist theatre aesthetics and practice; gender and sexuality studies; modern American drama; adaptation and intercultural Theatre practice; film studies; 19th- and 20th-century drama, literature and culture; literature and drama of the American South
Clyde Taylor
the politics of representation; vernacular modernisms; cinema and society; African American and African literature; cultural symbolism
Paul Thaler
media technology and culture; media criticism; propaganda; history of mass media; media ethics
Jack Tchen
cross-cultural and community studies; New York City history; Asians in the Americas; race, colonialism, and museums; dialogic theory and radical pedagogy
Vasu Varadhan
media, globalization, and cultural identity; international communications; women in developing countries; expository writing
Don White
international relations; cross-cultural studies; global history; patterns of the rise and decline of civilizations; American history; the United States since 1945; political, economic, and social thought; film; media; historical editing; critical writing; creativity and the creative process
E. Frances White
history of Africa and its diaspora; history of gender and sexuality; critical race theory
Robert Zimmerman
philosophy and aesthetics, in particular the aesthetic theories of Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche