Interdisciplinary Faculty Teaching Interests

 
Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb

the study of silence; language and culture; migrations, ethnicity and identity; rhetoric and religious movements

Elliott Barowitz

fine and applied arts; arts administration and publishing; art history/theory

Guillermo Brown

music and sound; jazz performance/history; electronic music; American popular culture; African diasporic culture; interdisciplinary performance; percussion

Carin Calabrese

Greek drama; Greek and Roman poetry; history of theater; feminist theory; literary theory

Christopher Cartmill

Asian theater and theatrical literature; performance theory and practice; Native-American culture and ritual; 18th and 19th century literature, culture and politics; art history; world folklore and mythology; religion in public discourse

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; critical theory; gender studies; travel literature; cultural studies; gender and technology; 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

Marie Cruz Soto

Latin American and Caribbean cultural history; Puerto Rican diasporas; empire; gender and race; (post)memory and historical narrations; community formations

Dan Dawson

African and African American art, history and culture; spirituality and art; oral traditions; photography and social change

Stephen Duncombe

media and cultural studies; history of mass media; history of consumerism; activist media and alternative culture

Nathaniel Frank

cultural and political history; gay and lesbian history; contemporary social commentary

Steve Fraser

labor and economic history; the cultural history of Wall Street; the politics of America's two gilded ages; contemporary labor and other popular movements

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

Justin Holt

ethics; social and political philosophy; political economy; German Idealism; history of metaphysics and epistemology; philosophy of science; theories and history of the welfare state; philosophy of law

Karen Hornick

literature; cultural history and critical theory; feminism and gender studies; popular culture; television studies

Steve Hutkins

literature; place; travel; utopia; writing

Lauren Kaminsky

modern world history; Western and Eastern European studies; gender and sexuality; state theory and socialism; film

John Lang

film and media studies; interpersonal communication; and history and representation of adolescence

Antonio Lauria-Perricelli

power, class, culture, state; empire; 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

Ritty Lukose

gender, globalization, colonial, postcolonial and diasporic modernities, youth, education, development, mass media, feminisms, South Asia and its diasporas, political, cultural and social theory

Clair McPherson

Early Middle Ages; Late Antiquity; Old English and Icelandic literatures; ancient and medieval philosophy; art; Greek philosophy; comparative religion; Judeo-Christian and Classical traditions

Eve Meltzer

contemporary art, theory, and criticism; psychoanalytic, structuralist and post-structuralist thought; photography; discourses on materiality and material culture; theories of information; rhetorics of digitality; phenomenology

Keith Miller

modern and contemporary art; Realism; figurative painting; narrative cinema; video art; filmmaking

Bella Mirabella

Shakespeare; Dante; English, Italian and Renaissance literature; drama and culture; ancient drama; women and performance; feminism and gender studies; critical writing

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

Stacy Pies

poetry; American and European literature, 17th–20th centuries; narrative; psychoanalysis

Millery Polyné

19th and 20th century African American and Caribbean Intellectual History; Haitian history; U.S. foreign policy in Caribbean; jazz; hip hop aesthetic; race and sports; film and propaganda

Pat Rock

Shakespeare; medieval and Renaissance studies; Greek philosophy and literature

Antonio Rutigliano

Greek, Roman and medieval literature; semiotics; romance languages; transformation of desire; luminality: Dante, Virgil, and Boethius; French and Italian cinema; medieval and Renaissance art, philosophy, and history

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

Eliza Slavet

history of psychoanalysis; history of science (theories of race, evolution and psychology in Europe); Jewish studies; modernist poetry and art; sound art; theories of memory, history and the archive; theories of the everyday

Alycia Smith-Howard

Shakespeare studies; performance history, directing, dramaturgy, acting; feminist theatre aesthetics and practice; gender and sexuality studies; modern American drama; 19th- and 20th-century drama; literature and drama of the American South

Matthew Stanley

history of science and technology; science and religion; physics and astronomy; philosophy of science; history and philosophy of religion, mind and consciousness; science education; peace and war

Ben Steinfeld

acting, directing, theatre history, music, Shakespeare, 20th-century American drama, and musical theatre

Jack Tchen

cross-cultural and community studies; New York City history; Asians in the Americas; race, colonialism, and museums; dialogic theory and radical pedagogy

Paul Thaler

media technology and culture; First Amendment and media law; propaganda; history of mass media; media ethics

Aaron Tugendhaft

Hebrew Bible; ancient Greek literature; emergent Judaism and Christianity; theory of religion; political philosophy

Vasu Varadhan

media, globalization, and cultural identity; international communications; women in developing countries; expository writing

Alejandro Velasco

modern Latin American history, culture, and politics; democratization and social movement theory; urban studies; historical and ethnographic methods

E. Frances White

history of Africa and its diaspora; history of gender and sexuality; critical race theory

Henry Williams

black popular culture; the black arts and black power movements; African American and American literature; Nuyorican literature; jazz and hip hop