Interdisciplinary Seminar Faculty Teaching Interests
Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb
the study of silence; language and culture; migrations, ethnicity and identity; rhetoric and religious movements
Sinan Antoon
pre-modern Arabo-Islamic culture; classical and modern Arabic poetry; the Arabic novel; gender and sexuality; postcolonial theory; contemporary Arab culture and politics
Carin Calibrese
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
Dan Dawson
African and African American art, history and culture; spirituality and art; oral traditions; photography and social change
Michael Dinwiddie
African American culture; theatre history and criticism; filmmaking; dramatic writing; ragtime music
Stephen Duncombe
media and cultural studies; history of mass media; history of consumerism; activist media and alternative culture
Edmund Fong
contemporary political, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory; critical race theory; cultural studies; Frankfurt School; American politics and history; and theories of multiculturalism and globalization
Sharon Friedman
modern drama; literary interpretation; feminist criticism; critical writing; writing across the disciplines
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
Kristin Horton
directing, new play development, Shakespeare in performance, W. B. Yeats, Caryl Churchill, religion and theater, process drama, puppetry, theater for social change, and cross-cultural dialogue
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
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
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
Sara Murphy
comparative studies in 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture; women’s writing; gender theory; psychoanalysis; literature and political theory
Nicole Parisier
19th- and 20th-century American literature; art and cultural history; contemporary fiction; autobiography
Kim Phillips-Fein
history of economic thought; American economic and political history; economic policy; business and labor history
Stacy Pies
poetry; American and European literature, 17th–20th centuries; narrative; psychoanalysis
René Francisco Poitevin
urbanism; race and ethnicity in the US; grassroots organizing; and geographical information systems (GIS)
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
Peter Rajsingh
social and political philosophy, ethics, applied ethics particularly pertaining to business, constituitional law and jurisprudence
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; medieval and Renaissance art history
Chris Schlottmann
environmental education; environmental studies; educational philosophy; and environmental ethics
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 (race, evolution and psychology in Europe); Jewish studies; modernist poetry and art; sound art; 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
Clyde Taylor
the politics of representation; vernacular modernisms; cinema and society; African American and African literature; cultural symbolism
Jack Tchen
cross-cultural and community studies; New York City history; Asians in the Americas; race, colonialism, and museums; dialogic theory and radical pedagogy
Aaron Tugendhaft
Hebrew Bible; ancient Greek literature; emergent Judaism and Christianity; theory of religion; and political philosophy
Alejandro Velasco
modern Latin American history, culture, and politics; democratization and social movement theory; urban studies; historical and ethnographic methods
Susanne Wofford
Shakespeare; comparative early modern European drama, including Spanish and Italian; Classical and Renaissance epic; early fiction from the ancient novel to Cervantes; narrative theory; theory of allegory; use of performance for interpretation; comparative studies of literature and art history