Interdisciplinary 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
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
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
Jian Chen
gender and sexuality studies; film and media studies; critiques of globalization; postcolonial Chinese and queer diasporas; queer cultural studies; transnational Asian/American studies; and critical theory
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
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
Caleb Elfeinbein
Islamic traditions; gender in Islam; modern Islamic intellectual history; modern Middle Eastern history; colonialism and post-colonialism; secularism; modern European intellectual history; religion and modernity
Hallie Franks
material cultures (art and archaeology) of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Near East; cultural definition through art; and cultural exchange and interaction
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
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
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
Kim Phillips-Fein
history of economic thought; American economic and political history; economic policy; business and labor history
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
Myisha Priest
African American literature and culture; African American history; American Literature; multicultural women's literature and culture; children's literature
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; 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
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
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
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