Interdisciplinary Seminar Faculty Teaching Interests
Maria-Luisa Achino-Loeb
the study of silence; language and culture; migrations, ethnicity and identity; rhetoric and religious movements
Becky Amato
American cultural history; gender and sexuality; history of New York; cinema studies; urban studies; museums and cultural institutions
Haytham Bahoora
Arabic literature and culture; postcolonial theory; modernisms; urban studies; aesthetics and politics
Gary Belkin
social history of medicine and public health; history of consciousness; global mental health policy; social development
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
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
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
Jean Graybeal
philosophy and psychology of religion; religion and culture; women and religion; philosophies of the body
Rahul Hamid
Iranian cinema; modernism in cinema; early film; narrative theory; politics and aesthetics; adaptation; film criticism
Helena Hansen
anthropology of medicine; psychiatry and addictions; biocultural theory and practice; macro and micropolitics of pharmaceuticals; latin american faith healing and spirituality
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
Myles Jackson
cultural history of physics in 19th-century Germany; the relationships between music and physics, performers and musical automata; the history of creativity, humans and machines; intellectual property and human and plant genetics; genetic privacy
Antonio Lauria-Perricelli
power, class, culture, state; empire; everyday life; Caribbean/Latin America
Patricia Lennox
Shakespeare; Elizabethan/Jacobean literature and culture; early modern women; theatre; film history; creative and critical writing
Bradley Lewis
cultural studies of bioscience, medicine, and psychiatry; disability studies, science studies; cultural and representational theory; medical humanities; psychoanalysis
Justin Lorts
African American history; American political and cultural history; popular culture; civil rights and social movements; comedy
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
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; critical globalization
Nicholas Mirzoeff
visual culture; critical theory; decolonial theory; dis/ability studies; contemporary visual media; digital media
David Moore
anthropology of education, workplace culture; work reform and experiential learning; innovations in higher education
Sara Murphy
comparative studies in 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture; women’s writing; gender theory; psychoanalysis; literature and political theory
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
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
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
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
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; and political philosophy
Alejandro Velasco
modern Latin American history, culture, and politics; democratization and social movement theory; urban studies; historical and ethnographic methods
Susan Weisser
19th-century British novel; autobiography; women and romantic love in literature; women and sexuality; feminism