The Cultural Studies Faculty

Neda Atanasoski, CLCS
U.S. and Eastern European film and media; race and popular culture; cultural studies and critical theory

Joseph Auner, Music
History and theory of 20th- century music.

Helen Cooper, English
19th-Century British colonial studies, and post-colonial theory and literatures.

Lisa Diedrich, Women's Studies
Feminist cultural studies of health and illness, disability studies, global feminisms, and fminist theories and methodologies.

Lou Charnon Deutsch, Hispanic Languages and Literature
Spanish literature and feminist theory.

Román de la Campa, Hispanic Studies and CLCS
Contemporary critical theories; transnational culture and literature; Latin American and Latino Studies.

Krin Gabbard, CLCS
Film theory and history; jazz; interrelations of literature, art, music and film; comparative literature methodology; psychoanalytic approaches to the arts; Ancient Greek literature, drama; literary theory.

Robert Harvey, CLCS
Literature, theory, criticism, and film (principally French); relations between philosophy and literature.

Victoria Hesford, Women's Studies
Feminist cultural studies; American feminist histories and theory; queer histories and theory; media studies, and post-1945 English and American literatures.

Young-Sun Hong, History
Social and cultural history of modern Germany and Europe; transnational and postcolonial studies; race and gender; medicine and the body; citizenship, state formation, and civil society.

Don Ihde, Philosophy
Phenomenology and hermeneutics; philosophy of science; philosophy of technology; science studies.

Izabella Kalinowska-Blackwood, East European Studies
East European cinema; representations of war in the arts.

E. Ann Kaplan, English and The Humanities Institute
Multicultural film; gender; psychoanalysis; postmodernism.

Shirley Jennifer Lim, History
U.S. racial minority women's cultural history.

Ira Livingston, English and CLCS
Cultural theory; science studies; Romanticism, queer theory, poetics.

John Lutterbie, Theatre Arts
Performance theory; history and theory of theatre.

Iona Man-Cheong, History
Chinese history, culture and society, particularly Qing Dynasty; women, gender and sexuality in China.

Peter Manning, English
British Romanticism; psychoanalytic criticism; material histories of the book.

Adrián Pérez Melgosa, CLCS
Latin American and Spanish cinema; visual theories and culture; cross-cultural American studies.

Adrienne Munich, Women's Studies and English
Victorian literature and culture; material culture; feminist theory; fashion studies.

Patrice Nganang, CLCS
European philosophy; critical theory;African literature; cinema and colonialism; theories of violence;media theory; media theory; creative writing

Sandy Petrey, CLCS
Speech acts and literary theory; 19th-century fiction; contemporary criticism.

Ilona Rashkow, CLCS
Literature and politics, modern theoretical approaches to the Hebrew Bible, Renaissance literature; comparative literature methodology, translation theory, feminist literary criticism.

Mary C. Rawlinson, Philosophy
19th-century philosophy (esp. Hegel); aesthetics and philosophy of literature; philosophy of medicine.

Jacqueline Reich, European Languages and Literatures
Film theory and history; gender studies.

Susan Scheckel, English
American literature.

Jane Sugarman, Music
Ethnomusicology; gender; diaspora communities.

E.K. Tan, CLCS
Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Sinophone Literature, Chinese Language Cinema, Film Theory, Diaspora Theory, Globalization Theory, Psychoanalytical Theory, Translation Theory

Olufemi Vaughan, Africana Studies/History
History of state formation in modern Africa; postcolonial studies.

Miland Wakankar, English
Derrida and Spivak on ethics; South Asian interpretive traditions in the Indo-Islamic millennium; Levinas on language; the political thought of Partha Chatterjee; Weimar cultural critique.

Tracey Walters, Africana Studies
African American Literature; black British literature and culture.

Kathleen Wilson, History
British and French cultural history and criticism; gender, postcolonial and cultural theory; cultures of empire; Caribbean studies; comparative slaveries.