Faculty Members of CLCS and Their Research

CLCS Core Faculty

Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Tale collections, children's literature, fairy tales; socio-cultural analysis of literature.

Krin Gabbard
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.

Raiford Guins Director of Undergraduate Studies
History of Technology (emphasis videogames and game preservation), Material and Object Culture, Visual Culture, Design Studies, and Media Governance.

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

E. Ann Kaplan
Multicultural film; gender; psychoanalysis; postmodernism.

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

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

Ilona Rashkow (Associate Professor Emerita)
Modern thoretial approaches to Hebrew Bible; Renaissance literature; translation theory; feminist literary criticism.

Jacqueline Reich
(European Languages & Literature)
Italian cinema; film theory and history; gender studies.

E.K. Tan
Sinophone Literature & Film, Modern & Contemporary Chinese Literature, Southeast Asian studies, Asian Diaspora studies, Cultural Translation, Globalization, Transnationalism, and Film theory

Louise O. Vasvari (Professor Emerita)
Medieval literature; literature and folklore; literature and linguistics; translation theory; romance philology; Holocaust studies; queer theory; sexuality and literature.

CAT Affiliated Faculty

Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Research Professor (D.A., 1981, University at Stony Brook): Tale collections, children's literature, fairy tales; socio-cultural analysis of literature.

Lou Charnon-Deutsch, Professor (Ph.D., 1978, University of Chicago): 18th- and 19th-century Peninsular literature; feminist theory.

Daniela Flesler, Associate Professor (Ph.D., 2001, Tulane University): Contemporary Spanish Literature and Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Spain and North Africa, Immigration, Tourism.

Michael Kimmel, Professor, (Ph.D., 1981, University of California, Berkeley): Comparative and historical development; social movements; gender and sexuality

Shirley Jennifer Lim, Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1998, University of California at Los Angeles): U.S. racial minority women's cultural history.

Iona Man-Cheong, Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1991, Yale University): Chinese history, culture and society, particularly Qing dynasty; women, gender and sexuality in China.

Celia Marshik, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. 1999, Northwestern University): 20th Century British Literature; Modernism; Feminist Studies.

Adrián Perez-Melgosa, Assistant Professor ( Ph.D., 1995, University of Rochester): Cinema and the novel in the Americas; cultural studies.

Adrienne Munich, Professor, (Ph.D., 1976, City University of New York): Victorian cultural studies, feminist theory, popular culture.

Zabet Patterson, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., 2007, University of California, Berkeley): media archaeology, contemporary art and technology, history of digital representation, history of art, critical theory and psychoanalysis.

Ayesha Ramachandran, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., 2008, Yale University): Early modern poetry and prose; continental influences on the English renaissance; history of ideas, especially political theory and aesthetics (16th to 18th centuries); history of science and philosophy (Montaigne to Leibniz); contemporary philosophy.

Mary C. Rawlinson, Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1978, Northwestern): Aesthetics, literature, and philosophy; Proust, mystery, and detective fiction; 19th-century Philosophy (esp. Hegel); philosophy of medicine.

Jeffrey Santa Ana, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., 2003, University of California, Berkeley): American literature and culture; Asian American literature and film; Filipino diaspora; global migration and transnationalism; gender and sexuality studies; race and ethnicity; emotion studies.

Kathleen M. Vernon, Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1982, University of Chicago): Contemporary Spanish and Latin American cinema and cultural studies; gender and popular culture; contemporary Hispanic literature.

Tracey Walters, Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1999, Howard University): African American literature; Black British literature and culture.

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