Faculty Members of CLCS and Their Research

CLCS Core Faculty

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

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

Krin Gabbard Director of Graduate Programs
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 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 Associate Director for the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature
Speech acts and literary theory; 19th-century fiction; contemporary criticism.

Ilona Rashkow
Modern thoretial approaches to Hebrew Bible; Renaissance literature; translation theory; feminist literary criticism.

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

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

Louise O. Vasvari (Professor Emerita)
Medieval literature; literature and folklore; literature and linguistics; translation theory; romance philology; semiology, art and literature; sexuality and literature.

CLCS Affiliated Faculty

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

William Chittick (Asian and Asian American Studies, CLT)
Sufism, Islamic thought, Persian literature; Arabic literature, Islam in India, comparative mysticism.

Helen Cooper (English, CST)
19th-century British colonial studies; post-colonial theory and literatures.

Themis Chronopoulos (History, CST)
U.S. Urban history; race and ethnicity; popular culture; public policy; world cities.

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

Lou Charnon Deutsch
(Hispanic Languages & Literature, CLT/CST)
Spanish literature and feminist theory.

Christa Erickson (Art, CST)
Electronic installation; digital media; video art.

Victoria Hesford (Women's Studies, CST)
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, CST)
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, CST)
Phenomenology and hermeneutics; philosophy of science; philosophy of technology; science studies.

Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood
(European Languages & Literature, CLCS)
East European cinema; representations of war in the arts.

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

John Lutterbie (Theater Arts, CST)
Performance theory; history and theory of theatre.

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

Peter Manning (English, CST)
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.

Clyde Lee Miller (Philosophy, CLT)
History of philosophy; Aristotle and Nicholas of Cusa.

Adrienne Munich (English, CST)
Victorian literature and culture; material culture; feminist theory; fashion studies.

Sachiko Murata (Asian and Asian American Studies, CLT)
Islamic law, Persian literature, feminine spirituality; Japanese religions, Confucianism and Taoism.

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

Nicholas Rzhevsky
(European Languages & Literature, CLT)
19th- and 20th-century Russian literature, Russian literature and ideology, Russian literature and theater; ideology, critical theory, history of novel.

Susan Scheckel (English, CST)
American literature.

Hugh J. Silverman (Philosophy, CLT)
Contemporary literary/art/film/cultural theory; continental philosophy and criticism; interdisciplinary studies in philosophy, literature and culture; history of literary and aesthetic theory; the philosophical essay.

Jane Sugarman (Music, CST)
Ethnomusicology; gender; diaspora communities.

Andrew V. Uroskie (Art History and Criticism)
Late modern and contemporary art

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

Kathleen Vernon (Hispanic Languages & Literature, CST)
Contemporary Spanish and Latin American cinema and cultural studies; gender and popular culture; contemporary Hispanic literature

Milind Wakankar (English, CST)
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, CST)
African American women's literature; black British literature and culture.

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

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