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Faculty

The faculty have research interests and publish widely in many areas of cross-disciplinary inquiry. They have received major research awards, including numerous fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Below you will find a complete listing of all departmental and affiliated faculty, including area(s) of academic specialty. You may click on names of faculty members to learn more about them.

CSDS Core Faculty

Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature

John Archer Architecture, Space, Cities, and Suburbia
Hisham Bizri Filmmaking, Modernist Cinema, Literature, and Music, Avant-Garde Cinema, Arabic Thought and Poetry
Timothy Brennan 19th and 20th Century Comparative Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Cultural Theory, Globalization, Music, Intellectuals
Robert (Robin) Brown Rhetoric, Discourse Theory, Pedagogy, Language/Culture Relations
Cesare Casarino Philosophy, Cinema, Literature, Queer Theory
Keya Ganguly Critical Theory, Film, Postcolonialism, Politics and Practice of Ethnography, Sociology of Culture
Richard Leppert Music, Visual Culture, Critical Theory, Aesthetics, History of Modernity
John Mowitt History and Politics of Critical Theory, Cinema and Media Studies, Music
Thomas Pepper Psychoanalytic Theory, Gender, Textual Theory, Philosophy of Language
Harvey Sarles Pragmatism, Cultural Critique, Human Nature and Experience
Jochen Schulte-Sasse Intellectual and Cultural History, Literary and Aesthetic Theory, European Romanticism, Popular Culture, German Literature after 1700
Shaden Tageldin Empire, slavery, (post)coloniality, & migration in 19th- and 20th-century literature/theory in English, Arabic, & French, Critical Translation Studies
Gary Thomas Cultural Theory, Music, Gender-Sexuality, Comic Theory, German Literature

CSDS Affiliate Faculty

Department of Architecture

Katherine Solomonson Architecture and Social Relations

Department of Art History

Jane Blocker Critical Theory, Contemporary Art, Gender, Sexuality, Feminism, Performance Studies, Video and Digital Art

Department of English

Maria Damon Poetry and Poetics, Marginalized Literatures, Cultural Studies
Ellen Messer-Davidow Theory (literary, cultural, social, feminist), Feminist Studies, Organization and Production of Knowledge
Paula Rabinowitz Working Class, Minority, and American Women Writers, U.S. Literary Radicalism, Marxist and Feminist Theories, Film, Cultural Studies

Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies

Jacquelyn Zita Women's Biology, Environmental Justice, Feminist Environmental Studies, Sexuality, Corporeal Philosophy, LGBT Studies, Feminist Theory, Philosophy

Department of Geography

Roger Pierce Miller Urban Spatial Development and Social, Economic, and Political Behavior

Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch

Leslie Morris 20th-Century German and Austrian Literature, poetry, Jewish Studies
Arlene Teraoka 20th Century Literature, German Intellectual History, Cultural Studies
Jack Zipes Critical Theory, Contemporary German Literature, International Children's Literature, Folklore and Fairy Tales