Participating Faculty

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Barbara Altman, French

Education:

B.A. 1978, Alberta; M.A. 1982; Ph.D.1988, Toronto

Field of Interest:

Medieval studies; Old French philology; text editing, paleography, and codicology; medieval debate literature; late medieval narrative and lyric genres and their overlap; lyric theory; feminist theory

E-mail:

Susan Anderson, German

Education:

B.A., 1978, North Carolina, Asheville; M.A., 1981, Ph.D.,1985, North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Field of Interest:

Early 20th-century and contemporary German and Austrian literature and film; multiculturalism; gender; literary and cultural theory

E-mail:

Monique R. Balbuena, Clark Honors College

Education:

Field of Interest:

Diaspora and Multilingualism, Poetics, Translation, Comparative Jewish, Latin American and Maghrebi literatures, Jewish languages, Ladino Literature

E-mail:

P. Lowell Bowditch, Classics 

Education:

B.A. 1984, California, Berkeley; M.A. 1989, Ph.D. 1992, Brown

Field of Interest:

Ancient literary patronage; Greek and Roman lyric; classical influences on twentieth-century poetry; anthropological theory

E-mail:

Steven T. Brown, East Asian Languages and Literatures

Education:

B.A. 1987, Illinois; M.A. 1988, Ph.D. 1994, Stanford

Field of Interest:

Figurations of the cyberpunk city in Japanese anime; strategies of sexuality and power in noh drama; the invention of feminine writing in Japanese women's diaries; the staging of proper names and bodies in Nietzsche; philosophical inscriptions (and erasures) of contingency

E-mail:

Carl Bybee, Journalism

Education:

B.A.1973; M.A. 1976; Ph.D. 1978, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Field of Interest:

Mass media and society, communication theory and criticism, and political communication with a focus on the relationship between journalism as an institution and democratic government

E-mail:

Suzanne Clark, English

Education:

1961 B.A. University of Oregon, French; M.A. 1965, University of Oregon, French; Ph.D. 1980, University of California, Irvine, English

Field of Interest:

Publications include Cold Warriors: The Crisis of Manliness and the Rhetoric of the West, Southern Illinois University Press, 2000; Sentimental Modernism: Women Writers and the Revolution of the Word, Indiana University Press, 1991 ; articles on Zora Neale Hurston, Hemingway, Millay, Boyle, Dillard, Malamud, LeGuin, Sandoz; essays on critical theory and rhetoric, including an interview with Julia Kristeva, argument, sentimental literacy, "Fight Club," rural schools, teaching.

E-mail:

James Crosswhite, English

Education:

B.A., 1975, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., 1987, University of California, San Diego

Field of Interest:

Philosophy, rhetoric, nature writing, theories of wilderness and the wild

E-mail:

Dianne Dugaw, English

Education:

B.A. 1971, Portland; M.Mus. 1974, Colorado, Boulder; M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1982, California, Los Angeles

Field of Interest:

Early modern British literature, music, and culture; Anglo-American popular and folk music; women's studies; historical study of gender and sexuality

E-mail:

Maram Epstein, East Asian Languages and Literatures

Education:

B.A., 1983, M.A., 1987; Ph.D., 1992, Princeton

Field of Interest:

Ming-Qing vernacular fiction

E-mail:

Joseph Fracchia, History; Clark Honors College

Education:

B.A. 1972, University of California Davis; M.A. 1975, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D. 1985, University of California, Davis

Field of Interest:

Modern European social and intellectual history, with geographical emphasis on Germany; theory and philosophy of history

E-mail:

Pedro Garcia-Caro, Spanish

Education:

BA, 1996, University of Surrey; MA, 1997. University College London, University of London; PhD, 2004, King's College London, University of London

Field of Interest:

19th, 20th, and 21st Century Latin American, American, and Spanish literatures

E-mail:

Warren Ginsberg, English

Education:

M.A. 1971, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Ph.D. 1975, Yale

Field of Interest:

English and Italian medieval literature; classical literature

E-mail:

Sangita Gopal, English and Film

Education:

Ph.D., 2000, University of Rochester

Field of Interest:

Postcolonial Theory and Literature, South Asian Visual and Cultural Studies

E-mail:

Evlyn Gould, Humanities; French

Education:

B.A. 1975, California, Irvine; M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1983, California, Berkeley

Field of Interest:

Nineteenth-century literature and culture; literature and the other arts (opera, dance, film); literature and psychoanalysis; Jewish issues; European studies

E-mail:

Michael Hames-Garcia, Ethnic Studies; English

Education:

Ph.D., 1998, Cornell University

Field of Interest:

19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century U.S. Literature, especially African American and U.S. Latina/o; literary and cultural theory, especially cultural studies, queer theory, marxism, and decolonial thinking; prison literature and prison abolitionism

E-mail:

Shari Huhndorf, English

Education:

B.A. 1985, Redlands; M.A. 1991, Ph.D. 1996, New York University

Field of Interest:

Native American literature, ethnic studies, cultural studies

E-mail:

Kathleen Rowe Karlyn, English

Education:

B.A. 1969, Connecticut; M.L.A. 1973, Johns Hopkins; Ph.D. 1992, Oregon

Field of Interest:

Film history; film and television theory and criticism; feminist theory; cultural studies; narrative and genre

E-mail:

Linda Kintz, English

Education:

B.A. 1967, Texas Tech; M.A. 1969, Southern Methodist; Ph.D. 1982, Oregon

Field of Interest:

Critical and psychoanalytic theory, performance theory; feminist theory; twentieth-century drama; semiotics; minority, ethnic, and postcolonial literatures; cultural studies and religion

E-mail:

Martin Klebes, German

Education:

Ph.D. 2003, Northwestern University, Comparative Literary Studies

Field of Interest:

Relation between literature and philosophy (post-Enlightenment to the present, particularly German and French), contemporary American novel, OuLiPo

E-mail:

David Leiwei Li, English

Education:

B.A. 1982, Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute; M.A. 1986, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. 1991, Texas, Austin

Field of Interest:

Asian American literature; race, ethnicity, and multiculturalism; theories of modernity and globalization, Chinese cinema

E-mail:

Jeffrey Librett , Department of German and Scandinavian

Education:

B.A.,1979, Yale University; M.A.,1981, Columbia University; M.A., 1984, Ph.D., 1989, Cornell University

Field of Interest:

Enlightenment, counter-Enlightenment, Romanticism, Jewish studies, philosophy, literary and cultural theory, psychoanalysis

E-mail:

Enrique Lima, English

Education:

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2007, Stanford University

Field of Interest:

Literature of the Americas; narrative theory and theory of the novel; American and Latin American Studies

E-mail:

Massimo Lollini, Italian

Education:

Laurea 1978, Bologna; Ph.D. 1992, Yale

Field of Interest:

Humanism and Posthumanism; Baroque and modern Italian literature; comparative modern literature from ethical and testimonial perspectives

E-mail:

Dawn Marlan, Comparative Literature

Education:

Ph.D. 2000, University of Chicago

Field of Interest:

The European novel; contemporary fiction; creative writing; literary and cultural theory

E-mail:

John McCole, History

Education:

B.A. 1975, Brown; M.A. 1982, Ph.D. 1988, Boston

Field of Interest:

History of social thought and cultural criticism, particularly in Germany; critical theory; radical modernism and radical conservatism; European aestheticism; Georg Simmel

E-mail:

Randall McGowen, History

Education:

Ph.D. University of Illinois, 1979

Field of Interest:

Research interest--early modern British legal history

E-mail:

Karen McPherson, French

Education:

B.A. 1970 Oregon; M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1987, Yale

Field of Interest:

Francophone literatures, modern French novel, feminist theory

E-mail:

Fabienne Moore, French

Education:

Licence 1987, Maîtrise 1989, Toulouse; Ph.D. 2001, New York University

Field of Interest:

European Enlightenment;eighteenth-century French poetry and fiction; the Encyclopédie; early Romanticism; prose poetry; genre theory; history, theory and practice of translation

E-mail:

Dorothee Ostmeier, German

Education:

Staatsexamen, 1984, M.A., 1985, Ruhr; Ph.D., 1993 Johns Hopkins. (2001)

Field of Interest:

18th- and 20th-century literature, culture, philosophy

E-mail:

Paul Peppis, English

Education:

B.A. 1984, Williams; M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 1993, Chicago

Field of Interest:

Twentieth-century literature; modernisms; avant-garde movements; literature and politics; literature and history; literature and science

E-mail:

Amanda Powell, Romance Languages

Education:

B.A., 1977, Yale; M.A., 1983, Boston University. (1991)

Field of Interest:

16th and 17th century Spanish and Colonial Latin American
women writers; convent writings and lyrical texts; Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Literary translation.

E-mail:

F. Regina Psaki, Italian

Education:

B.A. 1980, Dickinson College; M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1989, Cornell

Field of Interest:

Comparative medieval literature: Italian, French, Provençal, Old Norse, Middle High German; courtly genres; metadisciplinary and feminist issues; generic hybridism

E-mail:

Judith Raiskin, Women's Studies

Education:

B.A. 1979, California, Berkeley; M.A. 1981, Chicago; Ph.D. 1989, Stanford

Field of Interest:

The construction of racial, sexual, and national identities, especially in the context of colonial and neocolonial politics, economics, and education. I teach LGBT studies and Queer theory.

E-mail:

Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, Spanish and Latin American Literatures

Education:

B.A. 1998, Universidad ed Puerto Rico, Río PIedras; M.A., Yale University, 2005; Ph.D. Yale University, 2005

Field of Interest:

19th and 20th century Spanish and Latin American Poetry; Transatlantic Studies; Comparative American Studies; Literature, Cinema and History, Feminist Theory

E-mail:

Ellen Rees, Scandinavian Studies

Education:

Education: PhD, 1995, University of Washington; MA, 1992, University of Washington; BA, The Evergreen State College, 1989

Field of Interest:

Research: Nordic and Anglo-American prose modernism; contemporary Nordic cinema; theories of space and place in fiction

E-mail:

Daniel Rosenberg, History, Clark Honors College

Education:

B.A. 1988, Wesleyan University; M.A. 1991, Ph.D. 1996, University of California, Berkeley

Field of Interest:

Intellectual and cultural history, eighteenth century to the present, French Enlightenment; time, language, media

E-mail:

George Rowe, English

Education:

B.A. 1969, Brandeis; M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1973, Johns Hopkins

Field of Interest:

Renaissance Literature

E-mail:

Cheney Ryan, Philosophy

Education:

Field of Interest:

Aesthetics, analytical and political philosophy

E-mail:

Tze-Lan Sang, East Asian Languages and Literatures

Education:

B.A. 1988, National Taiwan University; M.A. 1990, State University of New York at Albany; Ph.D. 1996, California, Berkeley

Field of Interest:

Qing and modern Chinese literature

E-mail:

Gordon Sayre, English

Education:

A.B. 1988, Brown; Ph.D. 1993, SUNY, Buffalo

Field of Interest:

Colonial American literature; eighteenth-century literature of France, England, and America — especially the novel and other narrative forms; anthropology and literary theory; Native American literature; history of cartography and geography of America

E-mail:

Steven Shankman, English & Classics

Education:

B.A. 1969, Texas, Austin; B.A. 1971, M.A. 1976, Cambridge; Ph.D. 1977, Stanford

Field of Interest:

Classical traditions; verse translation; the eighteenth century; history of literary theory

E-mail:

Carol Silverman, Anthropology

Education:

B.A. 1972, CUNY-City College; M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1979 University of Pennsylvania

Field of Interest:

Politics of culture; Balkan music; Roma (Gypsies); folklore; gender; human rights

E-mail:

Michael J. Stern, Scandinavian

Education:

Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, 2000

Field of Interest:

Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, 19th century Scandinavian Literature

E-mail:

Analisa Taylor, Romance Languages

Education:

B.A., 1992, Oregon; M.A., 1996, Ph.D., 2002, Duke. (2002)

Field of Interest:

Mexican literary and social history

E-mail:

Cynthia Tolentino, English

Education:

B.A. 1992, Hampshire College; M.A. 1993, Ph.D. 2001, Brown

Field of Interest:

Asian Pacific American literatures, postcolonial studies

E-mail:

David Vazquez , English and Ethnic Studies

Education:

PhD in English, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004

Field of Interest:

Comparative Latina/o literatures, Chicana/o Studies, comparative ethnic literatures, cultural studies, critical theory, postcolonial studies

E-mail:

Elizabeth Wheeler, English

Education:

A.B. 1981, Bowdoin College; M.A. 1988, CUNY Graduate Center; Ph.D. 1996, California, Berkeley

Field of Interest:

Twentieth-century literatures of the United States, the Caribbean, and Germany; cultural and urban studies

E-mail:

Daniel Wojcik, English and Folklore Studies

Education:

B.A. 1978, California, Santa Barbara; M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1992, California, Los Angeles

Field of Interest:

Folklore studies; cultural theory; millenarian movements; vernacular religion; popular culture; visionary artists

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