Program Coordinator and Staff
Bakirathi Mani
Professor, Department of English Literature
Coordinator, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program Fall 2021
English Literature
Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Patricia White
Professor
Coordinator of Gender and Sexuality Studies Spring 2022
On leave Fall 2021.
Film and Media Studies Department
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Cheryl Sharp
Administrative Coordinator
Interdisciplinary Programs Office
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Debbie Sloman
Administrative Assistant in Classics, Interdisciplinary Programs
Classics
Interdisciplinary Programs
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Program Committee
James Blasina
Assistant Professor of Music
Musicology
On Leave Academic Year 21-22
Music & Dance
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Sibelan Forrester
Professor of Russian, Russian Section Head
On leave Fall 2021-Spring 2022
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Interests: Russian and East European women writers; gender and sexuality in language and literature; Modernism; literary and scholarly translation and translation theory
Farha Ghannam
Eugene Lang Research Professor of Anthropology
On sabbatical Fall 2021- Spring 2022
Sociology and Anthropology
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Alexandra Gueydan-Turek
Associate Professor of French and Section Head
Program Coordinator Comparative Literature
French and Francophone Studies
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Interests: Postcolonial Theory; Francophone Literature of the Maghreb and the Mashreq; Comics and Graphic Novels in the Arab World; Local Publishing Markets in North Africa; (Neo)colonial representations; Representations of Islam in France.
Gwynn Kessler
Associate Professor of Religion and Chair
Director of Beit Midrash
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Tamsin Lorraine
Professor of Philosophy
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Interests: Phenemonology, Existentialism, Post-Structrualism, Feminist Theory
Luciano Martínez
Associate Professor
On leave 2021-22
Department of Spanish
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Interests: Latin American Cultural Studies, LGBT studies and queer theory, Southern Cone and Brazilian literatures, Latin American cinema.
Madalina Meirosu
Visiting Assistant Professor
Modern Languages & Literatures
Gender & Sexuality Studies
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Madalina Meirosu specializes in comparative approaches to nineteenth-century political and social thought in German literature. She also has expertise in contemporary migration literature, the Medical Humanities, and Women and Gender Studies. Her current research project explores the political undertones of nineteenth-century literature featuring artificial humanoids.
Affiliated Faculty
Sa'ed Atshan
Coordinator, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program
Associate Professor, On Leave 2020-21
Peace & Conflict Studies
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Giovanna Di Chiro
Professor of Environmental Studies
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Dr. Giovanna Di Chiro teaches and researches the intersections of environmental science and policy, with a focus on social and economic disparities and human rights.
Joseph Derrick Nelson
Associate Professor
Coordinator of Black Studies
Educational Studies
Black Studies
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