Program Coordinator and Staff
Bakirathi Mani
Professor, Department of English Literature
Coordinator, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
English Literature
Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Bertha Saldierna
Administrative Assistant II
Interdisciplinary Programs Office
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Debbie Sloman
Administrative Assistant in Classics, Interdisciplinary Programs
Classics
Interdisciplinary Programs
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Program Committee

Sibelan Forrester
Professor of Russian, Russian Section Head, Coordinator for Interpretation Theory
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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; Chair
Sociology & Anthropology
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Alexandra Gueydan-Turek
Associate Professor of French
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
Director of Beit Midrash
Programs Coordinator
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Tamsin Lorraine
Professor of Philosophy
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Interests: Phenemonology, Existentialism, Post-Structrualism, Feminist Theory

Luciano Martínez
Associate Professor and Department Chair
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.

