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Faculty & Staff

Program Coordinator and Staff

Patricia White

Centennial Chair

Director, Aydelotte Foundation

Program Coordinator, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Film & Media Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8148
  2. Kohlberg Hall 111A
  3. Office Hours:

    Wednesdays 10:00am-12:00pm on Zoom
    Thursdays 1:00pm-2:00pm in Kohlberg 111A

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Cheryl Sharp

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Coordinator

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7750
  2. Trotter Hall 107

Deb Sloman

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Assistant II, Classics; Administrative Assistant II, Asian Studies; Administrative Assistant, Temporary, College Art Collection; Temporary Administrative Coordinator, Political Science

Classics

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8165
  2. Trotter Hall 110
  3. Trotter Hall 107
Deb Sloman

Program Committee

James Blasina

Associate Professor

Program Coordinator, Medieval Studies

Music

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6003
  2. Lang Music Building 403
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Maggie Delano

Associate Professor

Engineering

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8295
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 233
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Sibelan Forrester

Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages

Program Coordinator, Interpretation Theory

Section Head, Russian

Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8162
  2. Kohlberg Hall 340
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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 M. Lang Research Professor of Anthropology

Sociology & Anthropology-Anthropology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8104
  2. Kohlberg Hall 240
  3. Office Hours:

    By appointment
    Thursdays, 3:00- 4:30pm

     

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Alexandra Gueydan-Turek

(she-her-hers-herself)

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Modern Languages & Literatures

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Peace & Conflict Studies

Comparative Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8309
  2. Kohlberg Hall 311
  3. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays 1:00-2:00 p.m. and Wednesdays: 9:00-10:30 a.m. 

    and by appointment

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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.

 

Alexandra Gueydan-Turek

Gwynn Kessler

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Religion

Religion

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8467
  2. Pearson Hall 208
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Ryan Ku

Visiting Assistant Professor

English Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6133
  2. Eugene M. and Theresa Lang Performing Arts Center 204
  3. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays 4:15–6:00 p.m.

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Ryan Ku

Dahlia Li

Visiting Assistant Professor and Post-Doctoral Fellow

Gender & Sexuality Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6109
  2. Trotter Hall 213
  3. Office Hours:

    Tuesday 1-2PM, Thursday 10-11AM and by appointment

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Dahlia Li

Luciano Martinez

Professor

Division Chair, Arts and Humanities

Spanish

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8016
  2. Kohlberg Hall 343
  3. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:15-5:15 pm, sign up in advance here.

     

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Interests: Latin American literatures and cultures; higher education administration; literary theory; second language pedagogy; LGBTQ+ studies 

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Affiliated Faculty

Sa'ed Atshan ’06

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Peace & Conflict Studies

Peace & Conflict Studies

Sociology & Anthropology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7365
  2. Parrish Hall W237B
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Sa'ed Atshan

Jamal Batts

Assistant Professor

Black Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3718
  2. Parrish Hall W223
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Paloma Checa-Gismero

Assistant Professor

Art History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5671
  2. Beardsley Hall 203
  3. Office Hours:

    Mondays & Wednesdays 4-5pm and by appointment.

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Giovanna Di Chiro

Professor of Environmental Studies and Coordinator of Environmental Justice

Coordinator of Environmental Justice and Community Resilience Program

Environmental Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8345
  2. Parrish Hall 217W

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.

Tamsin Lorraine

Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8423
  2. Beardsley Hall 211A
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Interests: Phenemonology, Existentialism, Post-Structrualism, Feminist Theory

Professor Tamsin Lorraine

Maya Nadkarni

Associate Professor of Anthropology

On Leave - Academic Year

Sociology & Anthropology-Anthropology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8111
  2. Kohlberg Hall 244
  3. Office Hours:

    On sabbatical 2023-24

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Professor Maya Nadkarni

Joseph Derrick Nelson

Associate Professor

Program Coordinator, Black Studies

Educational Studies

Black Studies

Gender & Sexuality Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6493
  2. Office Hours:

    Fridays 2:00pm - 4:00pm (virtual)
    Please send email to jnelson2@swarthmore.edu to request meeting link. 

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Sangina Patnaik

(she-her-hers-herself)

Associate Professor

English Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8150
  2. Eugene M. and Theresa Lang Performing Arts Center 304
  3. Office Hours:

    Spring 2024: Mondays 10am-12pm

     

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Marshall Smith

Assistant Professor

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Black Studies

Gender & Sexuality Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3357
  2. Kohlberg Hall 341
  3. Office Hours:

    Wednesdays 4-6 p.m.

Interests: Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, African Diaspora Studies, Visual and Material Cultures, Critical Theory, Black Geographies, Africana Philosophy, and Queer Studies.

Marshall Smith