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Faculty & Staff

Program Coordinator and Staff

Sibelan Forrester

Professor of Russian, Russian Section Head

Coordinator of Interpretation Theory

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8162
  2. Kohlberg 340
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  2. Homepage

Interests: Russian and East European women writers; gender and sexuality in language and literature; Modernism; literary and scholarly translation and translation theory

Cheryl Sharp

Administrative Coordinator

Interdisciplinary Programs

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

Contact

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

Administrative Assistant in Classics, Interdisciplinary Programs

Classics

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8165
  2. Trotter Hall 110 Classics
  3. Trotter Hall 107 Interdisciplinary Programs
Debbie Sloman

Program Committee

Osman Balkan

Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3546
  2. Trotter Hall 312
  3. Office Hours:

    By appointment only

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  2. Website
  3. Curriculum Vitae
Osman Balkan

Jean-Vincent Blanchard

Professor of French

On leave AY 2022-23

French and Francophone Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8159
  2. Kohlberg 313
  1. Profile
  2. Website

Timothy Burke

Professor

Co-Director of the Aydelotte Foundation

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8115
  2. Trotter 206
  3. Parrish W201
  4. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays, 2-4:30 p.m. & Thursdays, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., or by appointment

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  2. Easily Distracted: Culture, Politics, Academia, and Other Shiny Objects
  3. Aydelotte Foundation

Interests: Africa, cultural studies

Professor Timothy J. Burke

Rachel Sagner Buurma

Co-director, Aydelotte Foundation

Associate Professor, English

Aydelotte Foundation

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8666
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 302
  3. Parrish W201
  4. Office Hours:

    Wednesday 12:30-2 in LPAC 302 and by appointment.

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  2. rachelsagnerbuurma.org

Sibelan Forrester

Professor of Russian, Russian Section Head

Coordinator of Interpretation Theory

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8162
  2. Kohlberg 340

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Homepage

Interests: Russian and East European women writers; gender and sexuality in language and literature; Modernism; literary and scholarly translation and translation theory

Grace Ledbetter

Professor of Classics and Philosophy

Classics and Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8372
  2. Trotter 204
  3. Office Hours:

     

    Please email gledbet1@swarthmore.edu for zoom link

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Interests: Plato, Ancient Philosophy, Greek poetry

Grace Ledbetter

Tamsin Lorraine

Professor of Philosophy

On leave Fall 2023-Spring 2024.

Contact

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

Professor Tamsin Lorraine

Rosaria Munson

J. Archer and Helen C. Turner Professor

On leave Spring 2023

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8370
  2. Trotter 113
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Interests: Greek historiography, narratology, Greek politics, ethnography, the Ancient Near East

Rosaria Munson

Maya Nadkarni

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Sociology and Anthropology

Contact

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

    By appointment
    Wednesdays, 10:40- noon & Fridays, 11:00- 12:20 

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Professor Maya Nadkarni

Donna Jo Napoli

Professor of Linguistics and Social Justice, Faculty Member at Large, Maurice Eldridge Faculty Fellow

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8422
  2. Parrish Hall 213
  1. Website

Olivia Sabee

Chair, Dance Program, Dept. of Music & Dance

Associate Professor of Dance

Program Director, Comparative Literature

Music & Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8237
  2. LPAC 006
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Eric Song

Associate Professor and Chair

English Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6223
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 204
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Patricia White

Professor

Coordinator of Gender and Sexuality Studies

Centennial Chair

Film and Media Studies Department

Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Contact

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

    Monday 1-3 pm via zoom; sign up here or email 

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