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Program Committee

Maya Nadkarni

Maya Nadkarni

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, and Interpretation Theory Program Coordinator
Sociology & Anthropology
mnadkar1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8111
Kohlberg 244
Thursdays 1:00-3:00pm
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Eliana Yankelev

Eliana Yankelev

Administrative Assistant
Interdisciplinary Programs
eyankel1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-7674
Trotter Hall 107

Program Coordinator, Staff, and Committee

Professor Farid Azfar

Farid Azfar

Associate Professor
History
fazfar1@swarthmore.edu
610-690-5765
Trotter 212
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Interests: Early Modern Europe, urban, sexuality

Jean-Vincent Blanchard

Jean-Vincent Blanchard

Professor of French and Section Head
French and Francophone Studies
jblanch1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8159
Kohlberg 313
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Timothy Burke

Timothy Burke

Professor and Chair
History
tburke1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8115
Trotter 206
Easily Distracted: Culture, Politics, Academia, and Other Shiny Objects
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Interests: Africa, cultural studies

Rachel Buurma

Director, Aydelotte Foundation
Associate Professor, English
rbuurma1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8666
Fax: rachelsagnerbuurma.org
Lang Performing Arts Center 302
Parrish W201, Office hours: Wed noon-3 (in Parrish W201)
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Richard Eldridge, Professor of Philosopy

Richard Eldridge

Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy
reldrid1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8428
Beardsley 211B
On leave 2017-2018 F'18 office hours:and by appointment
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Interests: Aesthetics and Theory of Criticism, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy and Literature, German Idealism, Wittgenstein, Romanticism
Ph.D., University of Chicago. 

Sibelan Forrester

Professor of Russian, Russian Section Head, Coordinator of Comparative Literature
sforres1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8162
Kohlberg 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

Grace Ledbetter

Grace Ledbetter

Professor of Classics and Philosophy, Chair of Classics, Director of the Honors Program
Classics and Philosophy
gledbet1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8372
Trotter 112
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Interests: Plato, Ancient Philosophy, Greek poetry

Tamsin Lorraine, Professor of Philosophy

Tamsin Lorraine

Professor of Philosophy and Chair
tlorrai1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8423
Beardsley 211A
F'18 Office Hours: and by appointment
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Interests: Phenemonology, Existentialism, Post-Structrualism, Feminist Theory

Rosaria Munson

Rosaria Munson

J. Archer and Helen C. Turner Professor
rmunson1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8370
Trotter 113
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Interests: Greek historiography, narratology, Greek politics, ethnography, the Ancient Near East

Patricia Reilly

Patricia Reilly

Associate Professor of Art History
preilly1@swarthmore.edu
610-690-3730
Beardsley 205
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Olivia Sabee

Assistant Professor - Dance & Interim Director of Dance
Music & Dance
osabee1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8237
LPAC 006
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Areas of Interest: History of Dance (18th & 19th Century Europe), Aesthetics, Enlightenment Studies, Ballet, Contemporary Dance

Eric Song

Eric Song

Associate Professor
English Literature
esong1@swarthmore.edu
610-957-6223
Lang Performing Arts Center 204, Office Hours: Tue & Thu 1:15-2:30
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Mark Wallace, Professor of Religion

Mark Wallace

Professor of Religion
mwallac1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-7829
Pearson 216
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Patricia White

Patricia White

Eugene Lang Research Professor
Film and Media Studies
pwhite1@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8148
Kohlberg 111A, on leave Spring 2018
Website, Swarthmore Film and Media Studies
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