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Faculty & Staff

Program Coordinator and Staff

Sibelan Forrester

Professor of Russian, Russian Section Head, Coordinator for Interpretation Theory

Contact

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

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

Molly Lawrence

Administrative Assistant

Interdisciplinary Programs Office

Contact

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

Administrative Assistant

Interdisciplinary Programs Office

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7674
  2. Trotter Hall 107

Program Committee

Farid Azfar

Associate Professor

On leave 2019-2020

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5765
  2. Trotter 212
  1. Profile

Interests: Early Modern Europe, urban, sexuality

Professor Farid Azfar

Jean-Vincent Blanchard

Professor of French

Associate Dean of the Faculty for Academic Programs

French and Francophone Studies

Contact

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

Timothy Burke

Professor

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8115
  2. Trotter 206
  1. Profile
  2. Easily Distracted: Culture, Politics, Academia, and Other Shiny Objects

Interests: Africa, cultural studies

Rachel Buurma

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 (LPAC 302) Wed 12-3 and by appointment
  1. Profile
  2. rachelsagnerbuurma.org

Richard Eldridge

Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8428
  2. Beardsley 211B
  3. F'19 office hours: Thurs 1:00-3:00 and by appointment
  1. Profile

Interests: Aesthetics and Theory of Criticism, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy and Literature, German Idealism, Wittgenstein, Romanticism
Ph.D., University of Chicago. 

Richard Eldridge, Professor of Philosopy

Grace Ledbetter

Professor of Classics and Philosophy, Chair of Classics, Director of the Honors Program

Classics and Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8372
  2. Trotter 112
  1. Profile

Interests: Plato, Ancient Philosophy, Greek poetry

Grace Ledbetter

Tamsin Lorraine

Professor of Philosophy

On Leave Spring 2020

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8423
  2. Beardsley 211A
  3. F'19 Office Hours: Tues & Thurs 12:35-2:00, Weds 1:15-2:15 and by appointment
  1. Profile

Interests: Phenemonology, Existentialism, Post-Structrualism, Feminist Theory

Tamsin Lorraine, Professor of Philosophy

Rosaria Munson

J. Archer and Helen C. Turner Professor

Contact

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

Maya Nadkarni

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Sociology & Anthropology

Contact

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

    On sabbatical fall 2019- spring 2020

  1. Profile

Patricia Reilly

Associate Professor of Art History, Department Chair

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3730
  2. Beardsley 205
  1. Profile
Patricia Reilly

Olivia Sabee

Assistant Professor of Dance

On Leave 2019-20

Music & Dance

Contact

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

Areas of Interest: History of Dance (18th & 19th Century Europe), Enlightenment Studies, Ballet, Contemporary Dance

Eric Song (on leave 2019-2020)

Associate Professor

English Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6223
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 204
  1. Profile
Eric Song

Mark Wallace

Professor of Religion

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7829
  2. Pearson 216
  1. Profile
Mark Wallace headshot

Patricia White

Eugene Lang Research Professor and Department Chair of Film & Media Studies

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8148
  2. Kohlberg 111A, on leave Spring 2018
  1. Profile
  2. Website
  3. Swarthmore Film and Media Studies
Patricia White