Program Coordinator and Staff
Sibelan Forrester
Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages
Program Coordinator, Comparative Literature; Interpretation Theory
Section Head, Russian
Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian
Comparative Literature
Interpretation Theory
Contact
Links
Interests: Russian and East European women writers; gender and sexuality in language and literature; Modernism; literary and scholarly translation and translation theory
![Photo of Sibelan Forrester](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/sforres1/SForresterHeadDec2022.jpg.webp?itok=XbL6tcUj)
Cheryl Sharp
Administrative Coordinator, Asian Studies; SCP Replacement, Asian Studies
Interdisciplinary Programs
Contact
![Photo of Cheryl Sharp](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/csharp1/Cheryl_Headshot.jpg.webp?itok=uYaEoqaS)
Deb Sloman
Administrative Assistant II, Classics; Administrative Assistant II, Asian Studies; Temporary Administrative Coordinator, Political Science
Classics
Interdisciplinary Programs
Contact
![Deb Sloman](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_photos/dsloman1.jpg.webp?itok=SYUr3PMF)
Program Committee
Sabeen Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Philosophy
Peace & Conflict Studies
Contact
Links
Interests: Political Philosophy of Race; Philosophy of Law; Colonial/Imperial Studies; Foucault
![Sabeen Ahmed looking at a painting of a woman](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/sahmed4/SAhmed%20picture_0.jpg.webp?itok=QdKLNzkF)
Farid Azfar
Associate Professor
On Leave - Academic Year
History
Contact
Links
Interests: Early Modern Europe, urban, sexuality
![Photo of Farid Azfar](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/fazfar1/1b7677c7-c6f8-414b-a6a7-b7c66001aa26.jpg.webp?itok=8CulqS1M)
Alejandra Azuero-Quijano
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
On Leave - Academic Year
Sociology & Anthropology-Anthropology
Contact
Links
![Professor Alejandra Azuera-Quijano](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/aazuero1/AAQ_headshot.jpg.webp?itok=Iu25SuMI)
Rachel Buurma ’99
Associate Professor
On Leave - Academic Year
English Literature
Contact
Links
![Photo of Rachel Buurma](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/rbuurma1/BuurmaHeadshotPhoto2019-1_0.jpg.webp?itok=sQVAUDsC)
![Photo of Paloma Checa-Gismero](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/pchecag1/PALOMA%20CHECA-GISMERO_094%20FINAL%20Credit%20Jason%20Varney_0.jpg.webp?itok=bJa1PGnl)
Sibelan Forrester
Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages
Program Coordinator, Comparative Literature; Interpretation Theory
Section Head, Russian
Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian
Comparative Literature
Interpretation Theory
Contact
Links
Interests: Russian and East European women writers; gender and sexuality in language and literature; Modernism; literary and scholarly translation and translation theory
![Photo of Sibelan Forrester](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/sforres1/SForresterHeadDec2022.jpg.webp?itok=XbL6tcUj)
Grace Ledbetter
Professor
Classics
Philosophy
Contact
Links
Interests: Plato, Ancient Philosophy, Greek poetry
Tamsin Lorraine
Professor
Philosophy
Contact
Links
Interests: Phenemonology, Existentialism, Post-Structrualism, Feminist Theory
![Professor Tamsin Lorraine](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/tlorrai1/Tamsin%202020.jpg.webp?itok=B43x0vbW)
Rosaria Munson
J. Archer and Helen C. Turner Professor
Classics
Contact
Links
Interests: Greek historiography, narratology, Greek politics, ethnography, the Ancient Near East
![Rosaria Munson](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/rmunson1/Rosaria.jpg.webp?itok=TzhDRyEp)
Maya Nadkarni
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Sociology & Anthropology-Anthropology
Contact
Links
![Professor Maya Nadkarni](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/mnadkar1/Nadkarni%20.jpg.webp?itok=4hPkzW5_)
Donna Jo Napoli
Professor of Linguistics and Social Justice
Maurice Eldridge Faculty Fellow
Linguistics
Contact
Links
![Photo of Donna Jo Napoli](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/dnapoli1/experts_190905_napoli_b_372x466_1_0.jpg.webp?itok=xMVdp4OM)
Sangina Patnaik
Associate Professor
English Literature
Contact
Links
![Photo of Sangina Patnaik](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/spatnai1/gina%20faculty%20photo%201%20processed_0.jpg.webp?itok=6gMJOkzF)
Christopher Robison
Visiting Assistant Professor
Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies
Contact
Interests: 19th-century French literature and culture (the Naturalist and Decadent novel in particular); animal studies/animal ethics; history of the life sciences from the Enlightenment onwards; 18th- and 19th-century philosophy and religion.
![Photo of Prof. Chris Robison](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/crobiso1/Chris%20Robison%20Photo.jpeg.webp?itok=RVRyiCea)
Olivia Sabee
Associate Professor
On Leave - Spring
Dance
Comparative Literature
Interpretation Theory
Contact
Links
![Photo of Olivia Sabee](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/osabee1/SabeeOlivia_2021Headshot_2913.jpg.webp?itok=2bpphMg2)
![Photo of Eric Song](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/esong1/headshot.png.webp?itok=6q_JYWhZ)
Patricia White
Centennial Chair
Director, Aydelotte Foundation
Program Coordinator, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Film & Media Studies
Contact
Links
![Patricia White Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/headshot/public/assets/images/user_profiles/pwhite1/Patty%20Headshot%202024.JPG.webp?itok=H_Bc16Cl)