Critical Theory and Philosophy
Faculty research at the intersections of cultural and intellectual history spans time periods, societies, genres, media, and languages. It includes the study of philosophical, religious, social, political, and scientific thought, of literature, arts, visual culture, beliefs, and ideas – in their complexity, interconnectedness, and dynamics. We explore the links between idea systems and social contexts, individuals and groups, and modes and forms of intellectual and artistic expression. The issues of cultural transmission, adoption, adjustment, change, and innovation are in the foreground of our research interests.
Charles Brown
Instructor of German, German Undergraduate Advisor (A-L)Andrew Drozd
Associate Professor of Russian, Russian Program Director, Russian Minor Program Advisor19th century Russian literature, Chernyshevskii, old Russian literature, Russian history, Czech language and literature, East European history, and Slavic folklore
Matthew Feminella
Associate Professor of German, German Program Co-Director, Graduate Advisor, Fulbright Program Advisor, IGSEP and Study Abroad Advisor
Eighteenth and early nineteenth-century literature, intellectual history, philosophy
Renata Fuchs
Instructor of German
Romanticism to Postmodernism, intellectual history, philosophy, visual arts, women’s writing, minority literatures, Holocaust studies, German-Jewish literature, translation studies
Yunuen Gómez-Ocampo
Instructor of Spanish
Latin American, Latinx & Caribbean Studies, migration and Border Studies, gender studies, women writers, testimonial genres, translation studies, literary publishing
Xabier Granja
Associate Professor of Spanish, Spanish Undergraduate Director
Gender studies, women writers, Early Modernity, social justice, hegemony and power, queer theory
Colin MacCormack
Instructor of ClassicsAncient Greek and Latin poetics, animal studies and posthumanism, mythology and folklore, Hellenistic and Roman epic and didactic, Classical reception
Micah McKay
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Environmental discourse and cultural production, literature and film in the context of the Anthropocene
Alessandra Montalbano
Associate Professor of Italian
Modern and contemporary Italian literature, culture, philosophy, and history, literary criticism, aesthetics, phenomenology, and gender and trauma studies
Sarah Moody
Associate Professor of Spanish, Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, Sigma Delta Pi Advisor
Modernismo and women’s writing in Latin America; feminism, gender theory, aesthetics, intellectual networks
Jean Luc Robin
Associate Professor of French, Director of French Undergraduate Studies
17th-Century Literature & Thought: Descartes, French classical literature and scientific revolution, Molière
Ignacio F. Rodeño
Professor of Spanish
US Latina/o, Caribbean, and Mexican literatures and cultures; Hispanic autobiography and narratives of the self; literary theory, and transatlantic studies
Claudia Romanelli
Associate Professor of Italian, Italian Program Director, Italian Undergraduate Advisor
Italian cinema in a transnational context, film history and theory, screenwriting practices, international co-productions, collaborative authorship, contemporary Italian literature, postcolonial studies, mixed- and intermedia
Gina Stamm
Associate Professor of French
20th and 21st century literature, ecocriticism, ecopoetics, queer theory, modernism, psychoanalysis
Kirk M. Summers
Professor of Classics; Director, Classics Program
Reformation (especially the Reformed/Calvinist movement), Neo-Latin, Roman religion, Lucretius, and Cicero
Women and democracy, women and antiquity, gender studies, epic poetry, Greek tragedyTatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers
Associate Professor of Classics