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This directory includes Cultural Studies-affiliated faculty and can be used to identify potential supervisors or committee members using the search bar to confirm if there are professors doing research in the areas of interest to you. Keywords are non-standardized; to maximize search effectiveness, use variants or abbreviations, e.g., "cinema film video," "femini," or "histor."

Professor

Drama & Music

 Keywords: North Indian classical dance; classical and vernacular musics and dance; colonialism and postcolonialism; gender; musical and cultural exchange; ethnography; South Asia.

Associate Professor

English

Keywords: contemporary literature; ecocriticism and eco-cultural studies; climate collapse and environmental disaster; permaculture, biodynamics, and agroecology; technophilia and technophobia; risk theory; animals and animality.   

Keywords: African Studies, particularly the Horn of Africa; colonialism, decolonization, revolutions, and nationalist movements; peace, conflict and security studies; Eritrea, Somalia, East Timor; qualitative methods. 

 

Term Adjunct

Fine Art

Keywords: contemporary art theory and practice; interdisciplinary arts; drawing, collaborative and socially engaged arts; research-creation; environmental humanities; art and environment; art-science intersections; more than human worlds, edible plants, and posthumanities; visual cultural studies; curatorial practice.

Keywords: modernisms and avant-garde arts; comic strips and graphic novels; science fiction, crime, and other pulp genres; new and digital media; reading, empathy, and affect; ecocriticism and animal studies. 

Assistant Professor

Religion

Keywords: contemporary global Sufism and Islam in North America and South Asia (Sri Lanka); migrant and diaspora literatures, religions and popular culture; sacred spaces, ritual, and memory; gender and religious practice. 

Keywords: Greek and Roman art and archaeology; field archaeology; social status of artisans and artists; Ancient Greek colonies; classical tradition in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to present.